Elizabeth Hein ’18 of the Colgate Maroon-News recently published the review below titled “A Map of Virtue: Not Your Typical Play.”

A Map of Virtue (MAP) pushes the boundaries of theater by combining plot with interviews and a birdsong, punctuated by the sound of birds and the beating of a drum. The play is broken into fourteen parallel acts, starting at one and moving to seven until descending back to one again. The combination of the innovative structure and the variety of forms of theater created a unique narrative about interactions with evil.

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Tracey Moore of the Chronicle of Higher Education recently published the commentary piece below titled “Why Theater Majors Are Vital in the Digital Age.”

The study of theater has always been a slightly odd fit with higher education. Theater’s departmental needs are so different from the norm: Where other programs require smart classrooms, desks, and Wi-Fi, we seek vast, empty spaces with sprung wood floors and natural light. The inner life of a chemistry major should not affect the outcome of an assignment; for theater majors, the inner life is the assignment.

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According to a recent article in Forbes Magazine, liberal arts degrees have become a “hot ticket” among technology start-ups, in Silicon Valley and beyond.  The article profiles Slack Technologies, a business-to-business software developer, which employs a theater major as its editorial director and a philosophy major as its CEO.

Innovation requires creativity, and as Forbes reports, “creativity can’t be programmed.” Slack Technologies is one of a growing number of software firms that have discovered that “liberal arts thinking makes them stronger.”

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Christina (Poppy) Liu ’13 recently starred in an off off Broadway production of Glyn Maxwell’s new play The Gambler, based on the eponymous novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky suffered from a roulette addiction, and The Gambler is one of his funniest and most autobiographical works. Maxwell adapted The Gambler for Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, an award-winning company known for its groundbreaking presentations of both new and classic plays.

Since graduating from Colgate less than three years ago, Liu has also performed with the Drunk Shakespeare Society (earning a write-up in The New Yorker), and the original play she wrote for her senior thesis, This is not a Play about Sex, is still being performed at Colgate.

Continue to follow the theater careers of Liu and other recent alums on the Colgate Theater Newsfeed.

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Performed: Fall 2015
Director: Adrian Giurgea

Two couples meet for dinner to take their minds off the war raging around them. An unexpected profession of love, an untimely proposal, and one kiss later, one of the foursome lies dead on the floor. KISS breaks open cultural barriers as a group of western actors interpreting a Syrian play slowly realize the limits of their own understanding, and the suffocating effect of an oppressive regime.

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AUDITIONS FOR UNIVERSITY THEATER’S SPRING PRODUCTION

Sunday, 11/29 from 7-10pm

BREHMER THEATER, DANA ARTS

A Map of Virtue, by Erin Courtney, is an Obbie award winning new American play. It is a strange changeling: a play, a poem, a bird song, a movement of exchange, intimacy, terror, love and longing.

Looking for students interested in digging into a new American play and ALL are welcome, no experience necessary.

Just have a short piece of text memorized or work off a provided slide from the play audition.

rsvp to Professor Sweeney: sasweeney@colgate.edu

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Colgate University Theater will be performing KISS, by Guillermo Calderon, in Brehmer Theater on the Colgate campus.

November 11-14: 7:00p.m.
November 15: 1:00 p.m.

Director: Adrian Giurgea

Performers:

• Grant Rosen ’17
• Dana Slosar ’16
• Leo Stouros ’16
• Julia Zschiesche ’17

Sets: Marjorie Kellogg

Costumes: Elizabeth Marino ’16

Lights: Noel Nichols

Admission: Free

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Scenes from the performance of Bird Suite by Company SoGoNo in Colgate’s Brehmer Theater. Learn more about the performance.

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Colgate professor April Sweeney

April Sweeney, associate professor of English in the University Theater, is a performer during an evening celebrating Latin American theater on Monday, Nov 2nd, at 6:30pm at the Martin E. Segal Theater Center. The evening features the work of Matías Umpierrez, a Buenos Aires multidisciplinary artist, who produces works in theatrical, audiovisual, and curatorial formats in theaters, museums, and non-conventional spaces around the world.

Among Umpierrez’s projects are the recent TEATRO SOLO-LONE THEATER (site-specific performances for one audience member), DISTANCE (a virtual piece for live theater), and his new project dramaHOME.

Sweeney was featured in Distancia, written and directed by Matías Umpierrez, which she virtually performed from her living room, and was a part of the LONEtheater’s U.S. premiere in New York.

Sweeney has performed internationally in theaters and festivals in Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Colombia, France, Ireland, Hungary, and the United Kingdom. In the United States she has performed in regional theater, a national tour, off-Broadway and downtown New York theater over the past decade. She has also appeared in films screened at XI BAFICI, New York Film Anthology Archive’s New Directors Series, and the New York International Film and Video Festival.

Related links:

Theater Department
April Sweeney
Machine Project
Theater, Film and Finance

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Join Nick Berancerraf, scenic designer and co-artistic director of the theater collective The Assembly for a talk on November 18 on contemporary theater praxis, practice, aesthetics and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

Benacerraf, a visual artist, organizer, and creative thinker, who activates social structures from each of those perspectives. His practice travels freely between the gallery and the theater, and often into the classroom and the streets. He is co-artistic director of The Assembly, a Brooklyn-based performance collective that develops design, text and action side-by-side, in search of a visceral and intelligent performance for a new generation, prompting the New York Times to name the group “a cutting-edge young theater collective.”

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