This spring, director Chris Garcia Peak was invited to come work with Hope theatre students to create a fun and interesting devised work. During the fall, students were invited to attend a three-day workshop led by Garcia Peak. From here, the students along with Garcia Peak created a concept that he would then present to…
Jack Slevin is a senior at Hope College, studying secondary education with a theatre minor. Currently, Slevin is preparing for his student production of the play “The O’Conner Girls” which will be presented on Mar. 10 and 11 and 7:30 p.m., at the Schaap Auditorium. “The O’Conner Girls” is a play about a family, [the…
Outer Banks is a Netflix series that is set in a coastal town along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where there is a social divide between the wealthy and the working classes– the Kooks and the Pogues. The show follows a group of teenagers who are determined to find out what happened to the…
PhotoVoice is a method of research that uses participant photography to show an issue in society. It poses meaningful questions to the audience in the hopes of enhancing the community by finding possible solutions to the problem presented. On the Kruizenga Art Museum website, it says this about the project: “This exhibition offers a window…
After a long wait, the Percy Jackson books, written by Rick Riordan, are being transformed into a television series. Previously in 2010, Riordan’s books had been turned into movies. However, when they came out, many avid readers of Percy Jackson complained that the movies did not follow the plot of the books. In early 2022,…
Blank Panther: Wakanda Forever is the sequel to the original Black Panther. This movie was dedicated to Chadwick Boseman after his sudden death due to colon cancer in 2020. In the movie, the people of Wakanda are forced to move on from the death of Boseman’s character King T’Challa quickly in order to protect their…
Rhett Luedtke is a visiting professor in Hope’s Theatre Department for the 2022-23 academic year. In most cases, a visiting professor is asked to teach at a college that is not their own, for a set amount of time. Luedtke previously taught in the theatre department at George Fox University in Oregon. George Fox is…
“Silent Sky” is the newest theatre production for Hope College’s 2022 fall semester. The play focuses on Henrietta Leavitt and her work in the field of astronomy. This is the first piece by playwright Lauren Gunderson that the Hope College Department of Theatre will see in this academic year with “The Revolutionists” succeeding it in…
After 29 years of silence, “Hocus Pocus 2” made its debut. While many of the original cast members were not included in the second movie, the actresses for Winifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Mary (Kathy Najimy) remained the same. Many people were skeptical of the movie’s plot leading up to its release…