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2 weeks ago |
wfuogb.com | Adam Coil
Wake Forest University Theater Department’s production of “The Tempest” opened on April 7, after almost a year of effort in the making. Its story began in the summer of last year with senior dramaturg Ellie Howell’s URECA project. She worked with Director Michael Kamtman to research how ancient theater techniques could be used to reimagine the last play Shakespeare ever wrote. Howell’s efforts were invaluable for two major components of the play.
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Dec 6, 2024 |
wfuogb.com | Adam Coil
The Reynolda waterfall is the first thing I remember seeing when I came to visit Wake Forest in the spring of 2021, a few weeks before I finally committed. At the time, I wasn’t thrilled about the idea of attending Wake Forest. I thought of it primarily as the school that my sister and mother went to — not for me. Instead of excitement, there was a looming sense of inevitability pulling me to Winston-Salem.
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Dec 4, 2024 |
wfuogb.com | Adam Coil
What if you could see all of the different ways your life could turn out, depending on how you act in a given moment? This is the premise of “Constellations,” a play written by Nick Payne and performed by the Anthony Aston Players, a student-run theatre organization at Wake Forest. With only two characters and nothing on stage but two hexagonal platforms, the play appears simple at first.
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Nov 15, 2024 |
wfuogb.com | Adam Coil
About halfway through reading Benjamín Labatut’s breakout novel, “When We Cease to Understand the World,” I texted a friend of mine, “I feel like I’m reading cocaine.” The 2021 International Booker Award finalist — which fictionalized the lives of some of the most important and problematic scientific geniuses of the twentieth century — had me instantly hooked. But after slugging my way through the final sections, I was left with a lukewarm feeling.
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Nov 7, 2024 |
wfuogb.com | Adam Coil
If you want to know how theater can respond to our current cultural moment of Brat summers and endless doom-scrolling, you need not go any further than Tedford Stage in Scales Fine Arts Center, where Caryl Churchill’s play “Love and Information” is being performed under the direction of professor Stephen Wrentmore. Although it was written in 2012, the play has only grown in relevance.
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