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Show k Monday February 2, 2009 New this week CD Willie Nelson: Willie And The Wheel, Feb. 3 Amazon.com The Fray: The Fray, Feb. 3 Amazon.com Liza Minelli: Liza's At The Palace, Feb. 3 Amazon.com Melinda Doolittle: Coming Back To You, Feb. 3 Coraline, Feb. 6 Courtesy of Steve Walters Jaclyn Hates and Sarah Preston star as Olivia and Viola in UVU's production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which performs at SCERA through Feb. 14. Second chance for Twelfth Night Yahoo.com He's Just Not That Into You, Feb. 6 Theater department does Shakespeare at SCERA who will be playing the part of Life editor Olivia. "The design concept has been created from John's mind; Twelfth Night, which was per- it's like the other Never-never formed at UVU in December, is land. The audience will be taken making a second showing this to a place that they've never been month at SCERA Center for the taken to before." Arts. Twelfth Night is a romantic Don't go to this event expect- comedy with an intricate plot. ing a run-of-the-mill Shakespeare Orsinio loves Olivia, who is in play — director John Graham has mourning and refuses to love designed the performance around anybody. Siblings Viola and Sea French European 1920s classic bastian are separated in a shipchic concept, mixed in with a few wreck, after which Viola dispunk and emo elements. Despite guises herself as a man so she can the '20s influence, there is an work in Orsinio's home. Then the ambiguous sense of setting that convincingly cross-dressing Viocan't be distinctly traced to any la falls for Orsinio, while Olivia particular place or period. becomes infatuated for the man "Visually it is going to be who is really Viola. beautiful!" said Jaqulyn Hales, The predicament makes all of UMELSUNDQUIST Yahoo.com the characters both miserable and hilarious. The play includes plenty of exaggerated physical sexual innuendo and class relations comedy. There is also quasi-musical number at the end of the show from The Pink Panther 2, Feb. 6 More Info: Yahoo.com Push, Feb. 6 W h e r e : SCERA Center for the Arts, 745 S. State St. in Orem W h e n : Now through Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. T i c k e t s : $10 for seniors, students, and children; $12 for adults Yahoo.com See TWELFTH • B2 Courtesy of Steve Walters Madagascar - Escape 2 Africa, Feb. 3 He's back UVU's Nosferatu chosen to perform in California T MEL SUNDQUIST life editor Courtesy of Steve Walters The monster is back, and he's migrating to California. UVU's production of Nosferatu, a multimedia re-creation of the German silent film originally directed by F.W. Murnau, has been chosen to perform in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Los Angeles. Nosferatu will perform again in UVU's Ragan theater this week in preparation for the festival. Seven finalists were chosen out of over 500 entries in UVU's region to perform at the festival. "We're very excited by the prospect of taking the play to Los Angeles," director and UVU assistant professor Christopher Clark said. "It's a big honor for us, and we are excited for students and faculty from other universities to see some of the work we are doing here at UVU." Nosferatu combines clips from the original silent movie with live action, which is filmed and displayed onstage simultaneously. The haunting effect of elegiac music and over 40 students working in near silence gives the production a unique quality. The on-stage action is filmed and lit by actors doubling as technical workers. While one scene is happening on one side of the stage, the backstage technical workings ~ costume mazon.com Rent: Filmed Live On Broadway, Feb. 3 mazon.com The Secret Life Of Bees, Feb. 3 . Amazon.com Zack And Miri.Make A Porno, Feb. 3 See NOSFERATU • B3 Amazon.com |