[ThisWeek] Cow-Tipping and Other Signs of Stress; and An Inconvenient Truth at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

[This Week at the Kenworthy]

Continuing this week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre...

Sirius Idaho Theatre presents
World Première of
Cow-Tipping and Other Signs of Stress
by Gregory Fletcher

Directed by Stan Brown

Two more nights!

Performances this week:
Friday, September 29
Saturday, September 30
7:30 PM

Tickets and season passes available at:
BookPeople, Farmers¹ Market and Kenworthy box office an hour before each
performance
Adults - $15 per show or $40 pass
Seniors - $10 per show or $25 pass
Students - $6 per show or $15 pass

Undiscovered playwright Christopher Post has persevered through years of
rejection letters. Supported by Hilary Post, his pediatrician wife and
biggest fan, Christopher has nothing to show for his efforts except a drawer
crammed full of rejection letters from theaters around the country. After
asking the universe for a sign that he¹s on the right path, and while
attempting to sell his latest play to Tina Boyette, a struggling
off-Broadway producer, Christopher runs into Gareth Webster, an old college
buddy who works for Christopher¹s playwriting idol Ward Edington.
Christopher begins sneaking, stealing, hiding, conniving, teasing, and
fighting, and his life continues to snowball from there.  Saving his
marriage and career will be the hardest rewrite of his life.  A romantic
dramedy laced with farce and cows, this play includes adult situations and
brief nudity.

Christopher Post is played by James (JJ) Johnston, a University of Idaho MFA
candidate. Last year JJ acted in the University of Idaho productions A Flea
in Her Ear and Boy Gets Girl. Hilary Post is played by Chris Stordahl, a
second year University of Idaho MFA candidate in Costume Design and
Technology. Some of her past productions include Wit, Stop Kiss and Ghosts.
Tina Boyette is played by Andriette Pieron, founding board member of Sirius
Idaho Theatre and Director of Neill Public Library, previously seen in Steel
Magnolias. Gareth Webster is played by Luke Daigle, who graduated this past
May with a BFA in performance from the University of Idaho Department of
Theatre and Film. This summer Daigle performed in IRT¹s Schoolhouse Rock and
Comedy of Errors. Directed by WSU theatre professor Stan Brown, Cow-Tipping
and Other Signs of Stress portrays life issues and alternate lifestyles in
positive ways.

Cow-Tipping and Other Signs of Stress won the 2005 American College Theatre
Festival Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting.

For more information, visit www.SiriusIdahoTheatre.com
<http://www.siriusidahotheatre.com/>  or call Pam Palmer, Managing Artistic
Director at 208-596-2270.
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Also this week at the Kenworthy-

Back by popular demand:
An Inconvenient Truth (PG)
Sunday, October 1
2:30, 4:45 & 7:00 PM
$5/adult, $3/children 12 and younger
KFS pass accepted for Sunday movies
(See movie review below)
Panel discussion following 7:00 PM show
With Chris Caudill of the UI Dept of Fish and Wildlife Resources
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Coming in October: Who Killed the Electric Car?; Little Miss Sunshine

Regular movie prices:  $5/adult, $3/child 12 or younger
KFS series pass prices:  $30/10 films, $75/30 films.  KFS pass good only for
Sunday movies.

For more information on movies, events, rental rates, and/or to download a
schedule, visit our website at www.kenworthy.org
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This week¹s movie review-

An Inconvenient Truth

Documentary Film
Directed by Davis Guggenheim
Starring Al Gore
Rated PG
Running Time 1 hour, 34 minutes


As reviewed by Peter Travers writing for Rolling Stone Magazine

This stir-it-upper from director Davis Guggenheim is basically a lecture by
Al Gore about global warming, including a multimedia slide show and shots of
the former veep on the road, giving speeches and plugging thoughts into his
Apple computer on environmental issues that have obsessed him for two
decades. Dull? Not a bit. It grabs you like a thriller with an ending that
will haunt your dreams. Gore keeps us riveted by being charming, literate
and profoundly persuasive on a topic that's scarier than anything in a dozen
Japanese horror flicks. Vote Gore on this one.


As reviewed by Mick LaSalle writing for the San Francisco Chronicle

If things are even half as bad as Al Gore says they are, "An Inconvenient
Truth" is the most important movie anyone will make this year. The film's
significance as a wake-up call about global warming overshadows all its
other virtues. Yes, it handles complicated material in a clear and
entertaining way. Yes, it renders cinematic what might have seemed like a
static lecture, and yes, Al Gore is funny and engaging in a way you've never
seen him be. But beyond that, the movie brings a feeling of history:
Virtually everyone who sees this movie will be galvanized to do something
about global warming -- and everyone should see this movie.

For some, the tipping point will come with the charts showing the rapid
increase in global temperatures and the accompanying increases in greenhouse
gases. For others, it will be the sight of polar bears struggling to find
ice in the Arctic, or of shots of glaciers reduced to almost nothing in a
span of only 30 or 40 years. It's a shock to see photographic evidence that
the snows of Kilimanjaro have been reduced to a light dusting.

Through these pictures, Gore shows that global warming is no longer a
hypothetical. It's here already, and the evidence is everywhere, not least
in the floods, hurricanes and droughts that we're seeing all over the world
-- our "nature hike through the book of Revelations," as he calls it. Most
ominous of all is evidence that the Antarctic ice shelf and the glaciers of
Greenland are breaking up at a rate well beyond anything even scientists
anticipated. If either were to melt completely -- or if each were to melt
halfway -- the consequences would be dire for every coastal city, including
Shanghai, New York and San Francisco. Indeed, about a fourth of Florida
would disappear, though why Gore should care about that is another question
entirely.

Director Davis Guggenheim intersperses scenes of Gore giving his lecture
with personal scenes, in which Gore recalls his political career, discusses
his lifelong interest in environmentalism and talks about the crises that
have shaped his worldview. We see Gore traveling, getting searched and
patted down as he goes through airport security to deliver yet another
lecture in another city. By his own estimate, he has done this global
warming lecture about a thousand times.

In "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore has the look of a man who's been through
something big and awful and has come out the other side. Have you ever seen
newsreel footage of the young Franklin D. Roosevelt before he contracted
polio and contrasted it with the later Roosevelt of history? The young
Roosevelt looks like a slick ambition machine, to whom nothing bad has ever
happened. The older Roosevelt looks just as shrewd and calculating, but with
a look in his eyes that suggests that now he knows why he's being shrewd and
calculating. Well, Gore, who saw his life ambition turn to ashes thanks to a
faulty ballot in Palm Beach County, has that look, and it's there for
everyone to see in "An Inconvenient Truth."

Winston Churchill once said that "Americans will always do the right thing,
after they've exhausted every alternative." According to "An Inconvenient
Truth," we're about down to exactly one alternative with regard to global
warming, unless you count sticking our heads in the sand and waiting for the
sand to turn to water. This movie throws down a challenge. In the next
months, we'll see whether Churchill was right.


As reviewed by William Arnold, movie critic for the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer

Gore-haters and global-warming naysayer¹s will try to dismiss it, but it's
hard to imagine how anyone -- no matter what their political or religious
persuasion, or personal feelings about the former vice president -- can sit
through it and not be profoundly affected.

The film is essentially a deluxe filmed version of the "slide show" Gore has
been presenting and refining since 1978, in which he concisely lays out the
case that our carbon-dioxide emissions trapped in the Earth's atmosphere are
systematically destroying the environment.

The debate, Gore says, is over. The scientific community agrees the planet
is heating up, we are primarily responsible, the effects are catastrophic,
the effects are accelerating and there is still time to turn it around --
but not much time, maybe a decade.

Gore calmly shows us evidence that the ice caps are melting, the ocean
levels are rising, the weather is going crazy and -- if we don't act --
we're staring at a future of hurricanes, floods, droughts, insect plagues,
epidemics and social, political and economic chaos.

Part biopic, "Truth" also traces Gore's personal odyssey to total commitment
on this issue, influenced by three trials: the death of his older sister to
lung cancer, the near-death of his son in a traffic accident and his
hairsbreadth loss of the presidency to George W. Bush.

The film is, of course, exactly the kind of didactic, issue-oriented
documentary that tends to preach to the converted, and Gore himself (who had
to be persuaded to take part in the project) originally doubted that anyone
would buy a ticket to hear his grim message.

But this expertly put together lecture, with illuminating animation and
special effects, is absolutely riveting. It's also strangely entertaining
and so ultimately inspiring that it seems destined to be the biggest "event"
documentary since "Fahrenheit 9/11."


Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart
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