DECEMBER 1, 2004
HOWELL THEATER, 7:30PM
The House Of Blue Leaves Continues Shows at UNL's University Theatre
UNL Theatre's University Theatre completes
its fall semester season with John Guare's The House Of Blue
Leaves. Guest artist Gil Lazier directs the production, which
plays this evening at 7:30. Other performances are
December 2, 3, and 4 at 7:30pm. All performances are in Howell Theatre,
first floor Temple Building at 12th and R Streets. Tickets are available
at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12th Street, Monday through
Friday 11:00am to 5:30pm and one hour prior to performance in Howell
Theatre lobby. The Ticket Office may be reached at 472-4747 or 800-432-3231. Tickets are $14.00 regular, $12.00 faculty/staff and
senior citizen, $10.00 student.
The House Of Blue Leaves is set on October 4, 1965, the
day the Pope first visited New York City. Zookeeper Artie Shaughnessy
(played by undergraduate theatre major Jeff Nathan) is on a quest
to revive his stalled show business career. A darkly comic look
at the underside of the American dream, The House Of Blue Leaves is
complete with Artie's delusional wife Bananas Shaughnessy (played
by undergraduate theatre major Caitlin Brandes) and his mistress
Bunny Flingus who talks a mile a minute (played by undergraduate
theatre major Brittany Leffler). A look at how people expect miracles
from fame and celebrity, Artie's son Ronnie (played by undergraduate
theatre major Brett D. Waldon) can't get famous by being in a movie,
so he seeks fame as a mass murderer.
Director Gil Lazier describes the play as "not directly about politics
or religion, its themes touch on these dimensions of our lives as
Americans. Guare's
America of 1965 was a nation at war, as we are today. We tend to
look to our current religious leaders for solace and inspiration,
as do Guare's characters. But The House of Blue Leaves deals with
even more basic human issues, our sometimes desperate need to succeed,
our assumptions that things are always better somewhere else, our
compulsions to validate who we are by what others think of us, our
aspirations for our '15 minutes of fame.'"
Dr. Gil Lazier is Dean Emeritus of the Florida State University School
of Theatre, where he served as Dean from 1982 to 1999. For the past
three years he was Director of the FSU/Asolo MFA Conservatory for
Actor Training in Sarasota. Under his leadership, the FSU School
of Theatre achieved international prominence as an academic program
of the highest excellence.
Other cast members include Cecilia Stinner as Corrinna Stroller,
Carrie Brown as the Head Nun, Naomi Mitarai as the Second Nun, Jenny
Cary as the Little Nun, Seth Petersen as the M.P. Jeff Tinnean as
The White Man and well-known community actor Richard Nielsen as Hollywood
director Billy Einhorn.
The tech/design team is made up of graduate students Jeff Weber (scenery)
and Mike Legate (sound), undergraduate students Jaime Borchert (costumes),
Alicia Bailey (technical director) and Jennifer Dierking (stage manager). Faculty
member Heath Lane designs lights.
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UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
UNL Holds Variety of Events in Observance of World AIDS Day
The University Health Center
Sexuality Education eXchange and PERSUNL Program at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln will mark its 13th annual observance of World
AIDS Day on Dec. 1 with a variety of events. The programming
will be presented under the theme 'HIV is an issue for everyone and
everyone can do something to make a difference.'
The PERSUNL Program (Peers Encouraging
Responsible Sexuality at UNL) will have an HIV/AIDS educational display
in the alcove of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Nov. 30-Dec. 3.
The display will include a timeline and other relevant information
about the global, national and local impact of HIV/AIDS. The display
will be in conjunction with the Names Quilt display sponsored by
the University Program Council. The Names Quilt panels will be on
display all week in the Union ballroom.
Activities on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, include:
• More than 100 members of the UNL campus community will wear World
AIDS Day T-shirts as an awareness-raising project. The people wearing
the T-shirts will symbolically represent the number of people on
a campus the size of UNL who could potentially be living with HIV/AIDS.
• At 5:30 p.m., there will be a program in the Union ballroom commemorating
World AIDS Day. The program will include representatives from community
and campus organizations that support or provide education and services
related to HIV/AIDS. Lincoln City Council member Terry Werner will
present the World AIDS Day proclamation signed by Gov. Mike Johanns.
• At 7 p.m. Dec. 1, there will be a free showing of the movie A Closer
Walk at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 N. 13th St. A
Closer Walk is the first film to depict humankind's confrontation
with the global AIDS epidemic. Subjects and story lines encompass
the broad spectrum of the global AIDS experience and include people
with HIV/AIDS from all walks of life.
For more information about any of the above, please contact Pat Tetreault
in the University Health Center at (402) 472-7447
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this week at the Ross: Nicotina, Woman
Thou Art Loosed
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Mexico's highest grossing film in 2003, Nicotina and
the film Woman Thou Art Loosed, a screen adaption of the
play by legendary revivalist pastor T. D Jake of South L.A.'s West
Angeles Cathedral.
From the producers of Amores Perros comes Nicotina, a
highly stylized crime caper set in Mexico City about a simple exchange
that goes awry, causing the lives of nine unsuspecting characters
to explode in one tumultuous night over a fortune in diamonds.
Diego Luna stars as computer hacker Lolo, who is infatuated with
his neighbor Andrea (Marta Belaustegui) and catalogs her every move
via high-tech peeping devices. Lolo teams with amateur criminals
Tomson (Jesus Ochoa) and his younger counterpart Nene (Lucas Crespi)
in a deal with a Russian mobster (Norman Sotolongo) that involves
the exchange of diamonds for computer access to Swiss bank accounts.
But the deal goes terribly wrong after Lolo's attempts to spoil Andrea's
romantic trysts spiral out of control.
Down the street, the irritable pharmacist Beto (Daniel Gimez Cacho)
and his fed-up wife Clara (Carmen Madrid) inadvertently become entangled
in the exchange, along with the humble barber Goyo (Rafael Inclan)
and his domineering other half Carmen (Rosa Maria Bianchi).
Infected with diamond lust, these characters become obsessed with
the intoxicating possibility of an easy life and their greed quickly
transforms into fiery desperation. When the haze finally clears,
computers have been hacked, people have been whacked and lives have
gone up in a cloud of smoke.
This R-rated Christian film about child abuse, drug addiction and
murder is startlingly raw and honest, playing at times like one of
those blistering Donald Goines blaxploitation pulp novels, only with
Jesus. Directed with seamless competence by Hollywood veteran Michael
Schultz (Car Wash), Woman, Thou Art Loosed is based
on the fact-based novel and stage presentation of the same name by
the legendary revivalist pastor T. D Jake of South L.A.'s West Angeles
Cathedral. Jake, a preacher of improvisational genius, plays himself
in the film as he counsels a death-row inmate whose story unfolds
in smoothly integrated flashbacks. Michelle (Kimberly Elise) was
fighting back valiantly from the effects of child sexual abuse and
incarceration when she backslid with a vengeance.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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NEBRASKA UNION, 3PM
DOE/EPSCoR funding opportunities informational workshop
This workshop will give the deadlines and requirements for submission for DOE/EPSCoR's Implementation Awards and National Laboratory Partnerships.
E103 BEADLE, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar -
'Mechanisms of HPV Transcriptional Control, DNA Replication and Genome Segregation/Integration - Benign Maintenance of Neoplastic'
Dr. Tom Broker, Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham
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