Arts
Spring arts
The
spring term promises an exciting programme of performing arts events with
a mix of student and professional productions as well as the ever-popular
lunchtime concerts.
The
theatre programme gets underway towards the end of January with a Centre
for Theatre Studies production in the Lakeside Theatre Studio. The
practical project, produced and performed by students, will be at the
Studio on 26 and 27 January.
Hot on
the heels of the Centre for Theatre Studies will be a multi-lingual play
performed by students from the Department of Language and Linguistics'
Modern Languages Drama Group. Boeing Boeing, by Marc Camoletti,
will be performed in German, French and English. It opens on 1 February
and runs for three nights.
The Stanford String Quartet will be just one of the acts performing a
lunchtime concert in the spring term
Later in
February the Shifting Sands Theatre Company presents a vivid recreation of
the Dickens classic Great Expectations. The play promises a visual
feast of clowning and storytelling with three actors creating a show that
is invigorating, comic and heart-breaking. Great Expectations will
be at the Lakeside Theatre on 22 February.
Fans of
the lunchtime concerts are also in for a treat with a new series that
starts on 19 January with a performance by the Angell Piano Trio, the
University's ensemble in residence. The spring term will also see the
return of the Stanford String Quartet on 2 February.
The
Angell Piano Trio will also be collaborating with A and AS level students
from the Colchester Sixth Form College throughout the term which will
culminate in a concert in April or May.
New Year performances for choir
The
University's acclaimed choir will be returning to Colchester in January
for a performance at Charter Hall. Directed by Richard Cooke, the
150-strong choir will be performing Mozart's Requiem at 7pm on 28
January.
This will
be followed by two further performances in the New Year. On 29 April the
choir will be performing Bach's Mass in B Minor at St Andrews Hall
in Norwich, and on 6 May at Snape Maltings.
Tickets
for all performances are available through the Arts Office, telephone
01206 873261 e-mail
arts@essex.ac.uk.
Architecture aware
A
Colchester gallery is aiming to raise awareness of architecture at a
series of lectures supported by the University.
The third
programme in firstsite's series of architecture lectures got underway in
November. The lectures aim to develop a space for critical debate on
issues relating to architecture, regeneration and urban transformation.
Dr Simon
Richards, formerly of the Department of Art History and Theory, will lead
one of the sessions in December while Professor Jules Lubbock will host
the last lecture in March. For further information see
www.firstsite.uk.net.
Also in the printed December edition of Wyvern:
