Fall 2016 OLLI Catalog
The Osher Lifelong Learning at California State University Dominguez Hills is a program of educational, cultural, and social opportunities for retired and semi-retired individuals age 50 and above. Members experience taking courses in a relaxed atmosphere for the pure pleasure of learning.
The Osher Lifelong Learning at California State University Dominguez Hills is a program of educational, cultural, and social opportunities for retired and semi-retired individuals age 50 and above. Members experience taking courses in a relaxed atmosphere for the pure pleasure of learning.
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ART, CULTURE & LANGUAGE<br />
Let’s Read a Play!<br />
No stage or acting experience required! Join us for the opportunity<br />
to polish up your dramatic skills. Our director, Maria Ruiz, will<br />
introduce the authors and theater history before readings begin.<br />
We invite you to become a part of this interesting and interactive<br />
approach to enjoy a play. Expect some lively discussion<br />
about meaning and context.<br />
2 Thursdays, September 22 & 29<br />
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee<br />
Williams, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama<br />
in 1955. Set in the Mississippi Delta on the<br />
plantation of a wealthy cotton tycoon, the<br />
play examines the relationships among members<br />
of his family, primarily between his son<br />
Brick and Brick’s wife, Maggie the “Cat.” The<br />
play features several recurring motifs, such as<br />
social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity,<br />
decay, sexual desire, repression, and death.<br />
2 Wednesdays, October 5 & 12<br />
The Importance of Being Earnest,<br />
A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,<br />
by Oscar Wilde, is a farcical comedy in which<br />
the protagonists maintain fictitious personae<br />
to escape burdensome social obligations.<br />
Working within the social conventions of late<br />
Victorian London, the play’s major themes are<br />
the triviality with which society treats institutions<br />
as serious as marriage, and the resulting<br />
satire of Victorian ways. Its witty dialogue has<br />
made it Wilde’s most enduringly popular play.<br />
2 Mondays, November 21 & 28<br />
Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet, won<br />
the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. The play occurs<br />
during parts of two days in the lives of four<br />
desperate Chicago real estate agents who are<br />
prepared to engage in any number of unethical,<br />
illegal acts—from lies and flattery to<br />
bribery, threats, intimidation and burglary—<br />
to sell undesirable real estate to unwitting<br />
prospective buyers. The title refers to two real<br />
estate properties: Glengarry Highlands and<br />
Glen Ross Farms.<br />
Instructor and Facilitator: Maria Ruiz<br />
<strong>OLLI</strong> member; a District Toastmasters<br />
Qualified Speaker; and the “drama<br />
guru” at the Joslyn Center. She also<br />
directs and produces at the Dramatic<br />
Readers Theater in two South Bay<br />
locations.<br />
6 Classes, meeting on:<br />
Thursday, September 22 & 29<br />
Wednesday, October 5 & 12<br />
Monday, November 21 & 28<br />
10:00am - 12:00pm<br />
Extended Education Building, EE-1221<br />
Fee: $20<br />
NLLL 154 Section 01<br />
Course No. 43221<br />
Upcoming Field Trip<br />
Save The Date!<br />
• <strong>Fall</strong> Poetry Slam<br />
at the Joslyn Center,<br />
Thursday, October 7<br />
10:00am – 12:00pm<br />
(See page 29 for details)<br />
<strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2016</strong> | www.csudh.edu/olli | 310-243-3208 11
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