Fall 2017 OLLI Catalog

ART, CULTURE & LANGUAGE
Instructor and Facilitator: Maria Ruiz is
a member of both OLLI and Omnilore;
a District Toastmasters Qualified
Speaker; and the “drama guru” at
the Joslyn Center in Manhattan Beach.
She also directs and produces at the
Dramatic Readers Theater in two
South Bay locations.
8 Wednesdays
September 13, 20
October 11, 18
November 8, 15
December 6, 13
1:30pm-3:30pm
Extended Education Building,
EE-1205
Fee: $20
NLLL 154 Section 02
Course No. 43795
Upcoming Special Event
Save The Date!
• Preview Performance of
Blood Wedding
Thursday, October 5
8:00pm – 10:00pm
(See page 30)
Let’s Read a Play!
No stage or acting experience required. Join us for the opportunity
to try out or polish up your dramatic skills. Class members provide
short biographies of the authors and present the theater history of
the plays.
You are invited to join this interesting and interactive approach.
Expect some lively discussion. This semester we are featuring
Pulitzer Prize winning plays. Time permitting, we’ll read 10-Minute
and One Act Plays.
Refreshments will be served.
Fences by August Wilson
(1987)
A working-class African-American father tries
to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to
terms with the events of his life.
Anna Christie by Eugene O’Neill
(1922)
A young woman reunites with her estranged
father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles
to tell them about her dark past.
The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
(1989)
The plot follows Heidi Holland from high school
in the 1960s to her career as a successful art
historian more than twenty years later.
Teahouse of the August Moon
by John Patrick (1954)
In the U.S. Army-occupied island of Okinawa, Japan,
at the end of World War II, the officer in charge
tries to westernize the local population and creates
a social club and schoolhouse. But the villagers
would rather have a teahouse with geishas.
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