Thursday, December 3 (Southampton)
4:30pm
Depart Southampton, UK
5pm – 6pm
Bon Voyage Cocktail Party
[ Winter Garden ]
We will be handing out our final program guides, name badges, schedule updates and
providing drinks. Check in and meet the cast for this adventure!
•Friday, December 4 (At Sea)
9:30am – 10am
Kick Start
[ Connexions ]
Join us for coffee and conversation in the morning to get a start on the day before the first
lecture. A little caffeine will help you jump into the world of the play!
SHAKESPEARE AT SEA #4
PROGRAM GUIDE
10am – 11am
Let’s Get Started! Twelfth Night
Lue Douthit, Ph.D. — [ Connexions ]
Dr. Lue Douthit is our guide into the wonderful world of Twelfth Night. What makes this
play so magical? Why did Shakespeare write this play? Was it really a commission from the
Queen?
11:15am – Noon
Beginning the Deep Dive Into Twelfth Night
Rex Young, Miriam Laube, Gina Daniels, &Ted Deasy —
[ Connexions ]
What is the difference between a breath and a beat? Who are all of these characters? What
is their motivation? What is up those cross garters? Join the teaching team to discover the
inner workings of this wonderful play.
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Charting the World of the Play
Lue Douthit, Ph.D. — [ Connexions ]
What are the elements that make a play? How do we know from the opening moments that
it is a comedy, tragedy or history? Why are some in poetry and some in prose? Do people
always die at the same time in the story line?
2:45pm – 3:45pm
Actor’s Studio at Sea
Lue Douthit, Ph.D. — [ Connexions ]
Dr. Lue is our very own James Lipton. She will interview our acting team, discover their motivation for choosing this profession, discover their favorite roles, favorite swear words and
sounds. Bring your questions as well. This is sure to be an illuminating hour.
DECEMBER 3 – 15, 2015
CANARY ISLANDS
www.InsightCruises.com/Shakespeare-4
4pm – 5pm
Couples Therapy
Ted Deasy & Gina Daniels — [ TBA ]
Enjoy a personal journey with Ted Deasy and Gina Daniels as they share some of the humor,
conflicts, joys and trials of their own relationship through the lens of scenes from Shakespeare and other playwrights in their two person show.
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Saturday, December 5 (At Sea)
9:30am – 10am
Coffee and Conversation
[ Connexions ]
Join us in the mornings to get updates on the day, any schedule changes, offer feedback
and just visit.
10am – 11am
Hamlet
Lue Douthit, Ph.D. — [ Connexions ]
Is Hamlet melancholy or mad or a bit of both? Why does this story endure? Why is the ghost
the catalyst to start the story? Does Hamlet drive Ophelia mad or was she leaning that way
already? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Do they matter to the story?
11:15am – Noon
A Little More About Twelfth Night
Rex Young, Miriam Laube, Gina Daniels, & Ted Deasy —
[ Connexions ]
The teaching team will continue to help us navigate the text of Twelfth Night and you will
have the opportunity to share your thoughts and read the text along with the actors.
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Season Planning Team Work
Rex Young, Miriam Laube, Gina Daniels, & Ted Deasy —
[ Connexions ]
Will you be on Rex’s Renegades? Miriam’s Marauders? Gina’s Giants or Ted’s Tyrants? Find out
who your team is and start planning for a Season Planning Smack Down later in the cruise.
This is your chance to create and cast your ideal season.
2:45pm – 3:45pm
Season Planning Team Work, Part II
Rex Young, Miriam Laube, Gina Daniels, & Ted Deasy —
[ Connexions ]
Now that you know your teams, what will your season look like? Who are your directors?
How many Shakespeares? Comedies? New works? Musicals? Who are you casting? Do you
have conflicts? You cannot have David Kelly and Catherine Coulson in every production.
4pm – 5pm
Charles Dickens and Victorian London
Ted Deasy & Gina Daniels — [ TBA ]
A bit of history, a bit of mystery and an overview of the man and his work. The times Dickens wrote in, what his audience expected and what you can anticipate when we perform A
Christmas Carol in a cave!
•Sunday, December 6 (At Sea)
9:30am – 10am
10am – 11am
Timon of Athens
Lue Douthit, Ph.D. — [ Connexions ]
Tyrant or misunderstood? Why do we not do Timon that often? How many people die in this
story? Can we fall in love with him? Do we need to in order to enjoy the play? How did the
time in which Shakespeare wrote this affect the story?
