What does it take to make a change? Six Speech Communication students started “Project Happy Power” this term when they were challenged in their Leadership course (SPCOM 227) to prove that a small gesture can accomplish big things. The goal was to show that advocacy is easy, for anyone.
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From the uWaterloo homepage...
A team of Waterloo professors are hoping a new app that allows students to virtually stage their own productions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet will inspire young people to see the play live.
Created by uWaterloo Drama’s own Professor Naila Keleta-Mae in 2008, on love was further developed by uWaterloo Drama students during theirPerformance Creation course with Keleta-Mae in the fall.
On November 14, the Drama department opens the 2012-13 season with Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the bard’s shortest and most popular tragedy. Exploring the familiar themes of ambition, corruption and violence, this production also alludes to contemporary manifestations of violence, both real and fictional.