November 10, 2005
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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 8AM - 5PM
UNL Hosts 16th Annual Math Day
The 16th annual University of Nebraska-Lincoln Math Day will be Nov. 10 at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. Opening ceremonies will begin at 8 a.m. at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Last year, Math Day involved 1,303 students from 103 Nebraska high schools. Schools more than 150 miles from Lincoln receive financial assistance to attend. The purpose of the event is to stimulate interest in mathematics among Nebraska high school students, encourage them to pursue mathematics or mathematics-based science careers, and recognize mathematical ability by awarding scholarships, certificates and trophies. more...
UNL MATH DAY |
112 HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Controlling the Selectivity of Enzymes as Catalysts in Organic Chemistry"
Professor Manfred T. Reetz, Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung
211 BRACE HALL, 4PM
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium - "A Molecule with One Atom Too Many: An Atomic Collision Physicist's Attempt to Learn About Simple Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules"
Dr. Timothy Gay, UNL
MORRILL HALL, UNL STATE MUSEUM, 7PM
Wachiska Audubon Society Lecture on the Galapagos Islands - "The Galapagos Islands: 170 Years After Charles Darwin"
Paul Johnsgard, UNL
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HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
Russian Director Creates UNL Theatre's The Seagull
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Graduate students Rachel Charlop-Powers (standing), Flynt Burton and Andrew
Beck (l-r) play Arkadina, Nina and Trigorin in the UNL Theatre production
of The Seagull
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University Theatre, the academic year production program at UNL's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, continues its 105th season with the Russian classic The Seagull, written by Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Nelson. Performances are November 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19 at 7:30 pm and November 13 at 2:00 pm in Howell Theatre, first floor Temple Building, 12th & R. 5-Admission Passports are $50, $40 faculty/staff and senior citizen. Individual Show Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizen, $10 student/youth. Tickets are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office 301 N. 12th Street, 472-4747 or 800-432-3231, Monday - Friday, 11 am to 5:30 pm.
Destination: Russia. On a country estate, Konstantin stages a play attended by his mother Arkadina, a famous aging actress, and her young lover, Trigorin, a famous writer. The budding young actress, Nina, becomes enchanted with Trigorin, devastating Konstantin. A story of the complexities of relationships and unrequited love!
The cast features the class of Master of Fine Arts acting students in primary roles. They are Rachel Charlop-Powers as Arkadina, an actress, Flynt Burton as Nina, a young girl, daughter of a rich landowner, Acquah Dansoh as Shamreyev, a retired lieutenant who manages Sorin's estate, Ja'nelle Taylor as Shamreyev's wife Polina, Andrew Beck as Trigorin, a writer, Jim Hopkins as Dorn, a doctor, and Greg Parmeter as Medvedenko, a schoolteacher. Undergraduate cast members are Seth Petersen as Konstantin, Jerry Temple as Sorin, Mikael Walter as Masha, Ivan Lovegren as Yakov, Natallia Tullis as Cook, Carrie Brown as Maid and Sean Kloc as Workman.
Designs are by Master of Fine Arts design students Jeff Weber (scenic), Jeff O'Brien (sound/composition), and Cassie Vorbach (lighting). Costumes are by Associate Professor Janice Stauffer. Stage management is by undergraduate Brandi Kawamoto.
Guest Tatiana Anosova directs the production along with UNL Associate Professor Virginia Smith. Smith commented, "I've chosen the most American adaptation I can find to make the production as clear as we can for our audience. I think this is set in an achingly beautiful place--the lake, the trees, the shining grass. The fireflies. The stars! It is so beautiful it seems like a place where dreams come true. The people in the play are aching viscerally for love. They are like, to steal a phrase, "teakettles about to boil." The humor comes from the passions. The passions are not chaste and tepid. They are visceral, painful, even life-altering."
Tatiana Anosova is at UNL as part of an exchange program with the M. S. Shchepkin Higher Theatre College (Institute) at the State Academic Malyi Theatre of Russia which has included a visit to the school's Podium Festival by Smith and former theatre chair Jeff Elwell, and a performance at the same festival in 2005 by the UNL production of The Voice Of The Prairie directed by Smith.
UNL THEATRE ARTS
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress, 2046 Continue at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress and 2046. Both films run through
Nov. 10.
Based on the international best-seller, Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress is set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's "Cultural Revolution," as two city-bred teenage best friends, Luo (Kun Chen) and Ma (Ye Liu), are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education. Sons of "reactionary intellectuals," the boys are required to perform arduous manual labor along with locals while under the supervision of the zealous village headman.
Because of their literacy, the headman sends them to a larger town to watch imported Albanian and North Korean communist melodramas, and then report back to the culture-starved locals. During one of these trips, the two see and fall in love with the local beauty (Xun Zhou), the daughter of the most renowned tailor in the region. They never know her name, referring to her only as "the Little Seamstress," but she captivates them with her innocence and sensuality.
When they discover a hidden suitcase filled with banned books by Western writers, mostly French - Flaubert, Dumas and Balzac among them - they read these works to the Little Seamstress for hours on end in a secret meeting place. Thirsting for knowledge of the world beyond, she comes to love, in particular, Balzac and his characters.
Director Wong Kar-Wai's style reaches its fullest expression in his
stunning film 2046. Picture period sets and intricate costuming,
finely wrought atmospheres, languid shots, glamorous cigarette smoke,
lamplight, and allusions to film noir make 2046 one of the
most compelling and beautiful films to be released this year.
2046 is a meditation on memory, eroticism, love, loss, and
longing which surpasses the director's beautiful, widely acclaimed In
the Mood for Love (2000) in terms of formal ambition and visual
sumptuousness. With its intriguing, layered structure, the film follows
the adventures of Chow Wo Man (Tony Leung), a womanizer who is writing
a science fiction novel about a future year in which all memories
are suspended. The film shuttles between the Blade Runner-like
world of Chow's futuristic novel (complete with androids and other
metaphors of emotional disconnection) and late-'60s Hong Kong – where
Chow writes from a hotel room, and engages in relationships with
a series of beautiful, complex women. The film also journeys to Singapore
and through the increasingly mysterious corridors of the protagonist's
memory.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS | 2046 |
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