MACON — Mercer University Theatre will hold performances of Fay and Michael Kanin’s play “Rashomon” this week at 7 p.m. at the Backdoor Theater, located at the back of Willingham Hall on the Mercer Macon campus. The play runs March 11-15 and 17-19, and admission is $5.
Directed by Scot J. Mann, assistant professor of Communication and Theatre Arts at Mercer, the play, is set 1,000 years ago in Japan. Three men who take shelter from a terrible storm discover that the mysterious, violent death of a stranger touches them all.
College of Liberal Arts professors Leona Kanter, Ph.D., chair of the Sociology Department and Beth Stewart, Ph.D., professor of Art, developed the following “Spotlight on Japan” series to accompany “Rashomon.” Among the free activities and displays available are:
· Arts and Artifacts display
March 10-31 on Second Floor of the Jack Tarver Library
· Akira Kurosawa Film display
March 10-31 in the Media Center of the Jack Tarver Library
· Japanese Calligraphy Workshop
Thursday, March 20, at 5 p.m. in the Hardman Art Building, Room 203
· Japanese Origami Workshop
Thursday, March 27, at 5 p.m. in the Hardman Art Building, Room 203
About Mercer University:
Founded in 1833, Mercer University is a dynamic and comprehensive center of undergraduate, graduate and professional education. The University has 7,300 students; 11 schools and colleges – liberal arts, law, pharmacy, medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing and continuing and professional studies; major campuses in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah; three regional academic centers across the state; a university press; two teaching hospitals — Memorial Health University Medical Center and the Medical Center of Central Georgia; educational partnerships with Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Warner Robins and Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta; an engineering research center in Warner Robins; a performing arts center in Macon; and a NCAA Division I athletic program. For more information, visit www.mercer.edu.
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