Author: Megan O’Keefe After winning laughs on stage last weekend as Joe Farkas in "The Last Night of Ballyhoo," Andrew Zox '05 will try his hand at comedy once again this weekend when he presents "In a Pig's Valise," his senior directing work, in the Hepburn Zoo. The play, a parody of the 1940s detective ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH It's summer 1978, and 10-year-old Michele just wants to be a kid. In the idyllic setting of southern Italy, he and his friends run through the wheat fields and make mischief in their remote village. But when this perfect world is suddenly shattered, Michele soon learns that ...
Author: — By Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: Tell us about your film.Dan Smarg: I started a film here at Midd sophomore year, but we didn't get to finish it because the two leads went abroad. I ended up going abroad to England the following year. At York University, I didn't ...
Author: Ben Salkowe While Middlebury's Theatre department has made a name for itself putting on first-rate dramas and even the occasional comedy, musical theatre has long been largely absent from the College's performing arts scene. Director Doug Anderson, visiting assistant professor of Music, and ...
Author: Lauren Smith Painting, photography, sculpture and printmaking are all represented this week at a Senior Student exhibit in Johnson Gallery. The show, with works by Tyne Pike-Sprenger '05, Stina Marshall-Parr '05 and Sydney Atkins '05 is the culminating exhibit of the three Studio Art majors.The ...
Author: Alexandra Hay For the Dance Company of Middlebury's performances Friday and Saturday nights, April 22 and 23, the entire Dance Theatre was rotated 90 degrees and risers of chairs wrapped around two sides of the stage. With the traditional black velvet wings and back curtain replaced with a white ...
Author: Alexandra Hay In celebration of Earth Day 2005, Professor of Dance Andrea Olsen presented the Birdhouse Project, a collaboration of over 20 dancers intended to perform outside by the Center for the Arts pond last Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Those who went Friday were lucky enough ...
Author: Andre Estanislao Existentialism and the confrontion of death, two very somber and serious subjects, were rendered light-hearted and more palatable in last weekend's staged theatrical performance of Eugène Ionesco's "Le Roi se meurt" ("Exit the King") at the new Château Performance Space. The ...
Author: RICHARD LAWLESS Oh, Canada, where would critically acclaimed music be without you? There would be no Arcade Fire, no Godspeed You Black Emperor, no New Pornographers and no Cowboy Junkies. And most importantly of all, there would be no Leonard Cohen or Neil Young. Yes, Canada, that mysterious ...
Author: Eliza Hulme "This is what we want to show you. An exploration." So went the production notes in the program of this past weekend's Zoo offering, "Culture Shock." The show, encompassing the senior work of Liz Hammett, investigated themes of language, isolation and connection using material that ...
Author: [no author name found] Last Saturday, Hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean came to Middlebury College for the annual spring concert. With 1,500 ticket sales and 1,200 fans in attendence, the concert was called a big success by members of the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB).The concert ran ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH If you want a go to the movies but can't decide what mood you're in, "Kung Fu Hustle" might be for you. Combining live-action and computer-generated martial arts, slapstick comedy, Tarantino-style blood and guts, a dash of cartoonishness and a little Buddhist mysticism, Stephen ...
Author: Jodie Zhang and Lauren Smith The Middlebury Campus: How long have you been creating art?Jackie Laryea: I've been drawing since I was seven, so it's been more than half of my life. My sister Alice was always drawing and doing art and because I wanted to be around her, I started to draw too. Then, ...
Author: Lauren Smith Aliens, decapitations, Cupid and Greek mythology all figure into the work of Christian A. Johnson Artist-in-Residence Will Villalongo in his current Johnson Gallery exhibition of work completed during his residency. The show consists of five cut velour pieces, one acrylic and cut ...
Author: RICHARD LAWLESS Beck is 35. In rock star years, that's like 62. He's slowed down a bit, taking three years rather than one in between albums and he may not be as crazy as he used to be, but after all, he's still Beck, and he's one of the most important musical figures of the past decade. He ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH I'm from Seattle, and I must admit that spending a beautiful afternoon watching the Mariners at Safeco Field is one of my favorite summer activities. I don't really "do" sports, but I follow the Ms somewhat - especially when they're good - and always considered myself a fan. ...
Author: Josh Axelrod This weekend's production of Eve Ensler's '75 play "Necessary Targets" begins with two women meeting for the first time in a posh psychiatrist's office. J.S. (Lauren Turner Kiel '07) and Melissa (Laura Harris '07) immediately rub each other the wrong way since J.S. is a naive upper-class ...
Author: Jessica Jorge Were you stressed with exams and papers last week? Did you have to read an entire novel in one night? Or, did you miss New York City and the Bronx? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions then you should have been at the "Boogie Rican Boulevard" one-woman performance by ...
Author: Lauren Smith The Middlebury College Performing Arts Series presented the internationally renowned Takacs Quartet Friday night at the Center for the Arts Concert Hall. The string quartet performed a selection of Beethoven compositions to the crowded concert hall in a performance that came alive ...
Author: Richard Lawless Posthumous albums are always a touchy subject. This is especially true when considering the posthumous release of a rock icon like Joe Strummer. Should the album be handled with kid gloves because of its sentimental value? Surely no rock critic would feel uninhibitedly comfortable ...