Antigone
Each year, the college’s best and brightest join together
in the Presidential Seminar, a course moderated by President
Bernie Dunlap and Dr. Christine Dinkins where they discuss the
central question of a liberal arts education and of human nature
in general: how does one live a good life in a just society? As
Dr. Dunlap says, “By the end of the semester, the room will not
only levitate but will begin to spin in turn with the orchestra
of music created by the minds in the room and the ideas that
they produce.” In keeping with this theme, each year the
students produce their own unique version of Sophocles’ tragedy,
Antigone. This year, participants broke the mold with a
Brechtian Lehrstücke production, blurring the line between
actors and audience.
Want to know more? Read this interview with
Tory Macomson
. Tory represents the theatre department in the Presidential
Seminar and directed this year’s production…