Afternoon: Independents arrivals. Welcome meeting and reception in hotel at 6:00pm.

Dinner: Excluded.

Evening: Free

Lodging: East Side Marriott

Breakfast:

Morning: Free morning.

Lunch: Not included.

Afternoon: Group transfer by coach to embarkation of Queen Mary II, approx. 2:00pm.

Dinner: On board ship.

Lodging: Aboard The Queen Mary II

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Breakfast: On board ship.

Morning: Giles Ramsay, a theatre producer and director based in London, presents a colorful and informative lecture: "What is Theatre and Why do we need it?"

Lunch: On board ship.

Afternoon: Shipboard activities: Enjoy the QM2’s many educational and entertainment activities, which include: a guest lecture series; a book club with literary discussions with the ship librarian; and classes in watercolors, computers, wine tasting, ballroom dance, bridge and board games. You may also take acting lessons or a course in celestial navigation. Musical entertainment includes the Julliard Jazz School series, as well as singers and dancers in stage shows in the Royal Court Theatre, or pianists, string quartets and a movie theater. Enjoy personal fitness activities such as swimming, tennis, yoga, Pilates, aerobics and spinning. Or simply take tea and enjoy a museum-quality exhibit that takes you back to the golden era of transatlantic ship crossings.

Dinner: On board ship.

Evening: Shipboard activities.

Lodging: Aboard The Queen Mary II

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: On board ship.

Morning: Medieval drama, the Reformation and Christopher Marlowe.

Lunch: On board ship.

Afternoon: QMII activities. Cocktail party.

Dinner: On board ship.

Lodging: Aboard The Queen Mary II

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: On board.

Morning: Free day. Shipboard activities.

Lunch: On board.

Afternoon: Shipboard activities.

Dinner: On board.

Evening: Shipboard activities.

Lodging: Aboard The Queen Mary II

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: On board ship.

Morning: Shakespeare's Life and Verse.

Lunch: On board ship.

Afternoon: QMII activities.

Dinner: On board ship.

Lodging: Aboard The Queen Mary II

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: On board ship.

Morning: Lectures: 300 Years of British Theatre.

Lunch: On board ship.

Afternoon: QMII activities.

Dinner: On board ship.

Lodging: Aboard The Queen Mary II

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: On board ship.

Morning: Lectures: The 20th Century: Wilde, Coward, Pinter, Orton, Osborne.

Lunch: On board ship.

Afternoon: QMII activities.

Dinner: On board ship.

Lodging: Aboard The Queen Mary II

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: On board ship.

Morning: Disembark Southampton and transfer by coach to London via Winchester. Field trip: Winchester Cathedral.

Lunch: Winchester Cathedral.

Afternoon: Transfer continues

Dinner: In the hotel.

Evening: One Man, Two Guv'nors at the Haymarket Theatre.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Full English and continental breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Discussion "State of the Nation" with a top national journalist.

Lunch: Excluded.

Afternoon: Free afternoon.

Dinner: In the hotel.

Evening: The Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic Theatre.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Breakfast:

Morning: Field trip to the world famous Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), new home to the theatre collection. Theatre and Performance galleries dedicated to the performing arts, display works of art, costumes, ephemera, video recordings, puppets, posters and photographs. The V&A's Theatre Collections hold the UK's national collection of material about live performance in the UK since Shakespeare's day, covering drama, dance, musical theatre, circus, music hall, rock and pop, and other forms of live entertainment. The collections were founded in the 1920s when a private collector, Gabrielle Enthoven, donated her extensive collection of theatrical designs, memorabilia, books and photographs to the Museum. She continued to add to her collection, and worked on it as a museum volunteer until her death in 1950. Since that period, the collection has continued to grow, and has provided a home for many other significant objects and archives. Between 1987 and 2007, some of this material was housed at the V&A's branch museum in Covent Garden, the Theatre Museum. New galleries devoted to the performing arts opened at the V&A in South Kensington in 2009.

Lunch: Excluded.

Afternoon: Excursion to Leighton House, one of London's best kept secrets. Located on the edge of Holland Park in Kensington, the house is one of the most remarkable buildings of the 19th century. The house was the former home and studio of the leading Victorian artist, Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896). Built to designs by George Aitchison, it was extended and embellished over a period of 30 years to create a private palace of art. The Arab Hall is the centerpiece of the house. Designed to display Leighton's priceless collection of over a thousand Islamic tiles, mostly brought back from Damascus in Syria, the interior evokes a compelling vision of the Orient. The house's pseudo-Islamic court has featured as a set in various film and television programs, such as Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Brazil, and an episode of the British television drama series Spooks, as well as the music videos. Leighton House, which has reopened to the public after a £1.6m restoration, is a testimony not simply to one man and his vision but to a particular moment in British cultural history. Visitors gazed at the spectacular Arab Hall, with its golden dome and indoor fountain. Meanwhile, closer acquaintances, including members of the royal family, might attend one of Leighton's famous musical soirées in the cavernous studio which doubled as an assembly room, complete with minstrels' gallery. Intimate friends might be invited to spend the evening in the dining room, a red jewel-box hung with glittering Middle-Eastern ceramics and set off by crimson floorboards. Fellow artists, meanwhile, could lounge in the Silk Room, a cosy second studio space where Leighton, always a generous collector of other people's work, stacked his recent purchases on chairs. Today performers from around the world stage events against dramatic backdrops

Dinner:

Evening: Collaborators at the National Theatre.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Breakfast:

Morning: Guided field trip to an art gallery.

Lunch: Excluded.

Afternoon: Free until afternoon tea with a theatre critic.

Dinner:

Evening: Posh at the Duke of York's Theatre. In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine. But this isn't just a jolly: they're planning a revolution. Welcome to the Riot Club. Written by Laura Wade, a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme, whose play, Breathing Corpses won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Pearson Playwrights Best Play Award, the George Devine Award and an Olivier Award Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Directed by Lyndsey Turner.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Breakfast:

Morning: Transfers to airports for departure flights home.

Meals Included: Breakfast