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James Cho
balances acting
at a local theatre
and earning a
doctorate in
telecomm
unication media
studies.
Sam Scott, news reporter, sits down
with James Cho, telecommunication
and media studies graduate student
and actor in the local play "Kiss Me
Kate" for The Theatre Company in
Bryan. Cho shares his experiences
in balancing life as a student, an
academic and an actor.
THE BATTALION: Since
performances for "Kiss Me Kate"
began last Friday at The Theatre
Company in Bryan, can you give us
a short synopsis of the play?
CHO: The play, it's actually a
musical that's based on the William
Shakespeare play "The Taming of the
Shrew," which is about a character
who comes to a place in Italy called
Padua, basically seeking to become
rich, and he tries to marry into a very
wealthy family. But the daughter
that he has to marry is a very, very
quarrelsome, very strong-headed
woman, and it's just kind of a story
of gender relations and things. It was
actually kind of subversive for its time
because it talked about the gender
relations but, toward the end, it sort
of undercuts that, and so it's just an
interesting story. The musical "Kiss
Me Kate" is sort of a play within a play
— it's like the "Inception" of plays.
So the musical is about the actors,
Shelby Knowles — THE BATTALION
who put on the play, but they're
also dealing with offstage life and
relationships and things, and so you
get to actually see two levels of things
happening in the show.
THE BATTALION: You're playing a
character named Bill Calhoun, who
is also playing Lucentio. What sort
of character is he?
CHO: Bill Calhoun, you learn very
quickly that he's a compulsive
gambler and he's also really sort of
head over heels for one of the other
characters named Lois, who's also in
the production. Lois is a very loose
woman, to say the least, but Bill's
sort of unaware of that. He's sort of
like the dupe who gets caught up in
having these rose-colored glasses
through which he views her. So that's
the character that I play. Now the
Shakespearean character that Bill
plays, if you're still following me, is
a character who wants to marry the
younger daughter, the woman who is
the younger daughter of the wealthy
man, but back in the day she couldn't
get married until the older daughter
got married, right?
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