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 The witches, Joan Lauckner, Jody
Christopherson
and Katherine Nora LeRoy, confront Macbeth, played
by Rick Smith.
Macbeth will be on stage at the Howell Theatre
April 17-19 and
April 23-26. Courtesy photo by
Joel
Stuthman.
University Theatre rounds out season with
Macbeth
UNL Theatre's University Theatre concludes its
2002-2003 season
with William Shakespeare's Macbeth with
performances at 7:30
p.m. April 17-19 and 23-26 in Howell
Theatre.
Macbeth is a play of ruthlessness, revenge and a
struggle
for power infused with the supernatural. The play begins
as the
three witches foresee that Macbeth will become Thane of
Cawdor
and eventually king of Scotland. Incited by the prophecy and
shamed into it by Lady Macbeth, he murders the king, Duncan,
and
ascends the throne. Haunted by his murdering ways and the
ghost of
his best friend, Macbeth is threatened by a plot to
dethrone
him.
Stan Brown, associate professor of theatre arts at
UNL, directs
the production. He says, "Macbeth is a tragedy of
blood.
No critic has been able to distinguish between death and
time
and nature in Macbeth. Shakespeare so fuses them that all of
us are well within the mix."
Graduate and
undergraduate students fill the majority of roles
and serve as the
crew for this production.
Tickets are $12; $10 for
faculty/staff and senior citizens
and $8 for students. They are
available at the Lied Center box
office; call 472-4747 or (800)
432-3231.
 Baroque Red Priest makes Lied
debut
Red Priest, a musical ensemble playing baroque
music, will
make its Lied Center debut at 7:30 p.m. April 16. For
this performance,
both audience and artist will be on the Lied
Center main stage.
Red Priest will perform works by Antonio
Vivaldi, Heinrich Biber,
Jacob Van Eyck, Henry Purcell, Johann
Sebastian Bach, Nicholas
Le Strange, Robert Johnson and Arcangelo
Corelli.
Founded in 1997 by recorder virtuoso Piers Adams,
Red Priest
is known for its inventive performances of music of the
16th
through 18th centuries. In addition to Adams on recorder, Red
Priest consists of Julia Bishop on violin, Angela East on cello
and
Julian Rhodes on harpsichord. The ensemble takes its name
from the
red-haired priest and composer, Antonio Vivaldi.
Red Priest
gives more than 60 concerts a year in venues in
Europe and the
United States. Music critics have described the
Red Priest style as
"electrifying," "sheer daring,"
"sonically
supercharged" and "deliciously twisted."
Tickets for this performance are $28; tickets are half-price
for
college students and those 18 and younger. Call 472-4747
or (800)
432-3231 for tickets.
Dana
Fritz photos on display at Lentz Center
The Lentz Center
for Asian Culture will host "The Culture
of Nature in Japanese
Gardens" by Dana Fritz, an exhibition
of black and white
photographs, as its spring exhibition.
The show will run
April 19 through June 29 with a public reception
from 4-7 p.m.
April 25. The artist will speak about her photographs
at 4:30 p.m.
during the reception. Japanese prints and ceramics
from the Lentz
Center collections also will be on exhibition.
Fritz is an
assistant professor in the department of art and
art history at
UNL. Since 1998, she has worked with graduate
students and has
taught in the visual literacy program, an interdisciplinary
design
foundation course for students in art, graphic design,
architecture, interior design and textiles, clothing and design.
Fritz received a BFA in photography and video from Kansas
City
Art Institute in 1992 and an MFA from Arizona State University
in
intermedia in 1995. In 2000 she was an artist-in-residence
at Villa
Montalvo, a formal garden and estate in Saratoga, Calif.
Her
research and creative work have been funded by UNL's Research
Council, Layman Trust and Humanities Center. This funding enabled
her to travel throughout the United States and Spain and will
provide for visits to England, France and Italy in 2003. In the
last decade, she has had 15 solo and collaborative exhibitions
in
venues including Amarillo College, Northern State University,
Southern Illinois University, University of Nevada, Reno, University
of LaVerne, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of South
Dakota and University of Arizona. She has been included in more
than 45 juried or invited group exhibitions. Her photographs
are
held in several collections including those at Wayne State
College,
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the Bibliotheque
Nationale de France in Paris. Her current work focuses on black
and
white photographs and mixed media drawings that investigate
the
intersection of nature and culture found in gardens.
