THE LONDON THEATRE PROGRAM
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
GROUP EVENTS
FALL 2003
September
12 Opening Dinner with faculty and staff Strand Palace Hotel
13 Panoramic Tour of London with Bridget Wrench
Group Dinner at the Globe Restaurant
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
15 THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY Sadler’s Wells Theatre
16 Tour of the British Museum
16 Tour of the Globe Theatre and Exhibition
with Charles Duff
17 EDWARD II Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
18 Trisha Brown’s WINTERREISE Barbican Hall
19 EDMOND Royal National Theatre Company at
the Olivier Theatre
23 HAMMERKLAVIER Jermyn Street Theatre
24 THREE SISTERS Royal National Theatre Company at
the Lyttelton Theatre
25 RICHARD II Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
26 THE MOB Orange Tree Theatre
Discussion with Sam Walters, Director
27 Tour to Royal Observatory and Maritime Museum at Greenwich
River Tour on the Thames
29 POWER Royal National Theatre Company at
the Cottesloe Theatre
30 Tour of the National Gallery
30 Platform discussion with Nick Dear, Author
October
1 THIS STORY OF YOURS New End Theatre
2 COSI FAN TUTTE The English National Opera at the
Barbican Theatre
6 A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE Royal Haymarket Theatre
7 Tour of the Imperial War Museum
7 JOHN BULL’S OTHER ISLAND Tricycle Theatre
8 Tour of Westminster Abbey
8 ROMEO AND JULIET Icelandic Company at the
Young Vic Theatre
9 TWELFTH NIGHT Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
10, 11, 12 Tour to Stamford, York, Rievaulx Abbey, Cambridge,
and the North Country
13 Flight on the London Eye
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Comedy Theatre
14 Tour of the Natural History Museum
14 AFTER MRS. ROCHESTER Duke of York’s Theatre
16 Discussion with Simon Scardifield, Actor
16 TWO SISTERS AND A PIANO Riverside Studios
17 FAR SIDE OF THE MOON Barbican Theatre
19-26 Brit Rail Tour of England, Scotland, Wales
27 R & J Arts Theatre
28 Tour of the Wallace Collection
28 Backstage tour of the Royal National Theatre
HIS GIRL FRIDAY Royal National Theatre Company at
The Olivier Theatre
29 Tour of St. Paul’s Cathedral
30 ROMEO AND JULIET Royal National Ballet Company at the
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
31 ELECTRA Gate Theatre
November
1 Tour to St. Alban’s Cathedral, the Verulamium and Shaw’s Corner
4,5,6 Tour to Stratford-Upon-Avon and Shakespeare Properties
4 MEASURE FOR MEASURE Royal Shakespeare Company at the
Festival Theatre
AS YOU LIKE IT Royal Shakespeare Company at the
Swan Theatre
Dinner at The Dirty Duck
5 Tour to Mary Arden’s House, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage and Coventry Cathedral
RICHARD III Royal Shakespeare Company at the
Festival Theatre
Dinner at Marlowe’s Restaurant
6 CYMBELINE Royal Shakespeare Company at the
Swan Theatre
TITUS ANDRONICUS Royal Shakespeare Company at the
Festival Theatre
7 Platform discussion with the company of JUMPERS
JUMPERS Royal National Theatre Company at
The Lyttelton Theatre
8 Open Rehearsal of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Barbican Hall
with Michael Tilson-Thomas
10 Discussion with Alex Jennings, Actor
Tour of BBC Television Studios White City
11 Tour of West End Theatres with John Earl
THE MERCY SEAT Almeida Theatre
12 MADAME BOVARY: BREAKFAST WITH EMMA Lyric Hammersmith
13 Discussion with Polly Teale, Author/Director
13 LES MISERABLES Palace Theatre
14,15,16 Tour to Avebury, Stonehenge, Bath, The Cotswolds,
Oxford, and West Country
17 TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS Royal National Theatre Company at
Olivier Theatre
18 Tour of Sir John Soane’s Museum
18 THE PRICE Apollo Theatre
19 MARTHA GRAHAM COMPANY IN CONCERT Sadler’s Wells Theatre
20 HAROLD ARLEN WHO? Barbican Pit Theatre
24 VINCENT IN BRIXTON Richmond Theatre
25 Tour of the Victoria and Albert Museum
25 Discussion with Diane Wilmot, Production Manager
25 Tour of National Theatre Costume Collection
25 MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA Royal National Theatre Company at
Lyttelton Theatre
26 Tour to Windsor Castle
THE MAIDS Barbican Theatre
27 Thanksgiving Dinner with faculty, staff & guests Bonnington Hotel, Bloomsbury
28 AFTER MISS JULIE Donmar Warehouse
29 Tour to Leeds Castle and Canterbury
30 THE MESSIAH FROM SCRATCH Royal Albert Hall
December
1 Tour of Houses of Parliament
2 Tour of the Tate Modern Gallery
2 Pre-concert talk by Graham Humphrey
MOZART, HAYDN, MENDELSSOHN Concert Royal Festival Hall
3 Tour to Hampton Court Palace
THE LION KING Lyceum Theatre
4 THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA Gielgud Theatre, RADA
5 Tour of the Banqueting Hall and Whitehall
6 SKELLIG Young Vic Theatre
7 CHRISTMAS WITH KING’S COLLEGE CHOIR St. John’s, Smith Square
8 CINDERELLA Lyric Hammersmith
9 Tour of the Tate Britain Gallery
10 Final Dinner with faculty and staff at Amalfi’s Restaurant, Soho