11:15am – Noon
Ghosts and Ghost Stories
Ted Deasy & Gina Daniels — [ Connexions ]
Why do we use ghosts in theatre? From Shakespeare to Dickens, how does a ghost help us
instantly understand and emphasize with the plight of the characters.
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Timon, Side by Side
Rex Young & Ted Deasy — [ Connexions ]
Rex Young and Ted Deasy will perform both the original text and a modern adaptation of
Timon for you. Revel in the language as these two consummate actors engage you in this
reader’s theatre version of Timon of Athens.
3:45pm – 5pm
A Christmas Carol Rehearsal
Rex Young, Miriam Laube, Gina Daniels, & Ted Deasy —
[ Connexions ]
Stand up, shake off your stage fright and help us conjure up the ghosts of Christmas Past,
Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. We want to make sure that you are ready for
our journey to the heart of the volcano in Lanzarote and our performance there.
Monday, December 7 (Madeira, Portugal)
9am
Arrive Madeira
5pm
Depart Madeira
Tuesday, December 8 (Tenerife, Spain)
9am Arrive Tenerife
Midnight
Depart Tenerife
Wednesday, December 9 (Gran Canaria, Spain)
7am Arrive Gran Canaria
6pm
Depart Gran Canaria
Coffee and Conversation
[ Connexions ]
Come and visit with us in the morning, share your drafts of your season planning, talk about
ghosts in the bright light of day and your insights into the programming so far.
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Thursday, December 10 (Lanzarote, Spain)
9am Arrive Lanzarote
9:15am – 4pm
Shakespeare at Sea Exclusive Excursion —
Summon These Spirits: Volcano Edition
Charlie & Aaron — [ meeting point: Golden Lion Pub ]
Moonscape, sea of volcanoes, lavascape — these are the classic descriptions of Lanzarote.
We start our adventure with a visit to Timanfaya National Park, studded by colorful dormant
volcanos and swathed in lava fields, sand, and volcanic pebbles. Because of the paradoxical
delicacy of the landscape, we will not walk around the park, but rather take a driving tour
with photo stops.
After a relaxed buffet lunch in the village of Yaiza, we swing into volcano mode. Northward to Los Jameos del Agua, where we will gather in an auditorium in a grotto at the heart
of La Corona volcano. There, far from the holly and the ivy, we will conjure up the spirit of
the holidays. Inspired by the merriment and wisdom of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
we’ll join voices in beloved songs and carols. Sure to be a memorable performance springing forth from the OSF community!
5pm
Depart Lanzarote
•Friday, December 11 (At Sea)
9:30am – 10am
Coffee and Conversation
[ Connexions ]
With four days off the ship we are eager to catch up with you and find out how you are doing, what you thought of the Volcano and hear your thoughts about the experience so far!
10am – 11am
Richard II
Lue Douthit, Ph.D. — [ Connexions ]
Dr. Lue will give us a panaromic view of Richard II and the politics of the time. We’ll look at
the play within the political landscape of the 2016 Season. What is it going to be like to produce this play in an Election Year? Can theatre influence our votes? Is all theatre political?
Come and join in the discussion.
11:15am – Noon
Black Swan Lab
Lue Douthit, Ph.D. & Miriam Laube — [ Connexions ]
So, you have heard all about the Black Swan Lab for years. But do you really know what it is?
Want to know? Lue will lift the curtain on this mysterious process and you’ll get the inside
scoop. Then you will get to participate in our own floating Black Swan Lab.
1:30pm – 3pm
Black Swan Lab, Part II
Lue Douthit, Ph.D., Rex Young, Miriam Laube, Gina Daniels,
& Ted Deasy — [ Connexions ]
Join the teaching team to read through a new work, help us dissect the text and review the
play with a critical eye.
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3:15pm – 4pm
Great Expectations with Ted and Gina
Ted Deasy & Gina Daniels — [ Connexions ]
Not the play, but the expectations you bring to the theatre and why casting is critical.
Partake of a discussion about creating a theatre family, building a company of actors, taking
risks and why we need to leave our preconceived notions at the door when it comes to
playing iconic roles.
