Comedy becomes a recurring `Dream'.Byline: The Register-Guard A revival of last spring's "A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and " is opening at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. this weekend while Lane Community College is opening "The Cherry Orchard cherry orchard focal point of the declining Ranevsky estate. [Russ. Drama: Chekhov The Cherry Orchard in Magill II, 144] See : Decadence " on Friday. Meanwhile, at a nursing home in Eugene, a troupe calling itself Blue Giraffe giraffe, African ruminant mammal, Giraffa camelopardalis, living in open savanna S of the Sahara. The tallest of animals, giraffes browse in treetops at heights inaccessible to other leaf-eaters. A male may be 18 ft (5.5 m) from hoof to crown. Theatre puts on a series of 15 performance pieces by residents. A Midsummer Night's Dream Robinson Theatre, University of Oregon Friday and Saturday Summer, alas, is over, but thoughts of summer are not. University Theatre is kicking off its new season by bringing back last spring's production of the Shakespearean comedy Traditionally, the plays of William Shakespeare have been grouped into three categories: tragedies, comedies, and histories. Some critics have argued for a fourth category, the romance. "Comedy" in its Elizabethan usage had a very different meaning from modern comedy. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for two performances this weekend. Register-Guard reviewer Dorothy Velasco praised the show last spring as a "bawdy bawd·y adj. bawd·i·er, bawd·i·est 1. Humorously coarse; risqué. 2. Vulgar; lewd. bawd  i·ly adv. , gender-bending production that provides plenty
of boisterous hilarity."
Directed by associate professor John Schmor, the classic play tells the story of two couples, Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius, whose romantic confusion takes them into the play's fairyland woods. Both performances begin at 8 p.m. in the University of Oregon's Robinson Theatre, 1109 Old Campus Lane. Free parking is available in the university parking lot at 11th Avenue and Kincaid Street. Tickets are $12 for the general public, $9 for University of Oregon faculty and staff, senior citizens, and non-UO students. Admission is $5 for University of Oregon students. The Cherry Orchard Lane Community College Friday through Oct. 21 Welcome to "Chekhovland": That's what director Patrick Torelle calls this production of the Anton Chekhov drama "The Cherry Orchard," which opens Friday at LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. in an adaptation by David Mamet Noun 1. David Mamet - United States playwright (born in 1947) Mamet . The play centers on Lyubov `Lovie' Andreevna (Judith `Sparky' Roberts) and her eccentric family members Gaev (Matt Keating), Anya (Hannah Mootz) and Varya (Caitlin Jean Tischer) as they come to grips with the reality that their vast cherry orchard estate must be sold to pay off an extreme debt. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, then 8 p.m. Oct. 5-7, 12-13, 19-21 and 2 p.m. Oct. 8 at the LCC Performance Hall's Main Stage. General admission tickets are $10; call 463-5761. Messages From the Valley Valley West Health Care Center Saturday Fifteen individual performance pieces by nursing home residents make up this unusual show by the Blue Giraffe Theatre Company, directed by Judith Voss. The performances will be staged at Valley West Health Care Center, 2300 Warren St. in the Churchill area. The theme of the show is the universal longing to be seen, acknowledged, understood and accepted for being one's true self. Voss recruited those residents who she knew had a particular desire to tell their stories in creative ways. The pieces are presented through music, movement, spoken word and projected visual images. The show will take place at 3 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door, and include a post-show reception with refreshments re·fresh·ment n. 1. The act of refreshing or the state of being refreshed. 2. Something, such as food or drink, that refreshes. 3. refreshments A snack or light meal and drinks. . For information, call 686-2828. |
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