‘Every Brilliant Thing’ balances heartbreak with humor and audience interaction
In Brandeis’ production of the play “Every Brilliant Thing,” Amy Ollove ’21, Ashley Friedman ’22 and Kat Potts ’23 expertly balanced audience interaction, humor and heartbreak. Director Emily Pollack ’21 decided to alter the play’s casting from a one-man show into a play with three roles, representing the public, private and secret versions of the […]
Toi Derrocotte talks the pressing power of poetry
Toi Derricotte entered the main room of the Bethlehem Chapel about five minutes before her 5:30 p.m. talk was scheduled to begin on Oct. 22. With a big smile, she walked slowly through the small audience, greeting students she saw and asking if they were writers. When I told her that I was writing about […]
Author Zadie Smith explores identity and belonging with students
The narrator in Zadie Smith’s 2016 novel “Swing Time” exists within two different identities, belonging to neither. Quiet and introspective, the book’s main character goes unnamed throughout the novel, observing the lives of her friends, family and coworkers as she struggles to define herself. At the Brandeis New Student Book Forum on Thursday, Sept. 12, […]
University developing new financial system for clubs
Brandeis is developing a new financial system for clubs that the university hopes will be installed by the end of the year. University admissions has used the software, called Slate, for seven years. Now, the university is in the process of creating a separate portal within Slate that improves upon the design of the current […]
