[ThisWeek] Random Acts of Love, free audition workshop and The Life Aquatic at the Kenworthy

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This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
The U.S. premiere of a romantic comedy by Uniontown playwright, Bruce Gooch

Sirius Idaho Theatre
in conjunction with new fangled  stages,
 presents
Random Acts of Love by Bruce Gooch
Directed by Forrest Sears

Opening night- Wednesday, April 6 at 7:30 pm
Sponsored by Above the Rim Gallery and One World Café
Reception following the show at One World Café

Thursday, April 7, 7:30 pm
Sponsored by Moscow Realty and Casa de Lopez

Friday, April 8, 7:30 pm
Sponsored by Wells Fargo, Main Moscow Branch

Saturday, April 9 at 2:00 pm
Sponsored by Latah County Title Company

Saturday, April 9 at 7:30 pm
Sponsored by the Itani family

Tickets available at BookPeople of Moscow or TicketsWest
(www.ticketswest.com <http://www.ticketswest.com/> 800-325-SEAT,
208-885-7212)
$15 adults and $9 seniors/students (plus applicable fees)

Recognized as ³Outstanding New Play² at the Toronto Fringe Festival 2004,
Random Acts of Love features Bruce Gooch, a Uniontown native and University
of Idaho alum, and Lynn Vogt, co-founders of Toronto-based new fangled
stages.

Forrest Sears, University of Idaho Professor Emeritus of Theatre, is working
with Sirius Idaho Theatre to bring this production to the Palouse. Sears, in
speaking about his former student Bruce Gooch, says, ³Bruce¹s new play,
Random Acts of Love, is the most romantic, gripping and compelling of all
his many fine scripts. For lovers of Shakespeare, it is a must. For those
new to the bard, it will lure you into his works like nothing else I know.²

Synopsis
Having had the audacity to age, Victoria Daniels, played by Vogt, has been
³let go² from her daytime drama. She ditches trash-for-cash television and
agrees to star in a two-character play of Shakespeare¹s greatest hits called
The Seven Ages of Love. Confident in this decision for herself and her
children, she runs head long into her co-star, Russell Thomas, played by
Gooch, an actor with whom she had a passionate encounter fifteen years
earlier. They battle and brawl their way through rehearsals, threatening to
ruin the show. Random Acts of Love links the past and present into a love
story about the theatre, Shakespeare and second chances.

Preview night, sponsored by Moscow Civic Association
http://www.moscowcivic.org is Tuesday, April 5th.
Reception at 6:30 pm, performance at 7:30 pm. Talk-back with the actors (and
playwright) after the show.
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Audition workshop for actors
Thursday, April 7, 2:30 ­ 5:00 pm
FREE admission
For anyone interested in learning more about the life and livelihood of an
actor.

Lynn Vogt and Bruce Gooch, professional actors from Toronto, audition for
their livelihood up to 10 times a week. They know what casting directors are
looking for in film, TV, stage and commercials. They coach actors for
individual auditions. They will teach what you need to know about auditions,
from walking into the room to walking out. Gooch and Vogt will work with ten
students. Observers will gain almost as much as the participants on stage
and are encouraged to attend.

For more information about the play, audition workshop, or to sign up as an
usher for one performance, call Pam Palmer at 883-3741 or visit the web site
of Sirius Idaho Theatre http://www.siriusidahotheatre.com/
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This Sunday only-

Kenworthy Film Society presents

The Life Aquatic (R)
Sunday, April 10
1:30/4:15/7:00 PM
$5 adults
KFS passes accepted for Sunday movies
(see Review below)
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Next week at the Kenworthy-

An evening of Bluegrass music with
the Spokane-based band, South Hill Ramblers, and local favorites, Blackberry
Jam and Steptoe
April 15, 7:00 PM
Tickets $10/adult, $7/child under 13

The concert is a fund-raiser for future bluegrass concerts at the Kenworthy.
Tickets $10/adult, $7/child 12 or younger
Available April 1 at BookPeople of Moscow.
Tickets may also be purchased with Visa or MasterCard by calling the
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre at 208-882-4127.

