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A scene from “The Covid Decameron” (WCSU Theatre Dept. Facebook page photo)
DANBURY, CT - The Spring Virtual Production Series at Western Connecticut State University continues on Saturday when the stream for The Covid Decameron was shared. Armed with my season pass, I pushed the play button on my monitor to enjoy the projects prepared by a large group of university students.
Dramaturg Sydney Maher explains in her note in the virtual program that this project was inspired by a collection of novellas that was among the countless works of art that came out during the Renaissance, which took place despite The Black Death (or the Bubonic plague) that was gripping Europe and Asia. The Decameron was written by Giovanni Boccaccio and followed a group of ten people who fled to a villa outside of Florence to escape the plague. There the seven women and three men told 100 stories over the course of ten days; each day addressed a different topic and focused on morality, of the
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WCSU Theatre Arts announces Spring Virtual Production Series
DANBURY, CT The Western Connecticut State UniversityDepartment of Theatre Arts announces its Spring Virtual Production Series. The series comprises four unique productions that will be broadcast twice over two weekends spanning Thursday, April 29, through Sunday, May 9. A ticket to each performance date will allow the purchaser to access the show over the course of 24 hours that day. Tickets are available at wcsuvpac.eventbrite.com. The WCSU Theatre Arts faculty is very proud of what we ve been able to accomplish this year regarding our virtual productions, said Department of Theatre Arts Associate Chair and Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre Justin P. Cowan. Between last fall and this spring, our department will have fully produced and streamed a total of nine productions. Considering that most of our professional industry has been on hold for over a year, we are thrilled to not only be providing theatre