 This Week at the Lewis CenterWeek of February 23, 2014
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Photo by Frank Wojciechowski
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Senior thesis production by
theater students Peter Giovine
and Emma Boettcher
Final weekend! Friday & Saturday, February
21-22 at 8:00 p.m.
The Program in Theater presents a recent dramatic adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic, coming-of-age epic, Great Expectations by Neil Bartlett. Directed by faculty member Tim Vasen and featuring senior Peter Giovine as Pip with senior Emma Boettcher serving as dramaturg, performances are on Friday and Saturday, February 21 and 22 at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street. Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at the production, or visit this link to hear an interview with students behind the production on WPRB Princeton radio. Tickets are $12 general admission, $10 students/seniors and are available online through University Ticketing or by calling 609.258.9220, at Frist Campus Center Ticket Office, or at the door prior to each performance.
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Photo by Bentley Drezner
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Annual dance concert showcasing
more than 50 students
This weekend! Friday, February 21 at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 22 at 2:00 & 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 23 at 1:00 p.m.
The Program in Dance will present the 2014 Spring Dance Festival, a dance concert showcasing more than 50 students performing in repertory by distinguished, internationally renowned choreographers Kyle Abraham, Bill T. Jones and Doug Varone; a premiere by Princeton Hodder Fellow Pam Tanowitz; and in new dances created by faculty members Tina Fehlandt and Rebecca Lazier. Performances will take place on Friday, February 21, at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, February 22, at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday, February 23, at 1:00 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Tickets are $15 reserved seating, $10 students/seniors and are available through University Ticketing at 609.258.9220 or the Berlind Box Office at 609.258.2787.
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Photo by Catherine Mauger
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Premiere reading of C.K. Williams'
new play
Monday, February 24 at 8:00 p.m.
On Monday, February 24, Beasts of Love, a new play by recently retired member of the Creative Writing faculty C.K. Williams, will receive a reading at 8:00 p.m. at the Princeton University Art Museum. The play is a lyrical re-telling of the story of Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Theseus. Performed by a group of student actors, the reading is directed by Professor of Theater Robert Sandberg and will be followed by a talk back conversation with Williams. The event, part of The Phaedra Project at Princeton, is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Museum doors open at 7:30 p.m.
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Photo courtesy Edmund White
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Edmund White reads from
his latest memoir
Tuesday, February 25 at 6:00 p.m.
Professor of Creative Writing and acclaimed author and critic Edmund White will read from his latest work, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris, on Tuesday, February 25 at 6:00 p.m. In the memoir, White examines his time spent in Paris from 1983-1998 and his understanding of French life and culture. The reading will be held at Labyrinth Books at 122 Nassau Street in Princeton and is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Przemyslaw Graf
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Polish theater company performs
its docudrama
Tuesday & Wednesday, February 25-26
at 8:00 p.m.
The Lewis Center's Performance Central series will host the legendary Polish theater company Theater of the Eighth Day, performing its riveting docudrama The Files, on February 25 and 26. The Files was created from actual surveillance records the secret police kept on the group between 1975 and 1983. Performances will be in English and will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street. A talk back discussion with members of the company will follow the performances, which are free and open to the public.
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Still from the film
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Screening and discussion of Hodder Fellow Chinonye Chukwu's latest film
Wednesday, February 26 at 4:30 p.m.
Chinonye Chukwu, a 2013-14 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center, will screen her most recent short film, A Long Walk, on Wednesday, February 26. The film is an adaptation of Samuel Autman's short story "A Walk Through the Neighborhood, in which a child is publicly ridiculed by his father as a neighborhood onlooker laments over what he could have done to prevent the incident and the irreversible consequences that it causes. The screening will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Following the screening, Autman will read his short story and discuss filmmaking, adaptation, and acting with Chukwu and the film's star, Colman Domingo. The screening, reading, and discussion are all free and open to the public.
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Photo courtesy Hilary Cartwright
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Master class with Hilary Cartwright
Wednesday, February 26 at 7:00 p.m.
Hilary Cartwright, a former soloist with the Royal Ballet, will lead a master class on "Yoga for Dancers" on Wednesday, February 26. Cartwright's class, which is based on the Juliu Horvath System applying yoga principles, differs from a traditional Hatha Yoga class because positions are not held but repeated in a fluid undulation. The master class will be held from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street and is open to all Princeton students to participate.
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Photo courtesy Fintan O'Toole
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Fintan O'Toole delivers Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture
Friday, February 28 at 4:30 p.m.
Leonard Milberg '53 Visiting Lecturer in Theater Fintan O'Toole will deliver the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on Friday, February 28. In "Mr. Bloom and the Buddha," O'Toole focuses on a looted Burmese statue of the Buddha that sits, largely forgotten, in a corner of the National Museum in Dublin. But it has a strange and significant presence in James Joyce's Ulysses, where it features twice. O'Toole will show how a neglected object can help us to understand some key things about Joyce's masterpiece, not least the relationship between Leopold Bloom and his unfaithful wife, Molly. The lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The event is part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies and is free and open to the public.
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Photo courtesy Dramatists' Guild
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Lecture by award-winning librettist John Weidman
Tuesday, March 4 at 3:00 p.m.
As part of a Music Theater Lab spring lecture series, Emmy award-winning librettist John Weidman, known for his work on numerous musicals including Contact and the revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes, will give a lecture entitled "Writing the Historical Libretto: Pacific Overtures, Assassins, Road Show." The lecture, given in the context of Professor of Theater Stacy Wolf's spring seminar course "The Musical Theatre of Stephen Sondheim," will begin at 3:00 p.m. in Room 219 at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.
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Photo courtesy Hangzhou Yue Opera Co.
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Performances of two Ibsen classics in the style of traditional Chinese Yue Opera
Tuesday, March 4 at 3:00 & 8:00 p.m.
On March 4, the all-female cast of the Hangzhou Yue Opera Company will perform its lyrical operatic interpretations of two of Henrik Ibsen's works, The Lady from the Sea and Hedda Gabler. The productions were created in collaboration with Ibsen International and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. the company will perform The Lady from the Sea, followed by Hedda at 8:00 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium on the University campus. The performances will be in Chinese with English supertitles. Presented as part of the Lewis Center's Performance Central series, both events are free but tickets are required and can be reserved by calling University Ticketing at 609.258.9220 and will be available at the door.
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Photo by Edward Morris
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Senior thesis production of the hit musical
adaptation of the classic 1968 film
March 7, 8, 9, 11 & 12 at 8:00 p.m.
The Program in Theater will present a senior thesis production of Mel Brooks' classic 1968 film, The Producers, featuring senior certificate students Evan Thompson and Mary Lou Kolbenschlag, with choreography by junior Eamon Foley. Program in Theater and Department of Music faculty member Ethan Heard will direct the production, which follows Thomas Meehan's adaptation of Brooks' film. Performances will take place Friday through Sunday, March 7-9, as well as Tuesday and Wednesday, March 11 and 12 at 8:00 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 students/seniors and are available through University Ticketing at 609.258.9220 or the McCarter Box Office at 609.258.2787.
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