The Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for Arts and Humanities
THEATRE: As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Brian Gill
Banished to the Forest of Arden along with her best friend, Celia, Rosalind journeys into a world of exile. But not before catching the love-struck eye of Orlando who has also fled the Court for the safety of the Forest. Mishaps, mistaken identities, and questionable poetry leads to friendships forged, families reunited, and lovers triumphant.
THEATRE: As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Brian Gill
Banished to the Forest of Arden along with her best friend, Celia, Rosalind journeys into a world of exile. But not before catching the love-struck eye of Orlando who has also fled the Court for the safety of the Forest. Mishaps, mistaken identities, and questionable poetry leads to friendships forged, families reunited, and lovers triumphant.
Theatre Auditions
One audition, four shows. Open to everyone! You do not need to be a theatre arts major to perform in UW-Parkside productions. Prepare two contrasting contemporary monologues OR one contemporary monologue and one excerpt from a pop-rock song.
THEATRE: As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Brian Gill
Banished to the Forest of Arden along with her best friend, Celia, Rosalind journeys into a world of exile. But not before catching the love-struck eye of Orlando who has also fled the Court for the safety of the Forest. Mishaps, mistaken identities, and questionable poetry leads to friendships forged, families reunited, and lovers triumphant.
This performance is presented as part of the matinee program.
THEATRE: As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Brian Gill
Banished to the Forest of Arden along with her best friend, Celia, Rosalind journeys into a world of exile. But not before catching the love-struck eye of Orlando who has also fled the Court for the safety of the Forest. Mishaps, mistaken identities, and questionable poetry leads to friendships forged, families reunited, and lovers triumphant.
THEATRE: As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Brian Gill
Banished to the Forest of Arden along with her best friend, Celia, Rosalind journeys into a world of exile. But not before catching the love-struck eye of Orlando who has also fled the Court for the safety of the Forest. Mishaps, mistaken identities, and questionable poetry leads to friendships forged, families reunited, and lovers triumphant.
MUSIC: Glenn Burleigh's Nguzo Saba Suite
7 pm
The Rita, Bedford Concert Hall
Experience Glenn Burleigh's Nguzo Saba Suite with Conductor James Benjamin Kinchen.
There will be no livestream for this concert.
MUSIC: Glenn Burleigh's Nguzo Saba Suite
3 pm
The Rita, Bedford Concert Hall
Experience Glenn Burleigh's Nguzo Saba Suite with Conductor James Benjamin Kinchen.
There will be no livestream for this concert.
MUSIC: Jazz Ensemble
7 pm
The Rita, Bedford Concert Hall
Russ Johnson, Director
MUSIC: Wind Ensemble and Community Band
7 pm
The Rita, Bedford Concert Hall
Laura Rexroth, Conductor
MUSIC: Parkside Range
7 pm
The Rita, Bedford Concert Hall
Ami Bouterse, Director
GALLERIES: Roberto Torres Mata Exhibition (Reception)
4 pm-6 pm
The Rita, Foundation Gallery
Movement in the Markings / Movimiento en las Marcas
Seeking a broad look of human migration through movement and the rapid rise of displacement, I find the overlay of colors as sense of confusion through repetitive patterns and textures that are distinct from each other. The body of work captures a sense of emotional distress with thoughts using markings expressing moments of unpredictability, loss, and hope. I use screenprinting as a fast-paced approach to create multiple possibilities that differ from one another but retain an identity in relation with people who are seeking a new life or home in a different country.
Roberto Torres Mata is first generation artist from Huntington Beach, California and Rockford, Illinois, currently active in Madison, Wisconsin. He explores the complexities of migration from human and animal movements by using metaphors that further understand the issues of migration at the border. Roberto earned his Master’s and Master’s in Fine Arts in printmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned his Bachelor’s degree in graphic design from Western Illinois University of Macomb, Illinois. He exhibited his work nationally and internationally. His work has been exhibited at the Figge Art Museum, Zhou B Art Center, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Metropolitan Muesum of Art. His work has been collected by universities and private collectors. Roberto was also a recipient of the Education Graduate Research Scholars fellow and a recipient of the Russell and Paula Panchenko Prize.
