By Harry Woods
The University of Wyoming Department of Theatre and Dance had added a sixth production
to its new season schedule, and will now feature two dance concerts starting this
year. In the spring, UW Dance Theatre will present "A New Season for Dance" featuring
the work of guest artist Bill Evans along with work by three UW faculty members.
All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. except for Sunday matinees that begin at 2 p.m.
Individual tickets remain $9.50 for the general public, $8 for senior citizens and
$5 for UW students. Tickets can be purchased through the Fine Arts Ticket Office at
(307) 766-6666 or the Wyoming Union at (307) 766-3327. Season tickets, available through
the Fine Arts Ticket Office only, cost $51 for the public, or $42 for seniors.
The season will open Oct. 2-7 with Moliere's classic comedy "The Miser," directed
by Roger May of Actors From the London Stage (AFLS). May has acted and directed for
AFLS for many years and performed with the group on the UW stage.
Professor Patricia Tate will choreograph the season's second production, "Carmina
Burana: Landscape of the Interior." The classic piece with music by Carl Orff will
be presented in dance form only Nov. 6-11, featuring special lighting effects
The third production and the one most avant garde will be "Balm In Gilead," by Lanford
Wilson, Dec. 5 13. Directed for the studio theatre by UW professor Leigh Selting,
"Balm," written in 1965, features 26 characters. It is set in an all night coffee
shop on New York's upper Broadway, where riff raff, the bums, the petty thieves, the
lost, and the desperate of the big city come together.
The department's fourth production is "Arcadia," written by Tom Stoppard and directed
by UW professor Lee Hodgson Feb. 12-17. This brilliant play moves smoothly between
two centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between classical
and romantic temperaments, and the influence of sex on our life orbits the attraction
Newton left out.
The fifth production will be UW Dance Theatre: "A New Season for Dance," performed
in the Arts and Sciences auditorium March 15 17. It will feature guest choreographer
Bill Evans and work by UW dance faculty members Margaret Stalder, Marsha Knight and
Patricia Tate. This work will showcase the talent of increasing number of UW dance
majors.
Ending the performance season will be the touching and loving tender drama, "The Diary
of Anne Frank," dramatized by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Directed by professor
Rebecca Hilliker, it will play April 30 May 5. This emotional play captures the life
of Anne Frank and her family and the impassioned story of the lives of people persecuted
under Nazi rule.
Not included in the regular production season will be a special performance of vertical
dance. "Life in the Balance: Vertical Dance at Vedauwoo," choreographed by Margaret
Stalder and Neil Humphrey, will be performed at the Vedauwoo recreation area Sept.
8-9 at 1 p.m. All tickets are $5.
The fifth annual Gladys Crane Mountain Plains Film Festival will once again kick off
the fall semester with a series of documentary, feature, short, narrative, animated
and experimental films the weekend of Sept. 14 16. The festival features films that
deal with diversity and the changing landscape around us. It presents films and filmmakers
that challenge the status quo and expand our understanding of, and desire for, free
thought and expression. Ticket packages for the film festival are available through
the Fine Arts Ticket Office only. For more information call the Theatre and Dance
publicity office at (307) 766-2160.
Posted on Wednesday, August 01, 2001