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“It’s a Wonderful Life” will be screened 7 p.m. Sunday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Tickets for the screening are $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 years and younger. Tickets can be purchased at the Buskirk-Chumley box office
prior to the film showing. “It’s a Wonderful Life” was released in 1946 and was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best picture, best actor and best director.
Another Round performs show at Buskirk-Chumley By Amanda Marino ammarino@indiana.edu @amandanmarino
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The Narrator of the play "She Kills Monsters", played by Kelsey Carlisle, tells the story of a teenager who seeks refuge from the loss of her family in her sister's beloved role-playing world at the Bloomington Playwrights Project on Wednesday. The show will be at the Bloomington Playwrights Project on Dec. 5-6, 11-13, and 1820 at 7:30 p.m.
‘She Kills Monsters’ debuts this weekend By Sanya Ali siali@indiana.edu | @siali13
The Bloomington Playwrights Project will stage a “Dungeons & Dragons”based production titled “She Kills Monsters” at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The story, written by Qui Nguyen, follows the life of Agnes, played by first-year graduate student Heather Lawler. “It’s a really great show about this fantasy world and this really touching story of sisters that really got to know each other,” Lawler said. “It’s about how family comes together and letting the weird things about your siblings in and accepting them for who they are.” Agnes, bored with her normal life, experiences an unfortunate twist of fate when her parents and younger sister Tilly die in a car accident. This event begins Agnes’ adventure into her sister’s life as she tries to piece together the identity of the best friend she never had the chance to know. “While she’s cleaning out her sister’s room, she finds this notebook so she takes it to this comic store and it’s a module to play this Dungeons & Dragons game her sister made,” Lawler said. “It turns out her sister is in the game. Throughout the show they get to know each other and bond and get to know these secrets.” Junior Emily Kelly plays Tilly in the show and said she could identify with the character because of some very strong similarities. “I could really relate to it because I have a younger sister and I was a total dork in high school,” Kelly said. “And I thought learning to sword fight would be awesome.” Kelly added that her character has a pretty prestigious link to the game, so she immersed herself in the lifestyle to prepare for her role. “Because she’s the best Dungeons & Dragons player
in the city, I’ve been trying to learn everything I can about the game, and it’s really complicated,” Kelly said. “There’s so much information that goes into it and details you have to know. But it’s super cool, so it’s been fun to learn about it. Our cast even played a game all together and we had a blast.” Lawler said she found out about the show because she has auditioned for BPP before and was recommended to see the director for this role in particular. Lawler previously starred as Helga in “M. Butterfly,” put on by IU Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance, an experience she said really widened her scope as an actress. “This is my first BPP show,” Lawler said. “Working with Murray (McGibbon) was great, we had such an amazing cast and it’s such an amazing show. I got to incorporate everything I’m learning in classes right now and I got to work very closely with my voice and speech teacher.” Kelly said the process of preparing for this show was different than previous productions she has worked on because she really had to mold herself into Tilly. “Our director gave me a project to write Tilly’s notebook,” Kelly said. “We agreed that the game module she wrote is also a sort of diary for her. It’s very private and a lot of people from her real life transfer over into the Dungeons & Dragons world she has created, either as her friends or as monsters.” Lawler said this show offered its own learning experiences and she enjoyed the opportunity to take part in intense stage combat for the first time. “Thirty minutes of the 90 minutes is stage combat,” Lawler said. “I have a fight with one of the bosses, punches and kicking, it’s really fun. Matt, our fight choreographer, is really great.” Kelly said her dance
SHE KILLS MONSTERS 7:30 p.m. Friday 107 W. 9th Street
Eleven men moved energetically from their cars into the house of IU junior Lars Feste. Inside, they slid a kitchen table out of their way and filled the small space with talk and laughter. Then, they snapped to focus. They began to sing and became a unified group, a brotherhood. Another Round, an IU all-male a capella group, will perform its 19th annual holiday concert 8 p.m. Saturday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Tickets are $12 for IU students and $15 for nonstudents. This year, Another Round will be singing songs such as “White Christmas,” “Prayer of the Children,” “Lean on Me” and new to the group’s repertoire, “You’ll be in my Heart,” senior Jonny Trubshaw said. Sophomore Jake Forrestal said the holiday concert is special to him because the men get to perform the Christmas songs they grew up singing. Forrestal said the Christmas spirit at the holiday concert is almost palpable. “It’s a really good mix of students, family and real people (other patrons),” Trubshaw said. Bloomington shows tend to have a solid mix of family, friends and a lot of women in sororities, he said, smiling. “This is the show we get to have the most fun at,” he said. Forrestal said the audience is generally older, but when Another Round performs at the Buskirk-Chumley, most of the audience consists of college students.
