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Show Statesmai UQQ7_ We Fit Your Needs A dozen drama students to travel across seas to study the art of acting MATERNITY INSURANCE BY T O M LILMICREN Senior Writer Shakespeare wrote, "All the world is a stage." However, Shakespeare's theater productions, and many other traditional greats, were all created and performed in England. A dozen USU students will get to experience the theatre history of England firsthand this summer. For the sixth consecutive year, the USU theatre department will have students go to England for five weeks to live and study at Northampton University. They will perform a play at a historic English manor and travel throughout Great Britain and Europe. Additionally, they will experience the theatre community of England by attending five plays in London and visiting museums such as a costume museum in Bath, England. "I know of no other university that does a trip like this," said Lynda Linford, a professor in the theatre department who organizes the program and directs the student play. She said other universities go to England to study and produce summer plays, but no other program performs inside a museum or mansion such as the Kenmarsh Estate. The group will rehearse their play at least four times a week in England beginning the first day, Linford said. Students are expected to have their parts memorized before they arrive so they can take advantage of their already limited practice time. This year the USU group will perform "The Constant Wife" by William Somerset Maugham. The play, set in the 1920s, begins as a comedy but evolves into a debate about the equality of the sexes, Linford said. While the play was written in 1929, it enjoyed a recent revival in both England and the United States, where it was nominated for multiple Tony Awards. Linford attributes the enduring nature of the play to the complexity of the piece and its relevance of its message today. "We need apiece of literature worthy of intense scrutiny," Linford said. "Actors and actresses of stature would want to do it." The group goes far beyond their rehearsals to learn the play. Their experience is designed to help them immerse themselves in the setting of the play. They will read other works of Maugham's and information about the 1920s era. However, they will also go beyond the books by immersing themselves in the era through the art, theatre and history in England. Northampton University proclaims in its summer manual to live by the educational maxim, "He who looks, sees; he who listens, hears; but he who DOES, understands." 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UNDERGRADUATE TUITION SI 82 per credit hour GRADUATE TUITION: $210 per credit hour Photo Courtesy Lynda Linford STUDENTS STEPHANIE ORME AND LETICIA MINHARO take a break during their theater trip to London last Photo Courtesy Lynda Linford LrnciA MINHARO AND RACHEL STAMON were two of the students that got to perform in a play in London last summer. This year will be the sixth year the USU theatre department travels to England. . ing students experience the setting of the plays they are in, Linford said. During this trip. The students will visit English historical landmarks and museums that help them get into their characters and setting of "The Constant Wife." "It's like being inside a painting instead of looking at a painting from the outside," Linford said. Additionally, being in England helps students learn and practice their British accents for the play, Linford said. "You start thinking in a British accent," she said. However, while learning the accent was easier, Leticia Minharo, a junior theatre major who participated in the England trip last year, said it was nerve-wracking to perform the British dialect in front of an invitation-only British audience at their concluding concert at Kelmarsh Estate. The Kelmarsh Estate has been visited by princes, dukes and queens from across Europe, including the Queen Elizabeth, Linford said. It still stands as an example of an 18th century aristocratic setting, although it was decorated by noted interior decorator Nancy Lancaster, who helped define the tradi- . tional country house look, according the Estate's Web site. Although the program is centered on the groups theatre experience, they also are able to travel throughout England and Europe. They-will spend a weekend in Florence and Venice, Italy, and some students have visited Paris, Scotland and Amsterdam, Linford said. "I've always wanted to study abroad, and this is one of the best ways I could do it," said Jenna Carrington, a freshman theatre major at USU who will be going to England this year. . Minharo said the England trip has helped her with her school . program this year. ; "I didn't stop working on my major during the summer," said Minharo. "I was prepared a little better (in the fall) and was more comfortable. It helped me stay in the groove." The theatre departments England studies will begin on July 7 and continue until Aug. 10. The theatre department is still looking for extra participants for this year's England trip. . Previous theater experience is not