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August 28, 2012
UCO and other metro theaters open fall season Bryan Trude
Senior Staff Writer Famous for its motivational “St. Crispin’s Speech,” “Henry V” reigns as one of Shakespeare’s most famous historical plays. Beginning Oct. 4, the play will be brought to life in Edmond by the UCO Theater department and guest director Jerry Ferraccio, director of the Santa Fe Shakespeare Society of Santa Fe, N.M. “The theater department invited me to come and direct ‘Henry V’ as a guest artist,” Ferraccio said. “Henry V” is a Shakespearian recounting of the historical English king, most notable for his waging of the Hundred Years’ War against France. Proving his prowess as a military commander with the English victory at the Battle of Agincourt, Henry V nearly conquered France before the Treaty of Troyes saw him named heirapparent to the French throne. The play focuses namely on events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt. “In Shakespeare’s day, histories were extremely popular, and ‘Henry V’ is considered the quintessential British king,” Ferraccio said. “He took a tiny little army, outnumbered five to one, and won a decisive battle in France … this proved to the British, in their heads anyway, that God was on their side.” Though the cast list has not been announced, Ferraccio said over 30 actors were called back for 17 parts, and that the final cast will experiment with some nontraditional actors in certain roles.
Scheduled to run Oct. 4-6 at 7 p.m., and again Oct. 7 at 2 p.m., “Henry V” will be just one of many plays in the OKC theater community premiering this fall. The Lyric at the Plaza will open their fall season Oct. 10 with the Charles Lundham twoman horror spoof, “The Mystery of Irma Vep.” Starring Lyric costume designer Jeffrey Meek and 4-year Lyric veteran Monte Riegel Wheeler, “Irma Vep” promises to be a “sidesplitting spoof” that “pokes fun at all that is ridiculous in Gothic horror, Victorian melodrama and classic movies.” The OKC Theatre Company will open their season Aug. 31 when they present the Cameron Mitchell rock and roll musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” Starring Matthew Alvin Brown and Renee Anderson, “Hedwig” has been compared to the cult classic “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” while Rolling Stone said, “In the long, sorry history of rock musicals, ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ is the first one that truly rocks.” Finally, the Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre continues the trend of opening the fall season with raunchy comedies when they open David Mamet’s “November” on Sept. 7. Though CityRep has not announced a cast, the play is described as “The West Wing meets South Park,” the play revolves around an inept U.S. President in the final days of his re-election bid. Tickets for UCO’s production of “Henry V” can be ordered by phone at (405) 974-3375. For more information on other area productions, you can visit the Lyric’s web site at www. lyrictheatreokc.com/lyric-at-the-plaza, the OKC Theatre Company at www.okctheatrecompany. org, and CityRep at cityrep.com.
Campus Cook - Spanish Tortilla Makes eight servings
Ingredients: • 2 tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil • 1 pound red potatoes • 1 medium red bell pepper, diced • 1 16 ounce bag of spinach
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4 garlic cloves 4 large eggs 8 egg whites 2 cups of shredded Monterey jack cheese
Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. In a large skillet add oil and bring to a medium-high heat. Dice potatoes to consistent size pieces. Add two cloves of minced garlic and diced potatoes to skillet, sauté for a minute, and cover with aluminum foil. Cook potatoes for 6 extra minutes. While potatoes are cooking, whisk eggs. Add a splash of milk into egg mixture. Check potatoes and if cooked through all the way, place them into two greased 9” round cake pans. Pour in egg mixture over potatoes. Place both cake pans in preheated oven for 30 minutes, undisturbed. If you are a huge cheese lover like me, add 1 cup of shredded Monterey jack cheese to each tortilla when they are done backing. It will be a decadent and delicious dish.
by Emily Leahey
Opinion
Outsider Dispatches
By Trevor Hultner Dear Neil Armstrong, I wasn’t even a distant thought in my parents’ minds when you landed on the Moon in the summer of 1969. In fact, my parents themselves were barely old enough to know what the Moon was, much less grasp the importance of what it was that you did at that time. I never had the privilege of meeting you, talking to you, or even seeing you in person. I only know you by virtue of the Internet and YouTube, and what history books have to say about you. I know that you are a hero. A legend. And perhaps that’s all I need. When you stepped out of your lander and onto the lunar surface, you became the first person to touch another world. You became immortal, along with the 12 words you uttered for the entire world to hear: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” With those words you inspired millions of kids to want to be astronauts when they grew up, to chase the stars as you did. You triggered millions of imaginations to think about what it would be like - how cool it would be! - to help settle a terraforming colony on Mars or commit to the incredibly long voyage out of the quiet suburban neighborhood of our solar system and into the brilliant cacophonous metropolitan sprawl of our galaxy. And now you’re gone. You died at the end of a week that has so carefully mirrored weeks past it’s disappointing: a week rife with political ineffectiveness and opportunism; a week in two separate mass shootings happened within hours of each other in two major cities; a week in which the world yet again threatened to tear itself apart at the seams. We really could use a hero. We could use a worldview-shattering feat of awesomeness that brings all of humankind together - one not sponsored by McDonalds or Coca-Cola or brought to us in HD by NBC. We could use another
manned moon landing right about now. I don’t mean to put all of this on you, Mr. Armstrong - after all, you are just settling into your new occupation of being dead, and you deserve a death as quiet and peaceful and unassuming as your later living years were. You were just immensely important to us all. You still are. “Neil Armstrong was the spiritual repository of spacefaring dreams and ambitions. In death, a little bit of us all dies with him,” astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted on Saturday. Bill Nye, the popular children’s science presenter, said, “Neil Armstrong raised the expectations, the hopes and dreams, of every human on Earth.” Your crewmate on Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, was the one who moved me to write this letter. “Whenever I look at the moon I am reminded of that precious moment, over four decades ago, when Neil and I stood on the desolate, barren, yet beautiful, Sea of Tranquility, looking back at our brilliant blue planet Earth suspended in the darkness of space,” he wrote. “My friend Neil took the small step but giant leap that changed the world and will forever be remembered as a historic moment in human history.” I wish we - the whole of humanity could pack in the petty politics for just one weekend and do something truly fantastic. I wish we could overcome all our privileges and stop seeing our fellow humans as “others” to be feared and hated. I wish we could turn our gaze towards the stars once more. I wish you could be there to witness it when it finally happens. Thanks for the universe of possibilities, Trevor Hultner
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Photo Spread
Students welcomed back during Stampede Week
Ben Rector plays the guitar and sings for the crowd at Plunkett Park UCO, Aug 22, 2012. Photo by Cyn Sheng Ling, The Vista
Students surround one of the many tables set up outside the Nigh University Center at UCO during the student involvement fair. August 24, 2012. Photo by Aliki Dyer, The Vista