{"id":1768,"date":"2008-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2008-10-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T04:00:00","slug":"theater-group-reshapes-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2008\/theater-group-reshapes-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Theater Group Reshapes Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"photo right\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crash House O Poster\" src=\"\/news\/images\/OPoster.gif\" \/><br \/>CRASH HOUSE Collaborative Theater Project&#8217;s poster for &quot;O: I Am a Murderer&quot; <\/div>\n<p>The CRASH HOUSE Collaborative Theater Project, a new program in EMU&#8217;s <a href=\"\/theater\/\">theater department<\/a>, has taken William Shakespeare&#8217;s tragedy, &quot;Othello,&quot; and reinvented it. <\/p>\n<p> In &quot;O: I Am a Murderer,&quot; six high school students are cast in Shakespeare&#8217;s tragedy, only to find their lives beginning to mirror the play. As they switch back and forth between Shakespearian dialog and the struggles of a modern teenager, the separation of drama from reality becomes more and more obscured. <\/p>\n<p> The one-act play was written by recent EMU theater graduate Pam Mandigo, based on material generated by CRASH HOUSE participants from local high schools: Lindsey Fitzgerald, Patrice Hostetter, Liz Marin, Jeremy Morris, Emma Serrels, Mary Sodano and Mandy Stoll. <\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"photo right\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heidi Vogel Winters, associate professor of theater at EMU\" src=\"\/humanresources\/personnel\/images\/hw456.jpg\" \/><br \/> Heidi Vogel Winters, associate professor of theater<\/div>\n<p> The play is directed by <a href=\"\/personnel\/people\/show\/hw456?ssi=theater\">Heidi Winters Vogel<\/a>, associate professor of theater at EMU, and will be presented 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24 in Lehman Auditorium. <\/p>\n<p> Cast members are <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brent Anders, Souderton, Pa., Christopher Dock Mennonite High School<\/li>\n<li>Joel DeWald and Nathan Kauffman, Goshen, Ind., Bethany Christian High School <\/li>\n<li>Liz Marin, Harrisonburg, Eastern Mennonite High School <\/li>\n<li>Greta Shenk, Harrisonburg, EMHS <\/li>\n<li>Laura Wheatley, Charlottesville, Rappahannock County High School. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Costumes were designed by Alisha Huber and sound designer is Praveen Chhetri. <\/p>\n<h3>Finding Original, Collaborative Voices<\/h3>\n<p> According to Winters Vogel, the purpose of the CRASH HOUSE theater experiment is &quot;to aid a diverse group of high school students in finding original, collaborative voices that will serve to bridge the gap between disparate subcultures and bring them together in a reconciling way.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/index.php\/1689\/theater\">Read more about the new program&#8217;s inception.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> In addition, she said, &quot;Students are learning to draw upon important voices of the past and present while discovering how to mold these voices into a new instrument of peace. <\/p>\n<p> &quot;In essence, we&#8217;re shaking up Shakespeare to empower local high school students to find their voice,&quot; Winters Vogel added. <\/p>\n<p> The group first read and discussed &quot;Othello&quot; and then dissected and reshaped the play in collaboration with Winters Vogel and Mandigo. <\/p>\n<p> Mandigo then took the generated material and synthesized it into an original text. <\/p>\n<p> &quot;After we stage the play on the 24th, we&#8217;ll take it to high schools during the rest of the 2008-09 school year&quot;, Winters Vogel said. <\/p>\n<p> Shakespeare&#8217;s &quot;Othello, The Moor of Venice,&quot; is believed to have been written around 1603. As a testament to its popularity, the play appeared in seven editions between 1622 and 1705. With its varied themes of racism, love, jealousy and betrayal, the work remains relevant today. <\/p>\n<p> The collaborative project is being funded in part by the Arts Council of the Valley and <a href=\"\/theater\/teatro-chirmol\">Teatro Chirmol<\/a>, a bilingual theater workshop for area youth. <\/p>\n<p> Admission to the play is free, but donations will be accepted to support the CRASH HOUSE Collaborative Theater Project for 2009. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRASH HOUSE Collaborative Theater Project&#8217;s poster for &quot;O: I Am a Murderer&quot; The CRASH HOUSE Collaborative Theater Project, a new program in EMU&#8217;s theater department, has taken William Shakespeare&#8217;s tragedy, <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2008\/theater-group-reshapes-shakespeare\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Theater Group Reshapes Shakespeare<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4513,5147],"tags":[10534,9152,6275],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life","category-theater","tag-crash-house","tag-heidi-winters-vogel","tag-shakespeare"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Theater Group Reshapes Shakespeare - EMU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2008\/theater-group-reshapes-shakespeare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Theater Group Reshapes Shakespeare - EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CRASH HOUSE Collaborative Theater Project&#8217;s poster for &quot;O: I Am a Murderer&quot; 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