SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE This summer a new program will offer students interested in William Shakespeare and the craft of acting the opportunity to spend a month in the picturesque riverside town of Stratford Upon-Avon, England, the birthplace of the Bard. The program is the latest in a variety of study abroad opportunities that have been made available for students in the Department of Theatre and Film over the years. Film over the years. Program participants will study with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, perhaps the most famous classical acting company in the world. Highlights of the program include acting and voice lessons, a fencing work- Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare and his family as well as Trinity Church, where Shakespeare is buried. The program includes a trip to Oxford to attend a play, with a stop at Blenheim Palace. shop, a wigs and make-up demonstration, backstage tours, and presentations of Shakespeare archives and collections. Students will also attend every show that the Royal Shakespeare Company is producing and will be given a private performance of Shakespeare's Sonnets by an actor in the company. In addition to attending performances, lectures,and workshops, students will visit five preserved period homes and gardens connected with William Upcoming Info Meetings Summer Institute: Studies in Ifrane, Morocco Tuesday, February 15 at 3:00pm 109 Bailey Hall relationship between KU and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His background as an English actor and voice teacher, training and teaching at the same schools attended by the company members, opens some doors not normally open to visitors from abroad. "It should be The program will be directed by Paul Meier, Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film. Professor Meier has spent many years cultivating a special the most intensive classical acting training available in the world," says Meier. Students will receive six hours of credit at or above the 300-level in either graduate or undergraduate Theatre and Film courses. Summer Institute: European Studies (Brussels, Paris, Strasbourg Budapest and Vienna) Tuesday, February 15 at 4:00pm 4040 Wescoe Hall For more information about the program, contact Professor Paul Meier at pmeier@ku.edu, or contact the Office of Study Abroad. No Language Experience? No problem. The following summer study abroad programs are taught in English. Music Therapy in Brisbane, Australia GRIP: Global Research Integrative Projects, Brazil (CIBER) Field Methods in Applied Cultural Anthropology (Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica) International Social Work: A Costa Rican Perspective (San Jose, Costa Rica) Cambridge Pre-Law Institute (Cambridge, England) Shakespeare in Performance (Stratford-Upon-Avon, England) British Summer Institute in the Humanities (London, York, Edinburgh, the Highlands, and Glasgow) Emerging Technologies (Architecture in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany) European Studies (Brussels, Paris, Strasbourg, Budapest, and Vienna) European Business Studies in Paris, France Architecture in Paris, France Professional Studies in Stuttgart, Germany Ancient Greece: An Archaeological Tour Entrepreneurship in India (CIBER) Law in Limerick, Ireland Study Abroad for Education Majors: A Cross-Cultural Experience in Carpi, Italy Undergraduate Architecture in Spannocchia, Italy and Barcelona, Spain Graduate Architecture in Siena, Italy and Berlin, Germany Design in Italy Health Care & Social Policies in Stockholm, Sweden Law in Istanbul, Turkey Japan Information Meeting Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4034 Wescoe Learn more about the Summer Institute in Hiratsuka as well as the Semester and Academic Year Exchanges in Japan. 3:30-4:30 p.m. Summer Language Institute in Hiratsuka, Japan 4:30-5:30 p.m. Semester and Academic Year Exchanges in Japan The summer 2004 Hiratsuka, Japan participants. Photo by Britt Damon. JAYHAWKS ABROAD SPRING 2005 3 δΈ€