Articles from:November 2013

• Centre for Digital Humanities pleased to host Every1Games’ Video Game Design programs

  Wednesday, November 27, 2013 | By Brock University

  Every1Games offers Video Game Design programs designed to be low anxiety learning environments for youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The Niagara Region workshops will be held in the Centre for Digital Humanities at Brock University.

  For more information please visit:
  http://every1games.ca/programs/category/niagara-workshops-at-the-center-for-digital-humanities-at-brock-university/

  Advanced Videogame Design and Digital Art

  Dates: Tuesdays, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm (November 18th to December 17th)
  Location: Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University

  E1G Niagara’s Digital Kids

  Dates: Saturdays, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm (November 21st to December 21st)
  Location: Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University

  Introduction to Videogame Design and Digital Art

  Dates: Saturdays, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm (November 21st to December 21st)
  Location: Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University

   

   

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• Dramatic Arts Professor directs Canadian premiere of a Benjamin Britten opera

  Tuesday, November 19, 2013 | By Brock University

  The 2013-2014 season of Toronto’s Voicebox/Opera in Concert showcases some ‘rarities of performance’ and features Gloriana by Benjamin Britten.

  The one-time concert performance at the Jane Mallet Theatre in Toronto is directed by Brock University Dramatic Arts Professor Virginia Reh.
   
  Gloriana was composed for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953 and VOICEBOX’s performance marks the 100Th Anniversary of the Composer’s birth.

  Queen Elizabeth I is approaching the end of her reign. Her affection for the impressive Earl of Essex is tested when he grows increasingly ambitious. Should she listen to the guidance of her advisors or be swayed by emotion? Moving from the pomp of state ceremony to the intimacy of the Queen’s private rooms, Gloriana depicts the public and private faces of the Virgin Queen, and the deterioration of her relationship with the impulsive Earl of Essex.

  The opera features 15 soloists. In this concert production 10 of the soloists will be coming out of the chorus. The production is in memory of Reh’s friend Stephen Ireland who passed away last October from complications arising from prostate cancer.  The production is sponsored by his foundation.

  Professor Reh will be directing the next mainstage production of the Department of Dramatic Arts, Jehanne of the Witches, opening February 13, 2014.
      
  BENJAMIN BRITTEN
  GLORIANA

  Sunday, November 24, 2013 — 2:30pm
  IN english
  Jane Mallett Theatre (at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts) Sunday, November 24 @2:30 p.m.

  purchase tickets here

  Featuring
  Peter Tiefenbach, Music Director and Pianist
  Virginia Reh, Dramatic Advisor
  Robert Cooper, Chorus Director

  Betty Waynne Allison as Queen Elizabeth I
  Jennifer Sullivan as Penelope (Lady Rich)
  Adam Luther as Lord of Essex
  Dion Mazerrole as Cecil
  Jesse Clark as Lord Mountjoy
  Christina Campsall as Countess of Essex
  Marco Petracchi as Sir Walter Raleigh
  Domenico Sanfilippo as Henry Cuffe
  Fabian Arciniegas as The Recorder of Norwich
  Joshua Wales as The Spirit of the Masque
  Keenan Viau as The Master of Ceremonies
  Gregory Finney as Old Man
  Lise Maher as Page
  Jessika Monea as Lady in Waiting
   

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• TWELFTH NIGHT, (or what you will) a comedy by William Shakespeare at the Department of Dramatic Arts

  Wednesday, November 06, 2013 | By Brock University

  TWELFTH NIGHT, (or what you will)

  a comedy by William Shakespeare

  November 7-9, 2013 at 7:30 PM
  Student Matinee November 08 at 11:30 AM

  DIRECTED BY Gyllian Raby.
  Co-Director and Vocal Coach: Danielle Wilson
  Assistant Director and Dramaturge: Keavy Lynch

  If music be the food of love, play on!
  “Twelfth Night, (or what you will)” presented on stage at the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre

  The Department of Dramatic Arts’ rendition of Twelfth Night gives this classic Shakespearean comedy a 20th century twist, setting it in the 1950s and taking audiences to the era of soul-searching country blues. This production runs November 7, 8 and 9, 2013 at 7:30 p.m., and November 8 at 11:30 a.m., held at the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Brock University.

  The magical fictitious kingdom of Illyria is a modern world where boys are boys and girls are girls and subterranean passions blow apart rigid conventions. Fools, lovers, and shipwrecked souls grapple adverse fortunes and comic misunderstandings to find what truth and love might mean. To meet Shakespeare’s demand that Illyria be a land where music is “the food of love,” we present the fool musician Feste as the leader of a country blues band.

  The production is a directorial collaboration between Dramatic Arts faculty Gyllian Raby and Danielle Wilson, assisted by Keavy Lynch. Raby states, “We are performing Twelfth Night using music rooted in contemporary culture, so although this production is not a musical, music is threaded throughout the play.” Wilson adds, “The play has many of the elements common to Elizabethan romantic comedy, including the devices of mistaken identity, separated twins, and gender-crossing disguise, and its plot revolves around whether one can manage betrayal, and overcome the obstacles to truth and love.“

  media release (PDF)

  Facebook Event

  High-School teachers should read this letter about the Matinee performance opportunities available for Twefth Night (November 2013) and Jehanne of the Witches (February 2014)  (PDF)
  

  A Study Guide is available for review,
  prepared by Gyllian Raby and Keavy Lynch:
  download to print a copy (PDF, 2.0 MB)

  watch this preview on Cogeco TV:

   

  see the article in the Brock News!

  

  (From left): Sean Rintoul, Chris Chapman and Bri Lidstone perform in the Department of Dramatic Arts production of Twelfth Night, which opens Nov. 7 at the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre.

  Announcing $5.00 Fridays!
  all holders of Brock ID cards – students, staff and faculty – are invited to take advantage of a special new price for the Matinee mainstage performance. Please present your ID card upon purchase of your ticket.

  Tickets for all performances including the $5.00 Friday Matinees are available through the  Box Office of the Centre for the Arts
  or  905.688.5550  x 3257

  For more information, please contact Marie Balsom, Co-ordinator of the School of Fine and Performing Arts, at 905-688-5550, ext. 4765; e-mail: [email protected]

   

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