american press - scene - aug. 27
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KELLEY ART ON DISPLAYWork by MSU art professor Heather Ryan Kelley is be-ing shown in Baton Rouge, New Orleans.B3
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2015 AMERICAN PRESS B1
1911 HISTORIC CITY HALL ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER
“Marilyn Monroe” by Andy Warhol
McNeese Theatre Roundup tonight
By Mary [email protected]
he theater pre-season begins today, Aug. 27, at McNeese State Univer-sity with the
annual Theatre Roundup 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Tritico Theatre.
McNeese performing arts faculty and directors will discuss this year’s perfor-mances and explain the audi-tion process.
“Anybody who wants to get involved with McNeese theater, onstage or back-stage, can come meet the
directors and be a part of it,” said Charles McNeely, Mc-Neese theater coordinator. “We just eat some food, begin our socializing and fi nd the people we want to, and can, work with.”
Those who miss the event can still volunteer via a sign-up sheet in the lobby of the Tritico Theatre. McNeely said information packets will be left there as well. Audi-tions will be 2-5 p.m. Friday in the Tritico Theatre.
The fi rst production will be “Yet Another Shakespeare Rewrite,” written and direct-ed by senior theater student Bridget Delaney. The play is a retelling of “A Winter’s Tale,” with the scene trans-planted to the modern-day United States.
“I went into ‘A Winter’s Tale’ and worked on putting it into modern-day language and worked on making it a lot funnier with references to television shows and songs that hopefully people will recognize,” Delaney said.
Delaney is the fi rst stu-dent to write and direct her own play at McNeese.
“The play grew out of an assignment I had for a Shakespeare class,” she said. “I shared it with my adviser and he liked it. I was like, ‘If I could get this play written, I’d love to do it.’ He said he was OK with me directing
the play. It just happened that I was the fi rst one to do it that way.”
“Yet Another Shakespeare Rewrite” will run Oct. 1-2.
The next production will be a devised theater piece tentatively titled “The Journey.” Instead of read-ing from a script, director Greg Stratton and his team will work together to build a fl uid, improvised production around a central theme.
“You start with a group of people, and they create a play from scratch,” McNeely said. “The focal point we’re
using is the literary theme ‘the hero’s journey.’ They’ll create a story, modern day, that in some way compares to the story of ‘The Odyssey,’ ‘Gulliver’s Travels.’ ”
The play will run Nov. 11-15 in Bulber Auditorium. A special performance for high school students will be Nov. 13; students will be able to talk to the actors and crew.
The spring theater season will begin March 19-20 with “Beckett X Five.” The Bayou Theater Players will present fi ve short plays by Samuel Beckett. The plays are part of the Theatre of the Absurd movement, a style of theater that eschews logic and poses questions that audience members must answer for themselves.
The last show will be “The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare (Abridged),” which will run April 20-24. The play cuts and warps the works of Shakespeare into a comic series of rap battles, football commentary and cooking show outtakes.
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For more information, call 475-5040 or visit www.mcneese.edu/performingartsboxo� ce.
LC Symphonywelcomes Kaneko
By Pamela [email protected]
The Lake Charles Sym-phony will begin its 2015-2016 classical concert series with a performance at 3 p.m. Oct. 18 in the Rosa Hart Theater.
Ryo Kaneko of Rice Uni-versity’s Shepherd School of Music will play Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16. The performance will also include Barber’s Essay No. 1 and Dvorak’s “The Golden Spinning Wheel.”
The symphony’s second concert will be at 3 p.m. Feb. 14 in the Tritico Theatre at McNeese State University’s Shearman Fine Arts Center. Local musician Jay Kacher-ski, who holds a doctorate in classical guitar performance, will play Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto.
The program will also
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
A Block O� Broadway has a fresh slate of classic movies to o� er patrons:
● Sept. 5 — “Grease,” 2 and 6 p.m.
● Oct. 17 — “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken,” 2 and 6 p.m.
● Oct. 31 — “Poltergeist,” 7:30 p.m.
● Nov. 14 — “Clue,” 7 p.m.● Nov. 28 — “The Muppet
Christmas Carol,” 6 p.m.● Dec. 19 — “Mame,” 7 p.m.● Jan. 16 — “The Long, Long
Trailer,” 7 p.m.● Feb. 13 — “Lover Come
Back,” 7 p.m.● March 12 — “Gnomeo and
Juliet,” 7 p.m.● April 3 — “The Shakiest
Gun in the West.”● May 14 — “No Time for
Sergeants.”● June 11 — “The Parent
Trap.”● June 25 — “Frankie and
Johnny.”● July 9 — “The One and
Only, Genuine, Original Family Band,” 7 p.m.
● July 23 — “Viva Las Vegas.”● Aug. 13 — “Roman Holi-
day.”● Aug. 27 — “Change of
Habit.”
CLASSIC FILMS
UPHere’s part two of our preview of the upcoming SW La. arts and cultural season
McNeese Theatre will begin and end its
season with works inspired by the Bard
himself, William Shakespeare.
TRyo Kaneko will play Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, at the Lake Charles Symphony season opener Oct. 18.
“An Adventure in the Arts” — an exhibit featuring more than 70 works of art from the permanent collec-tion at Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, N.Y. — will be on display at Historic City Hall Arts and Cultural Center, 1001 Ryan St., start-ing this week.
The exhibit will open with a reception 5:30-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28. The exhibit, which lasts until Oct. 24, is free to view.
Denise Fasske, director of Historic City Hall, said artwork for the Guild Hall traveling show dates from
1878 to 1994 and includes work from renowned artists such as Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock. The mu-seum opened in 1931.
“There are usually 10 or 12 cities that are chosen for the artwork to be displayed on a national tour,” she said. “We’re fortunate to have it here.”
Fasske said the exhibit will display three Warhol pieces, including Marilyn Monroe, a screen print from 1967.
“It sends chills through our bones when we uncrate these famous pieces of work,” she said. “To be in the presence of them in our own backyard is quite a rare
opportunity.”The exhibit also features
artwork from Lake Charles native Lynda Benglis, who is known for her abstract artwork.
Another featured exhibit is “Edward Koren: The Ca-pricious Line.” The exhibit, which features 50 original pen and ink and watercolor cartoons, also runs through Oct. 24.
Fasske said Koren is a long-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine as a cartoonist and satirist.
“You can see his humor come out in his artwork,” she said. “Many of his themes address social,
cultural and environmental issues. Some of his drawings have been repaired and have corrections.”
Fasske said there will also be scavenger hunts for children. She said there will be six puzzles on a page that have a thumbnail of the different pieces of art on display, and that children can use the page to fi nd the artwork.
Historic City Hall is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.
For more information on the exhibits, call 491-9147.
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Online: www.cityo£ akecharles.com.
By John [email protected]
See CURTAINS, B4
Works by Warhol, Pollock part of exhibit