Trubshaw said the group thinks about this show all semester long because IU is its home. The holiday concert is different because Another Round gets to self-promote the show across campus, instead of having a venue do promotions for it, he said. Feste said seeing Another Round on the marquee of the Buskisk-Chumley last year was amazing for him. The group spends all semester preparing for this concert. They look at old songs and prepare new songs, Trubshaw said. Before the show, Another Round sits in the same dressing room it uses every year, and each member takes a turn talking about what the group has done for them, he said. Feste said seniors can really take this kind of opportunity to reflect on their performances and pass information on to younger members. Trubshaw said each member of the group comes in with a varying level of experience. Most members of the group sang in their high
ANOTHER ROUND 8 p.m. Saturday Buskirk-Chumley Theater school choirs, but some have been singing for several years more than that. Forrestal said it can be difficult to be close-knit and still focus on getting work done. “Every year is special because every person matters so much,” he said. Conducting business and still balancing the rest of their lives is hard at times, he said. Despite this, Trubshaw said the group still has plenty of fun, laughing and joking with each other and not taking themselves too seriously. “We’re all just best friends,” he said. The interactions people see onstage are about the same as what happens behind the scenes, he said. “It is truly a brotherhood,” Trubshaw said. Forrestal said the time the group spends together helps them to put on a better show. “You’re not going to find something more entertaining,” he said.
‘Blind’ sculptors to create busts solely through touch By Audrey Perkins
background really helped her with the complex fight choreography. “I have done a lot of musicals, but this is the first straight play I’ve ever done so it’s a very new experience to me,” Kelly said. “I come from a lot of dance training which I think really helps me in this show specifically because almost half the show is battle sequences.” Lawler said the struggle was finding the line between humor and heart, as the production offers fun Dungeons & Dragons references and deeper sibling bond moments. “There’s these scenes we were rehearsing and breaking down and crying,” Lawler said. “Anyone who has a sibling will understand.” The core message of the show, according to Lawler, is that moving on is a natural, albeit difficult, part of life. After her sister and parents die, Agnes has to move on from the tragedy and continue to live her life. “I want (the audience) to learn to kill their own monsters in their life and follow their dreams,” Lawler said. “It’s an analogy. Agnes is having to battle all these regrets she has in her past. In the show she’s literally killing monsters, but it’s an analogy for letting go of the past and moving on with your life.” Tickets are $20 for general audiences and $17 for students and seniors. Tickets can be purchased at the Buskirk-Chumley box office or at the door prior to the show. Tickets can also be purchased online at newplays.org. If seats are still available five minutes before the show, students may purchase tickets for only $5. The show will be staged at BPP located at 107 W. 9th St.
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Another Round, from IU, performs at the beginning of the IU Dance Marathon Fundraising gala on Oct. 11 at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Indianapolis.
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The Fuller Projects will host its last exhibit of the semester Friday night featuring sculpture students in the School of Fine Arts. The event will be a blind sculpting experience, titled “Double Blind,” and will take place from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the McCalla School. The show is open to the public, and attendees will have the opportunity to have their busts sculpted. Nelson Kaufman, one of the student artists to participate in the exhibit, said it will be similar to a psychological test. No one will know who is sculpting who, he said. This is how the event will work: the room will be divided by a false wall. The wall will have holes cut into it so the sculptors can put their hand through it and feel participants’ faces. They will have five minutes to feel their way through the lines and curves of the face and head so they can have an idea of what they want to create,
Kaufman said. The artists’ hands will be sterilized after each bust creation. From there, the sculptor will create a bust out of polymer clay based on what they have touched. Both the artist and attendee will be unable to see each other. When the bust is complete, it will be roughly the size of two fists put together, and then the artist will put the sculpture on a conveyor belt to be fed into the gallery. Linda Lien, a coordinator for the Fuller Projects, said the exhibit will revolve around the experience. “We are an experimental gallery,” she said. Friday’s exhibit will allow the audience to “experience art in a different way.” This exhibit will be highly performance-based. The artists will be creating work on the spot during the event. People will have to be open-minded, Kaufman said. However, he said those who tend to go to these types of events are generally more open to these situations. “We’re banking on that,”
DOUBLE BLIND 7:30-9:30 p.m. Friday McCalla School he said. “It’s part of the experience.” The idea of the event is to play with how artists receive and comprehend information without being able to depend on sight to compare what their creation and model look like, Tien said. By allowing a stranger to touch their face, it is also about attendees of the event breaking the psychological bubble that is their notion of personal space. The event will be relatively silent. Kaufman said the artists will not be talking to their models so there is no other way to gain a perception about who they are sculpting besides through touch. For those who are timid of the idea of having someone touch their face, he said people should not be wary. “They should be open to a participatory experience,” he said.
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