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Eat, Sleep, Repeat
Skin of Our Teeth
THEATER
The University Theatre opened its performance of Thornton Wilde's Pulitzer Prize winning play The Skin of Our Teeth last Friday night in the Crafton-Pryor Theatre.
The intentional absence of a play synopsis challenges the audience to figure out the plot. Although initially intriguing, the play quickly becomes a frustrating experience with nothing to rely on but a painfully attentive mind and a cast of colorful characters.
However, fabulous acting and the breaking of the "fourth wall" — when cast members momentarily step out of their roles to speak directly to the audience — sell the show. This adds humor and a sense of relief in an otherwise tense play. Characters such as Moses, Albert Einstein, Cain (of Cain and Able fame), and situations such as war, the Ice Age, The Great Depression and The Great Flood add enough levels to the piece to make a novice playgoer's head spin. When viewed as a whole, it is evident that the play was written in subliminal messages about the complexities of being human.
However, the message would have been clearer had anything in the form of a synopsis been provided to the audience.
The sets and costumes are wonderful, and the lighting adds a perfect touch of sunrise or melancholy blue when appropriate. Sabina (played by Kacie L. Dienstbach, Litteton, Colo., senior) carries the play with a contagious vigor and manages to stay away from the stereotypical and blase blonde her character could have so easily slipped into.
A definite brain buster, Skin of Our Teeth is worth the $10 student ticket price and adds variety to an otherwise drunkenly forgetful weekend. The play continues tonight and through Saturday with performances at 7:30 p.m., and finishes with a 2:30 Sunday matinee.
Erica Prather
Copeland
With their third album Eat, Sleep,
Repeat, Copeland has once again
broken new ground. In Motion,
Copeland's 2005 release, was a more
piano-driven album compared to
2003's guitar-heavy debut, Beneath
Medicine Tree. Now, Eat, Sleep,
Repeat, with even more change, is
Copeland's best album yet.
The album starts strongly with the vibraphone and drum loop heavy "Where's My Head." Next, the title track combines vibraphone-heavy verses and guitar-heavy choruses to make for another great track. From there the album veers into other exciting territory: "Careful Now" brings to mind Radiohead's OK Computer and features a bridge reminiscent of "Strawberry Fields Forever" by the Beatles. "Love
Affair" has a jazzy bridge featuring a nice horn section backed by string flourishes. "I'm Safer On An Airplane"finds Copeland once again dabbling in electronic drumbeats; like previous efforts, it sounds great. "The Last Time He Saw Dorie" has some nice female vocals that help make the song an instant classic.
With Eat, Sleep, Repeat, Copeland shows that they're capable of trying new things and that, sometimes, new things sound great. They'll be bringing their new songs along with the old favorites to the Granada on Nov. 7. Lawrence's own The Appleseed Cast opens the show along with Acute and Owen.
Chris Brower
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