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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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</B><I>Kenworthy Film Society</I> presents<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Wallace & Gromit<BR>
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (G)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, Saturday & Sunday - November 25, 26 & 27<BR>
4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/Adults, $2/Children 12 or younger<BR>
KFS passes accepted for Sunday showings<BR>
<B>(see Review below)<BR>
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<I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I></B> announces <BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="5"><B>Auditions</B></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"> for <I>Sight Unseen</I>, by Donald Margulies<BR>
</FONT>-- Obie award for Best New American Play in 1992<BR>
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<B>Open Auditions <BR>
7 pm - Thursday, December 8th<BR>
</B>at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, 508 S. Main St. Moscow, Idaho<BR>
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Prepared monologues appreciated, but not required<BR>
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Rehearsals begin the first week of January; performances February 2-4 & 9-11, 2006<BR>
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<B><U>Characters:<BR>
</U></B>Jonathan, 35-40<BR>
Patricia, 35-40<BR>
Nick, 40s<BR>
Grete, 25-30<BR>
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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; Nick’s rural, working-class speech finds its way into his University accent, particularly when he’s been drinking; and Patricia’s dialect suggests that of an expatriate New Yorker living in England.<BR>
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For more information about the play or to volunteer with <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre<BR>
</I>contact Pam Palmer, Managing Artistic Director, at 208-596-2270 <siriusidahotheatre@gmail.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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Sirius Idaho Theatre is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.<BR>
Tax-deductible donations are appreciated - and essential.<BR>
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“<I>Let the beauty you love, be what you do.”<BR>
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December at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .<BR>
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<B>2046 (R)<BR>
</B>December 2<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
December 3 & 4<BR>
4:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Junebug (R)<BR>
</B>December 9<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
December 10 & 11<BR>
4:15 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Serenity (PG-13)<BR>
</B>December 16<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
December 17 & 18<BR>
4:15 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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Coming in January: The Squid & the Whale, Paradise Now, Oliver Twist<BR>
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Check KPAC’s web site for dates & times. <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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</U></FONT><B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adult, $2 child 12 or younger <BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><H2>Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit<BR>
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Animated comedy<BR>
Directed by Steve Box and Nick Park. <BR>
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<B>With the voices of:<BR>
</B>Wallace: Peter Sallis<BR>
Lord Victor Quartermaine: Ralph Fiennes<BR>
Lady Tottington: Helena Bonham Carter<BR>
PC Mackintosh: Peter Kay<BR>
Mrs. Mulch: Liz Smith<BR>
Rev. Clement Hedges: Nicholas Smith<BR>
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Running Time 1 hour, 25 minutes <BR>
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!<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Roger Ebert writing for the Chicago Sun-Times<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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."<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Peter Bradshaw writing for The Guardian (London)<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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<BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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<B><I>Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
</I>508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho<BR>
</B>208-882-4127<BR>
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