Under the direction of Emmanuelle Delpech of Pig Iron Theatre Company, the students of French 240 (“Molière in Performance”) will present modernized scenes from Molière’s seventeenth-century comedies, adapted to fit the context of a small residential college, circa 2013. The promenade-style performance will begin and end at Goodrich Hall. Reception and post-performance discussion to follow.
Student performers are Alexandra Albright ’14, Christopher Fogler ’13, Alexandra Highet ’13, Christopher Janson ’16, Tara Miller ’15, Margaret Richardson ’16, Raquel Rodriguez ’16, and Sunny Velez ’13.
April 24, 2013 | 5:00 – 7:30 PM, Goodrich Hall
About the Theatre
Emmanuelle Delpech is an actor, teacher and director, receiving in 2011 the Best of Philly award for Best Theater Artist by Philadelphia Magazine. She is currently a faculty member of the Headlong Performance Institute and of the Pig Iron School for Advance Training. The Pig Iron Theatre Company is a Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary ensemble founded in 1995. The Company calls itself a “dance-clown-theatre ensemble,” but has also been described as “soundscape and spectacle,” “cabaret-ballet,” and “avant-garde shadow puppet dessert-theatre.” Pig Iron is made up of three artistic directors and four members. Together they have created twenty-four original works inspired by eclectic sources, history, biography, rock music, kitsch, and chance among them. A two-time OBIE recipient, the group has toured widely in the United States, Europe, and South America.
Pig Iron’s education programs offer some of the most unique and comprehensive approaches to performance training in America. Pig Iron has instructed hundreds of students in universities, colleges, and high schools; in professional workshop series; and in a training program for leaders in the corporate and nonprofit sectors.
Special thanks to the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Center for Learning in Action, the Departments of Romance Languages and Theatre, the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Lecture Committee, and the Office of the Dean of Faculty.
