Fri, Jul 11, 2008
July 11-13, 2008
TEMPLE THEATRE, FRI, SAT 7:30PM
Repertory Theatre Presents Souvenir
The Nebraska Repertory Theatre, the professional Actors Equity Association wing of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, opens its 41st season with Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins. Performances are July 11, 12, 19, August 1, 8 at 7:30 p.m. and July 27 at 2:00 p.m. in the Temple Theatre, on the corner of 12th and R Streets, Lincoln NE.
Souvenir is written by Stephen Temperley and directed by NRT Artistic Director Virginia Smith. What if the most confident, dedicated, inspiring singer you've ever met was incapable of bringing the music in her head out of her mouth? Would you laugh until tears came? Would you wonder if she was faking? Would you come to love her? The answers are yes, of course. Join Cosme McMoon, her accompanist, as he shares in and reports the meteoric rise of one of music's most amazing real-life characters; one whose Carnegie Hall debut sold out in a now legendary two hours. Tickets for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre are on sale at the Lied Center Ticket Office at 472-4747.
NEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATRE
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, FRI 5-7PM
Sheldon Presents Second Friday, A Family Art-Making Event
In conjunction with the reinstallation of paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock, Sheldon Museum of Art invites families to a Second Friday reception featuring fun and art-making activities. Artists leading the activities will be Sheldon docents Linda Benton, Jeri Brainard, Peg Pelter, as well as artists Margaret Berry, Liz Shea-McCoy and Michael Burton.
No registration is required. Refreshments will be served and Sheldon invites all to this free event sponsored by the Sheldon Art Association.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
LAWN NORTH OF KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, THU 9PM
Films of the 1960s' is Theme of Summer 'Movies on the Green' Series
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and the University Program Council will again unspool the annual Jensen's Cinema 16 Collection Movies on the Green 2008 series. The theme for this year's series is "Films of the 1960s." All screenings are presented on the lawn north of Kimball Recital Hall, 11th and R streets. Screenings are free and open to the public and begin at dusk (approximately 9 p.m.).
The series is presented Thursdays July 10 through Aug. 14 with the support of and donations from the Lincoln Arts Council, the Rogers Foundation, Jerry Jensen, Kimball Hall, IATSE Local 151, Friends of the Ross, and US Bank. This weeks film is Fred Zinnemann's A Man for All Seasons, an adaptation of the Robert Bolt play. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Mongol and The Edge Of Heaven Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Mongol and The Edge Of Heaven. The Edge Of Heaven will show through July 17, while Mongol will screen through July 31
Filmed in the very lands that gave birth to Genghis Khan, Mongol transports us back to a distant and exotic period in world history; to a nomad's landscape of endless space, climatic extremes and ever-present danger. In a performance of powerful stillness and subtlety, celebrated young Japanese actor Asano Tadanobu (Zatoichi, Last Life in the Universe) captures the inner fire that enabled a hunted boy to become a legendary conqueror. Asano's achievement is matched by those of his co-stars, including the radiant newcomer Khulan Chuluun as Temudgin's courageous, spirited wife Borte, and the Chinese actor Honglei Sun (The Road Home) as the Mongol chieftain Jamukha, Temudgin's dearest friend and deadliest enemy. Masterfully blending action and emotion against some of the most arresting terrain on earth, Bodrov delivers an exciting and awe-inspiring tale of survival and triumph, and a love story for the ages.
There are six principal characters in The Edge of Heaven: two mothers, two daughters, a father and a son, all arranged in more or less symmetrical pairs. In the course of this extraordinary film by the German writer-director Fatih Akin (which won the best screenplay award in Cannes last year) children are lost, lost parents are never found, and generational and geographical distances grow wider. Yet at the same time, as the lives of the characters cross and entwine, there is a sense of human connections becoming stronger and thicker, of a fragile moral order coalescing beneath the randomness and cruelty of modern life. And even as the movie bristles with violence — accidental and systematic, sexual and political — its tone is curiously gentle. - A. O. Scott, The New York Times
More information is available at the Ross website.
