The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 13, 2019 Page: 6 of 8

                                
Arts & Culture
The University News
February 13, 2019
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SENIOR STUDIOS
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HUMANS OF UD
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Photo by Marquel Plavan
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Late Nights
at the DMA
The Dallas Museum
of Art is offering its
monthly Late Night
this Friday, Feb. 15.
There will be live
music performances
every hour starting
at 6 p.m., talks, tours
and other activities
going on, as well
as just wandering
around the museum.
Bring your student
ID for $5 admission.
a psycho-
reason for his
nature
more
he said. “My friends
and the faculty mem-
bers of seminary
have been extremely
supportive of my dis-
cernment, and upon
my explanation of it
to them, they feel it
makes sense.”
Upon graduation,
Hubbard will look
for jobs within the
Church.
“I see no better
place to give of my
gifts,” Hubbard said.
“I’m extremely grate-
ful for my opportuni-
ties, for my formation
at both Holy Trin-
ity and UD and I’m
ready to step out into
the world and see
what God has in store
for me.”
themselves,
the connec-
we have with
diet each other within
seconds always stays
with me. Sometimes
it makes me crack up.
Sometimes it makes
me stop and think
about the issues these
women are facing. Ei-
ther way, I feel like it
makes the show really
fun.”
As for Gniewek,
choosing an Agatha
Christie one-act was
like “striking gold.”
“I’ve always loved
murder
and
ries,”
“There’s
fantastic about the
unknown in murder
mysteries. You have
a large cast of char-
want to know more]
about these authors,
about
about
tions
others. We all fight
to be noticed and
make something of
worth, even it means
we wrestle with each
other to make those
goals a reality; this
play is a representa-
tion of that struggle,
both for great au-
thors of the past and
human beings in the
present.”
“[I want to] hold
up a mirror to the au-
dience,” Weber said.
“I want them to re-
alize that the grass
probably isn’t green-
Ray Hubbard, a
lighthouse and walk-
ing trails. Located at
2067 Summer Lee
Drive in Rockwall.
mysteries
detective sto-
Gniewek said.
something
about
Modern day and
tradition collide in
this adaptation of
Homer’s epic at the
Undermain The-
atre in Deep El-
lum. There are sev-
eral performances a
week, either at 7:30
p.m. on weekdays or
2:30 p.m. on Sun-
days, until March 3.
Check the Under-
main Theatre web-
site for more show-
time details. Ticket
prices start at $ 15.
acters and you don’t
know what’s impor-
tant and what’s ob-
fuscation.”
“I’m really
cited about the
riod I’m setting it
in,” Gniewek added,
regarding her deci-
sion to adapt the one-
act to 1952 America
in the world of film
noir. “That genre is
all about undercur-
rents of sexual de-
sire, cynicism, greed,
secrecy, menace, etc.
It’s kitschy enough to
make you laugh and
tense enough to keep
you on the edge of
your seat. My design-
ers and I are having
an incredible amount
4. Dallas Stars
Support the Dallas
Stars this Tuesday,
Eeb. 19 at 7:30 p.m.
at the American Air-
lines Center, as they
take on the Nashville
Predators. Ticket
prices start at $9.
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MOVIE REVIEW
from page 5
ture when
logical
murderous
would be much
effective.
As a result, the
audience does not
care about the main
characters, does not
understand how the
supernatural bogus
they use as an excuse
to make this child evil
relates to the story
and does not appreci-
ate the gravity of the
fate of this child who
suddenly becomes
malevolent.
The editing of
this film is jarring
and, at times, cause
for accidental hilarity.
When poor editing
is combined with a
gravitas.
The worst part
about the experi-
ence is knowing that
it could have been
amazing. The prem-
ise of the film — that
a loving couple’s own
child might become
so smart and dam-
aged that he would
seek, and be able, to
harm those who lov-
ingly brought him
into the world
truly chilling one.
The film tries to
be too complex for
its own good when it
would have benefited
from a more simple
execution.
Don’t go see this
movie. It would be a
shame for anyone to
waste their brains-
pace with this Fran-
kenstein of a horror
flick.
discovered that my
truest desire was to
be happy in a fam-
ily. Yet, this seemed
irreconcilable with
the words I distinctly
heard from God,”
Hubbard said.
“Until one of my
friends, Nick Shelton,
reminded me that as
Baptized Catholics,
we are all called to be
priests, prophets, and
kings. I will still be a
priest, just one sacri-
ficing for my family
instead of a congre-
gation.”
