Theater History

[Professor Andres Ruiz]

Professor Ruiz waltzed into class with a giant smile on his face. Another day of molding dull young minds into sharp weapons of acting. But, before you can act on a stage, you must know the history of the stage. "Hello class, how are you today?" he greeted enthusiastically. His students, offset by his cheery demeanor, reluctantly greeted him back. Some brave souls even answered his question. With his smile still bright, wide and cheery, he set on to business.

"I know that we're back from a long summer break and no-one wants to come back for a semester of learning, so I will give you an easy assignment. Can anyone tell me who was considered the Roman equivalent to Aristotle?" He was met with silence and blank stares. His smile did not falter in the slightest.

"Did anyone do the summer reading?" Now, some students had looks of alarm on their faces and were hastily looking for their books.

"No? Since no-one knows I want everyone to read Aristotle's Poetics and write a 15 page essay on it." The collective groan was music to his ears. "Due tomorrow."

Just then, a short bustling bundle of energy shot through the door. "Oh my goddness!" exclaimed Carolina Romano, the head culinary professor. "Andres, I'm so sorry! I forgot your coffee!" she said, giving him a steaming hot mug of coffee. "Sorry for interrupting, I'll be going now," she nervously giggled before dashing out of the room just as quickly as she entered.

The entire class sat on the edge of their seats as they watched their professor take a large sip of coffee. When he finally finished, Professor Ruiz smiled a radiant smile yet again. "Why don't we make that paper due next week?"

[Jonathan Angel Jones]

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."- Aristotle

Jon gave a soft sigh of relief from his usual back seat by the window with a small smile. He figured if it was Aristotle's theories on acting he would do an alright job but by the next day and fifteen pages at that, well he was uncertain anyone could pull such a miracle off especially with such a packed schedule. He looked at his book and reread some of Aristotle's Poetics like he was assigned. To be honest he knew this as he had done several research papers on the philosopher some years before. In fact his favorite quote was from Aristotle himself, "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.". Through it he learned to use emotion into his acting in which case becoming better in his profession.


As it was he was busy reading a line by Aristotle when he noticed his department head's change as he interacted with the Culinary Arts head professor. It was odd how neither noticed the obvious attraction, were all people fools in love? He often questioned himself that same thing especially as he developed his acting skills because love is the hardest emotion to act when you yourself have yet to feel it. He would dwell on those concerns later, for now he was thrilled with the attracting between the two teachers because now he had plenty of time to work on his paper and make sure he would get an A so as not to mess with his GPA.

[Alux Jie Duende]

Alux was seated in his first ever class, not really knowing what to expect. The teacher seemed very nice, he kept smiling about everything. He begun to speak and Alux's mind drifted off. He gradually started to dance in his seat. "It's Tuesday and I'm locked up/I'm in jail and I don't know what happened/They say I was running butt naked/Down the street screaming/Well I'm sorry, I don't remember/All I know is this much/I'm not guilty/They said, 'Save it, boy we gotcha you on tape/yellin' at an old lady to 'Touch my body!'" he sung, getting looks from the other students.

He paid just enough attention to learn that there was a 15 page essay due tomorrow. Oh, okay. No big deal. Why was everyone so wimpy? 15 pages were nothing. Give Alux 3 hours and 5 rap albums and he'll have that done. He went back to his music and just as he was about to get to the best part, another teacher ran in. She was pretty hot and looked really young to be a college professor. She looked like she was in her late twenties, not too old. Alux still had a chance, or he would if she wasn't all over their professor. Ruiz, right? Oh well, they looked cute together, Alux didn't mind losing to him. They would have adorable kids.