27th Annual WEEKEND PLAY TRIP
The annual weekend trip to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF) in Montgomery is one of the college's most popular events and one of the best deals around. Since the trip usually sells out, early sign-up is recommended.
Saturday & Sunday
April 21-22, 2012
Itinerary
It’s a double dose of comedy for this year’s drama weekend in Montgomery. We will see live, professional performances of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare’s fast-moving farce of pranks and posturing, and Travels with My Aunt, an unusual coming of age story based on the novel by 20th-century English author Graham Greene.
Saturday will feature a stop at the Tuskegee Airmen Museum, located at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, for a glimpse into the groundbreaking accomplishments of this special group of WWII aviators. Then we will have lunch and a little shopping time at a Montgomery mall. After supper at Golden Corral, we will see The Merry Wives of Windsor on the Festival Stage in ASF’s multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art theater complex.
Sunday’s itinerary includes a boxed lunch on the beautifully landscaped ASF theater grounds and time to explore the grounds, visit the gift shop, etc. before the afternoon performance of Travels with My Aunt on the Octagon Stage. A brief “Stage Side Chat” with one or more of the actors or ASF production staff members is expected to follow the play.
Cost
The trip fee covers
- tour bus transportation
- one night's lodging at Wingate Inn (with deluxe continental breakfast)
- admission to the two plays
- a background information packet on the plays
- visit to the Tuskegee Airmen Museum
- all you can eat at Golden Corral on Saturday night and a boxed lunch at ASF on Sunday
The trip fee varies according to the number of persons per hotel room. The total per-person trip prices are as follows: 4 per room-$105, 3 per room-$112, 2 per room-$127. Rooms will have two queen beds. (Approximately $25 in spending money will be needed to pay for two meals and snacks not covered by the trip fee.) The Office of Student Life will make roommate assignments for those who request help in finding roommates, but will not be able to guarantee the requested number of persons per room. Coed rooms for unmarried couples are not allowed.
Deadlines
The trip is open to Georgia Highlands College students, employees, and their guests. Sign-up begins on Feb. 1 in the Office of Student Life on the Floyd and Cartersville campuses and in the GHC offices at the other campuses and continues on a first-come, first-served basis until the sign-up deadline of Thursday, March 1, unless tickets run out before then. A $50 deposit is required at the time of sign-up. The deposit becomes non-refundable on March 1. The balance of the trip fee is due Tuesday, March 27. The balance also becomes non-refundable on that date. (If someone must cancel from the trip after the refund dates, an effort will be made to find a replacement so a refund can be made, but this cannot be guaranteed.)
Forms
Extra Credit
English classes, some other humanities and social science classes, and perhaps other classes as well will offer extra credit to trip participants.
For additional information about the trip, please contact Mr. Spranza in the Office of Student Life on the Floyd Campus (706-295-6363), Ms. Youngblood (678-872-8040) at Cartersville, Ms. Carter (678-915-5031) at Marietta, Ms. Burnett (678-872-4223) at Paulding and Douglasville, or Dr. Kemper in the Humanities Division at (706-368-7626).
