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On March 1, the Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum and the Brandeis Association for Music and Concert Organizers hosted the SCRAMCo coffeehouse, an event filled with performances from Brandeis students and visiting musicians.
When I went to see “Alita: Battle Angel,” adapted from Yukito Kishiro’s manga series “Gunnm,” written by James Cameron and directed by Robert Rodriguez, I expected nothing but jaw-dropping special effects and thrilling action sequences — and I left the theater satisfied.
This weekend, Brandeis’ Hold Thy Peace presented their spring semester play “Much Ado About Nothing,” an adaption of the classic romantic comedy with a twist. Directed by Olivia Ellson ’21, the play tells the story of Benedick and Beatrice, two merry rivals, discovering their affection toward each other while trying to save the jeopardized relationship between Benedick’s friend Claudio and Beatrice’s sister Hero. This time, however, instead of princes, soldiers and a masquerade ball, the story is set in an American high school, with basketball players and prom.
We did it, everyone. We solved racism. Inverse “Driving Miss Daisy” won best picture, finally giving two Oscars to the man who brought us Cameron Diaz using ejaculate as hair gel in “There’s Something About Mary” and Jeff Daniels violently pooping in “Dumb and Dumber.” Remember its sequel? Remember that Three Stooges movie or that god-awful “Movie 43?” Because I sure don’t. A movie with solid performances from Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen has convinced baby boomers that we all just need to love each other, and we’re all the same deep down. How broad and lacking in nuance. “Based on a true friendship.” — What a horrible tagline. Judging by the characters’ actual families’ denuncation of “Green Book” as “a symphony of lies,” this tagline isn’t even true!
SONGS AND POETRY: Olivia Nichols ’20, Siwar Mansour ’20 and Jordan Mudd ’20 performed their original songs and poetry.
PRINCE OF BASKETBALL: His second time in the roll, Harrison Carter ’22 was cast as royalty in a Shakespeare play.
ACOUSTIC VIBES: Lady Queen Paradise concluded the show with “slam rock.”
SANS HOUSEPLANTS: Raavi and the Houseplants sang about her coming of age experiences.
ONE OF MANY STARS: Halley Geringer ’19 as Beatrice is one of the many outstanding performaners in the show.
DECEPTIONS: A recurring theme of the play is the masks people put on in front of the others versus their true selves.
WASTED TALENT: Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly plays a minor role in the film, as do several other critically-acclaimed actors.
The United States flag is an iconic symbol, one that elicits an immediate and powerful reaction. Howardena Pindell takes advantage of that involuntary response in her piece “Separate but Equal: Genocide AIDS.”
JustArts: Can you tell me a little bit about the play? What is it about?
Hooked On Tap danced their hearts out in their annual show this past Sunday night.
Sa-Roc’s “Forever” plays as the audience members look around searching for the performer, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer. She walks in from the back of the theater, wearing a backpack and large black headphones, and continues up the stairs to the stage dancing and mouthing the words to “Forever.” She begins the show.
On Sunday, actor Tony Shalhoub came to Brandeis for a question and answer session in the Wasserman Cinematheque. Shalhoub has a prolific career in plays, movies and TV shows; he is well-known for his portrayal of troubled homicide detective Adrian Monk in the show “Monk” for which he received multiple awards, and he currently plays Abe Weissman, father of Miriam “Midge” Maisel in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”
Last Sunday, the Undergraduate Theater Collective presented “Quickies,” the annual festival of student-written short plays. In the three weeks leading up to it, students wrote, cast and rehearsed eight different short plays which were performed at the SCC theater.
MENTOR: Shalhoub talks about Robert Brunstein’s influence over his career.
GOOD OLD TIME: “Another Night at the Red Light“ catches the taste of a period drama.