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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre...<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Pride & Prejudice (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, February 17<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, February 18 & 19<BR>
4:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>$5/adult, $2/children 12 and younger<BR>
KFS passes accepted for Sunday showings<BR>
<B>(see Review below)<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5">Auditions for <I>A Walk in the Woods<BR>
</I></FONT></FONT>Wednesday, February 15, 8 PM at Eastside Marketplace (in the empty space between the Dollar Store and Kinko’s)<BR>
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<B><I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I></B> announces auditions for <I>A Walk in the Woods</I>, 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 <I>A Walk in the Woods</I> is available for preview at BookPeople of Moscow.<BR>
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<I>A Walk in the Woods</I>, nominated for both the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1988, takes place in a “pleasant woods on the outskirts of Geneva.” 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.<BR>
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<B>The cast consists of two men: </B>Andrey Botvinnik, a 57 year old career Soviet diplomat, and John Honeyman, a 45 year old American negotiator. Dialects are not required for auditions.<BR>
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Rehearsals for <I>A Walk in the Woods </I>begin in late February and performances are April 6-8 & 13 - 15, 2006 at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre. <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> provides stipends for actors.<BR>
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For more information about the play or to volunteer with <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I>, contact Pam Palmer, Managing Artistic Director, at 208-596-2270 <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>siriusidahotheatre@gmail.com</U></FONT> or visit the web site of <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre </I><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.siriusidahotheatre.com/<BR>
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Sirius Idaho Theatre, P.O. Box 8762, Moscow, ID 83843<BR>
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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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<B>Walk the Line (PG-13)<BR>
</B>Friday, February 24<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, February 25 & 26<BR>
4:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
<B> <BR>
</B>International Jazz Collections<BR>
2006 Lecture Series<BR>
<B>Mark Cantor<BR>
Celluloid Improvisations: <BR>
Black, White, and Technicolor<BR>
</B>February 25 at 12:30 PM<BR>
Free<BR>
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<B>Coming in March: </B>Auditorium Chamber Music Series presents <I>Masters of Persian Music;<B> </B>Capote</I>; <I>U of I Women’s Center Lunafest</I>; U of I American Indian Film Festival; Grangeville Bluegrass Company<BR>
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<B>Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre presents</B> <BR>
<I>Grangeville Bluegrass Company</I> and <I>Prairie Flyer</I> in an evening of bluegrass music on <B>Friday, March 24</B>, 2006 at 7:00 PM.<BR>
Tickets will go on sale March 1 for $12/ general admission and $8/child under 13 years</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier"><TT>.<BR>
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Regular movie prices: $5/adult, $2/children 12 and younger<BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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For more information, go to www.kenworthy.org or call 208-882-4127.<BR>
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This week’s movie review-<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Pride and Prejudice<BR>
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<U>Academy Award Nominations for “Pride and Prejudice”<BR>
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<I>Best Actress: Keira Knightley<BR>
Best Art Direction<BR>
Best Original Score: Dario Marianelli<BR>
Best Costume<BR>
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Directed by Joe Wright and written by Deborah Moggach, <BR>
based on the novel by Jane Austen<BR>
Running time: 2 hours, 7 minutes<BR>
Rated PG for some mild thematic elements.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Roger Ebert writing for the Chicago Sun-Times<BR>
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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 “Pride and Prejudice.” 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."<BR>
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Romance seems so urgent and delightful in Austen because marriage is a business, and her characters cannot help treating it as a pleasure. “Pride and Prejudice” 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.<BR>
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Of course all depends on who the people are. When Dorothea marries the Rev. Casaubon in Eliot's “Middlemarch,” 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.<BR>
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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."<BR>
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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."<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Ruthe Stein writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <B>Absolutely</B>, when it's as creatively re-imagined and sublimely entertaining as the new "Pride & Prejudice."<BR>
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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). <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Steve Davis writing for the Austin Chronicle Review<BR>
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This fresh adaptation shakes the dust off Jane Austen’s 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. <BR>
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The prickly courtship between the headstrong Lizzie Bennett (Knightley, recently seen in Domino) and the sullen Mr. Darcy (Macfadyen) is one of English literature’s great romantic entanglements, and this screen version of Pride & Prejudice imbues their rocky relationship with a vitality that’s missing from most paint-by-number love stories these days. <BR>
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Director Wright is a relative newcomer to film, but you wouldn’t 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 film’s 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.<BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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