You're not going to escape the Burroughs worship for quite a while in this town, even if it creeps you out. The Arts Center has two films related to the Burroughs exhibit this week. First up is Haxan, a 1922 Swedish silent film. According to Wikipedia, "Häxan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts. The film was made as a documentaty but contains dramatized sequences that are comparable to horror films."
The film was re-released in 1968 with a jazz score and narration by William S. Burroughs, which is what LAC will be showing tonight, Feb 10, at 7pm. FREE
And then there's David Cronenberg's interpretation of Naked Lunch on Tuesday, Feb 11, at 7pm. The 1991 film has a lot of mixed reviews. We hear you need to have nerves of steel to watch it, which makes us curious (as long as the Arts Center still has Free State Beer on tap). And of course, it's FREE.
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If you like your theatre in the form of a Broadway musical, then the Lied Center has something for you on Wednesday. The Addams Family has been touring with great reviews. We're not usually ones to go for the big-budget shows, but we might make it out for this comedy.
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We're fans of jazz music, and we've caught wind that the KU Jazz performances at the Lawrence Arts Center aren't half bad, especially when you factor in the FREE factor. KU Jazz Ensemble I will be performing on Thursday at 7:30pm.
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And finally, we get to Friday. Regardless of how you feel about it, Valentine's Day brings about some interesting events.
Liberty Hall has made what is probably the best choice for a Valentine's movie with The Princess Bride. The inconceivable comedy-adventure-romance-fairy tale will be screening on Friday at 8pm. Trust us, it's better than anything that's playing at the multiplex. Plus, you'll learn how true love is like a sandwich.
Over at the Lied Center, this is of course the big premiere of Kevin Willmott's Lawrence-based film Jayhawkers. (One of Willmott's other films recently stirred up controversy over at The Dalton School in NY. Read about it and Kevin's response here). Jayhawkers is the story of how KU basketball player Wilt Chamberlain and legendary coach Phog Allen changed not only the game of basketball, but the society around them in the 1950's. The film also includes jazz musician Nathan Davis and poet Langston Hughes. Jayhawkers has 8 screenings Feb 14-16. But does Willmott stay true to Chamberlain's sexual reputation??
If you wish to venture over to KC on V-Day, The Alamo Drafthouse theater is showing the 1942 timeless classic Casablanca at 8pm. You can also catch Pretty Woman at 10:30pm, but be aware it's part of a series called The Movie Interruption, where comedians sit in the front row with microphones and rip the film apart.
And in the theatre world, KU is opening a series of short plays in their Black Box. This includes The Boor by Anton Chekhov and Antic Disposition, which contains three different comedic takes on Hamlet. We're unclear on what to expect, but we committed to it after the name Chekhov came up. The show runs Feb 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 in the Inge Theater.
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