Spring 2017 OLLI Catalog (Interactive)
The Osher Lifelong Learning at California State University Dominguez Hills is a program of educational, cultural, and social opportunities for retired and semi-retired individuals age 50 and above. Members experience taking courses in a relaxed atmosphere for the pure pleasure of learning.
The Osher Lifelong Learning at California State University Dominguez Hills is a program of educational, cultural, and social opportunities for retired and semi-retired individuals age 50 and above. Members experience taking courses in a relaxed atmosphere for the pure pleasure of learning.
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ART, CULTURE & LANGUAGE<br />
Let’s Read a Play!<br />
No stage or acting experience required. Join us for the opportunity<br />
to polish up your dramatic skills. Our director, Maria Ruiz, will<br />
introduce the authors and theater history before readings begin.<br />
We invite you to become a part of this interesting and interactive<br />
approach to enjoying a play. Expect some lively discussion about<br />
meaning and context.<br />
Lucky Guy by Nora Ephron, is a play about<br />
the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York<br />
of the 1980s, as told by the charismatic and<br />
controversial tabloid columnist Mike McAlary.<br />
From his sensational reporting of major police<br />
corruption to the libel suit that nearly ended<br />
his career, the play dramatizes McAlary’s<br />
meteoric rise, fall and rise again, ending with<br />
his coverage of the Abner Louima case for<br />
which he won the Pulitzer Prize, 8 months<br />
before his untimely death on Christmas Day, 1998.<br />
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan<br />
Didion, is the adaptation of her powerful book<br />
about the unexpected loss of her husband<br />
and their only daughter. Didion attempts to<br />
make sense of any fixed idea she ever had<br />
about death, illness, marriage and children<br />
and memory; about the shallowness of sanity,<br />
about life itself.’ Intensely personal yet<br />
universal, it is a portrait of a marriage,<br />
and a life, in good times and bad.<br />
The Man Who Came to Dinner by George<br />
S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Lecturer Sheridan<br />
Whiteside slips on the ice on the way into the<br />
home of a prominent Ohio family. The local<br />
doctor says he must remain confined having<br />
broken his leg. He begins to meddle with the<br />
lives of everyone in the household, and once<br />
his plots are underway, learns there is nothing<br />
wrong with his leg.<br />
Ten Minute Plays are short and usually fun or dramatic. Maria will<br />
select a book of plays. The class will choose the plays, maybe filling<br />
some time at the end of a class, or we may use both of the last<br />
month’s classes doing only these plays.<br />
Instructor and Facilitator: Maria Ruiz,<br />
<strong>OLLI</strong> and Omnilore member, District<br />
Toastmasters Qualified Speaker, and<br />
winner of two Distinguished Toastmasters<br />
Awards and the 2013 Roy D.<br />
Graham Lifetime Achievement Award.<br />
She is the “drama guru” at the Joslyn<br />
Center and regularly conducts play<br />
readings there. She also directs and<br />
produces the Dramatic Readers Theater<br />
in Manhattan Beach and Palos Verdes.<br />
8 Wednesdays<br />
February 1, 15<br />
March 1, 15,<br />
April 5, 19<br />
May 3, 10<br />
10:00am – 12:00pm<br />
Extended Education Building, EE-1221<br />
Fee: $20<br />
NLLL 154 Section 01<br />
Course No. 23517<br />
<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2017</strong> | www.csudh.edu/olli | (310) 243-3208 11