Fri, Jul 14, 2006
July 14-16, 2006
HOME ECONOMICS BUILDING, SAT 10AM - 3PM
Quilt Center Taking Registrations for 3rd Annual Quilt ID Day
How do you get a quilt to talk? Every quilt has a story, but often the story dies with the quilt maker. What do you know about that family heirloom tucked in the closet? Quilt owners will have an opportunity to learn more about their quilt's history July 15 at the International Quilt Study Center's third-annual Quilt ID Day. To reserve a time slot between 10 am and 3 pm, call (402) 472-6549. Each participant may bring one or two quilts for inspection. The event will be held on the second floor of the Home Economics building, on 35th Street north of East Campus Loop.
Staff from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln center will examine quilts and offer information about patterns, fabrics, styles and estimated age. A history form and documentation label will be completed for each quilt. This event has grown in popularity as people research and record family histories. Quilts are often the most lasting and cherished pieces of material memory connecting families past and present.
For more information, contact Maureen Ose at (402) 472-7232 or visit the center's Web site.
DRUM CORPS SHOW
LIED CENTER JOHNNY CARSON THEATRE
Repertory Theatre Continues 39th Season With Local Wonders
The Nebraska Repertory Theatre, the professional wing of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, continues its 39th season July 12 with the world premiere of a new musical adaptation of Ted Kooser's work, Local Wonders. The play is adapted by Virginia Smith (Nebraska Repertory Theatre's Artistic Director) and Paul Amandes with music by Paul Amandes (musician/actor/playwright from Chicago). This new adaptation, featuring David and Melodee Landis, combines Ted Kooser's Pulitzer-Prize winning poetry with exquisite observations of "the good life" right here at home.
An excerpt: "Contrary to what out-of-state tourists might tell you, Nebraska isn't flat but slightly tilted, like a long church-basement table with the legs on one end not perfectly snapped in place, not quite enough of a slant for the tuna-and-potato-chip casseroles to slide off into the Missouri River." Songs include: "So This is Nebraska," "The Back Door," "The Empty House," "After Years," and "Local Wonders." Performances are July 12, 13, 14, 15, 25 at 7:30 pm and July 23 at 2:00 pm in the Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building, 12th & R in Lincoln.
Season Passes, which allow the purchaser unlimited attendance at NRT 2006 performances and each of the Destinations performances, are available for $45, $40 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $25 students. Individual tickets are $20, $18 faculty/staff and seniors, and $10 students. Tickets and passes may be purchased at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N 12th St. in Lincoln, 11 AM to 5:30 PM Monday through Friday, and one hour prior to performances in the designated theatre lobby. Via Telephone: 402-472-4747 or toll free 800-432-3231.
Following the Sunday, July 23 performance of Local Wonders, meet Ted Kooser, cast and creators. Hear about the creation process over coffee and dessert. This event is free with a paid admission to the July 23 performance and will take place in the Studio Theatre.
NEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATRE
Repertory Theatre Continues 39th Season With Local Wonders
An excerpt: "Contrary to what out-of-state tourists might tell you, Nebraska isn't flat but slightly tilted, like a long church-basement table with the legs on one end not perfectly snapped in place, not quite enough of a slant for the tuna-and-potato-chip casseroles to slide off into the Missouri River." Songs include: "So This is Nebraska," "The Back Door," "The Empty House," "After Years," and "Local Wonders." Performances are July 12, 13, 14, 15, 25 at 7:30 pm and July 23 at 2:00 pm in the Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building, 12th & R in Lincoln.
Season Passes, which allow the purchaser unlimited attendance at NRT 2006 performances and each of the Destinations performances, are available for $45, $40 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $25 students. Individual tickets are $20, $18 faculty/staff and seniors, and $10 students. Tickets and passes may be purchased at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N 12th St. in Lincoln, 11 AM to 5:30 PM Monday through Friday, and one hour prior to performances in the designated theatre lobby. Via Telephone: 402-472-4747 or toll free 800-432-3231.
Following the Sunday, July 23 performance of Local Wonders, meet Ted Kooser, cast and creators. Hear about the creation process over coffee and dessert. This event is free with a paid admission to the July 23 performance and will take place in the Studio Theatre.
NEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATRE
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
A Prairie Home Companion, Twelve And Holding, Water Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents A Prairie Home Companion, Twelve And Holding, and Water. All three films will be showing through July 20.
Director Robert Altman and writer Garrison Keillor join forces with an all-star cast to create a comic backstage fable, A Prairie Home Companion, about a fictitious radio variety show that has managed to survive in the age of television. Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin star as the Johnson Sisters, Yolanda and Rhonda, a country duet act that has survived the county-fair circuit, and Lindsey Lohan plays Meryl's daughter, Lola, who gets her big chance to sing on the show and then forgets the words. Kevin Kline is Guy Noir, a private eye down on his luck who works as a backstage doorkeeper, and Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are Dusty and Lefty, the Old Trailhands, a singing cowboy act. Add Virginia Madsen as an angel and Tommy Lee Jones as the Axeman and Maya Rudolph as a pregnant stagehand and Keillor in the role of a hangdog emcee, and you have a playful story set on a rainy Saturday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, where fans file into the Fitzgerald Theater to see "A Prairie Home Companion," a staple of radio station WLT, not knowing that WLT has been sold to a Texas conglomerate and that tonight's show will be the last.
