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The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 11, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Student Spotlight: David Schwingle
• Best of No Shame Marks One Full Year of Programming at Studio Roanoke
• Ich Libe Dich by Samantha Macher in Lunchbox Reading Series
• Maura Campbell's Wild Geese produced in Vermont and Flower Duet read in New York
• From the Director: Aspiration or Ambition?

The World In Chaos: A Paragon For Comedic Plays, Lisa Akintilo '11

2010 Spring Semester

When Samuel Beckett wrote his tragicomedy Waiting for Godot in France, the French nation was in turmoil due to the destructiveness of World War II. One generation later, an American named Tom Stoppard also wrote a play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, during a time of crisis; the United States was in utter confusion because of the Vietnam War. Both of these plays, as a result of the tumultuous times in which they were created, demonstrated how confusion in one’s surroundings can cause a loss of certainty and identity.

Sobre Lo Visible Y Lo Invisible: Barcelona Y El Teatro, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Durante el invierno del año 2000, el director catalán Lluís Pasqual llevó a la escena del Teatre Lliure, la casa histórica de una de las compañías de repertorio más estable, consolidada y distinguida de Barcelona, una versión catalana de El jardín de los cerezos de Antón Chekov. En la obra de Chekov, Madame Ranyévskaya, emblema de la elegancia marchita y de la ya desvanecida supremacía de la aristocracia rusa, se ve obligada, por su situación de desesperanza económica, a vender su finca y su jardín de cerezos al nuevo-rico Lopatkhin y, después, a volver a París, cuando Rusia se encuentra …

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 10, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Jayne Benjulian Named Head of New Play Development at Magic Theatre
• Student Spotlight: Jonathan Galvez
• Dear Abe by Adam Hahn at Studio Roanoke
• The Prom by Adam Hahn in Lunchbox Reading Series
• Guest Profile: Joe Banno
• From the Director: What You've Taken, You Can Teach

Hippolytus

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2010 performance of Hippolytus by Euripides.

Hippolytus is the illegitimate son of Theseus, the king of Athens. The play tells how the goddess of love, Aphrodite, maliciously enacts vengeance on Hippolytus for his oath to chastity and service to the goddess of the hunt, Artemis.

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 09, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Heaven in Hell by Royal Shiree
• Student Spotlight: Chad Runyon
• Ashville, by Lucy Thurber Premieres at Studio Roanoke
• Exit Strategy by Kris Knutsen at Studio Roanoke
• From the Director: Looking For People You Want Work With

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 08, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• House of Atreus by Sean Engard
• Student Spotlight: Sean Engard
• Roanoke Regional Writer's Conference Held at Hollins University
• Kenley Smith to teach playwriting at Randolph College
• Rosalee Was Here by Maura Campbell in Vermont
• From the Director: Why Buying Advance Tickets is Important