He will graduate
at the end of this se-
mester as a philoso-
phy and letters major.
“The transition
has been smooth,”
‘Til Midnight
at the Nasher
This Friday, Feb. 15,
head to the Nasher
Sculpture Center
Garden for an out-
door live music con-
cert series and the
chance to see the
museum with no ad-
mission cost. Live
music plays at 7 and
8 p.m., and a film
screening of “Black
Panther” begins at
9:30 p.m.
about myself, God’s
love for me, and the
nature of my call-
ing,” he said.
Hubbard didn’t
stay in the seminary,
however. After enter-
ing the seminary, he
continued to discern
God’s will for his life;
although he feels he
was meant to be in
the seminary for the
time he was, he felt
called to leave the
seminary this past se-
mester.
“For me person-
ally, I worked to dig
out a lot of the blocks
I had to God’s love,
and, upon doing so,
messy script, it causes
a film to seem less like
a cohesive story and
more like a string of
random scenes.
Additionally, this
film shamelessly rips
off themes, ideas and
even the exact execu-
tion of certain scenes
from far superior
movies.
From the “bad
seed” theme executed
flawlessly in “Rose-
mary’s Baby” to
the visionary James
Wan’s “Insidious,”
ideas and themes are
stolen to be shoddily
stitched into “The
Prodigy.”
Even the stair se-
quence from “A Qui-
et Place” is stolen, as
“The Prodigy” pro-
vides an almost exact
replication of it, only
with far less skill and
2. Dodie’s at
The Harbor Val-
entine’s Day
Through Saturday,
Feb. 16, Dodie’s
at The Harbor in
Rockwall is treat-
ing sweethearts
with a special menu
and live music for a
lakeside Gajun din-
ing experience. The
Harbor boasts sail-
boats, picturesque
sunsets over Lake
er on the other side.
I think that’s what
leaves a lot of people
feeling down, par-
ticularly in the age of
social media — they
think that everyone
else is happy while
they’re stuck being
miserable. But, as we
can see in this show,
that simply isn’t true.
People just tend to
hide their worst side,
that’s all.”
Similarly, Moore
hopes that his audi-
ence will recognize
themselves and their
humanity within the
characters, and feel
as though they wit-
nessed a “real conver-
sation.”
“They don’t need
to know anything
about Czechoslova-
kian history or Com-
munist labor prac-
tices to understand
the show, because
the show is really just
about two men whose
lives have become
something they never
wanted them to be-
come,” Moore said.
“I think we can all re-
late to that fear, and
maybe also relate to
the idea of using these
crazy coping methods
to deal with them,
which are honestly
pretty amusing when
you take a step back. I
feel a real connection
to and affection for
the Brewmaster and
Vanek, I want to see
them overcome their
problems. I know the
audience will feel the
same way.”
of fun developing this
film noir world for
the play. I think the
audience is going to
love it.”
Though all four
studios are in their
beginning stages for
the time being, each
director has a con-
crete goal in mind for
their shows.
Gniewek has the
“highest of expecta-
tions” for her show,
and feels a strong
confidence in her
team and in the Dra-
ma Department.
Morris hopes to
leave her audience
with the desire to
learn.
“[I want them to
Hemingway.
“These men are
idolized as great au-
thors with fantasti-
cal pasts, but at the
end of the day their
lives were messy
and unrefined and
pretty similar to any
other person,” Mor-
ris said. “The differ-
ence is that they put
their suffering into
their writing, and we
can appreciate that
as readers even now
because we still have
and love those writ-
ings today. I love that
I have the chance to
bring this aspect of
their story to life.”
“[I don’t] re-
member consciously
searching for an en-
semble show, but that
was what I was gravi-
tating towards as I
was looking around
for a show,” said We-
ber about choosing
her female-centric
show.
“I also wasn’t
searching for an
female show,
this show felt so
when I read [it] for
the first time,” We-
ber said. “Besides,
we have a plethora of
talented actresses in
this department who
deserve a chance to
shine.”
“I love the con-
trast between the
women and their in-
ner voices,” Weber
added. “Hearing
them directly contra-
55 Years at
Sixth Floor
Museum
In honor of the 55th
anniversary of Pres-
ident John F. Ken-
nedy’s death, the
Sixth Floor Museum
at Dealey Plaza is of-
fering a special tem-
porary exhibit called
“55 Years.” The mu-
seum is open Tues-
day through Satur-
day, from 10 a.m. to
6 p.m., and Sunday
12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission is $18.
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