Theatre, Film and Dance Department - Cornell University
November Events
Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music by Lee Blessing
October 21-25, 28-31 at 7:30 pm
October 25, 31 and
November 1 at 2:00 pm
Class of '56 Flexible Theatre
Feisty Eve Wilfong lives above Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music, a former biker bar turned “Saturday night hangout”. Eve attempts to give her niece, a novice nun who has been asked to leave the convent due to a curious compulsion to shout profanities at odd times, advice about life and love in a mad, modern, backcountry world.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
November 19-21, December 3-5 at 7:30 pm
December 5 at 2:00 pm
Kiplinger Theatre
Misunderstanding, tribalism and passion point two teenagers on an irrevocable and fatal path. One of Shakespeare’s great tragedies, Romeo and Juliet explores eternal questions of revenge, love and forgiveness.
Filmmaker Suman Ghosh, PhD’02, will introduce and present two of his films on November 6.
November 6 @ noon, 374 Rockefeller Hall Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined
A documentary on the life and work of the celebrated economist and the only living Nobel Laureate from India. He produced and directed the film in consultation with Cornell Professor of Economics Kaushik Basu, who served as the interviewer for the film. Basu will introduce the film with Ghosh at the screening.
November 6 @ 7:00 pm, Willard Straight Theatre Dwando (Conflict)
Ghosh's second feature film, Dwando, opened in India in July 2009. The making of this film represents an unusual US-India co-production and distribution that Ghosh willl describe at the Cornell Cinema screening.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance, Cornell Cinema, The South Asia Program, the Department of Economics, and the Cornell Council for the Arts.
Student Exploration Series Home Again by Jonah Eisenstock
(staged reading of an excerpt)
November 13 at 4:30 pm
Black Box Theatre
Screening of "I Am Omar": A short film exploring the intersectionality of international and LGBTQ identities
Followed by a discussion with director Onir, all the way from Bollywood!
November 13
4:00-6:00 PM
4:00 PM - Reception
5:00 PM -Film and discussion with Onir
Schwartz Center, Film Forum
Free and Open to the public
Organized by LGBT Resource Center adn MOSAIC* for queer adn same-gender loving People of Color.
Funded by Haven: The LGBTQ Student Union, Department of Theatre, Film & Dance, South Asia Program, Asian/Asian American Community Center, Out In the World, and Cornell International Students and Scholars Office. Co-sponsored by HILC, CIEN, International Affairs Review, and the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance. *MOSAIC is a part of Haven: The LGBTQ Student Union, which is funded in part by the Student Activity Fee
