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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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</B><FONT SIZE="5"><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> presents<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2><I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane<BR>
</I></H2></FONT>by Martin McDonagh<BR>
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Directed by Forrest Sears<BR>
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<B>Thursday, Friday & Saturday, September 8, 9 & 10<BR>
7:30 pm<BR>
Matinee Saturday, September 10<BR>
2:00 pm<BR>
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</B>Performances at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
508 S. Main St. Moscow, Idaho<BR>
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</B><FONT SIZE="5">Please join <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre<BR>
</I>at <I>One World Café<BR>
</I></FONT>for the <B>opening night reception<BR>
Thursday, September 8, 6:00 – 7:00 pm<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="5">Music by Potatohead<BR>
</FONT><U>Free food and drink hosted by <I>One World Café</I> for opening night ticket holders<BR>
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<I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I> also shows next week-<BR>
<B>Thursday, Friday & Saturday, September 15, 16 & 17<BR>
7:30 PM<BR>
Matinee Saturday, September 17<BR>
2:00 PM<BR>
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Tickets available at <I>BookPeople of Moscow and </I>at Moscow Farmers’ Market (Saturday 8 am – Noon)<BR>
<B>$15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students<BR>
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“McDonagh is a natural storyteller who knows how to express a theme through action, and he knows how to create a gallery of fascinating rogues. The energy of his plays is prodigious... McDonagh has managed to celebrate what remains enduring and alive in human nature even in the most appalling circumstances.” -- The New Republic<BR>
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"The most wickedly, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#993300">on either side of the Irish Sea..." -- The New York Times<BR>
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Winner of four Tony awards, <I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I> premiered in 1996 in Galway, Ireland. Set in Leenane, a small town in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, <I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I> tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as extraordinarily funny as it is horrific.<BR>
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<U>Cast<BR>
</U>Maureen Folan – Pam Palmer<BR>
Mag Folan – Valerie McIlroy<BR>
Pato Dooley – Peter Aylward<BR>
Ray Dooley – Michael Carpenter<BR>
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<I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I> contains strong themes that may offend some people.<BR>
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For more information about the play, group ticket sales or to volunteer with <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I>, <BR>
contact John Dickinson at 208-301-4361 or <johnd@moscow.com> <BR>
or visit the web site of <B><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre </I></B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.siriusidahotheatre.com/<BR>
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</B>Kenworthy Film Society presents<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2>My Summer of Love (R)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Sunday, September 11<BR>
4:45 & 7:00 pm<BR>
</B>$5/adults<BR>
<B>(see Review below)<BR>
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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .<BR>
</B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><BR>
</U></FONT>Kenworthy Film Society presents<BR>
<FONT SIZE="5"><B>American Values: American Wilderness</B></FONT><B> (not rated)<BR>
</B>A documentary film with Christopher Reeve<BR>
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<B>Sept 18 at 5:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13<BR>
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</B><FONT SIZE="5">Purchase your KFS (<I>Kenworthy Film Society</I>) pass this weekend.</FONT><B> <BR>
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</B><U>Purchase a new KFS punch card at the Moscow Farmers’ Market this Saturday.</U> <BR>
Available at the <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> ironing board, where you can also purchase tickets for the first play of SIT’s 2005-06 season.<BR>
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KFS passes also available at BookPeople of Moscow or the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre box office. <BR>
10 films for $30 or 30 films for $75. Passes accepted for all Sunday night films.<BR>
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Fall 2005 at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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<B>Rock School (R)<BR>
</B>A documentary film<BR>
Sept. 23 at 7:00 & 9:15 PM<BR>
Sept. 24 & 25 at 4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13<BR>
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<B>m-pact in concert<BR>
</B>Sept 30 at 7:30 PM<BR>
Tickets $12/adult, $6/student with ID<BR>
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<B>Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room<BR>
</B>Oct 7 - 9<BR>
Tickets $5/adult, $2/child under 13<BR>
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<B>Darol Anger Republic of Strings in concert<BR>
</B>October 27 at 7:30 PM<BR>
Tickets $16/adult, $12/senior or student<BR>
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Moscow Community Theatre presents<BR>
<B>Noodlehead<BR>
</B>November 3 - 5, 10 - 12 at 7:30 PM<BR>
November 6 & 12 at 2:00 PM<BR>
$11/adult, $9/student or senior<BR>
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<B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adult, $2 child under 13 <BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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Coming in October: Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Mad Hot Ballroom, Darol Anger in concert<BR>
Check web site for dates & times. <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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</U></FONT><B>This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>My Summer of Love<BR>
