1. Advice to the Players’ Mission:
  2. ✴To bring affordable, accessible classical theatre to under-served areas of the lakes and mountain regions of New Hampshire.
  3. ✴To enable students and community members to enjoy and benefit from the rich language and passionate action of Shakespeare’s plays through participation, public performances, school workshops, post-show discussions, and mentoring.
  4. ✴To use classical theatre as a means of enriching our understanding of the English language and our shared humanity.
What We Offer:
  1. ✤Three productions per year.
  2. ✤The most reasonable ticket prices in the area.
  3. ✤Specially priced student & senior matinees followed by talk-backs with the cast and crew.
  4. ✤in-school & community workshops aimed at bringing these wonderful plays to life. Fun for all!
  5. ✤NEW! Once Upon An Ancient Art and Belly Up To The Bard, winter workshops for teens and adults. Learn to tell a story or play a Shakespearean role!
  6. ✤No Holds Bard - a participatory romp through Shakespeare’s life and times for middle and high schools.
  7. ✤KidsCamp and Shakesperience - our enormously popular and wildly active two-week immersion into Shakespeare’s works for kids aged 8-11 and 12-15.  “Villains, lovers, soldiers, clowns”, and a final public performance.
 
 
 
Advice to the Players “Madness, yet there be method in’t.”
Advice to the Players’ Board of Directors:
Artistic Director: Caroline Nesbitt                           Managing Director: Rebecca Boyden
 
Robert V. Bates                                                                                        Martha Nichols
Charlotte Kingham                                                                           Mary Winslow Poole
The Hon. Willard Martin                                                                     John Rahal Sarrouf
Colleen McDermott                                                                     Kathleen Sweeney,CPA
Carla V. Muskat                                                                                           Linda Reisert
                                                      
And now, please welcome brand new board member, Patricia Heard.
Who We Are
    Advice to the Players was founded in 1999 by Artistic Director Caroline Nesbitt to bring William Shakespeare’s richly passionate plays to vibrant life in the Lakes and White Mountain regions of New Hampshire.  Our unique company combines seasoned theater professionals, enthusiastic community members, and energetic teens.
 
What We Do
    Teen mentoring is at the heart of our programs.  Students work onstage, backstage, or even in the box office while learning from theater professionals.  Besides earning highschool credit, they learn valuable skills in literacy, setting and keeping goals, cooperative problem solving and teamwork, self confidence, and community service; all steps toward becoming productive, creative adults.
 
Who Participates?
    Besides the core professionals of the company, any student who is interested and willing to do the work is welcome.  Just call us up!  No auditions, no charge: just interest.
 
Who Benefits?
    ATTP’s productions serve towns throughout the Lakes and White Mountains regions.  Our work with teens and communities has been recognized by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Alfred Quimby Fund, the Smith-Denison Foundation, and a broad base of individual supporters.  In the last two years, ATTP has received awards from the New Hampshire Theater Awards, including General Excellence in the Professional Theater category in 2005.
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