{"id":6814,"date":"2011-05-23T11:21:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2011-06-09T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T18:56:18","slug":"play-explores-peace-justice-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/play-explores-peace-justice-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Explores Peace, Justice Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ted &amp; Company TheaterWorks and the Summer Peacebuilding Institute at Eastern Mennonite University will present &#8220;I&#8217;d Like to Buy an Enemy&#8221; 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 3, in the MainStage Theater of the University Commons at EMU.<\/p>\n<p>PARKING ALERT: Parking on campus will be extremely limited this night due to a local public high school graduation ceremony in the University Commons. Please find a spot in any lot on campus (you will not be ticketed for illegal parking). We trust your walk to the building will be well worth the effort!<\/p>\n<p>The play, starring Ted Swartz and Tim Ruebke, allows audiences to laugh at themselves while raising important questions about the place of the U.S. in the world, confronting the fear that is such a large part of contemporary culture and exploring ways to honestly work for peace and justice in this country \u2026 and just maybe in the larger world!<\/p>\n<p>Sketches include: &#8220;I&#8217;d Like to Buy an Enemy,&#8221; &#8220;Why Can&#8217;t I Get My Money Back?&#8221;, \u201cThe Reptilian Brain Speaks: We\u2019re late! We\u2019re late \u2026 are we late?&#8221; and \u201cYou Started it! \u2013 a treatise on the cycles of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tim Ruebke will lead a discussion following the play.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Swartz is a writer and actor who has been mucking around in the worlds of the sacred and profane for over 20 years. He is the creator or co-creator of over a dozen plays, including &#8220;FishEyes,&#8221; &#8220;Creation Chronicles,&#8221; &#8220;DoveTale,&#8221; &#8220;What Would Lloyd Do?&#8221; with Trent Wagler, &#8220;Tattered and Worn&#8221; and&#8221; Just Give \u2018Em the News&#8221; with Jeff Raught, &#8220;I\u2019d Like to Buy an Enemy,&#8221; &#8220;Excellent Trouble&#8221; with Ingrid de Sanctis, &#8220;Live at Jacob\u2019s Ladder&#8221; and others. Ted is a theologian of a different sort. Both theater and seminary trained, he has found a unique, and entertaining, discovery: at the intersection of humor and biblical story is often a greater understanding of the text. Or, at the very least, a different understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Ruebke is executive director of the Fairfield Center in Harrisonburg. Since 1992, he has extensive experience mediating and facilitating general community, family, workplace, group\/multi-party, and criminal circumstances. He is certified by the Supreme Court of Virginia as a mentor mediator and trainer and has been an adjunct faculty member for James Madison University and EMU. He earned a BA degree in social work and an MA degree in conflict transformation from EMU.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is $10at the door.\u00a0 For more information, contact the SPI office at 540-432-4653.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Ted &amp; Company, contact: <a href=\"mailto:agent@tedandcompany.com\">agent@tedandcompany.com<\/a> or call 540-421-1716.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted &amp; Company TheaterWorks and the Summer Peacebuilding Institute at Eastern Mennonite University will present &#8220;I&#8217;d Like to Buy an Enemy&#8221; 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 3, in the MainStage Theater <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/play-explores-peace-justice-themes\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Play Explores Peace, Justice Themes<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":6820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12503,12499,5147],"tags":[8060,13758,10766,14662,10298,13750],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-6814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cjp","category-spi","category-theater","tag-community-mediation-center","tag-fairfield-center","tag-mainstage-theater","tag-ted-company","tag-ted-swartz","tag-tim-ruebke"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Play Explores Peace, Justice Themes - 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\/2011\/play-explores-peace-justice-themes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Play Explores Peace, Justice Themes - EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ted &amp; 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