Theatre and Drama Department
The "dangerous liaisons" in Christopher Hampton's play have more deceit and intrigue than a Hollywood marriage. The award-winning drama "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" continues IU Theatre's 2011-12 season, opening Friday, Feb. 3, and continuing through Feb. 11 in the Wells-Metz Theatre. Ticket holders should be aware the play features mature content, including nudity.
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Indiana University Bloomington faculty members Selene Carter, George Pinney and Elizabeth Shea have been selected to receive funding in 2012 from the Fran Snygg Grant for Artistic Collaboration and the Fran Snygg Endowment Fund.
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The emphasis of "Contemporary Voices," the upcoming annual faculty/guest artist concert presented by the Indiana University Dance Theatre, is in no uncertain terms on "contemporary." A couple in their tighty whities dancing with nothing but a mattress. An inflatable sky dancer (yes, like the ones flapping at car dealerships). Original works by IU faculty members, one of whom uses intricate, high-tech embellishments, and another who hopes to see audience members calling the shots in her improvisational piece. Turning from its traditional nod to pioneers and masters of contemporary dance, the concert features only works created in the past decade.
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Athos, Porthos and Aramis ride again in a new staged translation of The Three Musketeers by emerging Chicago playwright-actor Robert Kauzlaric, opening tonight (Friday, Nov. 11) in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre at Indiana University Bloomington. Presented by IU Theatre, the plot revolves around a Gascon youth who teams up the musketeers, only to become entangled in a plot surrounding an evil cardinal, a sly lady and a romance between a duke and a queen. "Everybody knows of The Three Musketeers, but people rarely know the story behind it. Alexandre Dumas' novel is quite complex," director Murray McGibbon said.
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Indiana University Theatre's 2011-2012 season continues with a production of a new, staged translation of The Three Musketeers by emerging Chicago playwright/actor Robert Kauzlaric. Opening night is Friday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre.
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Indiana University Theatre's 2011-2012 season continues with a production of the Tony Award-nominated comedy In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, by award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl. Opening night is Friday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p.m. Set in 1875, the play unfolds during the early growth of residential electrical service and centers around the use of the vibrator -- which was then considered a medical device used by doctors to treat women with "hysteria."
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