Stories about "Katalin Vecsey"
Humanity comes first in casting students for Bates theater’s ‘The Gravediggers Union’

Friday, March 8, 2024 11:21 am

Filling in for a cast member during a dress rehearsal, visiting director Kevin R. Free hopped into a grave on the set, but not before offering a giggle and a burst of mirth because, he says, “Joy is my activism."

Video: Nate Stephenson ’18 plays the madman ‘who could be anyone’

Wednesday, January 17, 2018 11:07 am

For his honors thesis in theater performance, Nate Stephenson ’18 plays Everyman from Nikolai Gogol's short story “Diary of a Madman."

Look What We Found: Katalin Vecsey’s portrait of a queen

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 6:15 pm

Theater students call her “the queen," and because she’s the queen, she naturally has a framed oil portrait of herself looking queenly.

Graduate profile: Khi Kim ’16, ‘sophisticated, evocative, and clever’ poster-maker nonpareil

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:43 am

Among the 461 seniors set to graduate Sunday is biochemistry major Khi Kim ’16, whose theater and dance posters have fueled larcenous intentions while filling Bates venues.

Bates offers play revealing stories of Iranian women

Tuesday, March 3, 2015 4:25 pm

Bates College offers a performance of "The Poets and the Assassin," a play by Reza Jalali, on March 6.

Bates In Brief Arts & Culture: The Lady and the Ladder, Vecsey’s voice

Friday, June 15, 2012 12:00 am

The woman in her painting is indeed Sophy Min '12, but she says "it should be open to interpretation.”

Video: Kroepsch teaching award winner Vecsey inspires and demands

Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:06 pm

Katalin Vecsey enjoys figuring out characters in plays and shares a basic…

Marketa Ort '13 plays Frances in the Bates production of Alan Ball's play "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress." Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.
Theater department to present comedy by creator of TV’s ‘True Blood’

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 3:01 pm

Performed at Bates College as part of an independent study in bringing characters to life on stage, Alan Ball's Five Women Wearing the Same Dress will be performed March 16-18.

Faculty promotions, 2011: Katalin Vecsey

Friday, May 20, 2011 9:58 am

Promoted to senior lecturer in May 2011, Katalin Vecsey is senior lecturer in theater. Now in her 16th year at Bates, she teaches courses in voice and speech and voice and gender. With Dana Professor of Theater Martin Andrucki, Vecsey co-leads the Short Term course "Central European Theater and Film," which brings Bates students to Budapest and Prague.

Bates students to perform 'Closer,' play that became 2004 film

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 3:39 pm

Bates students perform Closer, Patrick Marber's critically acclaimed dissection of love and lust, on April 4, 8 and 9. The performers are students in Katalin Vecsey's "Advanced Voice and Speech" course, a study of vocal and physical techniques in the exploration of theatrical texts. Her students study characterization through voice and speech, perform cold readings, and assess and prepare for the vocal demands of different roles.

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