It's not every day that a college-age theater group has the opportunity to actually speak with the writer of the play they are producing.
While World War II rages on the European continent, Walter Redlich and his wife Jettel and daughter Regina are safe from the conflict, tucked away on an isolated farm in Kenya. But the circumstances that landed them in this foreign land and the challenges that awaited them when they arrived none of them could have predicted. In "Nowhere in Afrca," we meet a Jewish family that fled Germany just before the infamous 1938 Night of Broken Glass and the closure of the Third Reich's borders. Though the Nazi oppression they fled was severe, the harsh African landscape presents problems of its own.
When "College Sutra" premieres tonight at 8 p.m. in Loew Auditorium, expect the culmination of months of work from producer Amit Anand '03 and his cast.
In the Bentley, a five-person show sets new marks for originality, comedy, poignancy and poise
Mariah May '04 turns a Shower Tower hallway into a stage
To the Editor: In an Oct. 15 column in The Dartmouth, Chris Curran wrote, "I imagine some left-leaning extremists might fly the hammer and sickle of the former Soviet Union.