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The Play's the Thing: London Theatre

May 3-11, 2008

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Overview

For centuries, London has been synonymous with great theater, and CAU's eleventh journey to the London stage is designed to give you the best theater in comfortable and gracious style. Our group will be lodged at the Radisson Edwardian Mountbatten, a most pleasant hotel perfectly set between the theater district and Covent Garden. The heart of the program will be the plays, six in all, including productions at the Royal National Theatre and in the West End.

Faculty

Our leaders will be David Feldshuh, professor in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance, artistic director of Cornell's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, and an award-winning playwright, and Glenn Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. As a practicing director, actor, and playwright, David will bring practical as well as scholarly perspective to the productions we see. He will focus our attention on the theatrical possibilities and challenges of each production, while he and Glenn will explore the imaginative process necessary to transform a written script into a successful theatrical creation. We know you will enjoy the daily pre-performance lectures and post-performance discussions of the plays David and Glenn select, from Shakespearean productions through the works of contemporary playwrights. The marvelous quality of London theater unfailingly rewards our expectations.

Program Cost and Travel Arrangements

The program fee (per-person, double-occupancy) of $4,350 covers the full educational program, hotel accommodations, theater tickets (stalls or best-available seats for all performances), transfers, admission fees, escort services, taxes, gratuities, emergency medical-evacuation insurance, all breakfasts, welcome and farewell receptions and dinners, and two luncheons. The supplement for single occupancy is $1,200. Let us know if you would like to join Glenn on his flight from New York to London. Of course, you are free to make your own flight arrangements.

Program Notes

This is not a physically strenuous program, but please keep in mind that we will walk to several performances, including productions at older theaters lacking handicap-access facilities.