Champlain Theatre Presents 'A Bright Room Called Day' on April 21
Reading looks at rise of Hitler from artists and activists view
Burlington, VT (04/12/2017) — Champlain Theatre presents a reading of Tony Kushner's play "A Bright Room Called Day" directed by Kerry Noonan, on Friday, April 21, 7:30 pm in the Champlain College Morgan Room, Aiken Hall, 83, Summit St., Burlington. Admission is free and open to the public. The play reading stars Kelly Champlain, Anya Delvanthal, Grace Safford, Oliver Ash, Joshua Faulks, Amos Byrne, Elizabeth Humensky, Ralph Drake, and Kristin Novotny, and is stage managed by Andrew Scallion.
About the play:
"In A Bright Room Called Day, Tony Kushner blends history with fiction and remembers the fears, hypocrisies, and human failings that led to the rise of Hitler, depicting a group of likable, but ultimately flawed, idealistic German artists and activists who struggle to come to terms with the changing political realities.
"A Bright Room Called Day engages a variety of questions and themes through its narrative and Epic Theatre style, including those of personal responsibility, fear in the face of danger, hypocrisy, and failed idealism. The plot centers around five major characters confronted with the crumbling Weimar Republic: Agnes, Husz, Gotchling, Paulinka, and Baz.
"Each character in the play represents a different moral quandary of action against or compliance with a destructive political system. Kushner's characters are all flawed and tend towards selfishness when placed in a threatening situation. The moral ambiguity helps to foreground the politics of the piece and emphasizes the questions: how could something like the Holocaust happen? And how desperate did people have to be to allow Hitler to take over? According to Kushner's view, not everyone was desperate. They were, instead, clever, charming, self-centered, and scared."
Learn more about Champlain Theatre
About Champlain College: Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Quebec and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain offers a traditional undergraduate experience from its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain and more than 60 online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certificates. Champlain's distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 381 Colleges: 2017 Edition. Champlain College is featured in the "Fiske Guide to Colleges" for 2017 as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Champlain was named one of the "Most Innovative Schools" in the North by the U.S. News and World Report's 2017 "America's Best Colleges and #91 in the overall list of "Best Regional Universities in the North. For more information, visit www.champlain.edu.
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