Staged reading of play, "The Darker Face of the Earth"

March 24, 2018

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Bowen Theatre in The Drake Performance and Event Center

Add to Calendar 2018-03-24 19:30:00 2018-03-24 21:30:00 Staged reading of play, "The Darker Face of the Earth" Friday, March 23 – an afternoon lecture at the WexnerSaturday, March 24 – an evening staged reading of her play The Darker Face of the Earth; Dove will be present for the show and a talk-back afterwards Rita Dove’s The Darker Face of the Earth re-imagines the Sophoclean tale of Oedipus on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina. The play premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1996, and since then it has been performed across the United States and England. Tom Dugdale (Theatre, Ohio State) directs a reading of Dove’s play, featuring a cast of student and professional actors. Following the performance, Dove will participate in a discussion moderated by Tom Hawkins (Classics, Ohio State). For tickets, visit here.Rita Dove was U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993-1995 and Special Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress bicentennial in 1999/2000; she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004-2006. She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book Thomas and Beulah. Her other books of poetry include Collected Poems 1974-2004, Sonata Mulattica, American Smooth, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, Mother Love, Grace Notes, Museum, The Yellow House on the Corner and Selected Poems; she has also published a collection of stories, Fifth Sunday, a novel, Through the Ivory Gate, a collection of her Poet Laureate lectures, The Poet's World, and a verse drama, The Darker Face of the Earth, which had its premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1996 and was produced at the Kennedy Center and the Royal National Theatre, among others. Her song cycle Seven For Luckwas set to music by John Williams and premiered at Tanglewood in 1998, and the following year she collaborated with John Williams and Steven Spielberg on "America's Millennium." She also edited the seminal anthologies Best American Poetry 2000 and The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011). Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where she has been teaching since 1989. For Dove's complete biography and list of honors and awards, please visit her page on the University of Virginia website or her Poetry Foundation page Co-sponsored by the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award, the Department of African and African American Studies, the Wexner Center and the Departments of Theatre and Classics. Bowen Theatre in The Drake Performance and Event Center OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2018-03-24 19:30:00 2018-03-24 21:30:00 Staged reading of play, "The Darker Face of the Earth" Friday, March 23 – an afternoon lecture at the WexnerSaturday, March 24 – an evening staged reading of her play The Darker Face of the Earth; Dove will be present for the show and a talk-back afterwards Rita Dove’s The Darker Face of the Earth re-imagines the Sophoclean tale of Oedipus on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina. The play premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1996, and since then it has been performed across the United States and England. Tom Dugdale (Theatre, Ohio State) directs a reading of Dove’s play, featuring a cast of student and professional actors. Following the performance, Dove will participate in a discussion moderated by Tom Hawkins (Classics, Ohio State).  For tickets, visit here.Rita Dove was U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993-1995 and Special Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress bicentennial in 1999/2000; she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004-2006. She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book Thomas and Beulah. Her other books of poetry include Collected Poems 1974-2004, Sonata Mulattica, American Smooth, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, Mother Love, Grace Notes, Museum, The Yellow House on the Corner and Selected Poems; she has also published a collection of stories, Fifth Sunday, a novel, Through the Ivory Gate, a collection of her Poet Laureate lectures, The Poet's World, and a verse drama, The Darker Face of the Earth, which had its premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1996 and was produced at the Kennedy Center and the Royal National Theatre, among others. Her song cycle Seven For Luckwas set to music by John Williams and premiered at Tanglewood in 1998, and the following year she collaborated with John Williams and Steven Spielberg on "America's Millennium." She also edited the seminal anthologies Best American Poetry 2000 and The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011). Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where she has been teaching since 1989.  For Dove's complete biography and list of honors and awards, please visit her page on the University of Virginia website or her Poetry Foundation page Co-sponsored by the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award, the Department of African and African American Studies, the Wexner Center and the Departments of Theatre and Classics.  Bowen Theatre in The Drake Performance and Event Center Department of English english@osu.edu America/New_York public

Friday, March 23 – an afternoon lecture at the Wexner

Saturday, March 24 – an evening staged reading of her play The Darker Face of the Earth; Dove will be present for the show and a talk-back afterwards

Rita Dove’s The Darker Face of the Earth re-imagines the Sophoclean tale of Oedipus on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina. The play premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1996, and since then it has been performed across the United States and England. Tom Dugdale (Theatre, Ohio State) directs a reading of Dove’s play, featuring a cast of student and professional actors. Following the performance, Dove will participate in a discussion moderated by Tom Hawkins (Classics, Ohio State).

For tickets, visit here.

Rita Dove was U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993-1995 and Special Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress bicentennial in 1999/2000; she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004-2006. She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book Thomas and Beulah. Her other books of poetry include Collected Poems 1974-2004, Sonata Mulattica, American Smooth, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, Mother Love, Grace Notes, Museum, The Yellow House on the Corner and Selected Poems; she has also published a collection of stories, Fifth Sunday, a novel, Through the Ivory Gate, a collection of her Poet Laureate lectures, The Poet's World, and a verse drama, The Darker Face of the Earth, which had its premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1996 and was produced at the Kennedy Center and the Royal National Theatre, among others. Her song cycle Seven For Luckwas set to music by John Williams and premiered at Tanglewood in 1998, and the following year she collaborated with John Williams and Steven Spielberg on "America's Millennium." She also edited the seminal anthologies Best American Poetry 2000 and The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011).

Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where she has been teaching since 1989.

For Dove's complete biography and list of honors and awards, please visit her page on the University of Virginia website or her Poetry Foundation page

Co-sponsored by the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award, the Department of African and African American Studies, the Wexner Center and the Departments of Theatre and Classics.