[ThisWeek] Pride & Prejudice at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre; Auditions for A Walk in the Woods

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This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre...

Pride & Prejudice (PG)
Friday, February 17
7:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday, February 18 & 19
4:00 & 7:00 PM
$5/adult, $2/children 12 and younger
KFS passes accepted for Sunday showings
(see Review below)
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Auditions for A Walk in the Woods
Wednesday, February 15, 8 PM at Eastside Marketplace (in the empty space
between the Dollar Store and Kinko¹s)

Sirius Idaho Theatre announces auditions for A Walk in the Woods, by Lee
Blessing, the final show of their 2005-06 season. Open auditions are being
held this Wednesday, February 15, 8:00 pm, at Eastside Marketplace in
Moscow. Prepared monologues are encouraged but not required. The script for
A Walk in the Woods is available for preview at BookPeople of Moscow.

A Walk in the Woods, nominated for both the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize in
1988, takes place in a ³pleasant woods on the outskirts of Geneva.² The
story follows the differences dividing two arms negotiators, one Soviet and
one American. It is a refreshing and humorous look at the frustrations
inherent in the negotiating process and allows us to understand the humanity
of these wise and decent men.

The cast consists of two men: Andrey Botvinnik, a 57 year old career Soviet
diplomat, and John Honeyman, a 45 year old American negotiator. Dialects are
not required for auditions.

Rehearsals for A Walk in the Woods begin in late February and performances
are April 6-8 & 13 - 15, 2006 at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre.
Sirius Idaho Theatre provides stipends for actors.

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, P.O. Box 8762, Moscow, ID 83843
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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-

Walk the Line (PG-13)
Friday, February 24
7:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday, February 25 & 26
4:00 & 7:00 PM
 
International Jazz Collections
2006 Lecture Series
Mark Cantor
Celluloid Improvisations:
Black, White, and Technicolor
February 25 at 12:30 PM
Free

Coming in March: Auditorium Chamber Music Series presents Masters of Persian
Music; Capote; U of I Women¹s Center Lunafest; U of I American Indian Film
Festival; Grangeville Bluegrass Company

Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre presents
Grangeville Bluegrass Company and Prairie Flyer in an evening of bluegrass
music on Friday, March 24, 2006 at 7:00 PM.
Tickets will go on sale March 1 for $12/ general admission and $8/child
under 13 years.
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Regular movie prices:  $5/adult, $2/children 12 and younger
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!

For more information, go to www.kenworthy.org or call 208-882-4127.
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This week¹s movie review-

Pride and Prejudice

Academy Award Nominations for ³Pride and Prejudice²

Best Actress: Keira Knightley
Best Art Direction
Best Original Score: Dario Marianelli
Best Costume

Directed by Joe Wright and written by Deborah Moggach,
based on the novel by Jane Austen
Running time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
Rated PG for some mild thematic elements.

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

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a
good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Everybody knows the first sentence
of Jane Austen's ³Pride and Prejudice.² But the chapter ends with a truth
equally acknowledged about Mrs. Bennet, who has five daughters in want of
husbands: "The business of her life was to get her daughters married."

Romance seems so urgent and delightful in Austen because marriage is a
business, and her characters cannot help treating it as a pleasure. ³Pride
and Prejudice² is the best of her novels because its romance involves two
people who were born to be in love, and care not about business, pleasure,
or each other. It is frustrating enough when one person refuses to fall in
love, but when both refuse, we cannot rest until they kiss.

Of course all depends on who the people are. When Dorothea marries the Rev.
Casaubon in Eliot's ³Middlemarch,² it is a tragedy. She marries out of
consideration and respect, which is all wrong; she should have married for
money, always remembering that where money is, love often follows, since
there is so much time for it. The crucial information about Mr. Bingley, the
new neighbor of the Bennet family, is that he "has" an income of four or
five thousand pounds a year. One never earns an income in these stories, one
has it, and Mrs. Bennet (Brenda Blethyn) has her sights on it.

Her candidate for Mr. Bingley's hand is her eldest daughter, Jane; it is
orderly to marry the girls off in sequence, avoiding the impression that an
older one has been passed over. There is a dance, to which Bingley brings
his friend Darcy. Jane and Bingley immediately fall in love, to get them out
of the way of Darcy and Elizabeth, who is the second Bennet daughter. These
two immediately dislike each other. Darcy is overheard telling his friend
Bingley that Elizabeth is "tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me."
The person who overhears him is Elizabeth, who decides she will "loathe him
for all eternity." She is advised within the family circle to count her
blessings: "If he liked you, you'd have to talk to him."

