The Princeton Club of Northern California has selected "Restoration Comedy", a new play by Amy Freed, for this season's outing to CalShakes. July 14 is the evening of the "Big Shindig", so ticket price includes pre-show happy hour cocktails & snacks and a party with DJ after the show. $15 tix for the under 30 crowd and $37+ for everyone else. 6:00 pm cocktails / 8:00 pm show.

"Restoration Comedy" is an outrageously bawdy and verbally sublime new romantic comedy by Amy Freed, author of A.C.T.'s hit "The Beard of Avon", inspired by two 17th century Restoration comedies, Colley Cibber's "Love's Last Shift" and Sir John Vanbrugh's "The Relapse". Former Berkeley Rep Artistic Director Sharon Ott makes her long awaited Bay Area return to direct what the Seattle Weekly calls, 'Gorgeous, sexy, funny... A must-see!"

Cal Shakes' home, the 545-seat magnificent outdoors Bruns Amphitheater, is one of the most beautiful and unique settings imaginable to experience live theater. Located in the East Bay Hills between Berkeley and Orinda, the plays are set against a beautiful backdrop of rolling hills and summer sky.

Princeton alum, Bronwyn Eisenberg '80, is director of the educational programs at Cal Shakes, and will be on hand to say hi and answer behind-the-scenes questions about the play, the production, and the rehearsal process.

Purchase tickets on your own, then RSVP to suzytompkins@yahoo.com so we know to look for you! Doors open at 6pm, performance at 8pm, so meet up as soon as you can! Look for the orange-tableclothed picnic table to mingle with the Princeton crowd over cocktails and dinner. You can bring your own picnic food and drink, or purchase at the cafe on site.

Ticketing, directions (including BART) and helpful info for attending a CalShakes performance can be found at www.calshakes.com or 510.548.9666.

Date:	Friday 7/14
Time:	6-12
Location:	California Shakespeare Theater, Orinda, CA
Address:	100 Gateway Blvd.
RSVP:	Please RSVP by July 12 to the contact listed below.
Member Price:	$15-$37
Non-Member Price:	$15-$37
Contact:	Suzy Tompkins '96 415-412-9299

America is a rhetorical republic. Our people are united not by ethnicity or territory, but rather narrative – specifically, the grand Biblical epic of Exodus, the migration led by Moses from Egyptian servitude across the desert to the Promised Land. An equally important Biblical source of American political discourse is the Jeremiad. It seeks to establish, as the central theme of the trek to freedom, that the journey is dangerous and that we will prevail only through absolute unity and individual self-sacrifice. Scholars such as Sacvan Bercovitch and Perry Miller have pointed out that the Puritan Jeremiad was transformed and secularized as a central public mode of political address in postrevolutionary America. Faith in God became fidelity to America's founding principles, and criticism took the form of attributing the nation's ills to a failure to live up to our political ideals coupled with a call to renew our commitment to them. But the “dark” side of the Jeremiad remains at work in its secular form. This talk will seek to illuminate what is at stake in achieving political unity through fear and scapegoating, and raise the question of alternative rhetorical resources for American political discourse.

Frederick M. Dolan, who earned his Ph.D. in the Program in Political Philosophy at Princeton, was until recently a professor in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley, where he taught philosophy, political theory, aesthetics, and hermeneutics. He has published widely in scholarly journals including Political Theory, The American Political Science Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Contemporary Fiction, among others. His books are Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics (Cornell University Press, 1995) and Rhetorical Republic: Governing Representations in American Politics (with Thomas L. Dumm, University of Massachusetts Press, 1994).

Date:	Thursday 7/20
Time:	12-1:30
Location:	Gordon & Rees LLP, Embarcadero West, San Francisco , San Francisco
Address:	275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 @ Sacramento
RSVP:	Please RSVP by July 18 to the contact listed below.
Member Price:	$10
Non-Member Price:	$15
Contact:	David Marshak '66 925-932-6436

This 5-mile hike will sample some of the many attractions of Redwood Regional Park. Starting at Skyline Blvd, we will descend into the oak and redwood forest along Redwood Creek, and then return along a ridge trail with views out over Oakland and San Francisco. Bring lunch, liquids, sunscreen, and windbreaker. Princeton friends and children are welcome.

Driving directions: From I-580 in Oakland, take the 35th Avenue exit and turn toward the hills. In 2.4 miles (after 35th Ave becomes Redwood Road) turn left onto Skyline Boulevard and go 3.7 miles to the Skyline Gate parking area on the east side of the road. (Skyline makes a sharp right turn after the first half mile, at the intersection with Joaquin Miller Road.) For Mapquest directions, use 8400 Skyline Blvd as the destination.

RSVP is helpful, but not required.

Date:	Saturday 7/29
Time:	10:30-3:30
Location:	Redwood Regional Park, Oakland
Address:	8400 Skyline Blvd (approximate) @ Pine Hills Drive
RSVP:	Not Required
Member Price:	Free
Non-Member Price:	Free
Contact:	Wanda Cheung '97 510-207-1003