Students Write and Perform Family History Students in a playwriting class this month at Berea College are writing and will perform plays they have written based on research on their own family histories. The original plays will be presented on the evenings of Jan. 24 and 26-27, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Musser Theatre of the Jelkyll Drama Center. Performance time is approximately 45 minutes with no intermission.
Admission is free and no tickets are required.
Seating will be on a first come, first served basis. The course is being taught during Berea's January short term by assistant professor of English and theatre Dr. Albert DeGiacomo and playwright Arthur Giron, Aronson Artist in Residence during January 2001. Flight , a play about the Wright brothers, was presented in New York in November 1997 at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, of which Giron is a founding member. Giron completed a Hispanic version of The Cherry Orchard , titled The Coffee Trees, which received its premiere at Berea College in February 2000. It received its premiere at the Ensemble Studio Theater in April 2000 as part of the First Light Festival in New York City.