Garrod to direct theater production in Mostar
In the heavily segregated city of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Dartmouth education professor Andrew Garrod, who retired from the College in 2008, is challenging the country's ethnic tensions this summer by directing a theatrical production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Garrod is the founder and director of the Dartmouth Volunteer Teaching Program, which sends recent Dartmouth graduates to the Marshall Islands for a year to teach adolescents and undergraduates over Winter term, Andrew Rayner '10 said in an email to the Dartmouth. Rayner, who volunteered this past year in the Marshall Islands, is currently in Mostar for the summer. "We are using theater to bring together youth from the different ethnic groups in Mostar, which is a city that is still very distinctly segregated between the Bosniaks [Muslims] and Croats [Croatians] and Christians, using something as timeless as Shakespeare to bring these kids together and explore the themes of vengeance and forgiveness," Rayner said. Garrod and David Yorio GR'04 co-founded the international non-profit organization Youth Bridge Global, which facilitates youth theater productions in domestic and international developing companies, according to its website.
