Classic Bev

So last night, I decided to attend the play “The Good Woman of Setzuan” at Freedlander Theater on campus. I went in support of my friend Stefanie Genda, a senior theatre major whom I have known since my first day on campus. Stef and I were in the same First Year Seminar, Utopian and Dystopian Visions, and our class met on the first day of orientation in McGaw, where Stef and I realized we had equally consuming addictions to the Gap. I didn’t get the chance to see her senior IS project (a part of which were the costumes for our fall performance of Caberet, because it sold out so quickly!!) so I wanted to make it a point to go to “The Good Woman of Setzuan.” I went by myself but ended up (by total coincidence, which I love) sitting next to one of the Peanuts, Erica (you can see her in the Cavs picture below).

The play was fantastic, I was really blown away. Now to be fair, it was two and a half hours long (Stef, I love you, but a heads up wouldn’t have hurt, if only so I could have had dinner beforehand. I almost ate my program. ) but “The Good Woman of Setzuan” was well worth it. A play that looks to define self-interest and altruism concurrently and how they can somehow both exist in one person, “The Good Woman of Setzuan” was honestly the best two and a half hours I’ve spent in a long time.

So there’s my rave review. Our theatre department never fails to impress me, no matter how high they continue to raise their own standards. Last year, Wooster’s production of Nocturne was chosen as one of four collegiate plays in the country to be performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. I’m watching the Oscars right now, which may be helping my writing, if only because I am an absolute film nerd and LOVE intelligent and thought-provoking film, television, and theatre. It’s also nice to have a hobby that doesn’t necessarily require me to change out of my pajamas some days…