Theatre
Applied theatre field school: India
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Phoenix alumni spotlight show
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Intergenerational theatre in India
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Jen Wise recognized for playwriting
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People who have mostly known only poverty and suffering have now found new hope, a sense of joy and a stronger community thanks to a recent University of Victoria Applied Theatre
field school in India.
UVic faculty member and director Fran Gebhard remembers New York City in 1978—the Ramones were rocking CBGB’s club in the Village and the flower-power generation was on its way
out, being pushed to the past by a new punk attitude. New York was changing—and it was one amazing summer.
Not many of us get to bring our spouses to work, but for two UVic theatre alumni, acting together makes their careers more rewarding.
The buildings may have been repaired, but two key segments of the population in the southeastern coastal region of India are still struggling to overcome the effects of the 2006
tsunami: seniors and rural youth. Now, a new UVic field school hopes to bring a sense of joy to these marginalized people by creating India’s first intergenerational theatre
company.
In January, theatre historian Dr. Jennifer Wise’s play The Girl Rabbi of the Golden West was announced the winner of the 2013 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition by the Miles
Nadal Centre in Toronto. Her play depicts the amazing true story of how, in 1895, in Victoria, Miss Ray Frank became the first woman to serve as rabbi for an orthodox synagogue throughout the
High Holidays.