bradac-with-12th-night


Professor Tom Bradac guides the actors.



Tucked off the main campus, down in the rehearsal studios of the Entertainment Technology Center on Palm Avenue, there’s some serious fun under way. Students are drinking, dancing, jesting and carousing their way through a wacky love triangle of a story. Oh, and there’s cross dressing. And a shipwreck.

If it sounds downright Shakespearean, that’s because it is. To be precise, it’s the performance workshop offered during interterm by the Department of Theatre, which uses the January session to conduct rehearsals for its winter play, which this year is
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare.

Under the direction of Tom Bradac, associate professor and founder and creative director of
Shakespeare Orange County
, the class meets daily for intensive, afternoon-long rehearsals. Besides earning three units, the students have the luxury of focusing entirely on their roles without a full load of additional coursework.

“I’m used to juggling the character and creating the world of the character and all my other classes at the same time,” said Cindy Nguyen (’14), a theatre performance major who plays Feste the clown in
Twelfth Night
. “It’s really nice to have this time to focus on the work.”

Twelfth Night
will be staged at 7:30pm February 14-16 and 21-23, with an additional performance at 2pm February 23. Purchase tickets
online
or by calling 714-997-6812.