The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 3, 1986 Page: 13 of 20
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THIS WEEK/by Nancy Collier
Cinema
Rice Media Center. Part of the Reel Women series,
tonight's films star Jean Harlow and Joan Crawford. The
first showing at 7:30 features Red Dust, with Harlow and
Clark Gable as tough-talking lovers on a rubber
plantation in Indochina. A screen adaptation of Somerset
Maugham's story Rain will be shown at 9:00 p.m. Here,
Crawford plays a floozie who tempts a South Seas
missionary. Tomorrow and Sunday, Forever Young is
featured as part of the First Love series. The film is a
somewhat tragic tale of a priest's affection for a young
woman and her son. Showtimes are 7:30 and 9:15
Saturday, and 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
* * *
Down By Law. The Texas premiere of this new film by Jim
Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise) was last night at the
Museum of Fine Arts. The film opens today for a run at the
Greenway III Theater. Part of the 1986 Cannes Film
Festival, the film features Tom Waits, John Lurie and
Roberto Benigni as an unlikely trio who escape from the
New Orleans Parish Prison, and wander through the wild
Louisiana bavou country.
Theatre
Asinamali!. Presented jointly by the Alley Theater and
Society for the Performing Arts, Asinamali! will continue
its run at the Tower Theater through tomorrow night. The
drama is performed by South Africa's Market Theater,
which has just completed an off-Broadway production of
the play in New York. Written by Mbongeni Mgema, of
Woza Albert! fame, the play examines the fate of five
South African prison inmates. Through a blend of song,
dance and drama, the men relive the events which brought
them to prison. Performance times are 8:00 p.m. tonight,
9:00 p.m. Saturday, and 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets: 228-8421.
* * *
Alley Theater. Preview performances for Another Part of
the Forest, the opening production of the 1986-87 season,
begin tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. The drama by Lillian
Hellman first opened on Broadway in 1946; it concerns the
actions of the greedy Hubbard family, which is the same
clan found in her later drama, The Little Foxes.
Performance times for October 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 are all at
8 p.m. Tickets: 228-8421.
* * *
Stages. Terra Nova, a play by Ted Talley, will have preview
performances this week before the opening on October 9.
The drama relates the experience of Robert Falcon Scott
and five other Englishmen in their attempt to reach the
South Pole. The men were in a race with a team of
Norwegians, and only the Norwegians made it back alive.
Several issues are explored in the play, from the courage of
the men involved to the question of how much sacrifice
was justified by the explorers' goal. The opening night
performance will be dedicated to the memory of the NASA
Challenger crew. Performance times are 2:00 p.m. October
5, and October 7,8, and 9 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets: 52-STAGE.
Dance
(l-r) Beth Forger, Phillip Hafer, and Roberta Stokes in Bach
Roberta Stokes Dance Company. The company will
present a new work by Stokes, the Bach Project, in1
tonight's performance at Miller Outdoor Theater. The
evening Jong piece utilizes both movement and drama to
explore the life of the composer. Actor Phillip Hafer is
featured as Bach. A pre-preformance picnic is available for
$10 per person; proceeds will benefit the dance company.
The performance begins at 8:30 p.m. For picnic
information: 661-8761 or 464-8100.
* * *
Joffrey Ballet. The company opens the 1986-87 Society for
the Performing Arts season tonight at Jones Hall. All four
ballets in the performance are Houston premieres: Gerald
Arpino's Birthday Variations, James Kudelka's Passage.
William Forsythe's Love Songs, and Arden Court, by Paul
Taylor. Saturday night's performance will be devoted to
works by Arpino, the company's resident choreographer,
and the performance on Sunday features ballets by
Frederick Ashton, Mark Haim and James Kudelka. Not
seen in Houston for a number of years, the company is
currently celebrating its 30th anniversary.Performance
times are 7:30 p.m. tonight, 8:00 p.m. Saturday and 2:30
p.m. Sunday. Tickets: 227-ARTS.
Classical
Shepherd School of Music. On Monday, October 6, the
Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra presents its second
concert of the season. Uri Mayer will conduct a program
featuring Beethoven's Symphony No. 2, Let Us Now
Praise Famous Men by Samuel Jones, and the Miraculous
Mandarin by Bartok. The Emerson String Quartet
performs on Tuesday, October 7, and there is a
concert scheduled for Thursday,October 9, which features
the Scandinavian group Sonanza. Both performances will
take place in Hamman Hall at 8:00 p.m.
Festivals
Greek Festival. The twentieth annual Greek Festival will
take place tonight and tomorrow, from 11:00 a.m. until
11:00 p.m. Held at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox
Cathedral, the celebration features ethnic food, dancing,
movies, tours of the cathedral, and an assortment ol
handmade gifts. Admission is free from 11-3 p.m. The
festival closes for two hours in the late afternoon, and
activities resume at 5 p.m., when admission is $2.
Information: 526-5377.
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Gray, Lisa & Greene, Spencer. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 3, 1986, newspaper, October 3, 1986; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245644/m1/13/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.