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Aubrey Kaye
  • computer science
  • Class of 2014
  • Camarillo, CA

Aubrey Sara Kaye part of honored CLU play

2013 Jan 16

Aubrey Sara Kaye of Camarillo is part of a California Lutheran University production that will be staged at the prestigious Region VIII Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

The Theatre Arts Department will present "The Trojan Women" twice on Feb. 14 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Kaye, a sophomore computer science and math major, is Cassandra.

Only seven of the finest college productions from Southern California, Arizona, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah were chosen for the honor. This is the fourth time a CLU production has been selected and the third consecutive year.

Judges will select four to six of the best and most diverse productions from the eight regional conferences to be showcased at the national festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The 45-year-old program is designed to encourage, recognize and celebrate works produced in college theater programs.

CLU staged "The Trojan Women," which was originally written by Euripides and adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre, in November under the direction of Michael J. Arndt, a theatre arts professor and Vietnam combat veteran. The production is set in what appears to be a modern bomb crater, which is overlooked by a modern, sterile structure where Poseidon and Athene dispassionately discuss the devastation of war.

The female actors representing the chorus and the principal Trojan Women stand for various victims of war including survivors of the Holocaust, women of the Bosnian/Serbian conflict, mothers whose children were secretly abducted or imprisoned by Latin American regimes and Rwandan victims of tribal rape and genocide. Each cast member researched the story of a specific victim of war and created a character based on her as well as one of the women of Troy.

Armed guards patrol throughout the production, making audience members into formal witnesses to the plight of the women.

CLU is a selective university located in Thousand Oaks, with centers in Oxnard, Woodland Hills and Santa Maria for graduate courses and its Adult Degree Evening Program. With an enrollment of 4,200 students, CLU offers undergraduate and graduate programs within the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Management and Graduate School of Education. Doctoral degrees in educational leadership, higher education leadership and clinical psychology are also offered. Members of the CLU student body come from across the nation and around the world and represent a diversity of faiths and cultures. For more information, visit callutheran.edu.