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RACU English Department Produces Delightful Performance
of The Princess Bride.
This year's hilarious performance of William Goldman's The Princess Bride
has continued the tradition of spring productions by the RACU English
Theater, which began last year with the staging of Shakespeare's A Midsummer
Night's Dream. A humorous tale of true love and adventure, The Princess
Bride is filled with humor and action, which makes it a perfect plot for
a theatrical performance.
On April 24, a talented company of student actors assembled and directed
by Nadya Vishegorodtseva, a RACU professor of English, with the help of
Jill Vossen, Student Development Specialist, retold the story to an audience
of about 70 people who had gathered at the Nagorny cultural center to
watch the performance. Having staged the play in its original language,
RACU students impressed the crowd by their command of English as well
as by the many creative approaches they used to make the story come alive.
The theater hall was filled with laughter as the audience, especially
those familiar with the movie by the same name, watched Westley and his
loyal friends, Inigo and Fezzik, defeat the evil Prince Humperdinck and
the six-fingered man, and rescue the beautiful Buttercup played by Svetlana
Konuhova, a third-year student of the English department. It is no small
feat to memorize so many lines in a second language, but the students
excelled not only in their English, but also in their creativity on the
stage.
The play concluded to a loud ovation from the crowd as True Love triumphed
and Westley and Buttercup escaped from the clutches of the evil Prince
Humperdinck. This happy ending signified a victorious finale to the story
and to the triumphant performance by the RACU English Theater, which for
the second year in a row has become the highlight of the spring semester.
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