Devised theatre is a Hope College tradition that takes place every few years. This is where an invited guest artist comes in to work with students on creating an original work. Hope Theatre’s last production of the year, “The Boy Who Hates Everything”, opens this week and it is exactly that. The script has been…
This past weekend, on Mar. 3rd and 4th, Dance 49 took place in the Dewitt Main Theatre and it will continue through this coming weekend Mar. 9th-11th. Dance 49 is a showcase where dance students are cast with a choreographer who then creates a piece to perform at the showcase. This year there were seven…
Tia Hockenhull (‘23) is soon to be a Hope College graduate. Despite the fact that she is a chemistry major, she has had a passion for acting for as long as she can remember. She always thought that theatre was just going to be a hobby for her until she came to college and got…
One of the mainstage productions this semester is a four-women play titled “The Revolutionists.” The play, written by Lauren Gunderson, follows four fictional and nonfictional women alike: playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle, during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. The cast includes Cecilia Casper…
Content Warning and Disclaimer: This article mentions topics of self harm, depression, and eating disorders. While this article states a review on the success of the show, it in no way is encouraging readers to watch it if that would be triggering for them. In 2019 the world was rocked with the dramatic show, Euphoria….
Some may remember the “Scenes from ‘Rabbit Hole’” presentations that the Directing 1 class produced this October. The students in the Directing 1 class recruited several auditioning actors and then tried their hand at directing. Now the class has progressed to producing a showcase of 10 Minute scenes called “Doritos, Love, and the Lack Thereof”…
The Center for Global Engagement hosted the annual IMAGES last weekend to a full audience. Community members and Hope College students filled the Knickerbocker seats so much that some people had to find seats on the stairs to watch the show. Fara Ling (‘23) and John Kim (‘24), two of the Emcees this year, with…
This past week the Sculpture II class at Hope displayed their exhibit titled “What Remains” in the DeWitt staircase. They hosted a closing reception on Thursday, Nov. 3, where students could walk through the staircase at night and see the final show complete with lighting. Each of the five students did one piece in the…
Dancing, striving to become a professional in the arts and executing those plans can be mentally and physically exhausting. For dancers, this means hours upon hours of work on the daily. Performers spend anywhere from months to only a couple of weeks preparing themselves for just a few shows; the pay-off, a thrill in the…
A Shakespearean play, “The Winter’s Tale,” will be the first fall semester mainstage production this year. It will be directed by Daina Robins and will run Oct. 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, and 22, featuring Hope students from all years. Here is a quick synopsis of the play: “The Winter’s Tale” is a dramedy romance…