UPlayers' Don Juan on Trial heats up the stage  By Burton Taylor
Lance Writer October 29, 2008 William Pinnell’s University Players’ production of French playwright Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s Don Juan on Trail opened last week on campus to great applause.
 It is set in 1750, and Duchess de Vaubricourt (Suzette McCanny) invites four ladies to her dusty chateau in Normandy to pass judgment on history’s most notorious libertine, Don Juan (David Baker).
All from different stations in society, they all have a shared history. Juan has jilted them all in the past.
These women summon Juan to the manor and force him to choose to either marry young Angelique (Peyton Labarr), his most recent conquest and goddaughter to the Duchess, or be tossed into the Bastille. >> | School of Music's Noiseborder presents the unexpected  By Jasmine Ball
Lance Writer October 29, 2008 One wouldn’t normally expect wrestlers from the 1970s and experimental music at the same event, but this is exactly the mix made by Noiseborder on Thursday Oct. 23 in Studio A of Lambton Tower.
Noiseborder, a new initiative from the School of Music and part of the in/fuse series, launched with an event titled “Superstars of Wrestling.”
The first piece featured a series of cloud images, ranging from the night sky to the view from an airplane, projected onto a screen. This was accompanied by the haunting cry of the bass clarinet. Lulled into a dreamlike state, the audience did not know how to react to the piece’s completion until a voice called from the dark, “Well, did nobody like that?” The applause came heartily and kept coming for the rest of the event. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | Touring the psychogeography of Windsor By Paul Breschuk
Lance Writer October 29, 2008 More often than not, our travels through Windsor are hurried and stressful. This agitation is doubled when such travel is done by car, when we engage ourselves in an embarrassingly Darwinian fight for survival.
We are late for school or work, hating any semblance of humanity that is in our way (or has the audacity to be travelling at the same time).
In this arena, our behavior instinctually takes cues from the ancient, reptilian part of the brain that’s responsible for aggression and territoriality. The most extreme example of this is road rage.
During such travels, nothing exists but the destination. Notions of civic appreciation and historical significance are lost in the mix of traffic lights and exhaust fumes. The intricate details of architecture, sculpture, and that pretty white fence on Mill Street, are blurred and trivialized like the scrolling background of a cartoon. >> |
