Student Spotlight: Shae Gwydir ‘20

October 2, 2019

This week The Bates Student talks with senior Elisabeth “Shae” Gwydir about her college experiences with dance and theater. TBS: How did you decide to participate in performance arts at Bates? Did you want to do this coming into college, or did you get into it once you were here? Shae Gwydir (...

Spring Theater Review

Tommy Holmberg

January 23, 2013

S: The Play What’s it about? The fight for marriage equality in California focusing on the Proposition 8 trial. What are you excited about? We’re working with the American Foundation for Equal Rights, and that makes this feel like a bigger project than just a play. Why should we see it?. It really...

A love song for humanity: “The Thinking Heart” at Schaeffer Theatre

Lily Christine

January 16, 2013

From the real-life stories of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Anne Franks’s diary, many accounts of World War II feature real-life survivors of the Holocaust who fought against enslavement in the concentration camps. The heroine of "The Thinking Heart," however, made the unusual decision to enter the camps by choice...