The Theater Arts Program consistently produces plays that encourage viewers to confront and examine important issues in society and themselves. This exhibition connects the Visual and Digital Arts program with the Theater Arts program as students created art that represents concepts from the two plays performed this semester, "Wit" and "Blithe Spirit"
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The Opening Celebration of Student Art will be held in the West Wing Gallery of the Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center, November 16th, 2016 from 6:15 - 7:45 pm. Corner of State and Homer Streets. 1000 State Street, Springfield, MA 01109
Blithe Spirit will be performed in the Griswold Theater: December 2 at 7pm, December 3 at 7pm, and December 4 at 2pm.
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| Cancer Diagnosis by Kadeija Mendes |
The Theater Arts Program will produce "Wit" by Margaret Edson as its fall drama. "Wit" concerns the
cancer diagnosis of a professor of
poetry who throughout the play uses her
intellectual nature and background in
literature to come to terms with her
terminal illness.
Development of
true friendships,
humor and
ethics in regard to
medical care are all themes of this play. Margaret Edson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this marvelous play about a woman dealing with
terminal cancer and the
medical professionals that help her on her journey.
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| Literature by Ruthlyn Richards |
The Theater Arts Program will produce Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" as the fall
comedy production. The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up
fussy,
cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but
haunted (literally) by the
ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting "
happy medium", one Madame Arcati.
As the worldly - and
unworldly - personalities clash, Charles' current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, '
passes over', and joins Elvira and the two "
blithe spirits" haunt the hapless Charles into
perpetuity.
The word "blithe" is an Old English word literally meaning '
carefree,
happy and
lighthearted.'
"Spirit" of course would mean '
an incorporeal supernatural being.'
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| True Friendships by Tiana Powell |
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| Medical Care by Melanie Asta-Ferrero |
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| Ghost by Tanisha Dacamara |
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| A Blithe Spirit by Jerrod Shelby |
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| Lighthearted by Nichara Condo |
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| Haunted by Ryan LaFrance |
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