Fri, Jul 18, 2008
July 18-20, 2008
TEMPLE THEATRE, FRI 7:30PM
Repertory Theatre Presents Doubt
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, continues its 41st season with Doubt: A Parable. Performances are July 18 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.
In the drama Doubt: A Parable, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students. Tickets for this and other performances are on sale at the Lied Center Ticket Office at 472-4747.
NEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATRE
Vote For New Logo and Title of Student Series
What do you call events on Friday nights at the Union that are fun, entertaining, and a great alternative to leaving campus? Student Involvement is now choosing a new name and logo will be used for a late night program, and your input is needed.
The new series will include free food and a variety of entertaining events in the Nebraska Unions on designated Friday Nights. Vote now!
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, FRI 5:30PM
Elizabeth King Exhibit Opens at Sheldon Museum of Art
A mid-career survey, "The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye," opening July 18 at the Sheldon Museum of Art on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, presents approximately 65 sculptures, film animations, installations, drawings and photographs by artist Elizabeth King. The artist will speak about her work at Sheldon twice during the exhibition. She will give a casual gallery talk at the exhibition's opening at 5:30 p.m. July 18 and she will give a lecture about her work in the Sheldon's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium at 2 p.m. Oct. 10. Both events are free and open to the public.
King combines her meticulously wrought figurative sculptures with stop-frame film animation in installations that blur the boundary between actual and virtual space. Intimate in scale and distinguished by a level of craft that solicits close viewing, this work reflects her interests in early clockwork automata, the history of the mannequin and the puppet, and literature's host of legends in which the inanimate or artificial figure comes to life. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
163 HARDIN HALL, WED 1PM
M.S. Defense Seminar - "Alluvial and Eolian Depositional History of the Barrens Fan Northwestern Wisconsin"
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Mongol and Jellyfish Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Mongol and Jellyfish. Jellyfish will show through July 24, 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 Khan's courageous, spirited wife Borte, and the Chinese actor Honglei Sun (The Road Home) as the Mongol chieftain Jamukha, Khan'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.
Jellyfish (Meduzot) is a magical film that surprises and unsettles in the most delicate of ways. Connections and relationships come into focus against a backdrop of memory and, perhaps, imagination. Poignant, often witty and exceedingly cinematic, the movie tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a bride whose wedding party accident ruins her chance at a dream Caribbean honeymoon. Attending the event with an employer is Joy, a non Hebrew-speaking domestic worker who has guiltily left her son behind in her native Philippines. As this distaff trio separately wends their way through Israel’s most cosmopolitan city, they struggle with issues of communication, affection and destiny—but at times find uneasy refuge in its tranquil seas.
More information is available at the Ross website.
