Our annual Teacher Institute at Charlestown Working Theater starts next week! We are excited to meet this year’s cohort of 17 teachers, and for our 5 instructors and 5 guest artists to learn just as much from them as they will learn (hopefully) from us!

What happens at Teacher Institute? We’re so glad you asked!

Monday, August 8

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-10:00 Introductions, Outline of Course, Objectives, etc.

10:00-10:30 BODY & VOICE: Warm Up

10:30-11:30 TEXT: Starting the Play – Uncovering the Language

11:30-12:30 SCENE WORK: Hamlet Scenes Distributed & Selected

12:30-1:15 LUNCH (Provided by ASP/Salem State University!)

1:15-3:15 MOVEMENT WORKSHOP: Viewpoints, Session 1

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-4:45 SCHOLAR TALK & DISCUSSION: Interpretations of Hamlet

4:45-5:00 Closing and Reinforcements

Tuesday, August 9

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-9:20 Check In & Warm Up

9:20-10:20 TEXT & MOVEMENT: Scansion and Embodying the Text

10:20-10:30 Break

10:30-12:00 DIRECTING WORKSHOP: Guest Artists Doug Lockwood (Director of ASP’s Hamlet October 5 – November 6) and Actors Omar Robinson (Hamlet) and Marianna Bassham (Gertrude)

12:00-1:30 WORKING LUNCH: Extended Scene Work in Small Groups; Faculty

Circulate

1:30-2:45 WRITING: 4-Fold Writing

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00-4:00 TEXT & MOVEMENT: Status in Hamlet

4:00-4:45 TEXT: Starting the Play – Uncovering the Themes

4:45-5:00 Closing and Reinforcements

Wednesday, August 10

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-9:30 Check In & Warm Up

9:30-11:30 MOVEMENT WORKSHOP: Guest Artist Lindsey Colleli

11:30-12:30 GRAD LUNCH: Discussion of “My Kingdom for a Ghost” and “Hamlet and the Limits of Narrative”

12:30-2:30 MOVEMENT WORKSHOP: Viewpoints, Session 2

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-4:00 SCENE WORK: Rehearsals in small groups

4:00-4:45 CURRICULUM BUILDING: Making connections to YOUR classroom

4:45-5:00 Closing and Reinforcements

Thursday, August 11

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-9:30 Check In & Warm Up

9:30-11:30 DESIGN WORKSHOP: Visual Research with Guest Artist David R. Gammons, director of our Edward II

11:30-12:30 GRAD LUNCH: Discussion of“Hamlet’s Alchemy,” “Ophelia’s Plants,” and “Hamlet’s Poem to Ophelia”

12:30-1:30 SCENE WORK: Rehearsals in small groups

1:30-3:30 CURRICULUM BUILDING: Making connections to YOUR classroom

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-4:45 VOICE & BODY: Vocal Exercises

4:45-5:00 Closing and Reinforcements

Friday, August 12

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-9:15 Check In

9:15-10:00 CURRICULUM BUILDING: Assessment

10:00-11:00 SCHOLAR TALK & DISCUSSION: Order and Disorder in Hamlet

11:00-12:00 SCENE WORK: Rehearsals in small groups

12:00-1:00 LUNCH (Provided by ASP/SSU)

1:00-1:30 VOICE & BODY: Warm Up

1:30-3:00 SCENE WORK: Scene Sharing

3:00-4:00 CLOSING: Evaluations and Final Reinforcements