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...Raker, who is pursuing a special concentration in Theater, especially appreciates the level of professionalism associated with the course and the festival. “The dramaturges have been incredible,” says Raker. “This has been a freeing experience...
...It’s been a wild process,” says Evans’ student Cecelia A. Raker ’11, whose play “Lilacs in November” will run on Sunday at the festival. Raker, who has been involved with directing and acting on campus, has experimented in playwriting but never to this serious an extent. “To step out of my comfort zone and do something entirely original, or more original, is something that I’ve loved,” she says...
...Raker also feels all the students’ plays reflect their exposure to such high-level resources. “It’s been great to hear other people’s work,” she raves. “We’ve got plays ranging from mine, which is totally a surreal fantasy, to very realist family drama, and everything in between...
Directed by Debra L. Caplan and Cecelia A. Raker...
Caplan, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in Yiddish Literature, and Raker are attempting to bring this traditional play to life in a modern context. “What feels ‘modern’ about our interpretation of ‘Shulamis’ is simply that we’re not striving to reproduce a 19th century operetta as it was performed in the 1880s,” Caplan writes in an email. “We opted to bring ‘Shulamis’ into a 21st century theatrical framework.” Among other changes...