The semester is winding down. Finals are upon us (word has spread that someone has even passed out in the library computer lab). And as everything must close for summer adventures to ensue, so must my Theatre Simpson Adventures. Last week we had our end of the year awards banquet. We ate good food, danced to some classic rock (my fave), said goodbye to the seniors, and celebrated all of our accomplishments from this year.
This blog is going to be short, sweet and to the point. Next week I'm going to Holland and Belgium for a MayTerm class. I may blog about that, and some of it might be theatre related. But I have a new camera that's ready to make this blog look pretty with pictures so until then, good by Theatre Simpson. See you next year.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Celebrating Over 50 Years of American Theatre
Tomorrow is the opening of another Theatre Simpson production. Festival 2011 is put on by all Simpson College students. It is student directed, stage managed, and designed. Tonight as a way to wrap up the first ever Simpson Symposium Day, a preview of this weekend's performances will be given.
Tomorrow night a respondent from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival will come and review the performance. Since the theme of the Festival is about student written plays by the Kennedy Center for the performing arts. It will be interesting to see how the respondent will think of it.
The plays that will be performed are Fall From Grace by Jason Martin—a powerful, highly theatrical dreamscape that considers what goes through one’s mind when he’s hanging suspended by a single rope, having fallen off the third highest peak in Alaska.
The second play is Bunnies by Michael Obrien—an hilarious fictional riff on how Hugh Heffner MAY have gotten the idea to start Playboy magazine.
Both plays are award winning plays and have been performed at the Kennedy Center. These two shows will be performed Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon.
Tomorrow night a respondent from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival will come and review the performance. Since the theme of the Festival is about student written plays by the Kennedy Center for the performing arts. It will be interesting to see how the respondent will think of it.
The plays that will be performed are Fall From Grace by Jason Martin—a powerful, highly theatrical dreamscape that considers what goes through one’s mind when he’s hanging suspended by a single rope, having fallen off the third highest peak in Alaska.
The second play is Bunnies by Michael Obrien—an hilarious fictional riff on how Hugh Heffner MAY have gotten the idea to start Playboy magazine.
Both plays are award winning plays and have been performed at the Kennedy Center. These two shows will be performed Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
I Want To Run Away & Join the Circus
After being busy weekend after weekend, I found myself lost yesterday because I actually had some time on my hands. Two of my friends felt the same way and we saw that Cirque Du Soleil was having a show that night in at the Wells Fargo Arena. Of course we jumped at the chance to see it!
Heather and Sammi had both seen Cirque before but this was my first time. It was fantastic! There are many different types of Cirque shows but the one that we saw was called Dralion. It was a salute to Eastern philosophy, it even included a dragon dance! My favorite acts were the clowns, the sash dancer people, the acrobatic jump ropers, the juggler, and the gal who can balance on one hand and then move her body into weird positions. I can't believe the talent all of these people had.
Also being the theatre lighting geek I am, I would like to give props to the girls who had to shimmy up the most wobbly ladders and sit in a rigged catwalks during the whole performance (intermission and all). The whole performance is about 2 hours long, so for them to sit through the whole thing while keeping their heads in the game to be spot lights without having a bathroom break is awesome! You go girls!
I would also like to give props to the clowns. One of them was planted in the audience and acted like an audience member. I almost felt cheated when I found out that he was a member of their company, but it just proves what a good actor he is. He acted just like a normal guy without any acting experience who was forced onstage, until toward the end of the show when he started doing fancy flips.
All in all, I feel that I now need to see all of the shows. Cirque Du Soleil is like pokemon. You gotta see/catch em' all!
Heather and Sammi had both seen Cirque before but this was my first time. It was fantastic! There are many different types of Cirque shows but the one that we saw was called Dralion. It was a salute to Eastern philosophy, it even included a dragon dance! My favorite acts were the clowns, the sash dancer people, the acrobatic jump ropers, the juggler, and the gal who can balance on one hand and then move her body into weird positions. I can't believe the talent all of these people had.
Also being the theatre lighting geek I am, I would like to give props to the girls who had to shimmy up the most wobbly ladders and sit in a rigged catwalks during the whole performance (intermission and all). The whole performance is about 2 hours long, so for them to sit through the whole thing while keeping their heads in the game to be spot lights without having a bathroom break is awesome! You go girls!
I would also like to give props to the clowns. One of them was planted in the audience and acted like an audience member. I almost felt cheated when I found out that he was a member of their company, but it just proves what a good actor he is. He acted just like a normal guy without any acting experience who was forced onstage, until toward the end of the show when he started doing fancy flips.
All in all, I feel that I now need to see all of the shows. Cirque Du Soleil is like pokemon. You gotta see/catch em' all!
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