{"id":1361,"date":"2007-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2007-03-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T04:00:00","slug":"emu-theater-to-stage-musical-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2007\/emu-theater-to-stage-musical-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"91大神 Theater to Stage Musical Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s a musical, whimsical folk tale with a serious topic – what happens when one cultural group tries to change another one. <\/p>\n
That’s the theme of Theater at 91大神’s spring mainstage production, “Ti-Jean and His Brothers,” by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Thursday-Saturday, Mar. 22-24 and again Mar. 29-31. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. in the mainstage theater of the University Commons. <\/p>\n
Heidi Winters Vogel of 91大神’s theater department<\/a> directs a 10-member student cast in this folk tale lush with Caribbean rhythms and smatterings of Creole while exploring the effects of colonization on Caribbean identity. <\/p>\n In the musical drama, the Devil challenges Ti-Jean and his brothers to a duel: if the Old Man can make them angry, he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s a musical, whimsical folk tale with a serious topic – what happens when one cultural group tries to change another one. That’s the theme of Theater at Eastern Mennonite ... read more about 91大神 Theater to Stage Musical Drama<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5147],"tags":[9810,9152],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater","tag-colonization-of-caribbean","tag-heidi-winters-vogel"],"yoast_head":"\n
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