2007 Semester in London - Memories

In the English Department's 2007 Semester in London, we read plays, considered staging, and compared our ideas to what we saw enacted in theatres. We studied theatre history through guided walks, backstage tours, guest lectures, and class work based on engravings and architectural drawings.

Slide show from Summer in London 2007 was created by Ashley Roybal

List of Performances students attended in 2007 Summer in London Session

Shakespeare:

Twelfth Night : Bridewell Theatre
Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Othello: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Cymbeline by Cheek by Jowl Company: Barbican
Macbeth: London Regent's Park open air pavilion (rained out after Act II)
Macbeth: Royal Shakespeare Company, the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Midsummer Night's Dream: London Regent's Park open air pavilion

Other Plays:

London Cuckolds by Edward Ravenscroft: Bristol Old Vic Theatre
Kean by Jean-Paul Sartre, starring Anthony Sher: Apollo Theatre
The Pain & the Itch by Bruce Norris: The Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square

In the final week students chose their own plays, seeing The Lion King, Dirty Dancing, The Drowsy Chaperone, Les Miserables and Wicked

Tours and Visits:

• London Walk #1: England's First Theatre (1576), a walk in Shoreditch
• London Walk #2: Two Theatres (1610-1676), a walk from Blackfriars Underground Station
• London Walk #3: A Walk in the West End (1661-1730)
• Workshops and demonstrations at the Globe for "Sam's Day"
  (a celebration of the birthday of Sam Wannamaker, who make the Globe restoration happen)
• Shakespeare's Globe exhibition and backstage tour
• Backstage tour of Bristol Old Vic Theatre (1766, oldest working theatre in England)
• Visit to Shakespeare's grave, Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
• Visit to Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields