Amid the festivities of Family and Friends Weekend and Halloween, members of the Mount Holyoke College community gathered in Rooke Theatre to watch the film media theater department’s recent production of "The Addams Family,”directed by Noah Tuleja, an associate professor of film media theater and the film media theater chair.
During the weekend of Nov. 18, the Department of Film Media Theater acted out selected scenes from the play “Short Eyes.” Performing two shows, they hosted talkbacks after each as well as a symposium on Friday, Nov. 18.
“Short Eyes” by Miguel Piñero, which premiered in 1974, follows a group of inmates who meet in a house of detention and turn against a prisoner accused of child molestation. Based on Piñero’s own experiences, the play unabashedly depicts the lives of those living in the American incarceration system. It explores themes of morality and justice, as well as what it means to find humanity within a dehumanizing institution.