required. Anyone interested : can contact Linford at 797-3050 or by e-mail at llinford@ hass.usu.edu. -tliljegren@cc.usu.edu • year. They got to perform there and Minharo said it was nerve-wracking but a good experience. Some final words from your favorite geek I wish I could tell you guys I (only when my wife isn't home was doing something cool this though). summer. I'm pretty sure the fourth I wish I could talk about time's the charm. That's what how I'm going to some secret they say right? training camp for spies. So since I'm going to be an But no, 1 can't do that, adult, I guess I need to find a because I'm not cool adult hobby allowed to do cool to get me through Steve Shinney these long, responstuff anymore. This summer, I'm sible days. It'll keep going to grow up. my skills sharp, my I got a job. A real mind awake and job. Not the janitomy health insured. rial stuff I've done Plus the high over previous sumprices will keep my mers to keep myself heart here at USU. from shooting Mentos I'm thinking Geek Beat at zoo animals with a steveshinney@cc.usu.edu of taking up shopping for health slingshot. insurance. It's the Rest assured, the next toilet I find myself up to epic struggle between man my elbows in will have been and the corporations. clogged by me! From wnat I've gathered Wow, until I wrote that about real people, heath insurdown and read it, I thought ing is the ultimate hobby for that was something to be excit- grown ups. Ifs kind of like ed about. smelling funny. Old people I hate when that happens. love this sort of crap. I mean, I Anyway, I'm pretty sure love this sort of crap. I'm one going the 9 to 5 grind is going of them.now. to signify my official arrival Wow, this may take some into the world of adulthood. getting used to, I figured this would happen Besides this, I hope to take when I graduated high school, advantage of the spare time but I still watched "Reading this new schedule affords to Rainbow/' finish a few of the projects I've Then I thought 1 would truly started over the years: finish grow up when I came back my book, learn to play more from my mission, but it turned than three cords on the guitar out I was still terrified of being and find that pesky lost city of locked in a closet with a cactus gold. (don't ask; please don't ask). I We'll see how it works out. thought maybe getting married Ifs not like 1 have much of a would1 make me a real grown choice. While I'm sure the ill eat candy d I eat school would take my money, up, b but I still find in between the cushions I don't have any more to give. LATE CAP & GOWN PICK UP April 26 9am-4pm TSC Ballroom Additional Graduation Information: www.bookstore.usu.edu UtahState UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE \ So thafs it for me, no more college. Ifs really weird after five years of my life being mostly limited to this town - and the Harry Potter fanfic forums on the Internet, of course - that I'm really going to leave this place. However before I go, I couldn't resist the temptation to be super cliche ana share what I've learned during this period of growth. Besides, I'm a grown up now. I'm full of unsolicited advice. Don't put too much stock in what people like me say. And yes, this includes what I'm saying right now. If I've achieved nothing else as a columnist, I hope I've served as an example of just how low the standards for getting published really are. If someone in the media says something, just remember chances are they just thought of it that morning in the shower. Also don't worry too much about changing your image. Change who you are, and sooner or later your image will catch up. If someone gives you the choice between a poke in the eye and a mystery surprise box, take the box. There are a lot of things in this world worse than a poke in the eye, but most of them don't fit in a mystery surprise box. Finally, if a martial arts master of any kind wants to use you to demonstrate something, don't act like it didn't hurt. Just flop down on the ground ' because if the first thing they , try on you doesn't hurt, the next thing will. Now if I could just wax ' nostalgic for a hundred words or so. As I'm sure some of you have realized, this will be the ' last Geek Beat that will run in . The Statesman. To those of you who have been with me for the full two and half years, thank ' you for making this social ; reject's life-long dream come . true. A lot of people have asked me to make a book or CD ' collection of my columns. , Apparently they haven't caught on that I'm way too lazy and irresponsible to do anything like that. If you're ever interested in reading "classic" Shinney, you can find everything I've ever published in this paper at our, Web site, www.utahstatesman. com. Until I come up with a new site, I'll post any new stuff' at my blog, www.thegeekbeat. '. blogspot.com. Feel free to stop by. Once again, thank you for one heck of a geeky ride. I . hope I've been able to make someone's time at USU a little more fun. You've all sure made mine. Geek over and out. Steve Shinney is a senior majoring in computer sciqpee. Comments and questions • can be sent to steveshinney@ . cc.usu.edu. |