Wed, Jul 23, 2008
July 21-25, 2008
TEMPLE THEATRE, WED, THU, FRI 7:30PM
Repertory Theatre Presents The Cripple of Inishmaan
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 The Cripple of Inishmaan. Performances are July 23, 24, & 25 at 7:30 p.m. and July 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Theatre, on the corner of 12th and R Streets, Lincoln NE.
Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934, the play is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling. As word arrives on Inishmaan that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island of Inishmore to film Man Of Aran, the one person who wants to be in the film more than anybody is young Cripple Billy, if only to break away from the bitter tedium of his daily life. Tickets for this and other performances are on sale at the Lied Center Ticket Office at 472-4747.
NEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATRE
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.).
This week's film is Jason And The Argonauts, featuring groundbreaking special effects by the legendary Ray Harryhausen. more...
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.
