Summer 2019 OLLI Catalog

ART, CULTURE & LANGUAGE
Instructor and Facilitator: Maria Ruiz,
OLLI and Omnilore member, District
Toastmasters Qualified Speaker
and winner of two Distinguished
Toastmasters Awards, and the 2013
Roy D. Graham Lifetime Achievement
Award. She is the “drama guru” at the
Joslyn Center and regularly conducts
play readings there. She also directs
and produces the Dramatic Readers
Theater in Manhattan Beach and
Palos Verdes.
8 Wednesdays
June 5, 12
July 17, 24, 31
August 14, 21, 28
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Extended Education Building,
EE-1218
Fee: $15
NLLL 154 Section 01
Course No. 31564
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Let’s Read a Play!
No stage or acting experience required. Join us for the opportunity
to have some fun and to polish our dramatic skills. Our director,
Maria Ruiz, will introduce the authors and theater history of each
play before readings begin. You are invited to become a part of
this interesting and interactive approach to enjoying a play and to
experience cold readings. Expect lively discussion about meaning
and content. Students usually obtain copies of the plays from
libraries or purchase copies.
Refreshments will be served. Bring your own drink.
Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang
June 5, 12
This fast-paced romantic comedy is about the
bizarre first date of Bruce and Prudence, their
lunatic therapists, Bruce’s jealous, gun-wielding
homosexual lover Stuart, Stuart’s over-protective
mother, and a host of odd New York characters.
Will Bruce and Prudence find love amidst all the craziness?
Hamlet , by William Shakespeare
July 17, 24, 31
A tale of murder, revenge, and a man who can’t
make up his mind. Spurred on to take revenge
for his father’s murder by his father’s ghost,
but wracked throughout the play by scruples
and doubts. Hamlet’s failure to act leaves a trail
of corpses ending in a grand and fatal finale!
Ghosts, murder, plots, lies, insanity, poison,
stabbing, drowning, and duels: this dysfunctional family has a little
something for everyone.
King Lear by William Shakespeare
August 14, 21, 28
The aging king of Britain, King Lear, decides to
step down from the throne and divide his kingdom
evenly among his three daughters; but first he puts
them through a test: each must tell him how much
she loves him. The older two give him flattering
answers. But the youngest and favorite remains
silent. Rejection, betrayal, insanity are the results
of Lear’s shallow and selfish decisions. Everyone gets what they
deserve…and more.
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