Performance of Eudora Welty stories for Diversity and Inclusion Arts and Lecture Series
Performance of Eudora Welty stories for Diversity and Inclusion Arts and Lecture Series
As part of the Diversity and Inclusion Arts and Lecture Series organized by the Office of Educational Equity and Inclusion, two actors from Stanford University will deliver dramatic readings of two Eudora Welty short stories focusing on Mississippi. The event, that will be held Thursday, March 28, at 11:30 a.m., in the Fine Arts Building Little Theater, is co-sponsored with the Eudora Welty Foundation and Millsaps College.
“A Worn Path” performed by Angela Farr Schiller, traces elderly Phoenix Jackson’s precarious journey through the woods to Natchez to obtain medicine for her sick grandson. “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” is the chilling story Welty wrote the day that Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered, told from the point of view of the assassin by Rush Rehm.
Schiller is a Ph.D. candidate in theater and performance studies at Stanford, having studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, for her B.A. and New York University for her M.A. She has worked on stage in San Diego and appeared as a principal dancer with the National Dance Company of Ghana. Rehm is the artistic director for the Stanford Summer Theater and has directed and acted in many productions including “The Wanderings of Odysseus” which played in Athens, Greece. Rush has also worked as an actor or director nationwide, and is the author of several books on Greek tragedy. He is a professor of drama and classics at Stanford.
For more information, contact the Office of Educational Equity and Inclusion at [email protected] or 601.877.6700.