These are the opening moves in Joe Wright's new film "Pride & Prejudice,"
one of the most delightful and heartwarming adaptations made from Austen or
anybody else. Much of the delight and most of the heart comes from Keira
Knightley, who plays Elizabeth as a girl glowing in the first light of
perfection. She is beautiful, she has opinions, she is kind but can be
unforgiving. "They are all silly and ignorant like other girls," says her
father in the novel, "but Lizzie has something more of quickness than her
sisters."

The movie is well cast from top to bottom; like many British films, it
benefits from the genius of its supporting players. Judi Dench brings
merciless truth-telling to her role as a society arbiter; Sutherland is
deeply amusing as a man who lives surrounded by women and considers it a
blessing and a fate, and as his wife Blethyn finds a balance between her
character's mercenary and loving sides. She may seem unforgivably obsessed
with money, but better to be obsessed with money now than with poverty
hereafter.

When Lizzie and Darcy finally accept each other in "Pride & Prejudice," I
felt an almost unreasonable happiness. Why was that? I am impervious to
romance in most films, seeing it as a manifestation of box office
requirements. Here is it different, because Darcy and Elizabeth are good and
decent people who would rather do the right thing than convenience
themselves. Anyone who will sacrifice their own happiness for higher
considerations deserves to be happy. When they realize that about each other
their hearts leap, and, reader, so did mine.


As reviewed by Ruthe Stein writing for the San Francisco Chronicle

Did metrosexuals inhabit 18th century England? The deliriously charming new
adaptation of "Pride & Prejudice" raises such a possibility, an illustration
of how fresh the film seems while staying true to Jane Austen. It takes a
distinctly modern approach in depicting young women on the prowl for a mate.

The suspected metrosexual reveals his inclination while accompanying the
Bennet sisters to an emporium. Perusing a notions counter with a practiced
eye, he brags of his "very good taste in ribbons." This does not necessarily
make him good husband material for the five unwed siblings. It is a truth
universally acknowledged, at least in Austen's universe, that a man's
character counts above all else.

Lizzie (Keira Knightley), the second-oldest and the one with the most spunk,
is painfully slow to discover Austen's truism. The eureka moment when it
sinks in, played to the hilt by an animated Knightley, is a revelation no
matter how often you've experienced it before on the page or screen.

When a novel already has been dramatized six times -- most memorably in the
1940 Hollywood movie and '95 British miniseries -- the obvious question is
do we need another version. Absolutely, when it's as creatively re-imagined
and sublimely entertaining as the new "Pride & Prejudice."

Director Joe Wright, making a spectacular feature film debut after years
toiling in British television, sets the tempo in his first big scene -- a
party thrown by a wealthy bachelor who's taken a place in the country near
the Bennets. A line dance where the girls wait their turn to be twirled
around has the sweep of Vincente Minnelli's celebrated ball sequence in
"Madame Bovary." Wright's camera swoops up to the rafters to show the
ceiling height and give a sense of the hall's sheer size, then homes in on a
close-up of Lizzie partnering with the host's best friend, the enigmatic Mr.
Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen).

Wright wisely has cast young actors as the single set. This is a young
person's story. Austen completed a first draft when she was 21, making
Lizzie her age and Darcy a mere seven years older. The notion of courting in
your 40s, so 21st century, wouldn't make sense in a time when people were
ancient, if not dead, by then.

All those years trying to make TV miniseries look expensive on limited
budgets have paid off for Wright. "Pride & Prejudice" has a lush look. It
could be a travelogue for the English countryside and those fabulous
mansions you now need an admission ticket to peek inside. Sink down into
your seat and enmesh yourself in the richness before you, much as you would
with a good book. 


As reviewed by Steve Davis writing for the Austin Chronicle Review

This fresh adaptation shakes the dust off Jane Austen¹s early 19th-century
novel of manners and gives it a good airing out. The result is a witty and
lovesick skirmish of the sexes that exceeds all expectations.

The prickly courtship between the headstrong Lizzie Bennett (Knightley,
recently seen in Domino) and the sullen Mr. Darcy (Macfadyen) is one of
English literature¹s great romantic entanglements, and this screen version
of Pride & Prejudice imbues their rocky relationship with a vitality that¹s
missing from most paint-by-number love stories these days.

Director Wright is a relative newcomer to film, but you wouldn¹t know it. He
has a good storytelling sense and also makes use of tracking shots to
wonderful, illuminating effect, particularly in a scene at a party in which
the little dramas involving several of the film¹s characters play out. It is
no small feat that this film rejuvenates a work that most of us remember
only as required reading in our sophomore year in college. No question about
it, Pride & Prejudice does Jane Austen proud.


Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart
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