Arts and Culture
Dublin curtain call
When Molly Keane, Arts ’05, attended a summer workshop at the Gaiety Theater in Ireland, she told Patrick Sutton, “Come to Marquette.” He did. His visit resulted in a golden opportunity for about 20 students this summer.
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Student production to premiere in Ireland
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Visiting director Patrick Sutton asked Marquette performing arts students, “What do you think about people who know something bad is happening but don’t do anything about it?”
By the end of a four-day play production workshop, the students had answers in the form of several scenes, character sketches and visual ideas.
Sutton, artistic director of the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, returned to Ireland and began working with a professional writer there on a script based on the students’ central theme: see/hear/speak no evil.
In June a group of about 20 actors, technicians and performing arts faculty from Marquette will fly to Dublin to produce the play they inspired. For three weeks the group will rehearse with Gaiety staff, then premiere the play there. “This is a terrific opportunity for our students to be involved in hands-on creation and to see beyond the United States,” says Debra Krajec, adjunct associate professor in Marquette’s Department of Performing Arts. Adds Phylis Ravel, artistic director and department chair, “The Gaiety project is also a major part of our commitment to social justice in the arts.”
In November, Sutton will fly back to Milwaukee for the Marquette premier, part of the 2007-08 Department of Performing Arts subscription series. Ravel, also vice chair of the American College Theatre Festival, hopes to also take the play to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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