Honors Convocation Keynote Address
The 2008 keynote address entitled “The Truth: Rarely Pure, Never Simple” will be delivered by David Richman, professor of theatre and humanities.
“A Truth in art is that whose contradictory is also true.”—Oscar Wilde
“A great truth can be recognized by the fact that its opposite is also a great truth.”—Niels Bohr
Biography
David Richman is professor of theatre and humanities at UNH. He has directed more than forty productions of classical and modern plays. Most recently, he directed productions of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, the so-called “Bad Quarto” of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. He acted the role of Prospero in a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest staged on Appledore Island. Richman has written books on Shakespeare's comedies and on Yeats' verse plays, as well as an assortment of articles about Shakespeare and other playwrights.
Richman is the 1993 winner of the Lindberg Memorial Award honoring the outstanding teacher in the College of Liberal Arts. As a teacher and director, he takes pleasure in giving students ownership of some of the world’s great dramatic works, ranging from the classic Greeks through Shakespeare to the outstanding modern and contemporary plays.