The Quest

“Reedies often forget to interact with the real world,” says Erika Kurth ’12. While Reed enjoys a relatively high level of tolerance on campus, students can easily forget that this is not the case in the rest of the world.

This is why, Erika, of San Antonio, Texas, decided to use her thesis production to raise awareness of issues of gender and sexuality equality that are still prevalent in the real world. Erika’s interdisciplinary Literature-Theater thesis, which she is working on with Professors Kate Bredeson and Anne Delahanty, deals broadly with “theater as a tool for social change.” Like all Theater theses, it comprises a written portion and a production, which showed last Saturday.