Summer 2018 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. For more info, visit: http://csudh.edu/olli
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. For more info, visit: http://csudh.edu/olli
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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 have some fun and to polish our dramatic skills. Our director,<br />
Maria Ruiz, will introduce the authors and theater history of each<br />
play before readings begin. You are invited to become a part of<br />
this interesting and interactive approach to enjoying a play and to<br />
experience cold readings. Expect lively discussion about meaning<br />
and content.<br />
Students usually obtain copies of the plays from libraries<br />
or purchase copies.<br />
Refreshments will be served.<br />
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde,<br />
June 8, 15<br />
Lady Windermere suspects her husband is having<br />
an affair. She confronts him but although he denies<br />
it, he invites the “other woman” to his wife’s birthday<br />
ball. The play was Oscar Wilde first success, a<br />
perfect balance between seriousness and comedy.<br />
The central theme is summed up in this quote by Lord Darlington:<br />
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”<br />
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose,<br />
July 6, 13<br />
The defense and the prosecution have rested and<br />
the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a<br />
young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his<br />
father. What begins as an open-and-shut case<br />
of murder soon becomes a detective story that<br />
presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and a mini-drama of<br />
each of the jurors’ prejudices and preconceptions about the trial,<br />
the accused and each other.<br />
The Odd Couple by Neil Simon,<br />
August 3, 10<br />
Felix Ungar, a neurotic, neat-freak news writer<br />
is thrown out by his wife, and moves in with his<br />
friend Oscar Madison, a slovenly sportswriter.<br />
Despite Oscar’s problems—careless spending,<br />
excessive gambling, a poorly kept house filled with<br />
spoiled food—he seems to enjoy life. Felix, however, seems utterly<br />
incapable of enjoying anything and only finds purpose in pointing<br />
out his own and other people’s mistakes and foibles.<br />
Instructor and Facilitator: Maria Ruiz is<br />
a member of both <strong>OLLI</strong> and Omnilore;<br />
a District Toastmasters Qualified<br />
Speaker; and the “drama guru” at the<br />
Joslyn Center in Manhattan Beach.<br />
She also directs and produces at the<br />
Dramatic Readers Theater in two South<br />
Bay locations.<br />
6 Fridays<br />
June 8, 15<br />
July 6, 13<br />
August 3, 10<br />
1:30pm – 3:30pm<br />
Extended Education Building,<br />
EE-1201<br />
Fee: $15<br />
NLLL 154 Section 01<br />
Course No. 30787<br />
Upcoming Field Trip<br />
Save The Date!<br />
• Los Angeles Family<br />
Research Library<br />
Thursday, August 16<br />
11:00am – 1:00pm<br />
(See page 15)<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2018</strong> | www.csudh.edu/olli | (310) 243-3208 9