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“Saints and Sleuths VI” At Seton Hall University
Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., is hosting a dramatic reading and discussion series on Catholic life in literature.
The 8 p.m. performances will take place in the Theatre-in-the-Round in the Bishop Dougherty University Center. On Friday, Jan. 27, the school will present “The Trial of St. Patrick,” adapted from the writings of St. Patrick, and on Saturday, Jan. 28, “The Ballad of the White Horse,” by G.K. Chesterton.
The series is sponsored by Seton Hall University’s Center for Catholic Studies, G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture and the Celtic Theatre Company. Information: (973) 275-2431.
Manhattan College Shows “Lesson Plan”
Manhattan College will present a film screening of “The Lesson Plan: The Story of the Third Wave,” on Monday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Smith Auditorium.
The film, which shows how people can become victims to totalitarian thinking, is based on a one-week experiment in 1967 that Ron Jones, a high school history teacher in California, conducted with his class. He created a movement called the Third Wave by reorganizing his classroom and enforcing discipline and uniformity in his students’ posture and speech.
The film was created and co-produced by Philip Carr Neel, a former student of Jones’. He interviews Jones and students who participated in the experiment. The documentary serves as a teaching tool to initiate conversation about topics of history, psychology, group behavior, gangs, bullying, intolerance and hate.
Manhattan College’s School of Arts, along with the government, history, psychology, religious studies and sociology departments, and the college’s Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center, are sponsoring the event. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Neel, and the film’s director, David Jeffrey. A reception will follow.
Information: (718) 862-7248.
