(*) THE MEMORY OF WATER by Shelagh Stephenson, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, February 22 - March 2

University of the Incarnate Word Theatre Arts - located at 4301 Broadway, San Antonio, Texas, 78209

presents

 

The Memory of Water

by Shelagh Stephenson

February 22, 23, March 1 & 2 at 8 PM (Fridays & Saturdays) February 24 at 2 PM (Sunday) February 28 at 7PM (Thursday)

Tickets: Adults: $10 Seniors: $9 Non-UIW Students: $8 Groups (10 or more): $6

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The UIW Department of Theatre Arts invites you to The Memory of Water, a gloriously funny and deeply felt story about three bereaved sisters who have come together for the funeral of their mother. Witty rebuttals give way to festering resentments; booze and dope-fuelled hilarity to sudden glimpses of buried secrets and aching pain, all resulting in quarrels over the funeral arrangements, their well-worn family roles, their unsatisfactory men, and their mixed memories of their dearly departed mother.

The Memory of Water is directed by Mark Stringham with costumes by Margaret Mitchell and scenery and lighting by Melissa Gaspar.

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Book: Making The Scene by Oscar Brockett and Margaret Mitchell, new from University of Texas Press

Found on line:

1/11/2010
Professor Emeritus Publishes New Book

Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States
Oscar G. Brockett and Margaret A. Mitchell
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The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance announces the publication of professor emeritus, Oscar G. Brockett's, new book, Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States.

Co-authored by Margaret A. Mitchell, Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, Making the Scene offers an unprecedented survey of the evolving context, theory, and practice of scene design from ancient Greek times to the present. The work is enhanced by 350 full-color illustrations edited by Linda Hardberger, founding curator of the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts at the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.

Read more and view illustrations at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Uncle Vanya, Classic Theatre, San Antonio, August 20 - 30

San Antonio's Classic Theatre has opened its second season with a beautifully designed, perceptive and subtly paced production of one of my favorite works, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.

That's the shorthand version of the title. It was published as Uncle Vanya - Scenes from Country Life. Although at the heart of it there sits an eternally frustrated love triangle -- Vanya and Dr. Astrov both yearning for the unhappily married Yelena -- the play contains much, much more.

These scenes from country life contain an uneasy, boozy friendship between Vanya (John Minton) and Dr. Astrov (Anthony Ciaravino). Vanya and his niece Sonya (Laura Darnell) have spent long years managing the estate so as to finance the studies and urban living expenses of Sonya's father Serebryakov. Serebryakov (Allan S. Ross) has now retired to the estate, gout-ridden, cranky and self-important, after a mediocre academic career. We see relatively little of him, but we see a lot of his current wife Yelena (Emily Spicer) , who is scarcely older than his daughter Sonya.

As in all of Chekhov's dramas, we listen to conversations about the dissatisfactions of rural life, discussions of frustrated ideals and idle speculations about the future. His characters are as vivid as life but anything but heroic -- they are, instead, tentative, indecisive and yearning, perhaps the first in theatrical history to portray those very modern qualities.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .