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Show arts & entertainment A & E editor: Debra Jandreau Phone: 626-7507 E 1 n n n OCi angeis pocnc a puncm By Kristy Davis guest writer-The Signpost Every two years the performing arts department presents a festival of one-act plays. This year, Weber State University students will act up one act at a time Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Swenscn Gymnasium dance studio. As part of the One-Act Festival, students of an advanced directing class present a play they desire to direct The students come up with the visual and literal concepts of their productions, and their ideas are judged by selected faculty. Four students are chosen to participate each year. Nicollete Coiner, Kathleen Mitchell, Sarah Bartlo and Sarah Lewis were chosen as this year's directors. For those of you who might have recently seen "Bus People" might already be familiar with its writer and producer Coiner. Coiner is a senior at WSU majoring in theatre arts and minoring in English. She has chosen to direct "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell because she feels that although the play was published in 1916, its theme and motives are relevant in this day and age. The story deals with two women, one of which is accused of murdering her husband. Coiner views their characters as canaries in a cage: one a fighter trying desperately to escape and the other swinging passively on a bird swing, trapped in her situation. Coiner discovered her love for theater in high school and has stuck with it ever since. She has been an actress for Utah Musical Theatre, as well as many campus productions including "Six Women with Brain Death" in which she played a talking head and Flower the Skunk. After graduation, Coiner plans to pursue an acting career. She hopes to continue acting, writing and directing. Final concert to enrich students By Tom Purdue a&e writer-The Signpost If graduating Weber State University students haven't seen a WSU Jazz Ensemble concert yet, they should remember three things: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Shepherd Union Building Ballroom. If they forget, it might just be their last chance to hear WSU's finest jazz musicians playing some of the finest jazz music. Donald Keipp will direct the Weber State and Utah-based performers in a popular-jazz performance. "As a director, I'm constantly seeing these performers rise to the occasion. They always play a great show," Keipp said. Mark Henderson, director of the choral program and associate professor of music at WSU, and his daughter Olivia Henderson, a sophomore at WSU, will be featured vocal performers for the concert. The Hendersons will perform a duet like Ira and George Gershwin in the Gershwin standard, "They Can'tTake That Away from Me." "It'll be sreat to hear Mark and Those who frequent department productions will know Kathleen Mitchell, a.k.a. Kat, from backstage operating the light board, supervising the fly rail or stage managing while wearing black. She has completed these tasks in department shows "Sunday in the Park with George," "Pippin" and "Working," as well s in Utah Musical Theatre productions.Mitchell is a senior majoring in English and minoring in theater arts. She has served as a reviewer and public relations manager for "The Metaphor," WSU's student-run literary publication. She also designed the English department's official web site and won many awards associated with the English department including the Writing Center's "tutor most popular with the opposite sex." Writing and performing are forms of communication Mitchell knows quite a bit about After graduation, she plans to go to graduate school and pursue her love of literature and theater. And for those of you who missed "Oleanna" written by David Marnet and directed by Bartlo, don't miss the this opportunity to see Bartlo at work. She is a graduate of WSU with a major in theater arts and a minor in English.Bartlo has acted in many WSU productions and is well known as an excellent stage manager. She has worked in numerous professional positions including assistant production manager and house stage manager at the Peery's Egyptian Theater. Her recent directorial work includes "Chloe and Marie," a premiere production of a play by WSU graduate Holly Winn. Bartlo has chosen to direct "No Exit" by Jean Paul Sartre. This existential classic details the dilemma of three dead people confined in one room for eternity. Their hell is to remember Olivia sing their duet," Keipp said. As a build-up to the duet, Olivia Henderson will perform a jazz solo called "Blue Skies" by Irving Berlin, and Mark Henderson will perform a solo on