Spring 2017 OLLI Catalog (Interactive)

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