{"id":40579,"date":"2011-02-24T16:48:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T21:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=40579"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:21:41","slug":"oleanna-breakout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/02\/24\/oleanna-breakout\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleanna explores sexual politics in academe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/web_110309_oleanna_2149.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/web_110309_oleanna_2149.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large alignright\" alt=\"web_110309_oleanna_2149\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Known for its galvanizing, polarizing effect on audiences, David Mamet&#8217;s 1992 play <em>Oleanna<\/em> depicts the struggle between a college professor and a student who  accuses him of sexual harassment and thereby spoils his chances for  tenure.<\/p>\n<p>In a production directed by Elizabeth Castellano &#8217;12 of New Suffolk, N.Y., Mamet&#8217;s <em><\/em>highly charged story of sexual politics in the halls of academe is performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Sunday, March 10 and  13, and at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 12, in Gannett Theater, 305 College  St. Admission\u00a0<em><\/em>is free and first-come, first-seated. For more information, please call 207-786-8294.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The play is also a commentary on the Supreme Court confirmation  hearings that put Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill and the issue of sexual  harassment squarely into the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mamet takes on provocative issues,&#8221; says Elizabeth Castellano &#8217;12, &#8220;and exposes  not only individual frailties and conflicts, but also the corrupting  influences of organized forces in society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/oleanna-castellano.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/oleanna-castellano-214x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Elizabeth Castellano\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s my hope that these characters will spark debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Castellano is directing the piece as part of her coursework toward a theater degree.<\/p>\n<p>The players are Zoe Donaldson, a senior from Mount Vernon, N.Y., and  Brian Pfohl, an assistant in instruction in the psychology department  who appears regularly on Bates stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known for its galvanizing, polarizing effect on audiences, Oleanna depicts the struggle between a college professor and a student who accuses him of sexual harassment and thereby spoils his chances for tenure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,133],"tags":[2329,5590,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-40579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-creativity","tag-class-of-2012","tag-mamet","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86953,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40579\/revisions\/86953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}