A Series of Unfortunate Events (PG)
April 16, 1:00/3:45/7:00 PM
April 17, 1:00/3:45

Borah Symposium presents
About Baghdad
April 17, 7:00 PM
FREE
(more information below)

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Also in April at the Kenworthy-

A Very Long Engagement (R)
April 22, 7:00 PM
April 23 - 24, 4:15/7:00 PM

Born into Brothels (NR)
April 29, 7:00 PM
April 30 - May 1, 4:45/7:00 PM

Coming in May:  The Sea Inside, Hard Goodbyes My Father, Lost Embrace.

Regular Movie prices:  $5 adults, $2 children 12 and younger.
KFS passes accepted for Sunday movies

Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho
For more information, call 208-882-4127 or visit http://www.kenworthy.org
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This week¹s review-

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Directed by Wes Anderson; written by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach
Running time: 118 minutes.
Rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has
swearing, some partial nudity and a few scenes of bloodshed. This film
contains nudity, cartoonlike violence and sexual situations.

As reviewed by Mick LaSalle writing for the San Francisco Chronicle

Onscreen, Bill Murray has the deep revolving sadness of a man who expects to
be treated like a hero, while possessing none of the qualities that would
command such a reaction. This incongruity -- this disconnect between self-
conception and reality -- has always been at the source of his comedy, but
it's also what makes him more than simply funny. Even as we laugh, we
recognize the bitterness and disenchantment as genuine. Who could have
guessed, when Murray was in his 20s, that he'd grow into the best comic
exemplar of middle-aged misery since W.C. Fields?

In "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou," director Wes Anderson takes Murray
-- an emissary from the land of prose -- and drops him into a poetic
landscape. "The Life Aquatic" is a children's book of a movie, with the
interior logic of a dream, full of vibrant colors and fantastic visuals. And
in the midst of it, keeping all of it from flying away, is Murray, with his
sad-sack, satiric face, playing an undersea documentarian going through a
personal and professional crisis.

The film is often quite funny, but there are no bits and no punch lines.
Laughing at any point makes about equal sense. "Sorry I didn't acknowledge
your existence all those years," Steve tells the man who might be his son.
"It won't happen again." The low-key comic style lets the audience notice
the absurdity, while allowing the actors to play the emotions straight. Thus
Murray and Wilson are able to achieve a father-son poignancy in their
interaction, even though most of their scenes are intentionally and faintly
ridiculous. 

Murray's scenes with Cate Blanchett work similarly. She plays a virtual
parody of a crusading journalist, a five-months-pregnant magazine writer
interviewing Steve for a "cover story," a prospect that fills him with hope
and paranoia. Their conversations satirize the tortured dance of celebrities
and reporters. Yet "The Life Aquatic" also takes us into the pain of a
working woman, on her own, pregnant by a married lover.

As reviewed by A. O. Scott writing for the New York Times

''The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,'' based on a script by Mr. Anderson
and Noah Baumbach conjures up an imaginary world that encompasses wild
ocean-faring technologies and fanciful species of computer-animated fish.
Rather than tacking toward the shore of realism, Mr. Anderson blithely heads
for the open sea of self-indulgent make-believe. As someone who was more
annoyed than charmed by ''Tenenbaums,'' I should have been completely
exasperated with ''The Life Aquatic,'' with its wispy story and
wonder-cabinet production design, but to my surprise I found it mostly
delightful. 

Some of this has to do with Bill Murray, who occupies nearly every frame of
the picture, usually sighing and frowning right in the middle of the screen.
Mr. Anderson favors static, head-on compositions stuffed with beguiling
details, and Mr. Murray holds still for him, allowing the audience's eyes to
peruse his carefully arranged surroundings.

