2009 Actor's Renaissance Season Packages: Seminar in a weekend, full course in a week.

Actors Renaissance Season Group Packages:
Bring your students to the Blackfriars Playhouse during our Actors’ Renaissance Season to see the process, enjoy the shows, work with the actors and scholars, and, in short, get a course in a few days that they couldn’t get elsewhere in a month.

What is the Actor’s Renaissance Season?
Veteran ASC actors craft plays the way Shakespeare’s King’s Men did by working collaboratively and without the filter of a director. Approximating Shakespeare’s original staging conditions on the only historically researched Shakespearean stage in the United States, the actors put on energetic, exhilarating productions of five classic early modern scripts.

Resident faculty and visiting scholars have included:  Ralph Alan Cohen, Colleen Kelly, Tiffany Stern, Paul Menzer, William P. Williams, Giles Block, Don Weingust, Carol Levine, Patrick Tucker, Jenny Tiramani, Barbara Palmer.

Announcing the 2009 Actor’s Renaissance Season, running January - March, 2009 at the Blackfriars Playhouse.

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Jan. 2 - March 26

Thomas Middleton's The Revenger’s Tragedy
Jan. 15 - March 27

William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 1
Jan. 29 - March 28

Thomas Middleton's The Changeling
Feb. 19 - March 28

George Chapman's The Blind Beggar of Alexandria
March 11 - March 29

Planning your trip

Your experience can last anywhere from one weekend to several weeks and you may choose to include any of the following in your package:

• Tickets to any or all shows at the Blackfriars during your stay
• A backstage tour of the Playhouse
• Post-show talkbacks
• A meet and greet reception
• Workshops, Lectures and Master Classes. Choose from topics such as: Language and Performance, Actor and Text, Rhetoric and Stage Direction, Original Practices, Movement and Staging, Early Modern Playhouse Culture, Stage Combat
• Space for your group to meet or rehearse, as a class
• Lodging from next door’s Stonewall Jackson Hotel to charming bed and breakfasts to budget accommodations, all within walking distance of the Blackfriars Playhouse
• Dining at one or more of Staunton’s fine restaurants

Click on one of the links below to see a sample of the wide range of group packages available.

• ARS Sample #1 - 1 night, 15 students, 1 teacher
• ARS Sample #2 - 2 nights, 5 students, 1 teacher
• ARS Sample #3 - 3 nights, 5 students, 1 teacher
• ARS Sample #4 - 3 nights, 15 students, 1 teacher
• ARS Sample #5 - 3 nights, 20 students, 1 teacher
• ARS Sample #6 - 7 nights, 6 students, 1 teacher

Because of the highly personalized nature of this program, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   to help create your individualized ARS ’09 experience and to receive a price quote based on the activities and package options you would like to include.

*Some activities may be limited based on artist and space availability. A 20% deposit is required to reserve your space, refundable until January 1, 2009.