Archives Gold #6: 50 Objects for UMBC's 50th

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Special Collections continues our archival project Archives Gold: 50 Objects for UMBC's 50th, a special series showcasing 50 different objects that tell the story of UMBC. This week we present a postcard from the UMBC Theatre Department's production of Las Meninas (2010).

Las Meninas postcard, 2010. UPUB TI, University Archives, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD)

Las Meninas, a play that touched on the subjects of race, gender, and culture in King Louis XIV's court, was the most recent production of UMBC's to appear at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), university theater's most prestigious competition. Six other UMBC plays have received recognition by the Kennedy Center in the course of the campus' existence, including Buried (2003), The Diary of a Scoundrel (1996), Spring's Awakening (1987), The Importance of Being Oscar (1986), and Play, Act Without Words II, Not I, Footfalls and Breath (1978). The very first production of UMBC's to receive national recognition was the Performing Arts Department's production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown in 1974. This was also the very first time a Maryland institution had been chosen to perform at the KCACTF.

Learn More:

-History of UMBC Research Guide

-University Archives Webpage
-Theatre Department Production Materials in UMBC's Digital Collections

-Article in The Retriever on Las Meninas

-Article in The Retriever on You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

-UMBC Theatre Website

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