Partnership Built With Local Arts High School
August 26, 2009
The university’s theater and performance studies program and Duke Ellington School of the Arts officially launched a partnership this summer, joining students from both schools on stage for theatrical productions and other learning opportunities.
The theater and performance studies program offered a six-week,intensive course this summer at the Davis Performing Arts Center that culminated with July 16-18 performances of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic “Our Town,” starring students from both schools.
Georgetown professor Derek Goldman, who co-directed the production with fellow faculty member Sarah Marshall, says “Our Town,” which illuminates the prosaic activities of daily life, was the perfect play to launch the ongoing community collaboration between the university and high school.
“It’s about what we notice in the world, both in our own intimate family lives and in the wider orbits of community in which we interact,” says Goldman, who also is director of theater and performing arts.