4:15pm – 5:30pm
Underneath the Lintel
Rex Young — [ Connexions ]
Rex Young shares this one man story of The Librarian on a quest. He seeks to discover who
has anonymously returned a book that is 113 years overdue. His only clues are an unclaimed dry cleaning ticket and some notes in the margin the of the book. His journey will
take him around the world and through time.
Saturday, December 12 (Lisbon , Portugal)
9am
Arrive Lisbon
5pm
Depart Lisbon
•Sunday, December 13 (Vigo, Spain)
9am
Arrive Vigo
5pm
Depart Vigo
Monday, December 14 (At Sea)
9:30am – 10am
Coffee and Conversation
[ Connexions ]
As we get ready for our last class day you are going to want to be awake, alert and enthusiastic!
10am – 11am
A Winter’s Tale
Lue Douthit, Ph.D. — [ Connexions ]
Do you remember who exits, pursued by bear? Do you know what former OSF Company
member now owns a winery called, “Exit: Pursued by Bear”? Is Hermione really frozen? All of
these questions and more are answered this morning.
11:15am – Noon
Season Planning Team Meeting
Rex Young, Miriam Laube, Gina Daniels, & Ted Deas —
[ Connexions ]
Last chance to meet with your team and rehearse your presentation for the producers. Are
you ready? Fabulous prizes await the winning team.
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1:30pm – 2:30pm
Do you have the winning season? Are you sure? The winning team will have a private dinner with Bill and Cynthia during the 2016 season so you can share your plan with them in
person. Ready, set — present!
2:45pm – 3:45pm
Ritual and Ceremony
Lue Douthit, Ph.D. — [ Connexions ]
Why do we do certain things in the theatre, why do we have a ghost light? Why can we not
say the name of the Scottish Play? Why do we not say “Good Luck!” If you are curious about
theatre superstitions, rituals, and ceremonies within the Order of Thespians this is the session for you.
4pm – 5pm
Celebratory Cabaret and Champagne Reception
with Miriam Laube
[ TBA ]
Miriam Laube shares an evening of cabaret songs inspired by Shakespeare to help us end
our time together.
5pm – 6pm
Closing Ceremony
[ TBA ]
The teaching team has prepared a closing candlelight ceremony for everyone to participate
in. Help us honor this time we have had together and end with a small ritual of our own.
Tuesday, December 15 (Southampton, UK)
8am
THE CAST
Season Presentation
Lue Douthit, Ph.D. — [ Connexions ]
Disembarkation Begins
Gina Daniels
2014 Season — Eunice Hubbell and Ensemble in A Streetcar Named Desire; Puck and
Ensemble in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
In eight seasons at OSF — The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa; The White Snake;
All The Way; Julius Caesar; Love’s Labor’s Lost; The African Company Presents Richard III;
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Well; The Winter’s Tale; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; The Skin of
Our Teeth; The Darker Face of the Earth; Richard III; Othello; The Conclusion of Henry VI;
Richard II; The Two Noble Kinsmen; Romeo and Juliet.
Other theatres — New York: National Black Theatre; Summer Play Festival; Abingdon
Theatre; 24 Hour Plays; Nicu’s Spoon; Incumbo Theater. Regional: Broke-ology (TheatreWorks); Measure for Measure (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival); Doubt (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Cyrano (Willamette Repertory Theatre); All’s Well That Ends Well (Utah
Shakespeare Festival); Private Lives, Hamlet (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); As You Like It, The
Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Dracula (Delaware Theatre Company); An Ideal Husband
(Center Stage); The Story (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Medea (Pittsburgh Public Theater); A Christmas Carol (Geva Theatre Center); The Exonerated (Charlotte Repertory Theatre); As You Like It (Arden Theatre); Much Ado about Nothing (TheatreVirginia).
Education — University of Southern California.
Ted Deasy
2014 Season — Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew; Oberon and Ensemble in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
In six seasons at OSF — Roles include Banquo in Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella; Earl
of Cambridge, The Constable of France, and Court in Henry V; George Page in The Very
Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa; The Pirates of Penzance; Ghost Light; As You Like It; Henry
IV, Part One; Rough Crossing; The Comedy of Errors; Cymbeline; Molière Plays Paris.
