by Kirby Kaufman in Arts & Leisure
"Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night," are words from William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that might describe Nebraska Shakespeare's version of the play.
The 55-minute adaptation attempts to condense the original, which typically runs anywhere from three to four hours.
by Mike Bell in Arts & Leisure
Behold! Laughter and tragedy, love and war!
This fall the UNO Theatre Department will present another season of four plays for all to come and enjoy.
"Picasso at the Lapin Agile," Steve Martin's first play, is a comedy about a fictional meeting between Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in Paris at a bar called the Lapin Agile.
by Mike Bell in Arts & Leisure
For the second year, professor Michael Peterson of the UNO Geography Department is teaching a class called Geography in Film (Geography 3050) that engages the students to look at the physical and human characteristics of a nation.
"I find that when you try to just describe these places to the class that its difficult to convey the way the people go about their lives and live off the land they inhabit, so I chose to try and show them through film," Peterson said.
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