[ThisWeek] Wallace & Gromit -The Curse of the Were-Rabbit at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

Tue Nov 22 15:04:45 PST 2005

This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-

Kenworthy Film Society presents
Wallace & Gromit
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (G)
Friday, Saturday & Sunday - November 25, 26 & 27
4:45 & 7:00 PM
$5/Adults, $2/Children 12 or younger
KFS passes accepted for Sunday showings
(see Review below)
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Sirius Idaho Theatre announces
Auditions for Sight Unseen, by Donald Margulies
-- Obie award for Best New American Play in 1992

Open Auditions 
7 pm - Thursday, December 8th
at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, 508 S. Main St. Moscow, Idaho

Prepared monologues appreciated, but not required

Rehearsals begin the first week of January; performances February 2-4 &
9-11, 2006

Characters:
Jonathan, 35-40
Patricia, 35-40
Nick, 40s
Grete, 25-30

Jonathan and Patricia are American; Nick is English. Grete is German; her
English is excellent, if accented.  Jonathan has maintained his
working-class Brooklyn accent; Nick¹s rural, working-class speech finds its
way into his University accent, particularly when he¹s been drinking; and
Patricia¹s dialect suggests that of an expatriate New Yorker living in
England.

For more information about the play or to volunteer with Sirius Idaho
Theatre
contact Pam Palmer, Managing Artistic Director, at 208-596-2270
<siriusidahotheatre at gmail.com>
or visit the web site of Sirius Idaho Theatre
http://www.siriusidahotheatre.com/

Sirius Idaho Theatre is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Tax-deductible donations are appreciated - and essential.

³Let the beauty you love, be what you do.²
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December at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .

2046 (R)
December 2
7:00 PM
December 3 & 4
4:00 & 7:00 PM

Junebug (R)
December 9
7:00 PM
December 10 & 11
4:15 & 7:00 PM

Serenity (PG-13)
December 16
7:00 PM
December 17 & 18
4:15 & 7:00 PM

Coming in January: The Squid & the Whale, Paradise Now, Oliver Twist

Check KPAC¹s web site for dates & times. http://www.kenworthy.org

Regular Movie prices:  $5 adult, $2 child 12 or younger
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!
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This week¹s review-

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Animated comedy
Directed by Steve Box and Nick Park.

With the voices of:
Wallace: Peter Sallis
Lord Victor Quartermaine: Ralph Fiennes
Lady Tottington: Helena Bonham Carter
PC Mackintosh: Peter Kay
Mrs. Mulch: Liz Smith
Rev. Clement Hedges: Nicholas Smith

Running Time 1 hour, 25 minutes
Advisory: While this film is rated G, it is definitely a hard G. There are a
few vegetable-related sexual innuendos. And although you can't see his
naughty bits, the dog doesn't wear pants -- which is especially strange
because he does wear a hat!

As reviewed by Roger Ebert writing for the Chicago Sun-Times

Wallace and Gromit are arguably the two most delightful characters in the
history of animation. Between the previous sentence and this one I paused
thoughtfully and stared into space and thought of all of the other animated
characters I have ever met, and I gave full points to Bugs Bunny and high
marks to Little Nemo and a fond nod to Goofy, and returned to the page
convinced that, yes, Wallace and Gromit are in a category of their own. To
know them is to enter a universe of boundless optimism, in which two
creatures who are perfectly suited to each other venture out every morning
to make the world into a safer place for the gentle, the good and the funny.

Wallace is an inventor. Gromit is a dog, although the traditional human-dog
relationship is reversed in that Gromit usually has to clean up Wallace's
messes. No, not those kinds of messes. They're not that kind of movie. In
three short subjects and now in their first feature, Wallace sails out
bravely to do great but reckless deeds, and Gromit takes the role of adult
guardian.

In "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," they face their
greatest challenge. Lady Tottington is holding her family's 517th annual
Giant Vegetable Fete, and all the gardeners for miles around are lovingly
caressing their gigantic melons and zucchinis and carrots and such, and
Wallace and Gromit are responsible for security, which means keeping rabbits
out of the garden patches.

Their company is named Anti-Pesto. Their methods are humane. They do not
shoot or poison the bunnies. Instead, Wallace has devised another of his
ingenious inventions, the Bun-Vac, which sucks the rabbits out of their
holes and into a giant holding tube, so that they can be housed in comfort
at Anti-Pesto headquarters, and feast on medium and small vegetables. Their
tactics perfectly suit Lady Tottington's humane convictions.

They have a rival, the sniveling barbarian Lord Victor Quartermaine, a gun
nut with a toupee heaped on his head like a mess of the sort Gromit never
has to clean up. Lord Victor dreams of marrying Lady Tottington and treating
himself to the luxuries of her ancestral wealth, and that involves
discrediting and sabotaging Anti-Pesto and all that it stands for. Thus is
launched the affair of the Were-Rabbit, a gigantic beast (with a red polka
dot tie) that terrorizes the neighborhood and inspires the Reverend Hedges
to cry out, "For our sins a hideous creature has been sent to punish us."

I dare not reveal various secrets involving the Were-Rabbit, so I will skip
ahead, or sideways, to consider Wallace's new invention, the Mind-o-Matic,
which is intended to brainwash rabbits and convince them they do not like
vegetables. That this device malfunctions goes without saying, and that
Gromit has to fly to the rescue is a given.

Wallace and Gromit are the inventions of a British animator named Nick Park,
who co-directs this time with Steve Box. In an era of high-tech CGI, Park
uses the beloved traditional form of stop-motion animation. He constructs
his characters and sets out of Plasticine, a brand of modeling clay, and
makes minute adjustments to them between every frame, giving the impression
not only of movement but of exuberant life and color bursting from every
frame.

As reviewed by Peter Bradshaw writing for The Guardian (London)

Nick Park's thoroughly delightful Wallace And Gromit animation is a lovely
family film. The script, co-written by Nick Park with Steve Box, Bob Baker
and Mark Burton, is a model of high-IQ comedy writing, and every scene and
every frame is crafted with flair.

There's pure, unpretentious joy in every minute and Nick Park never insists
on any misjudged Tim Burton-ish moments of "darkness". The supporting
voicework is a treat.

There's plenty of nifty visual humour: an embarrassment of riches, in fact.
Wallace and Gromit's security system on local greenhouses is activated with
a bleeping sound like a car alarm. Just a throwaway little touch, but
there's more comic invention in it than in a hundredweight of lesser British
films. 

Park also neatly pastiches Jaws and King Kong for his final climactic
confrontation with the big rabbity monster. Anyone tempted to patronise Nick
Park's tremendous creation should think again. It's blue-chip entertainment
for children and grownups alike

Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart
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Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho
208-882-4127
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PAMELA PALMER, Volunteer
Mailto:ppalmer at moscow.com
Film and Events Committee
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

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