Sapphire Wood knows the value of student engagement.
In addition to working as a resident assistant in Electa Hall, the fourth-year women’s studies major belongs to the Outstanding Scholars program, serves as teaching assistant, and participates in the alumni phonathon.
“Being involved in so many things on campus keeps me interested and motivated in my studies,” said Wood.
The University Players production of Jane Austen’s classic comedy, Emma, opened Thursday at the Essex Hall Theatre. The play is an adaptation of the classic novel about a precocious girl who finds matchmaking “the most wonderful game in the world.”
The campus production is directed by Jim Warren, a School of Dramatic Art alumnus and award-winning director. It runs through February 12; Wednesday through Saturday performances are at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m.
A pair of University of Windsor professors will lead discussion of Jane Austen’s Emma during a combined lunch and lecture preceding the University Players performance on Sunday, February 5.
Let’s Talk Theatre is a luncheon-lecture series produced jointly by University Players and Uni-Com. Attendees will enjoy a three-course meal featuring either beef stroganoff or a vegetarian platter, as well as presentations by English professor Suzanne Matheson and drama professor Erica Stevens Abbitt.
University Players continues its 53rd season with Jane Austen’s classic comedy, Emma. The play runs February 2 to 5 and 8 to 12 at Essex Hall Theatre.
Jane Austen’s characters come to life in this new adaptation of the classic novel Emma, a romantic comedy about a precocious girl who finds matchmaking “the most wonderful game in the world.” She plants ideas in people’s heads which grow feelings in their hearts, and through this meddling she finds her own heart’s desire – but only when she is about to lose him.
Theatre should be a vehicle for education, say two drama students who will premiere their original work, For Those Who Stand Upon Our Shoulders, this weekend.
Fourth-year acting majors Aisha Bentham and Alexis Gordon drew upon their own experiences as the only two black women in their program to craft what they hope will be a jumping-off point for thought and discussion on the subject of race in Canadian theatre.
“We don’t have all the answers,” says Bentham. “We just want to raise some questions.”
Kevin Hanchard, an actor with the Shaw Festival, will give a short talk entitled “Faith, Transgression, Identity and Performance: A Canadian Actor’s Journey,” on Friday, January 27, in the Jackman Dramatic Art Centre.
Hanchard played the lead in the recent Shaw production of Topdog/Underdog, and he is a featured performer in the festival’s 2012 shows The Millionairess and His Girl Friday. He received a Dora nomination for his performance in Miss Julie: Freedom Summer at the Canadian Stage Company.
Amanda June Marshal believes in turning her talents to her interests.
When her friend Carolina McGuire was diagnosed with cancer, Marshal developed an interest in treatments for the disease.
The two-time UWindsor grad (BA 2010, B.Ed 2011) has pulled together the Couture for Cancer Gala and Fashion Show to benefit Transition to Betterness and McGuire’s family.
University Players is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two tickets to see Beth Henley’s comedy-drama, Crimes of the Heart. The play's run continues through Sunday at Essex Hall Theatre. Wednesday through Saturday performances are at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. For more information or tickets, call 519-253-3000, ext. 2808, or visit www.universityplayers.com.
University Players presents Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Crimes of the Heart, November 17 to 20 and 23 to 27, at Essex Hall Theatre.
Director Liza Balkan calls Crimes of the Heart a deeply touching and funny play about three sisters from a small Southern town, reunited after the youngest sister has shot her husband. Over the next 24 hours, the sisters come together in support as they struggle through their relationships with the men in their lives, and attempt to save their reputation by overcoming their family’s painful past.
Biology master’s student Kara-Anne Ward won yesterday’s DailyNews trivia contest and earned two tickets to see the University Players world-premiere production of Chameleon, by drama professor William Pinnell.
Ward’s name was drawn from all entrants who correctly responded that chameleon’s change colour in response to light, temperature, and mood; Santa Fe, New Mexico is the highest US state capital; and the one-act drama The Bounty was Pinnell’s first play.
