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Colorado College\u2019s drama in London class is experiencing more drama than might be indicated by the syllabus.\nCC has 18 students enrolled in Andrew Manley\u2019s Drama 330 course titled \u201cDrama Away \u2013 London,\u201d which runs April 19 through May 12. Many students, however, were late for the start of class, stranded across the United States and Europe by the volcanic ash that disrupted air traffic throughout northern Europe.
\nManley says the students are scheduled to see 20 performances \u2013 mostly plays, but some dance \u2013 while studying in London. He arrived a week before the students, and has been busy trying to exchange tickets for later performances, in hopes that the students will eventually make it to class.
\nAnd it looks as though they will. By Monday, April 26, all the students but one were expected to be in London, with the last student arriving on April 27, and only one student dropping the course.
\n\u201cIt isn\u2019t the end of the world,\u201d Manley said via cell phone from London. \u201cThere are worse things than cramming in a lot of great theater.\u201d
\nOne of his biggest concerns was that some students may not arrive in time to see \u201cJerusalem,\u201d a new comic play that is billed as \u201cwildly original.\u201d\u00a0Their playbill\u00a0also includes\u00a0the \u201cPirates of Penzance,\u201d \u201cEnron,\u201d \u201cSpymonkey\u2019s Moby Dick,\u201d and several Shakespeare plays.
\n\u201cPeople have been really, really good about working with me, and have been willing to exchange the tickets we have for other days. They realize this is a natural disaster,\u201d Manley said.
\nManley\u2019s hope that all the students would arrive in London by the second week of the Block seems to have been granted. And it looks like most of the students will have had plenty of experience in drama by then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"