April 21, 2007 == MEDIA ADVISORY
Full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news
Two classes from two different departments are pooling their talents to host
the first-ever "Sonnet Walk" at Calvin College from 11 a.m. through 2 p.m. on
Monday, April 23: Shakespeare's birthday. The walk will tour nine sites on
Calvin's campus where student actors will be stationed to perform sonnets.
"I hope people will enjoy it and see that the sonnets can still be lively,
humming, poetic performances," says English professor Debra Rienstra, whose
Shakespeare class is joining forces with communication arts and sciences (CAS)
professor Todd Farley's "Performance Studies" class to host the walk.
Rienstra's class is responsible for researching the literary background of each
sonnet and helping Farley's student actors decide how to perform them. The
actors will perform the sonnets at frequent intervals for the three-hour
duration of the walk, and visitors to the walk can take a number of routes to
hear them all. A printed guide to the walk, available at any of the sites, will
list the locations and performance times of each sonnet and suggest a couple of
paths to take through the walk.
The Sonnet Walk was inspired by a similar event sponsored by the Globe Theatre,
which Rienstra attended with students in 2004 when she directed Calvin's
semester-abroad in Britain.
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