Arts

As part of their week-long residency as the Theater Department Hume Fellows, the company
members of Actors From The London Stage will perform King Lear on Friday, March 1 at 7:30pm
in Keck Theater. They will visit several classes and will provide an acting workshop on Saturday,
March 2.

The Stage Combat workshop will focus on the basic skills necessary for effective unarmed or hand-to-hand combat for the stage. Students will learn a choreographed fight with a partner that includes slaps, punches, kicks, chokes, rolls, and falls. The workshop will finish with student presentations of their fight to their peers and invited guests.

This is a two day workshop for Oxy students - students must attend both days. Space is limited and priority will be given to Theater majors and minors.

The Stage Combat workshop will focus on the basic skills necessary for effective unarmed or hand-to-hand combat for the stage. Students will learn a choreographed fight with a partner that includes slaps, punches, kicks, chokes, rolls, and falls. The workshop will finish with student presentations of their fight to their peers and invited guests.

relationship drama: pleasure or pain?

2:00pm: La Isla by Daphne Cancel '19
directed by Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx
Quinn and his mom Christine just want to spend a nice evening having dinner with their nice boyfriends in Quinn’s nice new apartment. Then why is the pasta on the wall and the T on the floor before it’s all over?

two comedies that pack a punch

Hang Tight by Rosie Stevenson '20
directed by Emily Chase
Is this a party or a funeral? As the friends and family of college student Andy gather to say goodbye they find themselves asking the same question – how do you properly memorialize someone you never really knew?

Join us for a night of storytelling at the Green Bean on Sunday February 10th at 7pm. The lineup features cast members from this spring’s studio show, who will be telling some of the true personal stories that will inspire the production. The studio show will take place on March 29 and 30.

Ad(dressing) the self is an installation that explores the contemporary relationship between identity and consumption through the cultural prevalence of fashion advertisement. Considering conditions of the indeterminate self, this collaboration will deploy fashion advertisements to satirically market aesthetic solutions for the never complete human condition

Bittersweet Dreams tells the story of a Mayan girl from the Chiapas highlands. It reveals events that compromise her childhood and the demands of adulthood that are prematurely thrust upon her. But she overcomes the obstacles and traumas that oppress her to find creative fulfillment and personal serenity.

The Theater Department at Occidental College, through the support of the G. William Hume Fellowship in the Performing Arts, is pleased to present Actors From The London Stage in a performance of Shakespeare’s King Learon Friday, March 1 at 7:30pm in Keck Theater.