GALLERIES: Roberto Torres Mata Exhibition (Closes)
The Rita, Foundation Gallery
Movement in the Markings / Movimiento en las Marcas
Seeking a broad look of human migration through movement and the rapid rise of displacement, I find the overlay of colors as sense of confusion through repetitive patterns and textures that are distinct from each other. The body of work captures a sense of emotional distress with thoughts using markings expressing moments of unpredictability, loss, and hope. I use screenprinting as a fast-paced approach to create multiple possibilities that differ from one another but retain an identity in relation with people who are seeking a new life or home in a different country.
Roberto Torres Mata is first generation artist from Huntington Beach, California and Rockford, Illinois, currently active in Madison, Wisconsin. He explores the complexities of migration from human and animal movements by using metaphors that further understand the issues of migration at the border. Roberto earned his Master’s and Master’s in Fine Arts in printmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned his Bachelor’s degree in graphic design from Western Illinois University of Macomb, Illinois. He exhibited his work nationally and internationally. His work has been exhibited at the Figge Art Museum, Zhou B Art Center, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Metropolitan Muesum of Art. His work has been collected by universities and private collectors. Roberto was also a recipient of the Education Graduate Research Scholars fellow and a recipient of the Russell and Paula Panchenko Prize.
FOREIGN FILM: Undine
Dec 1-4, 2022
The myth of Undine, the water nymph who has to kill her lover should he ever betray her, gets a twenty-first century German makeover courtesy of director Christian Petzold. Undine (Paula Beer), in her mid-twenties, works as a freelance guide for the Senate Administration for Urban Development in central Berlin. Before giving her usual talk about all the drastic changes that have occurred in the capital over the centuries, her lover Johannes (Jacob Matschenz) breaks up with her on the terrace of a café across the street from her work. The two scenes, in quick succession, could not be more different. The highly professional Undine proves to be someone completely different from the scorned woman. Undine is a lush, transporting affair whose enigmatic magic slowly washes over viewers. Petzold never makes entirely clear that Undine is rooted in the supernatural, until moments of magical realism come creeping in.
FOREIGN FILM: Riders of Justice
Jan 26-29, 2023
Riders of Justice follows a recently-deployed soldier named Markus (Mads Mikkelsen), who is forced to return home to care for his teenage daughter after his wife is killed in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wrecked train surfaces claiming foul play, Markus begins to suspect his wife was murdered and embarks on a revenge-fueled mission to find those responsible. Deliriously wry and so perfectly balanced it should become a case study in script classes, Riders of Justice may be the film that finally gives Anders Thomas Jensen international recognition beyond his usual spotlight as a sought-after screenwriter. Comparisons with the Coen brothers will be inevitable, given oddball characters whose fixations and genuine heart contrast with moments of extreme violence. Riders of Justice is salty, violent, transgressive, button-pushing, and laugh-out-loud funny at times.
FOREIGN FILM: Limbo
Feb 9-12, 2023
In Limbo, director Ben Sharrock presents a number of refugees from Syria and elsewhere—single men with no families—who have been relocated in grimly functional hostels with a bare-minimum subsistence allowance. Forbidden to do any paid work, they must simply wait for the official word on whether they can stay. The situation is taken broadly from real life. Sharrock superbly suggests the growing atmosphere of fear and anger that hovers like cloud cover: the men believe that they are deliberately kept in this stage of depression and desperation so that they will crack and ask to be sent home. Their contact with the state comes in the form of the drolly dramatized lectures they receive from two officials, Helga (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and Boris (Kenneth Collard), who tell them how to apply for menial jobs over the phone and the correct, respectful way to behave with women while dancing with them at a nightclub—a particularly bizarre instruction as these poor lonely men will never get near anything as exciting as that. Limbo manages to turn its downbeat scenario into a sweet and touching rumination on the quest to belong in an empty world.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Costume Cosplay Contest
6 pm-7 pm
The Rita, Brookwood Lobby
To celebrate Parkside Theatre’s finale of Shakespeare’s “As You Like it”, The Rita is hosting a costume cosplay contest. Prizes include Cash, Rita tickets, bragging rights, and trophies! First 20 guests in costume attending the play get 50% off their ticket*
- Wear any type of costume your heart desires
- Enjoy a pre-play reception where judges will review and vote
- Use your discounted ticket to attend the wonderful play
* for new ticket purchases
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About The Rita
Since 1968, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside has continued to build a reputation as an outstanding liberal arts institution with particularly strong fine arts programs. With The Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for Arts & Humanities, our state-of-the-art instructional facilities and stunning performance venues match our award-winning academic programs and provide even greater community access. Read more.