Students delved into Char’s papers that are housed at Princeton University Library, translated his WWII poetry, and traced his wartime steps on the ground in France.
Memento by Hala Moughanie, translated from French (Lebanon) and directed by Translator-in-Residence Neil Blackadder, features Megan Pan '23 and Jay White '24 and is stage managed by Milan Eldridge. This fable explores the possibility of a true meeting between two beings who are fundamentally opposed to each other. Open to University community.
A staged reading of Villa Dolorosa (Three Botched Birthdays) by Rebekka Kricheldorf translated from German by Princeton Translator-in-Residence Neil Blackadder. Villa Dolorosa is a free adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters. Where Chekhov, in a tragicomic mode, depicted the plight of three sisters at the turn of the twentieth century with limited capacity to give their own lives meaning, Kricheldorf writes a comedy about three early-twenty-first-century sisters who could easily make different choices - but fail to. Open to University community; no tickets required.
A staged reading of Villa Dolorosa (Three Botched Birthdays) by Rebekka Kricheldorf translated from German by Princeton Translator-in-Residence Neil Blackadder. Villa Dolorosa is a free adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters. Where Chekhov, in a tragicomic mode, depicted the plight of three sisters at the turn of the twentieth century with limited capacity to give their own lives meaning, Kricheldorf writes a comedy about three early-twenty-first-century sisters who could easily make different choices - but fail to. Open to University community; no tickets required.