Director Michael Cuesta follows up his debut film L.I.E. with another harrowing coming-of-age tale in Twelve And Holding. Cuesta casts young Conor Donovan as his lead, with the impressive actor playing twins--the sociable athlete Rudy and the distinctly introspective Jacob. Joining Donovan in the cast are Jesse Camacho as Leonard, a paunchy kid reminiscent of Jerry O'Connell's Vern in Stand By Me and Zoe Weizenbaum as Malee, a quietly disturbed young girl with a fractured family life. The five 12-year-olds are close friends, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a prank by local bullies goes horribly wrong and Rudy is burned alive in a tree house. As Jacob's parents fall apart at the news, the rudderless surviving twin realizes he can't rely on them for support, so he makes the surprising decision to make regular visits to the two brothers who killed Rudy as they languish in a juvenile detention center. Meanwhile, Malee copes with the tragedy by obsessing over an attractive older guy named Gus (Jeremy Renner) and Leonard gets on a health kick despite his overweight parents' protestations. But Twelve And Holding is not a facile reproduction of other work; instead it's a startling kids'-eye view of poor parenting and woeful neglect. The four leads give astonishingly mature performances, and Cuesta manages to surpass his meager budget by creating a stylistic tour-de-force that may leave anxious parents wondering what their kids are doing in their spare time.
When Deepa Mehta first began filming Water in 2000, angry fundamentalist mobs burned her sets and threatened her life. Her film has raised the ire of extremists because it challenges the Hindu customs that dictate that widows, considered half-dead after the loss of their husbands, must be closeted in holy ashrams--a practice that still exists today. Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of eight-year old Chuyia, whose husband dies before she even meets him. Her parents shave her head and whisk her away to a house of widows where the women sleep on the ground and beg in the streets to earn their puny portion of rice. Chuyia, feisty and resilient, comes into this world like a ray of light, and soon the women are rethinking their mute acceptance of their fate. Her closest friend and ally is the lovely Kalyani, and soon a forbidden romance begins to develop between Kalyani and Narayana, a young Brahmin man who, following the teachings of Gandhi, has denounced injustice. The film is sumptuously beautiful, Chuyia is utterly winsome, and despite the harsh social issues at its heart, it often feels light and lively: Chuyia and Kalyani play games and dance, Chuyia steals sweets for a dying old widow, the women dance and paint each other's faces during a color festival, and the Cinderella-story romance between Kalyani and Narayana shimmers with the promise of salvation and happiness. Mehta, however, knows it would be disingenuous to allow such an easy resolution to such a dire situation, and the final chapter of Water takes a tragic turn.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION | TWELVE AND HOLDING | WATER
A Prairie Home Companion, Twelve And Holding, Water Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents A Prairie Home Companion, Twelve And Holding, and Water. All three films will be showing through July 20.
Director Michael Cuesta follows up his debut film L.I.E. with another harrowing coming-of-age tale in Twelve And Holding. Cuesta casts young Conor Donovan as his lead, with the impressive actor playing twins--the sociable athlete Rudy and the distinctly introspective Jacob. Joining Donovan in the cast are Jesse Camacho as Leonard, a paunchy kid reminiscent of Jerry O'Connell's Vern in Stand By Me and Zoe Weizenbaum as Malee, a quietly disturbed young girl with a fractured family life. The five 12-year-olds are close friends, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a prank by local bullies goes horribly wrong and Rudy is burned alive in a tree house. As Jacob's parents fall apart at the news, the rudderless surviving twin realizes he can't rely on them for support, so he makes the surprising decision to make regular visits to the two brothers who killed Rudy as they languish in a juvenile detention center. Meanwhile, Malee copes with the tragedy by obsessing over an attractive older guy named Gus (Jeremy Renner) and Leonard gets on a health kick despite his overweight parents' protestations. But Twelve And Holding is not a facile reproduction of other work; instead it's a startling kids'-eye view of poor parenting and woeful neglect. The four leads give astonishingly mature performances, and Cuesta manages to surpass his meager budget by creating a stylistic tour-de-force that may leave anxious parents wondering what their kids are doing in their spare time.
When Deepa Mehta first began filming Water in 2000, angry fundamentalist mobs burned her sets and threatened her life. Her film has raised the ire of extremists because it challenges the Hindu customs that dictate that widows, considered half-dead after the loss of their husbands, must be closeted in holy ashrams--a practice that still exists today. Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of eight-year old Chuyia, whose husband dies before she even meets him. Her parents shave her head and whisk her away to a house of widows where the women sleep on the ground and beg in the streets to earn their puny portion of rice. Chuyia, feisty and resilient, comes into this world like a ray of light, and soon the women are rethinking their mute acceptance of their fate. Her closest friend and ally is the lovely Kalyani, and soon a forbidden romance begins to develop between Kalyani and Narayana, a young Brahmin man who, following the teachings of Gandhi, has denounced injustice. The film is sumptuously beautiful, Chuyia is utterly winsome, and despite the harsh social issues at its heart, it often feels light and lively: Chuyia and Kalyani play games and dance, Chuyia steals sweets for a dying old widow, the women dance and paint each other's faces during a color festival, and the Cinderella-story romance between Kalyani and Narayana shimmers with the promise of salvation and happiness. Mehta, however, knows it would be disingenuous to allow such an easy resolution to such a dire situation, and the final chapter of Water takes a tragic turn.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION | TWELVE AND HOLDING | WATER