The actor's quiet, downcast presence modulates the antic busyness that
encircles him, and his performance is a triumph of comic minimalism. Like
Gene Hackman's Royal Tenenbaum, Mr. Murray's Steve Zissou is a flawed,
solipsistic patriarch, though his defining emotion is not intemperate anger
but a vague, wistful tristesse. His doughy face fringed by a grizzled Ernest
Hemingway beard and topped by a red watch cap, Mr. Murray turns tiny
gestures and sly, off-beat line readings into a deadpan tour-de-force, at
once utterly ridiculous and curiously touching.

Zissou is a famous ocean explorer whose undersea adventures have less to do
with scientific research than with pop-culture branding. He makes movies,
administers a vast fan club, and keeps his eye out for merchandising
opportunities. 

In my ideal cinémathèque, ''The Life Aquatic'' would play on a permanent
double bill with ''The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.'' Mr. Anderson and
Stephen Hillenburg, Mr. Squarepants's creator, share not only a taste for
nautical nonsense, but also a willingness to carry the banner of unfettered
imaginative silliness into battle against the tyranny of maturity.

Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart
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Borah Symposium presents ³About Baghdad²

The Borah Symposium this year, "Voices of Peace," is planned for April
17-April 20, 2005. The community kick-off event is a screening of the
documentary "About Baghdad" and meeting with the co-producer, Adam Shapiro.
The film is free and open to the public, 7:00 pm, April 17.  The
documentary, 'About Baghdad' is an hour and 30 minute documentary, shot in
totality in Baghdad in July 2003 (3 months into the occupation), and thus it
reveals a quite interesting place in time.

"About Baghdad" received numerous accolades and prestigious recognition; The
New York Times stated that it "manages to present a true diversity of
opinion. . . emotionally and intellectually challenging." It won Best
Documentary at the Big Apple Film Festival 2004 (NY), the Official Selection
of  IDFA 2004 (Amsterdam),  Montreal World Film Festival --Official
selection, Festival do Rio 2004 (Rio de Janeiro), International Film
Festival of Human Rights of Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao, Girona &
Viranoz) and now it will be showing in Moscow, Idaho.

About Baghdad is an independent film of eyewitness testimony about and from
Iraqi people.  The documentary portrays a yearning for peace, reflections on
the complexity of the conditions for peace, and in essence portrays a drama
that is still unfolding.  In July 2003, Sinan Antoon, an exiled Iraqi writer
and poet, returned to Baghdad to see what has become of his city after wars,
sanctions, decades of oppression and violence, and now presence of foreign
power.  

The documentary will be introduced by one of its producers;  Adam Shapiro
(Please note the change form Dr. Rania Masri who regrettably is unable to
attend) Comments and conversation with Co-Producer Adam Shapiro, currently a
Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at American University in
Washington, DC.  He holds an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University
and an MA in Politics from New York University.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Adam is a founding member of InCounter
Productions, which produced the film "About Baghdad" (www.aboutbaghdad.com),
a documentary filmed in Baghdad, Iraq in July 2003.  Adam co-produced and
co-directed the film, and was in Iraq as part of the on-location film crew.
His current film project is focusing on Darfur (www.darfurfilm.org), where
he filmed in October/November 2004.  The documentary film is due to be
completed in March 2005.

Previously Adam served in numerous capacities for Seeds of Peace, notably as
the first Director of the Center for Coexistence in Jerusalem, where he
oversaw all youth programs in the region.  He also worked as a consultant
for Civic Forum - a Jerusalem-based Palestinian NGO working on developing
civil society and democracy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.  Adam
has traveled the region extensively and in addition to the West Bank has
lived and worked in Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus and Iraq.  Additionally, he
has organized youth conferences in Villars, Switzerland and Prague, Czech
Republic.

Adam has spoken widely about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and about the
post-war occupation of Iraq, appearing at universities and other public
forums throughout the United States and the Middle East, and has been a
guest on many television and radio programs and interviewed for newspaper
articles, including CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, Pacifica Radio and the New York
Times.  He has also published articles in The Nation.

For more information about the film and to view the film trailer please
visit the website at www.AboutBaghdad.com <http://www.aboutbaghdad.com/>
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PAMELA PALMER, Volunteer
Mailto:ppalmer at moscow.com
Film and Events Committee
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

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