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Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. Written by Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne. <BR>
Based on the novel by Helen Cross<BR>
Running time: 1 hour, 25 minutes. <BR>
Rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has nudity, sex, profanity and some brief violence.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Ruthe Stein writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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Some movies grab you slowly, like a halting lover. Others never grab you at all. Instantly captivating, "My Summer of Love'' had me at hello.<BR>
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The greeting is exchanged in an exquisitely composed opening scene hinting at sexual tensions to come. Mona (Natalie Press), a lonely teenager living above a pub, is swimming in a pond in the English countryside when she sees a horse's eyes reflected in the water. Mona looks up at the elegant rider whose bearing as well as high-tone first name, Tamsin, reeks of old money and an earl or duchess somewhere in the family tree. <BR>
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Suspended from her last boarding school, Tamsin (Emily Blunt) is at loose ends. So, lacking anything better to do, she seduces Mona with her privileged life, giving the awestruck girl fancy clothes and free run of a huge estate, the kind tourists pay admission to peek inside. It's all foreplay to a literal seduction, accomplished as the two slow dance to Edith Piaf, whom Mona has never heard of. <BR>
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What distinguishes this British import from "A Summer Place'' and other Hollywood tales of impossible first love isn't the lesbianism, which director Pawel Pawlikowski wisely plays down. Caught up in the languorous mood he sets and the power moves steaming under the surface, you almost forget the lovers share a gender. <BR>
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Based on a novel of the same title, "My Summer of Love'' is about so much more than teen passion. It deals with class distinctions and with a sense of entitlement that comes from being to the manner born. And it's about self-discovery as Mona, in an attempt to even the playing field, realizes her own strengths. <BR>
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Press and Blunt have never been in a movie before let alone starred in one, but you'd never know it from the way they command the big screen. The actresses have chemistry, which makes the romance plausible, and they complement each other without competing for attention. <BR>
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With her dark hair and piercing eyes, Blunt looks like Ali MacGraw and has the haughtiness she brought to "Goodbye, Columbus.'' But Blunt's performance is subtler. Always the manipulator, her Tamsin puts on airs for effect. She drops them when she begins to confide in Mona so her new best friend will be grateful for the intimacy. <BR>
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Press is a live wire as Mona, natural redhead and hot to trot. Who wouldn't want to seduce her? Slowly, Press reveals the hurt Mona is covering up. Her mother recently died of cancer, and she never knew her father. Her brother (up-and-comer Paddy Considine, who also can be seen in "Cinderella Man'') is an ex-con who's discovered religion and turned the family pub into a center for born-again Christians. Just when you wonder where this subplot is heading, the film makes a surprise detour, and it becomes apparent. <BR>
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Pawlikowski, justly named one of 10 directors to watch by Variety, packs so much into "My Summer of Love,'' you feel you've spent a season with these intriguing characters instead of a mere 84 minutes. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Roger Ebert writing for the Chicago Sun-Times<BR>
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Her brother has gone bonkers. He's pouring all the booze down the drain and announcing he's turning the pub into a worship center for Jesus people. Mona and Phil inherited the pub from their parents, and live upstairs; Phil (Paddy Considine) has come to Jesus belatedly, after a spell in prison. Mona (Natalie Press) gets on her moped, which has no engine but nevertheless functions as a symbol of escape, and wheels it into the country outside their small Yorkshire town. That's the day she meets Tamsin.<BR>
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The title of "My Summer of Love" gives away two games at once: That she will fall in love, and that autumn will come. Mona is a tousled blond, 16 years old, dressed in whatever came to hand when she got up in the morning, bored by her town, her brother and her life. Her boyfriend has just broken up with her in a particularly brutal way. Tamsin (Emily Blunt) is a rich girl, about the same age, sleek and brunette, on horseback the first time Mona sees her. She's spending the summer at her family's country house. "You're' invited," she tells Mona. "I'm always here."<BR>
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That their summer leads to love is not quite the same thing as that it leads to a lesbian relationship. It's more like a teenage crush, composed in equal parts of hormones and boredom. But Tamsin and Mona promise to love one another forever, and as they swim in forest pools and ride around the countryside they form their own secret society.<BR>
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I'm not sure if the movie has a point. I'm not sure it needs one. I learn from Variety that the screenplay is inspired by a novel by Helen Cross that also involves a miner's strike and some murders. All of that is missing here, and what's left is a lazy summer of sweaty uncertain romance; this isn't a coming-of-age movie so much as a movie about being of an age. At the end, when Tamsin tries to explain herself to Mona, we understand how completely different these two teenage girls are; how one deals in irony and deception, and with the other what you see is what you get, whether you want it or not. <BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter A. Haggart<BR>
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<B><I>Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
</I>508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho<BR>
</B>For more information, call 208-882-4127 or visit http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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</B>Mailto:ppalmer@moscow.com<BR>
Film and Events Committee <BR>
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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