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SELVES, Honors Solo Performance (4/10 – 4/12)

selves posterfinalAn original solo performance, SELVES is a deeply personal and driven exploration of identity and the tensions between who we think we are and how others see us. Actor, student, white, poor; all these identities and many more come to life as Lisak performs, parodies, and critiques the very aspects that shape how we think of ourselves. A compelling look into the mind of an artist simply trying to make sense of who he is, that leaves us wondering the same question about ourselves.

Directed by Jill Harrison.

Written and acted by Jameson Lisak.

Lighting design by Amanda Jensen.

4/10 @ 8PM
4/11 @ 8PM
4/12 @ 2PM

LPAC Frear Ensemble Theater

HERE IN MY GARDEN, Honors Directing Thesis (3/27 – 3/29)

HERE IN MY GARDEN is a new play with songs. Eight women from history and legend meet in the garden, seeking peace in the midst of their wars. Witness the lineage of the woman warrior, from the Bible to ancient China, from the Second World War to Number Ten Downing Street. Come pick a flower. Don’t be alone.

Directed by Patrick Ross ’15

March 27 at 8PM
March 28 at 2PM and 8PM
March 29 at 2PM

LPAC Frear Ensemble Theater

“GET ON YOUR FEET” a workshop for organizing peaceful protest with George Lakey

When: Thursday, 2/26, 7 p.m.

Where: Lang Center/Keith Room

George Lakey’s workshop is the final event in the RADICAL DEMOCRACY AND HUMANISM residency sponsored by the William J. Cooper Foundation. The workshop will offer attendees some models for organizing and information regarding preparation for peaceful protest. What questions is it important to answer, individually and as a group, regarding purpose and practice? What tools for action are useful to groups in differing situations? What models from past and current movements can be adapted to a variety of purposes? In this session, George Lakey will show that you *can* go beyond the boring limits of choosing between a march or a rally by coming to this workshop and learning about:
– action logic
– edgy actions
– using actions leadership development
– maximizing the empowerment potential of the actions you design
– one-offs vs. campaigns.

The workshop includes question time on the use of nonviolent direct action compared with other techniques for social change.

George Lakey’s first arrest was in the ‘sixties for a civil rights sit-in; in 2013 he was arrested in a protest against mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. He co-founded a number of social change groups including Movement for a New Society, the Pennsylvania Jobs with Peace Campaign, Men Against Patriarchy, Training for Change, and Earth Quaker Action Team. He has led over 1500 social change workshops on five continents, for a wide variety of groups including homeless people, prisoners, Russian lesbians and gays, Sri Lankan monks, Burmese guerrilla soldiers, striking steel workers, South African activists, Canadian academics, and leaders of indigenous peoples brought together by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in Geneva.

“GET ON YOUR FEET” a workshop for organizing peaceful protest with George Lakey

When: Thursday, 2/26, 7 p.m.

Where: Lang Center/Keith Room

George Lakey’s workshop is the final event in the RADICAL DEMOCRACY AND HUMANISM residency sponsored by the William J. Cooper Foundation. The workshop will offer attendees some models for organizing and information regarding preparation for peaceful protest. What questions is it important to answer, individually and as a group, regarding purpose and practice? What tools for action are useful to groups in differing situations? What models from past and current movements can be adapted to a variety of purposes? In this session, George Lakey will show that you *can* go beyond the boring limits of choosing between a march or a rally by coming to this workshop and learning about:
– action logic
– edgy actions
– using actions leadership development
– maximizing the empowerment potential of the actions you design
– one-offs vs. campaigns.

The workshop includes question time on the use of nonviolent direct action compared with other techniques for social change.

George Lakey’s first arrest was in the ‘sixties for a civil rights sit-in; in 2013 he was arrested in a protest against mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. He co-founded a number of social change groups including Movement for a New Society, the Pennsylvania Jobs with Peace Campaign, Men Against Patriarchy, Training for Change, and Earth Quaker Action Team. He has led over 1500 social change workshops on five continents, for a wide variety of groups including homeless people, prisoners, Russian lesbians and gays, Sri Lankan monks, Burmese guerrilla soldiers, striking steel workers, South African activists, Canadian academics, and leaders of indigenous peoples brought together by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in Geneva.

Honors Acting Capstone: DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT (2/27-3/1)

DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT is a story of national identity, heroism, and goof. Join us in Dublin in 1904 at the grand opening of the Irish National Theatre of Ireland. But wait, the the King of England is in town for a visit! Amidst the squalor and the muck, the pomp and circumstance, an intrepid six-person ensemble plays 33 different characters to tell the fictional….and not so fictional…story of rebels, divas, dandies, and duds. A unique blend of classic melodrama and commedia dell’ arte and the Irish struggle for independence from the British crown.

Written by Michael West
Directed by Alex TorraDBLFINAL
Stage Managed by Swift Shuker

with
Cosmo Alto
Amelia Dornbush
Tyler Elliot
Michelle Johnson
Jameson Lisak
Joshua McLucas

and
Costume and Makeup Design: Laila Swanson
Light Design: Amanda Jensen
Sound Design: Liz Atkinson
Dialect Coach: Peter Schmitz
Movement Coach: Brendon Gawel

LPAC Frear Ensemble Theater
February 27, 2015 at 8PM
February 28, 2015 at 2PM & 8PM
March 1, 2015 at 2PM

Honors Dramaturgy Thesis: A PILLAR OF MARBLE (2/7 & 2/8)

A PILLAR OF MARBLE
Crafted by: Amelia Dornbush
Adapted from The Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds 
Directed by: Rebecca Wright

2PM February 7, 2015 Headlong Studios, 1170 S Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
2PM February 8, 2015 LPAC Frear Ensemble Theater
Amelia Dornbush ’15’s dramaturgical thesis, A PILLAR OF MARBLE recrafts and interprets stories from classical Jewish texts written in Palestine and Babylon for a 21st century, American stage.
The work tells us: “God is not yet dead. Must he die for us to live?” Relationships and identities pivot around the struggle to exist with a structure of power centered form of an (un)just God.