Archive for the ‘Literature’ Category

London Theatre Workshops

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Select Travel will tailor your drama workshop taking you through various make-up techniques to special effects! Our workshops are led by professional makeup artists who demonstrate how actors are taught to make themselves up every time they play a new character.

The workshop leaders will teach students make-up techniques used in theatrical drama, from applying foundations through to highlights, shading, aging, hairpieces and wigs via a live demonstration on a willing volunteer.

Alternatively, one of our lecturers teaches students how to achieve a range of special effects for film and television. Your group will be shown how the artist uses latex and other materials to create false pieces, bruises, scratchs, scars, wounds and frothing blood effects.

Also included in the workshop is a practical session where pupils are able to create their very own latex wounds! See the transformation before your very eyes!

Shakespearean Anagrams

Friday, July 17th, 2009

A Friday brain teazer for all you fans of literary tours of Britain…

“To be or not to be: that is the question, whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of ourageous fortune”

This is an anagram of:

“In one of the bard’s best thought-of-tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten”

Planning a literary tour of Britain is rather more simple than this with Select Travel Service!

Bath and Jane Austen

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

The Jane Austen Centre located in the heart of the city of Bath in southwest England, is a permanent exhibition which tells the story of the author’s life experiences in the city, and explores the influence of those experiences on her work. Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath’s many famous residents and visitors.

She paid two long visits here towards the end of the eighteenth century, and from 1801 to 1806 Bath was her home. Visiting groups can enjoy a walking tour of Jane Austen sights in Bath followed by a traditional English tea at the award-winning Regency Tea Rooms. And now, strictly by appointment, Select Travel groups will now be able to take advantage of the Jane Austen Centre’s extensive costume collection and spend time dressed as a Regency lady or gentleman! A great photo opportunity and a fun activity for fans of the period or those with an interest in drama.

Select Travel has wide experience of Literary tours and will tailor your itinerary to visit sights associated with your own favourite authors.