the song "Soft as Velvet." Lars Yorgason, president of Jazz Arts of the Mountain West and a retired instructor from WSU, is another notable performer who will sit in on the upright bass for the evening. Two professional trumpet players, Dan Rich of Bountiful and Reid LeCheminant of Centerville, will also join the Jazz Ensemble for the performance. The musicians will play a selection of songs from the many great genres of jazz music, including "Cute" by Neal Hefti, which features a lively drum solo. Hefti was a trumpet player in the 1940s who married a jazz singer named Francis Wayne. Soon after being married, Hefti started writing songs, or "charts" as jazz musicians call them. "Cute" is one of the many songs that Hefti wrote for the jazz master Count Basic. The Jazz Ensemble will also play "Afterglow" by Marian McPartland. I rC , i ".-'. 1 yvv ' i f " f'l ' i'V-'-'t 1 " f"" J " - - - " v I; I v?rtf - . ... -' r"' 'H as? ''.Svv.v rr .-i- r --1-4 I . v . . . , VTV ; ; Nicollete Coiner, Kathleen their lives at the same time they replay their human errors in death. This piece is intellectual and stimulant For those of you that need a little comic relief, come and see "Words, Words, Words" and "English Made Simple," written by David Ives and directed by Lewis. The characters in "Words, Words, Words" are comprised of three monkeys, Milton, Swift and Kafka, locked away in a room with three typewrit McPartland is a jazz piano great who was born in England as Marian Turner. She performed in Europe during World War II. After McPartland married a United States cornetist named Jimmy, she moved to the United States where she became famous by hosting the "Piano Jazz" radio show. The Jazz Ensemble will also play songs like "Cozumel" by Roger Myers, "Night Flight" by Sammy Nestico and "Minuano" by Lyle Mays and Pat Methcny. Methcny is a guitar player whose writing and playing can best be described as avant garde. Tickets, which are available through the Dee Events Center ticket office at 626-8500 or1-800-WSU-TIKS, arc priced from $3.50 to $4.50. Though students can see tine Jazz Ensemble perform at the Crystal Crest ceremony, Tuesday night will be the final concert of the season. Graduating students should take this opportunity to enrich their final experiences at WSU, and the rest should simply use the concert to enrich their understanding and love for jazz music and musicians. Mitchell, Sarah Bartlo and Sarah Lewis shoot for the stars. ers. They are victims of a research project in which they are being studied to see how long it will take them to write "Hamlet." "English Made Simple" is like a "how to" film, '50s style, on how to behave on a first date. Lewis is a senior at WSU with a major in theater arts and a minor in child and family studies. She has performed since junior high school and directed her first play, "Pride and Prejudice," in high school. She co- Honors String Quartet to offer honorable concert By Tiffany Thomas a&c writcr-TVie Signpost The Weber State University Honors String Quartet will present its final concert of the year Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Peery Lecture Hall of the Marriott Allied Health Building. Members of the quartet are Sarah Garfield and Denitza Larsen and graduating seniors Jamie Child and Rebcca Boyd. The Honors String Quartet received its name after receiving recognition by the WSU's Honors Program. The program is designed to offer students possessing superior ability and motivation the opportunity to broaden and enrich their academic program and accelerate their preparation for graduate work. One way this is accomplished wrote and directed "The First Snow" with Corey Atkins. Lewis also recently directed the WSU production, "Mosaic '98," and hopes to continue on to graduate school and study drama therapy. Tickets are for the One-Act Festival are $8.50 for the public and $5.50 for students. Tickets are available at the Dee Events Center ticket office or by calling 626-8500 or1-800-WSU-TIKS. is to work directly with faculty in various areas to design additional projects and criteria to classes already offered in other departments. This quartet is the first musical ensemble at WSU to earn this recognition and sponsorship. The quartet is under the direction of Michael Palumbo, the director of WSU's orchestral program and chairman of the performing arts. Featured on the program will be the "String Quartet Opus 18 No. 1" by Beethoven, "Concerto for Two Violins" by Bach in D minor, and "Quartet No. 8" by Dvorak, as well as a wide variety of compositions from other periods. Larsen will play with the viola section for the quartet. She has been playing the viola see Quartet page 7 |
