Description
MAR 30-31 | Fri. – Sat. 7:30 PM | Rockefeller Memorial Chapel | $20 GA; Free for students
With The Fifth Sun as the text and the anniversary of Oscar Romero’s death and the “end of the Mayan Calendar” as the context, director Cecilie Keenan and playwright Nick Patricca lead participants through the creative process of making a work of art for the theatre. Find more information on UChicago’s website.
This master class will focus on:
- Demonstrating the collaborative work of moving from ideas (dramatic, political, cultural, social, economic) to the event of public performance
- Exploring the cultural and religious interactions of Christian myth and ritual with Meso-American myth and ritual in the lives of the American peoples of Central America
- Investigating the political, economic, religious, and cultural situation leading up to the death of Archbishop Romero on March 24, 1980 in El Salvador and those same elements in the contemporary situation.
Nick Patricca, a professor emeritus at Loyola, is a founding member of the Victory Gardens Playwrights Ensemble, ensemble member of TOSOS in New York, and president of the Chicago Network for Justice and Peace.
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Past
