{"id":1246,"date":"2012-10-18T12:51:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T16:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2022-03-25T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:00:56","slug":"kalamazoo-college-to-stage-shakespeares-titus-andronicus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/kalamazoo-college-to-stage-shakespeares-titus-andronicus\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalamazoo College To Stage Shakespeare\u2019s TITUS ANDRONICUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1255\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/10\/itusAndronicus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1255 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/10\/itusAndronicus.jpg\" alt=\"Stefano Cagnato, Rudi Goddard and Manuel Garcia rehearse for &quot;Titus Andronicus&quot;\" width=\"360\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/10\/itusAndronicus.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/10\/itusAndronicus-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stefano Cagnato, Rudi Goddard, and Manuel Garcia in the Festival Playhouse production of Shakespeare&#8217;s TITUS ANDRONICUS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/theatre\/Fables\/\">Festival Playhouse<\/a> of Kalamazoo College\u2019s production of William Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Titus Andronicus<\/em> opens on Thursday November 1, in the Nelda K. Balch Playhouse on the Kalamazoo College campus and continues Nov. 2, 3, and 4. Thursday\u2019s performance begins at 7:30 P.M.; Friday and Saturday\u2019s performances begin at 8 P.M.; Sunday\u2019s is 2 P.M. matinee. Thursday night is \u201cpay what you want.\u201d Tickets for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are $15 (adults), $10 (seniors), and $5 (students with ID). The box office will open one hour prior to each performance for ticket purchase; seating is first-come-first-served. <em>Titus Andronicus<\/em> has undergone a complete transformation in terms of popularity and critical opinion. Once regarded as one of Shakespeare\u2019s worst plays \u2013 to the point where some historians believed that Shakespeare couldn\u2019t possibly have written it \u2013 it now enjoys a reputation of Shakespeare at his most theatrical, shocking, and violent. Contemporary directors from Peter Brook to Julie Taymor have staged <em>Titus Andronicus<\/em> to great acclaim, and this production will certainly add to the that tradition. Directed by guest artist Kevin Dodd, the Festival Playhouse production\u00a0 focuses on the cycle of violence perpetuated in societies, especially when soldiers return from war. One of Dodd\u2019s many innovations in the production has been to add a \u201cChorus of Collateral Damage.\u201d Student actors in the Chorus have studied particular historical periods and have written their own monologues from the point of view of those who continue the cycle of violence and those who suffer from it. \u201cAs a nation, we export violence,\u201d Dodd notes. \u201cOur production asks the question: when they all come home, what happens then?\u201d For more information visit the Festival Playhouse <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/theatre\/\">website<\/a> or call (269) 337-7333.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Festival Playhouse of Kalamazoo College\u2019s production of William Shakespeare\u2019s Titus Andronicus opens on Thursday November 1, in the Nelda K. Balch Playhouse on the Kalamazoo College campus and continues Nov. 2, 3, and 4. Thursday\u2019s performance begins at 7:30 P.M.; Friday and Saturday\u2019s performances begin at 8 P.M.; Sunday\u2019s is 2 P.M. matinee. Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[44,58],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-humanities","tag-theatre"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Kalamazoo College To Stage Shakespeare\u2019s TITUS ANDRONICUS - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Festival Playhouse of Kalamazoo College\u2019s production of William Shakespeare\u2019s Titus Andronicus opens on Thursday November 1, in the Nelda K. 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ANDRONICUS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/theatre\/Fables\/\">Festival Playhouse<\/a> of Kalamazoo College\u2019s production of William Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Titus Andronicus<\/em> opens on Thursday November 1, in the Nelda K. Balch Playhouse on the Kalamazoo College campus and continues Nov. 2, 3, and 4. Thursday\u2019s performance begins at 7:30 P.M.; Friday and Saturday\u2019s performances begin at 8 P.M.; Sunday\u2019s is 2 P.M. matinee. Thursday night is \u201cpay what you want.\u201d Tickets for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are $15 (adults), $10 (seniors), and $5 (students with ID). The box office will open one hour prior to each performance for ticket purchase; seating is first-come-first-served. <em>Titus Andronicus<\/em> has undergone a complete transformation in terms of popularity and critical opinion. Once regarded as one of Shakespeare\u2019s worst plays \u2013 to the point where some historians believed that Shakespeare couldn\u2019t possibly have written it \u2013 it now enjoys a reputation of Shakespeare at his most theatrical, shocking, and violent. Contemporary directors from Peter Brook to Julie Taymor have staged <em>Titus Andronicus<\/em> to great acclaim, and this production will certainly add to the that tradition. Directed by guest artist Kevin Dodd, the Festival Playhouse production\u00a0 focuses on the cycle of violence perpetuated in societies, especially when soldiers return from war. One of Dodd\u2019s many innovations in the production has been to add a \u201cChorus of Collateral Damage.\u201d Student actors in the Chorus have studied particular historical periods and have written their own monologues from the point of view of those who continue the cycle of violence and those who suffer from it. \u201cAs a nation, we export violence,\u201d Dodd notes. \u201cOur production asks the question: when they all come home, what happens then?\u201d For more information visit the Festival Playhouse <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/theatre\/\">website<\/a> or call (269) 337-7333.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9810,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/9810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}