Fall 2025 OLLI Digital Catalog 

OLLI Players Present: From Page To Stage (CP286)

CP – Performing Arts Participation

Become a storyteller and performer through a poetry in motion performance. Participants write, rehearse and stage an original poetry in motion piece, which culminates in a performance at the end of the course. Participants also read an original one-act murder mystery, created by our head writer. Class creates character biographies, which they perform during auditions. We also establish a stage crew, which determines preliminary sound effects, music, set and lighting design, stagecraft, costuming and makeup. Participants rehearse, build sets, produce and perform the play at the end of the spring 2026 semester.

Prerequisite: Caught in the Act, Fractured Fairytales Come Alive in 2025 and/or Performance Poetry Workshop. Those with theatre experience who have not met the prerequisite above are considered at the discretion of the instructor.

This offering meets for a total of 13 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Arlene Bowman

BOWMAN, ARLENE — B.A., Boston State Teachers College, English; M.A., Widener University. Retired English/drama teacher, drama department chair, and theatre teaching artist/mentor for Delaware Institute for the Arts in Education. Avid theatregoer. Proud of former students performing professionally. (CA331, CP267, CP286)

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