Oct. 29, 1998

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' comes to Edison in November Shakespeare's tale follows Hermia and Lysander through four days of magic, deception, romance and farce By Liam Otten

If Shakespeare teaches us anything, it's that people fall in love in all kinds of ways and for all kinds of reasons -- good reasons, bad reasons, generous, selfish and silly reasons. Sometimes, in fact, the reasons are so frankly inexplicable as to suggest the involvement of magic. Next month, the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts and Sciences will address all of these possibilities and more when it brings one of the bard's most romantic comedies, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," to life on the Edison Theatre mainstage Nov. 13-15 and 20-22. Performances are at 8 p.m. Nov. 13 and 14 and at 3 p.m. Nov. 15. The schedule is repeated the following week, Nov. 20-22. Set in ancient Athens, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" follows a pair of young lovers, Hermia and Lysander, through four days of magic, deception, romance and farce. Fleeing Hermia's disapproving father, the couple -- pursued by Demetrius, Hermia's unwanted suitor, and Helena, Demetrius' own jilted lover -- escapes into the forest and into the midst of a spat between the king of fairies, Oberon, and his wife, the queen Titania. Click to see entire article

Senior Corey Jones as Oberon, King of the Fairies, and graduate student Alissa Branch as Queen Titania star in the Performing Arts Department's upcoming mainstage production of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The show, directed by William Whitaker, artist in residence, opens Nov. 13-15 in Edison Theatre and continues the following weekend, Nov. 20-22.

Junior Courtney Crawford relays the student perspective to a group of parents Oct. 23 at The Gargoyle in Mallinckrodt Center. As part of a Parents Weekend event labeled "In and Out of Your Life," Crawford, senior Emily Levy (left) and Karen Levin Coburn (in background at left) assistant vice chancellor for students and associate dean for the freshman transition, led a lively discussion exploring the delights and dilemmas of sending a child to college and the changing relationships encountered when they return home.

Microenterprises are topic at GWB brown-bag seminar Mark Schreiner, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work's Center for Social Development, will present a brown-bag lecture on "Programs for Microenterprise Development in the United States: Vuja De?" from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, in Brown Hall Lounge. Click to see entire article

Everyone's invited to Bauhaus Architecture students host campuswide Halloween party By Ann Nicholson Students in the School of Architecture are drawing upon their design and research skills to create a Halloween tent party for the whole campus that captures the spirit of the Bauhaus movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Click to see entire article