Oct. 7 & 8. RC students direct and perform this popular semiannual 90-minute program of short scenes on a variety of topics and in a variety of styles, many written by RC students.
Oct. 7 & 8. RC students direct and perform this popular semiannual 90-minute program of short scenes on a variety of topics and in a variety of styles, many written by RC students.
RC students present an original play that has been conceived, written, and rehearsed within the past 24 hours.
Come ghosts, ghouls, and goblins for a haunting reading event. Bring something to read or just come to listen. There will be apples, cider, candy corn, and friendship!
RC students perform Melissa Ross’ 2011 Off-Broadway drama about a dysfunctional family reunion. The 3 children of a broken and dying man quarrel with each other and with the world in a self-confounding effort to rediscover lost family connections. Also Saturday, same time and place.
RC students perform Melissa Ross’ 2011 Off-Broadway drama about a dysfunctional family reunion. The 3 children of a broken and dying man quarrel with each other and with the world in a self-confounding effort to rediscover lost family connections. Also Fiday, same time and place.
U-M Residential College drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs RC students in Terminal 3 (5 p.m. Fri. & noon Sun.), a sparse drama set in a hospital waiting room where a young couple is there to welcome the birth of their first baby and a middle-age couple is there to identify their dead son.
Part of sttaged readings of Marita Lindholm Gochman’s translations of 3 plays by this celebrated contemporary writer, widely recognized as the greatest Swedish playwright since Strindberg. The readings are each followed by a Q&A with translator Gochman and the actors.
U-M Residential College drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs RC students in Terminal 3 (5 p.m. Fri. & noon Sun.), a sparse drama set in a hospital waiting room where a young couple is there to welcome the birth of their first baby and a middle-age couple is there to identify their dead son.
Part of sttaged readings of Marita Lindholm Gochman’s translations of 3 plays by this celebrated contemporary writer, widely recognized as the greatest Swedish playwright since Strindberg. The readings are each followed by a Q&A with translator Gochman and the actors.
Alexander Weinstein is the Director of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the author of the short story collection Children of the New World (Picador 2016). His fiction and translations have appeared in Cream City Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Notre-Dame Review, Pleiades, PRISM International, World Literature Today, and other journals. He is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and his fiction has been awarded the Lamar York, Gail Crump, Hamlin Garland, and New Millennium Prize. His stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and appear in the anthologies 2013 New Stories from the Midwest, and the 2014 & 2015 Lascaux Prize Stories. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and a freelance editor, and leads fiction workshops in the United States and Europe.
Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago.
RC assistant professor Stephen Ward discusses In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs, his new book about two largely unsung but critically important Detroit figures in the black freedom struggle. Signing.
