Welcome to Amazing!
Summer 2017: Year 4
Read about the summer 2017 experience HERE.
The Summer 2017 course was another smash success! Profs Megan Lewis and Priscilla Page (UMass Theater Department)
led a group of eleven Theater majors from UMass and five students from Suffolk University, Connecticut College, Smith College, Hampshire, and Lesley University. We were also joined by Glenn Siegal (Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares), former co-pilots Paul Adolphsen (MFA '15) and Glenn Proud (MFA ’15), and high school theatre teacher Eric Severson (St Paul Academy and Summit School).
Course Overview
In this faculty-led custom course, the performing arts will offer us a lens through which to examine questions of social justice, race, class and gender politics, history, language, memory, and the role of the arts in our global world. Focused around the National Arts Festival that takes place over ten days in Grahamstown, South Africa, students will experience the second largest theatre festival in the world (outside Edinburgh in Scotland) and the largest in the southern hemisphere. Join Prof. Megan Lewis, South African theatre and performance studies scholar, and theatre director, Glenn W. Proud, to see new plays and cutting edge international performances that we would not be able to encounter anywhere else. We will meet playwrights, actors, artists and other students interested in performance and theatre and engage with, and reflect upon, the historic, sociopolitical, and creative contexts of the work we see.
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Why Take This Course?
• IMMERSE yourself in the culture, history, politics, and arts
of South Africa • EXPERIENCE the largest arts festival in the southern hemisphere • SEE incredible performances and meet the artists who make them • LEARN from passionate, knowledgeable professors • EARN 6 credits (undergraduate or graduate level) • ENJOY a once-in-a-lifetime learning experience in Africa |
Course Leaders
Prof Megan Lewis and course co-pilots: (left) Priscilla Page (2017), (center left) Judyie Al-Bilali (2014) and Paul Adolphsen (2015), (center right) Glenn W. Proud (2016), and (right) guest faculty Daniel Sack and Ginny Anderson (2016).
Dr. Megan Lewis is a South African-American theatre, performance, & film scholar concerned with the staging of national identity, gender, and race in a variety of performance media---including monuments and public pageants, traditional staged texts, and documentary and narrative films. She is a multidisciplinary educator with a passion for inspiring intellectual curiosity and advocating for the performing arts as a powerful force for social change.
For more about Prof Lewis, visit her faculty profile at UMass
Prof. Priscilla Page is a writer and dramaturg as well as a member of the dramaturgy faculty in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she also serves as the coordinator for the Multicultural Theater Certificate. Her research agenda includes Latinx Theater and Contemporary Native American Performance. For more about Prof. Page, visit her faculty profile at UMass
Dr. Megan Lewis is a South African-American theatre, performance, & film scholar concerned with the staging of national identity, gender, and race in a variety of performance media---including monuments and public pageants, traditional staged texts, and documentary and narrative films. She is a multidisciplinary educator with a passion for inspiring intellectual curiosity and advocating for the performing arts as a powerful force for social change.
For more about Prof Lewis, visit her faculty profile at UMass
Prof. Priscilla Page is a writer and dramaturg as well as a member of the dramaturgy faculty in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she also serves as the coordinator for the Multicultural Theater Certificate. Her research agenda includes Latinx Theater and Contemporary Native American Performance. For more about Prof. Page, visit her faculty profile at UMass