{"id":13964,"date":"2020-11-17T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=13964"},"modified":"2022-03-21T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:01:35","slug":"festival-playhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/festival-playhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Playhouse Production Addresses Institutional Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13967\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13967\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/11\/Festival-Playhouse-Production-Poster-for-K-300x388.jpg\" alt=\"Festival Playhouse Production Poster for K\" width=\"300\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/11\/Festival-Playhouse-Production-Poster-for-K-300x388.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/11\/Festival-Playhouse-Production-Poster-for-K-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/11\/Festival-Playhouse-Production-Poster-for-K-600x776.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/11\/Festival-Playhouse-Production-Poster-for-K-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/11\/Festival-Playhouse-Production-Poster-for-K.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aija Turner \u201923 portrays Juanita, a student who encounters the ghosts of former Kalamazoo College President Weimer K. Hicks, played by Isaac Presberg \u201924, and Festival Playhouse Founder Nelda K. Balch, played by Claire de Vries \u201924, in the original Festival Playhouse production titled <em>K<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Festival Playhouse production written over the past two years by Kalamazoo College students is challenging administrators and faculty to better fight institutional racism, and students to consider their own biases.<\/p>\n<p>In the play, simply titled <em>K<\/em>, Aija Turner \u201923 portrays Juanita, a student who encounters the ghosts of former Kalamazoo College President Weimer K. Hicks, played by Isaac Presberg \u201924, and Festival Playhouse Founder Nelda K. Balch, played by Claire de Vries \u201924.<\/p>\n<p>The dialogue, presented in virtual conversations, shows how the College\u2019s policies and historical events are still leading to friction between students, and injustice on campus through issues the institution never publicized, examined or resolved, especially as K\u2019s faculty demographics don\u2019t match the diversity of its students.<\/p>\n<p>The play was written with Jens Rasmussen of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bechdelproject.org\/\">Bechdel Project<\/a> providing exploratory scenarios, Emilio Rodriguez of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackandbrowntheatre.org\/\">Black and Brown Theatre Company<\/a> providing guidance and sustaining support, and dramaturgy provided by Visiting Assistant Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/programs\/theatre\/\">Theatre<\/a> Arts \u201cC\u201d Heaps. Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Lori Sands served as the costume designer.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <em>K<\/em> at any time <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/477016317\">through Vimeo<\/a>. Stay online after the play for a discussion with some of the writers and actors. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/festivalplayhouse.kzoo.edu\/2020\/11\/04\/k-program\/\">online program<\/a>, assembled by Rebecca Chan \u201922, at the Festival Playhouse website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Festival Playhouse production written over the past two years by Kalamazoo College students is challenging administrators and faculty to better fight institutional racism, and students to consider their own biases. In the play, simply titled K, Aija Turner \u201923 portrays Juanita, a student who encounters the ghosts of former Kalamazoo College President Weimer K. 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Hicks, played by Isaac Presberg \u201924, and Festival Playhouse Founder Nelda K. Balch, played by Claire de Vries \u201924, in the original Festival Playhouse production titled <em>K<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Festival Playhouse production written over the past two years by Kalamazoo College students is challenging administrators and faculty to better fight institutional racism, and students to consider their own biases.<\/p>\n<p>In the play, simply titled <em>K<\/em>, Aija Turner \u201923 portrays Juanita, a student who encounters the ghosts of former Kalamazoo College President Weimer K. Hicks, played by Isaac Presberg \u201924, and Festival Playhouse Founder Nelda K. Balch, played by Claire de Vries \u201924.<\/p>\n<p>The dialogue, presented in virtual conversations, shows how the College\u2019s policies and historical events are still leading to friction between students, and injustice on campus through issues the institution never publicized, examined or resolved, especially as K\u2019s faculty demographics don\u2019t match the diversity of its students.<\/p>\n<p>The play was written with Jens Rasmussen of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bechdelproject.org\/\">Bechdel Project<\/a> providing exploratory scenarios, Emilio Rodriguez of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackandbrowntheatre.org\/\">Black and Brown Theatre Company<\/a> providing guidance and sustaining support, and dramaturgy provided by Visiting Assistant Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/programs\/theatre\/\">Theatre<\/a> Arts \u201cC\u201d Heaps. Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Lori Sands served as the costume designer.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <em>K<\/em> at any time <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/477016317\">through Vimeo<\/a>. Stay online after the play for a discussion with some of the writers and actors. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/festivalplayhouse.kzoo.edu\/2020\/11\/04\/k-program\/\">online program<\/a>, assembled by Rebecca Chan \u201922, at the Festival Playhouse website.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964","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\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13970,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions\/13970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13964"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=13964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}