This year marked perhaps one of the most phenomenal theater seasons in Oberlin history. Productions went up nearly every weekend, causing audiences to be spread thin among a bevy of competing performances. There was a marked increase in student productions, including an impressive rise in first-year directors. High points of the year were plenty. The fall opera, Carmen, whose sweeping sets and powerful voices brought Bizet's beloved score to stunning heights, left audiences cheering. for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf gave us poetic and inspiring performances, and returns by popular demand this Commencement Weekend (see story page B2). Tartuffe broke new ground by touring area high schools. All in all, the season was full of pleasant surprises in theater, musical theater and opera theater and the surge in productions was extremely well received by the campus and community. Upon the close of this year, the theater community has shown promising signs of growth and diversity and will most likely continue to take off in the years to come as a storng contingency on campus.
Photos by Laren Rusin, John Seyfried and Pauline Shapiro.
Copyright © 1998, The Oberlin Review.
Volume 126, Number 24, May 22, 1998
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