Arts & Events
Theatre
The college's spring theatre production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, a play about the magical Prospero and his spirits Caliban and Ariel, was directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Robin Reese and featured a cast of Penn State Altoona students, and one faculty member, with set and costumes designed by Laurencio Carlos Ruiz, instructor in theatre arts.
The Tempest, a fabulous mixture of theatrical genres, including romance, comedy, and tragedy, asks deep questions relevant to any age: is it moral to enslave others, how are we enslaved, and what is love.
Reese trained the twenty-member cast in the Asian contemporary acting form created by Tadashi Suzuki, a mixture of classical Japanese kabuki, martial arts, and Western ballet, and in textual approaches that actors and directors from the Royal Shakespeare Company employ.
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