Arts & Entertainment

By Emily Francisco 

Music was a major component in the staging of Blood Wedding. The use of music made the production unique, but at times the music became distracting. In Scene 1, the Groom talks with his Mother in his home. Professor Babatunde Lea, who did the percussion for the show, was featured in this scene with regular sequences on a ...

By Emily Francisco 

Last week the Department of Theatre Arts presented its first Mainstage production of the year: Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding.

In the program, Susan Russell noted that the play is distinguished by its characters’ feelings of being trapped; the Mother of the Groom is trapped in her hatred of the Bride’s former sweetheart’s family, Leonardo and his Wife are ...

By Ja(y)ne Freeborn(e)

Rachel Weisz is Kathy Bolkovac, a real-life policewoman on whose book the film is based, who traveled to post-war Bosnia as part of the UN International Police Force and found a deepset and far-reaching web of sex slavery. For an excellent, concise and historical perspective on the ethnic aspect of Bosnia’s problems, read Patrick Geary’s introduction to his ...

By Ja(y)ne Freeborn(e) 

Through a barrage of 70s color and film pastiche, The Guard tells a story somewhere between a western, a Greek myth and a Wodehouse story, about Gleeson, an Irish policeman (a member of ‘the Guard’) and his ill-matched FBI partner (Cheadle) who must contend with a trio of philosophizing drug barons, corrupt police, and the inhabitants of Galloway. ...

By Ja(y)ne Freeborn(e) 

Real Steel. I wasn’t good. Maybe it would have been good if I had felt any investment in the characters, or even liked any of them. Maybe it would have been good if I felt the robot boxing element was in any way plausible (not technologically speaking, I have no problem suspending that disbelief, but I just couldn’t ...

By Jayne Freeborne

I just didn’t care.

I wanted to, though, I really did. I went into Killer Elite looking for what I had heard was an enjoyable, well crafted action movie (thank you, Roger Ebert). What I found was an incomprehensible and self-serious excuse for grizzled men to drive boxy 1980s cars, blow things up and shoot each other, all in ...

By Jayne Freeborne 

The phrase ‘epic on a human scale’ gets bandied about fairly often in the film world. Or at least it did until someone realized it’s exceedingly pretentious and makes no sense. I suppose, however, that it can be the only colloquialism to truly describe Ben Sombogaart’s Bride Flight. Set in New Zealand in the 1950s, 60s and the ...

By Emily Francisco

What better way to kick off the 150th anniversary of the Civil War than with a new, Civil-War-themed exhibit in the Schmucker Art Gallery?

Titled Lisa Blas: Meet Me at the Mason Dixon, the exhibition features a variety of mediums, including photographed collages, paintings, and a unique wall installation. It opened on August 31 with a Gallery Talk featuring ...

By Emily Francisco

The Gettysburg College student body had no idea what the Theatre Department was up to a few months ago when an ad in the Student Digest proclaimed, “Actors of color wanted!” The mystery was finally revealed last weekend with the Mainstage debut of Aishah Rahman’s Unfinished Women Cry in No Man’s Land While a Bird Dies in a ...

By Brian Engelsma

Nearly 16 years after its release, The Lion King continues to entertain generations of youth. Conventional wisdom has long held that the evil Scar, jealous of his new nephew Simba, usurped the monarchy and established a tyrannical rule based on authoritarian tendencies. But just how accurate is this interpretation of the film.

The character of Scar is far more ...