The
Lentz Center is at 1155 Q St. Admission is free (suggested
donation
$2). Visit <www.unl.edu/lentz> for more information.
3 concerts offer taste of world
music
RAAG, a UNL student organization, will present the
best in
classical music and culture from around the world in the
2003
International Music and Lecture Series, with performances on
April 12, April 18 and May 3. In addition, many lecture demonstrations
are planned for UNL, Southeast Community College, the Lincoln
Jewish Federation and Lincoln Public Schools.
Tickets are
$10 students, $15 general public. Series tickets
are $25 and $40.
They are available at the Mill, the Nebraska
Union and at the door
of each event.
The first performance is by Yair Dalal with
Trio Ankri at
8 p.m. April 12 in the Wick Alumni Center. Dalal is a
composer,
violinist and oud performer who has recently been
nominated as
the BBC's 2003 Musician of the Year from the Middle
East. His
music mixes the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic
music with
a range of influences from the Balkans to India. He will
play
oud, a Middle Eastern instrument from the lute family, and
violin.
"The Essence of Jugalbandi," a concert of
Indian
classical music featuring Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya, Grammy
nominee
Ronu Majumdar and Vijay Ghate Bansuri, will begin at 7:30
p.m.
April 18 in the Nebraska Union.
In India, one of
the most popular instrumental combinations
is bamboo flute and
santoor. This will be the combination this
night as bamboo flute
player Majumdar will perform with Bhattracharya
on santoor, a
stringed hammered dulcimer.
A sitar and cello duet concert
will be presented at 7:30 p.m.
May 3 in the Seventh Street Loft
featuring husband and wife duo
Shubhendra Rao and Saskia Rao
deHaas. Sitarist Rao learned classical
Indian music from his guru,
Ravi Shankar. Cellist Saskia Rao
de Haas is a classically trained
performer from the Rotterdam
Conservatory. She performs on a
modified cello, the violincello,
which has an added playing string
and 10 sympathetic strings.
Akram Khan will accompany on tabla.
The series is co-sponsored by Southeast Community College
Diversity Education and Community Outreach and the Pepsi Diversity
Program Fund, the UNL Harris Center for Judaic Studies, Lincoln
Poultry and the Lincoln Jewish Federation.
Theatre offers trip to Broadway
The Department of Theatre Arts again offers its "Broadway
in Performance" course to those interested in seeing Broadway
shows in New York City and earning three course credits. For
$1,500, students enrolled in THEA398 will fly to New York and
see
at least 10 Broadway shows. Included are plans for museum
visits
and sightseeing, depending on the student interest.
Students buy discount tickets every afternoon for the shows
they
want to see that evening. After the show, students get reimbursed
for the tickets they bought, since the $1,500 fee they paid covers
tickets. During the day, students are free to visit any New York
attractions. Any student may participate, and there are no
prerequisites.
Students depart May 27 with instructor
William Grange, a faculty
member in the department of theatre arts,
and return on June
4. Students must register for the course by
April 15 and pay
the $1,500 fee by May 5.
For
information, e-mail Grange at <wgrange1@unl.edu>
or call
472-1604. Space for the course is limited, and students
should
register soon.
Thesis
exhibitions continue at gallery
MFA Thesis Exhibitions
continue in April at the Eisentrager-Howard
Gallery in Richards
Hall.
Ceramists Richard W. Schwartz and Kari E. Radasch
will present
their MFA thesis exhibitions April 14-21. An opening
reception
will be from 6-8 p.m. April 18.
Erturk
Mehmet and Bill Shaffer will exhibit their paintings
and drawings
in their MFA thesis exhibitions April 24-May 1.
An opening
reception will be from 5-7 p.m. April 25.
Exhibitions by
Joey Jya-Lin Jang and Monica Ripley conclude
today.
Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Saturday,
and noon to 7 p.m. Thursday.
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