TheatreSquared Summer Drama Academy

TheatreSquared, Northwest Arkansas’ professional theatre company, is back with another installment of our immensely popular Summer Drama Academy!  This year we will be offering one session for older students in Fayetteville, and an academy for grades 3-12 in Bella Vista!

This summer, TheatreSquared will be producing “A MidSummer Night’s Dream”, and students will have a once-in-a–lifetime opportunity to work with the actors from the production to explore the work of the bard!  These creative weeks are designed for students who are new to theatre as well as students seeking to further develop their skills. .

Students will work on Scene Study, Character Improvisation and Comedy Improvisation and Movement. Through rigorous classes, students will learn about Shakespeare while they improve stage skills like presence, focus, leadership and communication.  Week-long T2 camps enhance life skills of self-confidence, discipline, integrity, commitment and teamwork.

FAYETTEVILLE, Grades: 7th- 12th
Monday – Friday, June 9 – 13, 9:00am  – 3:00pm
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church – North East Avenue, Fayetteville, AR  72701
Cost:  $115
Students should bring a bag lunch.
To register, call 479-445-6333 or visit the education and outreach section of www.theatresquared.org

BELLA VISTA, Grades 3rd- 12th

FULL DAY
Monday – Friday, July 21-25, 9:00am - 3:30pm
Riordan Hall, Bella Vista
Cost: $195
Students should bring a bag lunch
To register, call 479-445-6333 or visit the education and outreach section of www.theatresquared.org

BELLA VISTA, Grades 3rd- 12th
HALF DAY
Monday-Friday, July 21-25, 9:00am-12:00pm
Riordan Hall, Bella Vista
Cost: $100
Students should bring a bag lunch.
To register, call 479-445-6333 or visit the education and outreach section of www.theatresquared.org

WRITING ANALYTICALLY ABOUT LITERATURE
A UNIQUE CLASS FOR ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH STUDENTS

This summer, TheatreSquared, Northwest Arkansas Professional Theatre Company has partnered with The Brown Chair of English Literacy to create a unique opportunity for sophomores, juniors, and seniors who plan eventually to take the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition Examination.  The four-session course will focus on writing about literature written before 1900, specifically examining Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, the play that TheatreSquared will be performing throughout Northwest Arkansas this summer.

SESSION ONE - July 21, 4-6pm
Will explore the essentials of reading a poem analytically and drafting an analytic essay.

SESSION TWO - July 22, 4-6pm
Will cover the essentials of reading a passage of prose fiction analytically and further crafting of an analytic essay.

SESSION THREE - July 23, 4-6pm
Will cover methods of analyzing themes in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

SESSION FOUR - July 24, 4-6pm
Will cover methods of analyzing comic technique.

This AP Intensive will be conducted by and will allow students a rare opportunity to work one-on-one with Dr. David Jolliffe, The University of Arkansas’ Brown Chair of English Literacy. Dr. Jolliffe is a former high school teacher who has taught at Bethany College, West Virginia University, the University of Texas, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and DePaul University before coming to the University of Arkansas in 2005. Dr. Jolliffe served as a member of the Advanced Placement English Test Development Committee from 1999 through 2006.

Students who successfully complete all four sessions will receive a certificate and a letter of commendation to the English Department faculty at their school.

The cost for the course, which will be held on the University of Arkansas Fayetteville Campus is $95.  Students should register before June 10th by calling TheatreSquared at 479.445.6333 or online at www.theatresquared.org/

And Don’t Miss:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By WilliamShakespeare

For Family Audiences
SHOW DATES & TIMES:
JULY 25 & JULY 27 @ 6:30pm
BOTANICAL GARDENS OF THE OZARKS

This summer, Shakespeare’s classic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream gets a fresh twist in this six-person, one-hour adaptation.   The show will tour Northwest Arkansas in July, then tour the state in October as part of an initiative TheatreSquared has undertaken with the Brown Chair of English Literacy at the University of Arkansas.

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the gate.

Call 479-445-6333 for more information or visit us online at
www.theatresquared.org