In Transit: Overnight flight from North America.

Arrive To: London.

Morning: Check-in at the hotel.

Lunch: A light lunch is served in the hotel.

Afternoon: Free time until the welcome meeting at 5:00pm in the hotel with Giles Ramsay, your course director

Dinner: In the hotel.

Evening: At leisure.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Lunch, Dinner

Giles Ramsay lectures on "Early Theatre". Evening theatre performance.

Breakfast: Full English breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: 10:30am Explore the backstage life of the National Theatre. The National Theatre is a working building, producing around 20 new productions every year. Rehearsals, prop and costume-making all happen on site.

Lunch: In the hotel.

Afternoon: Giles Ramsay lectures on Nineteenth Century British Theatre and the Influence of Ibsen, Strindberg and Chechov.

Dinner: Enjoy a pre-theatre dinner out in London with 19346.

Evening: Theatre performance with 19346. "In the Republic of Happiness" by Martin Crimp at the Royal Court. The Royal Court Theatre is Britain's leading national company dedicated to new work by innovative writers from the UK and around the world. Artistic Director of the Royal Court Dominic Cooke directs the play. A family Christmas is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Uncle Bob. Who is he? Why has he come? Why does his wife stay out in the car? And what is the meaning of his long and outrageous message? All we can be sure of is that the world will never be the same again. A violent satire, In the Republic of Happiness is a provocative roll-call of contemporary obsessions.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Full English breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Giles Ramsay lectures on "Men of Doubful Credit" Elizabethan Espionage-the First Cambridge Spy Ring.

Lunch: In the hotel.

Afternoon: Free time.

Dinner: Excluded.

Evening: At leisure.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast: Full English breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Lecture: "A Romp through Twentieth Century British Theatre"

Lunch: In the hotel.

Afternoon: At leisure.

Dinner: Excluded.

Evening: Theatre performance. "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekov at the Vaudeville Theatre. Laughter is a great healer. This autumn Ken Stott, Anna Friel and Sam West are united together on stage for the first time in one of Anton Chekhov's undisputed masterpieces, UNCLE VANYA. Adapted by Christopher Hampton, UNCLE VANYA uniquely blends sparkling wit and earthy humour to brilliant comic effect. Vanya (Ken Stott), Yelena (Anna Friel), Astrov (Samuel West) and Sonya are all in love, with the past, with ideals and with each other. As their universe shifts around them they struggle to keep their emotions at bay in this exquisitely evoked comedy of the trials and tribulations of the human condition. Directed by Lindsay Posner with designs by Christopher Oram, this new production is brought to you by the producers of ALL MY SONS and LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. Anyone who has felt the whirlwind of love can't miss this first class revival of a treasured classic.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

Joint discussion with Giles Ramsay and, guest lecturer, Nigel West on "The Psychopathology of Actors and Spies".

Breakfast: Full English breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Joint discussion with Giles Ramsay and, guest lecturer, Nigel West on "The Psychopathology of Actors and Spies".

Lunch: Excluded.

Afternoon: Free afernoon.

Dinner: Excluded.

Evening: At leisure.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast

"How to Direct a Play and Why Bother in the First Place" . Theatre performance.

Breakfast: Full English breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Lecture: "How to put on a play and why do we bother?"

Lunch: Excluded.

Afternoon: Free time.

Dinner: Pre-theatre dinner out with 19346.

Evening: Theatre performance with 19346. "The Magistrate" by Arthur Wing Pinero at the National Theatre. John Lithgow takes the title role in this fast, furious, brilliantly plotted farce set in Victorian London; he is joined by Nancy Carroll, returning to the NT following her Olivier award-winning performance in After the Dance. With his louche air and a developed taste for smoking, gambling, port and women, it’s hard to believe Cis Farringdon is only fourteen. And that’s because he isn’t. Agatha his mother lopped five years from her true age and his when she married the amiable Posket. Well, when I heard the new dad was a police magistrate, I was scared. Said I to myself, “If I don’t mind my Ps and Qs, the Guv’nor – from force of habit – will fine me all my pocket-money.” The imminent arrival of Cis’ godfather sends Agatha incognito to the Hôtel des Princes to warn him of her deception. But it’s also where her son has cajoled his otherwise staid stepfather into joining him for a binge. High-spirited carousing leads to a police raid and a night of outrageous mishap as the trapped guests make desperate attempts to conceal themselves from the law and from each other. Indignities escalate at court the next day where Posket, the police magistrate, must preside.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Breakfast: Full English breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Round up by a top national theatre critic in conversation with Giles Ramsay. Followed by a talk by Nigel West on the techniques of spying.

Lunch: Excluded

Afternoon: Free time. A farewell drinks reception of Giles Ramsay's theatre programme and Nigel West's Spying programme will take place before dinner in the hotel.

Dinner: In the hotel.

Evening: At leisure.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Depart From: London for return flights to North America.

Breakfast: In the hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast