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At the first North Carolina State Fair in 1853, the entrance fee was $.25 and the City of Raleigh contributed a grand total of $25. Today, $.25 buys you 1/8 of a midway game and $25 will get you two turkey legs, a grape sno cone, a large order of ribbon fries and a deep fried Milky Way.
3:00pm - The arrival. Swarms and swarms of people. Unfortunately, no mullets in sight. We bust out our map and try to find the bicycle stunt race. It never happens-we are sucked into the abyss of carnival carnage.
t all began seven years ago at Durham's Rogers-Herr Middle School. That's where Joseph Henderson first began teaching Shakespeare to children and developed his program, "Shakespeare Through the Eyes of the Middle School." Henderson developed the curriculum to introduce masterpieces of literature to children in a way they could understand. "If Hamlet is called a masterpiece, then there must be something in it for everyone," Henderson said.
It is only appropriate that this weekend's "Jazz on the Green" concert is associated with the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. Williams was not only an amazing entertainer, but she was also deeply connected to her history. This weekend, two musicians will take the stage on the main quad of East Campus in keeping with the tradition of Mary Lou Williams. Leon Dunkley, the director of Jazz on the Green, chose certain performers because they embody all that Williams worked for.
t requires a different kind of ambition and desire to direct a student-run production successfully, but it seems senior Matt Makel has done just that. As a sophomore, Makel first came in contact with Lebensraum, a play by Israel Horovitz, and he knew immediately he had to direct it. Makel knew this would be a challenge, but he was ready to tackle it. The play calls for only three actors, but each of them is required to play at least 12 different characters from at least four different countries. Surprisingly, Makel chose three freshmen--fortunately, they are all extremely talented individuals. Even in a dress rehearsal, when the show should be "working out the kinks," there didn't seem to be any.
For the most part, not much is to be expected in community theater productions because, for the most part, they are horrible. So, expecting very little, I spent my Sunday afternoon seeing Les Liaisons Dangereuses in the Arts Center next door to the Cats Cradle in Carborro. To my surprise, I was pleasantly rewarded.
At 78, after leading what can only be called a remarkable life, celebrated mime Marcel Marceau is still on tour. As a child, Marceau--born on March 22, 1923 in Strasbourg, France--would entertain his family and friends with imitations of both the animate and inanimate world around him. He admired the actors of the silent screen like Charlie Chaplin and the Marx brothers. But, in 1939, he fled France with his brother to escape Nazi occupation and changed his name from Mangel to Marceau.
DUI. Driving Under the Influence, right? Nope. A group of 10 guys with an oh-so-clever name that do improv at Duke University? Yes, sort of. This is how Duke University Improv has been known since its inception in 1997, but this year DUI is taking on new meaning as they tackle the school in what could be called a community outreach program for the comedically challenged.
The commercials and previews for Bubble Boy really haven't done justice to this meaningful comedy, a spoof on the situation of the real-life "Boy in the Bubble." Surprisingly, Bubble Boy is an hysterically funny movie and avoids all obvious doorways to tasteless or exploitive humor.
Durham's Manbites Dog Theater Company is presenting a production of Kenneth Lonergan's This is Our Youth. The play is set in 1982 in New York City when decadence reigned among the young and when doing drugs, listening to music and having sex were the ideal activities for a Saturday night. The play revolves around the life of an adolescent named Warren, played by 1998 Duke graduate Kevin Poole. Haunted by his sister's murder, Warren suffers low self-esteem because his best friend, Dennis, constantly insults his abilities to do things. When Warren likes a girl, Dennis--portrayed by Adam Saunders--graciously points out Warren's shortcomings in wooing the fairer sex, though he does help to set him up. Dennis plans an evening filled with cocaine and hopes to help Warren pursue Jessica.
By now, you've probably heard the buzz about The Producers, Broadway's record-shattering sensation. Winner of 12 Tony Awards, the show is sold out for the next year and onward, prompting the obvious question: "Is it really that good?" The answer: yes, yes and absolutely yes.
The summer months are winding down. It's late July, and you have a little over a month before your days of sipping mint juleps on the front porch must come to an end and you will return to the Gothic Wonderland. The good news is that there is a way to make the transition a little easier. With a multitude of arts events at Duke this fall, there will be many opportunities to escape the daily grind of classes and activities--not to mention good ways to avoid answering the dreaded "How was your summer?" question. From poetry to theater to music, there are plenty of arts offerings not to be overlooked this fall. You can begin eying your escapes now by reading about the events listed bellow.
A night at the Moulin Rouge is a night well spent; Moulin Rouge is easily one of the best movies of the year. In the words of SNL's Will Ferrell, "It is so good, there are not words to describe its brilliance. So, I will make up a word. I will call it scrumptulescent."
Walking out of Angel Eyes, I thought of the advice my father gave me a long time ago about choosing movies to see in the theatre. He said, "You can always tell a bad movie if the advertisements for it use short phrases from the critics, especially if you've never heard of the critics." The ads for Angel Eyes do just that. A quote from Univision critic Cecilia Bogran says, "A great love story." What we don't see is what she said just after that. I imagine the full quote was something like, "A great love story might be what Angel Eyes aspires to be, but instead you find a dense fog no eyes could penetrate."
Last Tuesday night, students in professor Erin Wilson's playwriting class presented three dramatic works-in-progress as a part of the annual New Works Festival. The fledgling plays were not fully produced, but were staged readings. Actors were still holding scripts and sitting on benches or in chairs while acting, and stage directions were still being read out loud. Whatever their final products look like, I encountered these New Works in their awkward phase. Still, these workshops are open to the public, so they must be reviewed as they are.
A funny thing is happening in Reynolds Theater, and it started last night. Duke's musical theatre group, Hoof 'n' Horn, is performing A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
lassical Indian dance is making history on Duke's campus this weekend.
Tattoos and piercings have long served as a hallmark for personal expression. Although the culture surrounding them seems grounded in individualism, there are two sides to every story. The people at Dogstar Tattoo Company on Ninth Street differ from many Duke students in their reasons for getting tattooed and pierced. In fact, while people with tattoos and piercings seem to be part of the same group, the two have ideological differences. The main bone of contention? Tattoos are permanent-at least they're supposed to be-and piercings are removable.
is time to die when 'tis a shame to live." That's lead character Beatrice-Joanna's last line in Duke Players' new production of The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. Unfortunately, that line is all-too-indicative of the existence of the play itself.
The Farrelly Brothers have ruled the comedy genre for the past six years with such laugh riots as Dumb and Dumber (1994), There's Something About Mary (1998) and last year's Me, Myself and Irene. Their freshman attempt was hysterical and Mary showed some spunk audiences had never seen before, but with Irene, the boys seemed to be slacking off with their humor. The just-released Say It Isn't So proves just how far downhill they've fallen.
