Fall 2019 OLLI Catalog (Interactive)

ART, CULTURE & LANGUAGE
Instructor and Facilitator: Maria Ruiz,
a 9-Year 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.
6 Wednesdays
September 11, 18*
October 9, 16
November 6*, 13
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Extended Education Building,
EE-1218, *meet in EE-1201
Fee: $20
NLLL 154 Section 01
Course No. 44501
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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.
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
September 11, 18
Scout, and her brother, Jeremy are raised by their
widowed father, Atticus Finch, a prominent lawyer
who encourages his children to be empathetic and
just. The story is about Atticus defending a black
man accused of raping a white woman. Scout
is shaken by the trial because the man could not have physically
committed the crime.
Some Like It Hot screenplay by Billy Wilder
October 9, 16
After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone
player Joe, and his long-suffering buddy Jerry,
improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago
with new lives. Disguising themselves as women,
they join an all-female jazz band and hop a train
to sunny Florida. While Joe pretends to be a millionaire to win over
the band’s sexy singer Sugar, Jerry finds himself pursued by a real
millionaire as things heat up and the mobsters close in. Great fun!
The Verdict by Sydney Lumet,
based on a novel by Barry Reed
November 6, 13
Frank Galvin is a washed-up alcoholic lawyer,
reduced to ambulance-chasing cases. He is given
one last chance to redeem himself with an open
and shut malpractice case against the Boston
medical establishment. He refuses an out-of-court settlement,
believing it is negligence that has left a young mother in a coma.
Smelling a cover-up, he takes the case and the entire legal system
to court.
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