Other theatres — The 39 Steps (national tour). New York: The 7th of October (The Working Theater). Regional: Evie’s Waltz (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Doubt, The Foreigner
(Cincinnati Playhouse); Doubt (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Much Ado About Nothing,
Timon of Athens (American Players Theatre); Dial M for Murder (Geva Theatre Center);
Accomplice (Two River Theater Company); All’s Well That Ends Well, The Foreigner (Utah
Shakespeare Festival); Private Lives, Death of a Salesman (Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage); The Comedy of Errors (Yale Repertory Theatre); Stones in His Pockets (New
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American Theatre); Cyrano, Mary Stuart, Anna Karenina, The Shaughraun, Sueño (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (Delaware Theatre Company).
Film/TV — All My Children, Guiding Light, Prophet of Evil, Silk Stalkings, Secret Bodyguard.
Lue Morgan Douthit, Ph.D.
Dramaturg, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, A Wrinkle in Time, and Family
Album
In 20 seasons at OSF — Production dramaturg for more than 40 productions, including
12 world premieres (The Unfortunates; The Tenth Muse; WillFul; Throne of Blood; Equivocation; Don Quixote; Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter; Tracy’s Tiger; By the Waters of Babylon;
Continental Divide, and The Magic Fire) and more than a dozen Shakespeares; co-adapter
of the six-actor Macbeth and seven-actor Measure for Measure, both produced at OSF and
elsewhere; coproducer, Black Swan Lab (2009); producer, Black Swan Lab (2010–2013).
Awards — 1999 Literary Manager and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Prize in Dramaturgy: The Elliott Hayes Award.
Education — Ph.D., University of Washington; M.F.A., Trinity University; M.A., University
of Arizona.
Miriam A. Laube
2015 Season — Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra; Gynecia and Ensemble in Head
Over Heels
In 11 seasons at OSF — Cleo in Family Album; Witch in Into the Woods (OSF, Wallis Annenberg Center); Medea in Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella; Maruca in Party People; Miss
Ritter in She Loves Me; Olivia in Twelfth Night; Vasantasena in The Clay Cart; Adriana in The
Comedy of Errors; Rosalind in As You Like It; Tracy’s Tiger; Hermione in The Winter’s Tale;
Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Julia Craven in The Philanderer; Cordelia in King
Lear; Yasmin in Pentecost; others.
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Virginia Stage Company); Yerma in Yerma (Cleveland
Play House); Stepdaughter in Six Characters in Search of an Author and Jessica in Hysteria
(Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Valeria in The Rover, The Story in Naga Mandala, Aglaia in
The Triumph of Love, and Solveig in Peer Gynt (Guthrie Theater).
Miriam A. Laube and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival are participants in the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships, funded by the William & Eva Fox Foundation and administered
by Theater Communications Group.
Rex Young
2015 Season — Dogberry; Soldier and Ensemble in Much Ado About Nothing; Lepidus
and Scarus in Antony and Cleopatra
In 17 seasons at OSF — Favorite roles include George in The Language Archive, Weinburl
in On the Razzle, Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, and Cornwall in King Lear. Other productions:
The Great Society (world premiere); Romeo and Juliet; Troilus and Cressida; Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof; WillFul; Macbeth; Death and the King’s Horseman; Cyrano de Bergerac; Coriolanus; Our Town; Tartuffe; The Winter’s Tale; Timon of Athens; Enrico IV (The Emperor);
The Shoemaker’s Holiday; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; King John; Henry VIII; Hamlet;
Black Swan Lab (2011 & 2013).
Other theatres — Regional: Clybourne Park (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Actors
Theatre of Louisville; Great River Shakespeare Festival; Seattle Shakespeare Company; Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Long Wharf Theatre; American Repertory Theater; Virginia Stage
Company; Studio Arena Theatre; Capital Repertory Theater; PlayMakers Repertory Company;
among others. New York: World premiere of Flight (Lucille Lortel); Coriolanus; The Apollo
of Bellac; The Love of the Nightingale; The Comedy of Errors; The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Film/TV — Captain Fantastic; All My Children; Designing Women; ABCD; Language of
Love.
Education — ART Institute at Harvard University; BFA, Southern Oregon University.
Other: Associate director, The Pirates of Penzance.
Other theatres — Broadway: Mumtaz/Chaiyya soloist in Bombay Dreams. Off-Broadway:
Marina in Pericles (The Public Theater); Cassandra in Agamemnon (Aquila Theatre). Regional: Lydia in Big Love (Dallas Theater Center); Electra in The Oresteia and Lisette in Changes
of Heart (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Rahmi in Gum (Baltimore Center Stage); Titania
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