On to Durham! The guys get to Durham and encounter the most incredible Bar-B-Q ever but where will they be sleeping?
Click here to see the film slightly larger at the VIRB site
William Fitzsimmons On THE DROP
The Hiatus is back off again! With all the releasing of new shows on TV this week, we thought why not introduce you to the next big thing in this weeks episode by featuring William Fitzsimmons and we couldn’t be happier. In this episode William talks about where the sadness comes from, the artsy part of being a songwriter, and how his wild ride in music is shaping up. This episode features the song, “It’s Not True” from the album Goodnight. Download it today!
CRN: Quite Interesting facts with British comedy producer John Lloyd
Author and producer John Lloyd phones in from England to discuss The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong. One of the brains behind Spitting Image, Not the Nine O’Clock News, and Blackadder, Lloyd is one of the producers of a show called QI, which is hosted by Stephen Fry. In this interview with Coy Barefoot, he explains why goldfish are smarter than you think, and why George Washington is not America’s first president. Series 5 of QI will begin in September on Britain’s BBC2.
CRN: Filmmaker Rom Alejandro on adjusting to Southern California
U.Va graduate Rom Alejandro took off for Hollywood soon after Final Exercises to pursue a career in the film industry. He’s keeping us up to date by phoning in to WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot. Rom talks about the transition processs he’s going through as he realizes just how hard it is to get ahead in the business.
CRN: Ten Genoways profiles Summer 2007 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review
Ted Genoways is the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, which has just published its summer issue for 2007. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about what readers can expect. The issue features the Iraqi war photography of Ashley Gilbertson, who has been shooting since before the war there began.
What -is- Ix?
This week on the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call with Rick Moore, local artists discuss the Frank Ix Project off the Downtown Mall. The Project will include seventeen acres of residential, business, and retail space, and calls into question the age-old debate about expansion and development. What can we expect from the complex?
John Owen of Live Arts, John St. Ous of Piraeus Pictures, and Leah Stoddard of the Second Street Gallery also respond to the question of how much “art” (films, plays, writers) Charlottesville can actually handle. Will more theatre productions distract the public from the theatres already in place, or can Charlottesville absorb any artistic venture that’s thrown at it?
Find out here, only on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call.
CRN: Photographer Ashley Gilbertson asks Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Award-winning photographer Ashley Gilbertson has spent a better part of the last five years in Iraq filming the struggle and the fight that continues to rage every day and every night in that country. His forthcoming book is called Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle. Gilbertson’s work appears in the Summer 2007 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review.
CRN: L.A. Bound Filmmaker Rom Alejandro
Recent U.Va graduate Rom Alejandro joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss recent developments in film at Mr. Jefferson’s University. Alejandro is moving to Los Angeles to seek a career in the film industry, after helping nurture a movie-making community in Charlottesville. He’ll be documenting his progress as a regular guest on Coy’s show.
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CRN: Heather Burns of the Charlottesville Writing Center
Heather Burns founded the Charlottesville Writing Center eleven years ago to help train people to write, how to connect writers, and to encourage each others’ work. This summer, the CWC is sponsoring the Freedom Writers Summer Writing Camp to help students to think critically.
From their website:
FREEDOM WRITERS SUMMER WRITING CAMP
Attention Area Young Writers! Join with other Freedom Writers to create an awesome summer community experience of writing. We’re offering a mix of two and three week sessions and two one week sessions for back-to-school writing prep. Workshops start June 18th and run through August 9th for students grades 3-12. It is the hope and goal of the CWC that scholarship funding will be available.
Live Arts Presents: Old Times – An evening of Classic Pinter
How does one describe a play in which more goes unsaid than said? Is there such a thing as a triple entendre? Decide for yourself after seeing Harold PinterGuv,!v,,us Old Times at Live Arts.
When Anna goes to visit her old friend Kate and husband Deeley in the English countryside, each of the characters seems to relive and revise their pasts while reminiscing. The pastoral setting becomes quickly tainted, however, as Anna and Deeley politely spar for control of Kate. Under the direction of Francine Smith, this play explores the power of memory and the dangers inherent in trying to manipulate your own Guv,!V| or othersGuv,!v,,u.
Francine Smith, Live Arts Director in Residence, is director of this production. When asked about Old Times, Smith said, Guv,!E”The essence of the play can be summed up in one of AnnaGuv,!v,,us lines: Guv,!LnjThere are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened, but as I recall them so they take place.Guv,!v,,u PinterGuv,!v,,us work is distinctive and provocative in that what is not said (in the pauses) speaks more than the words themselves and the questions or recollections found in the play are ever answered or validated. Lots of bits and pieces leave the viewer free to conclude what really went on twenty years ago between Anna (played by Boomie Pedersen), Kate (played by Daria Okugawa), and Deeley (played by Chris Baumer).Guv,!Vkj
First performed on June 1, 1971 by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theater in London, Old Times has continued to gain audiences across the globe through its universal examination of shifting time and definitions of truth. Written by Harold Pinter, renowned British playwright, actor, director and political activist, Old Times is one among a long line of his plays that have won him critical acclaim. It is with great excitement that Live Arts brings the work of this theatrical pioneer to our UpStage theater.
Tickets for Old Times go on sale to the public Monday May 28 and may be purchased in one of three ways. Tickets are sold via phone at the Live Arts Box Office, in person Monday through Friday 10 am. Guv,!vDjnj 6 pm., or 1 hour before the performance. The preview performance of Old Times is June 7 at 8 pm. Free tickets to this continue
Season media sponsor is C-Ville Weekly. Photos in this entry are by Jack Looney of C-Ville weekly.
A Streetcar Named Desire rolls into Live Arts – May 11 through June 10
Live Arts proudly presents Tennessee WilliamsGuv,!v,,u A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by John Gibson, A Streetcar Named Desire runs in the DownStage theater May 11 Guv,!vDjnj June 10, 2007. Show sponsors are Allison Partners, Garris and Company, and Elizabeth and Joe LeVaca. Media sponsor is WHTJ. Season media sponsor is C-VILLE weekly.
Live Arts Teen Theater Team presents The Servant of Two Masters
 Above, from left to right: Jeremy Weiss, Kate Hancock, Maggie Brown, Rhiannon OGuv,!v,,uCoin, Gigi Gay, Richard Drake (Photo: Jack Looney/C-VILLE Weekly) |
The results of a Live Arts program to train teenagers in the various aspects of theater is culminating this month with presentation of The Servant of Two Masters. The Teen Theater Team is Live Arts most intensive and focused training program for young people between the ages of 14 and 19.
The Servant of Two Masters is an 18th century comedy by Carlo Goldoni and for almost 300 years audiences have recognized themselves in its timeless characters and situations. Clever servants, grasping masters, lovelorn youth, buckled swashes, drawn swords, interrupted weddings, slapsticks, and chases are all in dayGuv,!v,,us work for Truffaldino, the titular servant. With rich language and physical hijinks, our teens will draw on their clown training to make a show that leaps from silly to sublime. The play runs on Live Arts Upstage Theater from April 20 to May 5, 2007. I stopped by Live Arts to talk about the play with director Daria Okugawa and produced this five minute feature. |