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Speaks with @ 6 p.m. Christian Schwarz the antelope University of Nebraska at Kearney Volume 118, Issue 23 | 4.5.17 | www.unkantelope.com Director Benes creates magic on stage Senior theatre major directs final show of season LARS JOHNSON experience directing. “My senior year Antelope Staff of high school, me and a buddy of mine wrote and co-directed a one-act,” he said, Standing in the audience and looking sitting in the theatre design lab in the at the empty Miriam Drake Theatre stage, basement of the Fine Arts Building. “Now director Matt Benes envisions a huge that I’ve been here, I’ve taken Theatre cave, complete with sparkling crystals, 480, the directing class, where I directed a magic symbols and a glowing ambiance. cutting from a full-length play and then a A common saying in the world of theatre one-act.” is that an empty stage is at its highest Benes has had experience in all potential; to a director this statement is aspects of theatre, going all the way back never more real than during the first few to high school. From being an actor on rehearsals. stage to doing technical work backstage, Benes, a senior theatre major, is he had the benefit of different experiences directing the Alpha Psi Omega show, the in the field. That alone wasn’t enough to last of the UNK Theatre productions this make him decide he wanted to make a school year. APO is an honorary theatre career of it, though. society that supports collegiate actors, “After graduating high school and designers and directors while promoting starting college in Lincoln not pursuing Photo by Lars Johnson all things theatre in the college world. theatre, I was just taking gen eds, working Student Director Matt Benes (left) of Lincoln explains some changes on the stage Once a year, on this other degree, and it was sort of to actor Nate Baldwin, a fellow senior theatre major from Ogalala. As the set is a single tearing at me that I wasn’t still doing constructed, Benes must keep the actors informed about changes. “I had had the member of theatre stuff. That’s when I realized my script for four or the UNK other pursuits weren’t really my thing the meetings that followed that initial feels optimistic about a whole new group chapter is five months, so I anymore,” he said. “I started looking for interaction, they have definitely provided of students coming into the department. chosen to a school to pursue theatre and a bunch of the world, I guess. They’ve met my “Theatre’s not just being the lead in a show was pretty excited direct a people from back home steered me toward expectations and more. There’s gonna be on Broadway or the person who designs show, a high to be able to go Kearney, so I came out here.” some nifty stuff. My scenic and lighting things. There’s so many tiers in the middle, honor in For this show, “The Illusion,” the designers are coordinating pretty close to so many other opportunities that you can forward with it a smaller entire design team is made up of students, make magic happen.” do,” he said. from there.” department. meaning everything inluding set design, Magic is what Benes’ whole show “I think that if it’s something This lighting and costumes is student-created. is about. “The show follows (a man someone’s considering theatre at the very year, that When asked what it’s like to work named) Pridament in his quest to find his least they should come down and talk to privilege fell onto Benes. “I was super with a design team consisting of his peers, estranged son. He seeks out the sorcerer some of the students or professors. Come excited when I found out I had been Benes said it’s nice to work with fresh Alcandre, who proceeds to then conjure out and see a show. Just get into the area, chosen,” he said. “I had had the script for ideas and people who are really willing three separate illusions of his son’s life in start talking to people, and you’ll know four or five months, so I was pretty excited to work. “When I say I need a fountain hopes to help him understand where his pretty early whether or not it’s the right to be able to go forward with it from that just appears out of nowhere, they say, son is and potentially reconnect with him,” path for you.” there.” Back in the spring of 2016, senior ‘Yeah, I have a plan, let's do it.’” said Benes. “Whether or not he succeeds “Come see the show, it’s going to be theatre majors who met the requirements “I will say that from the beginning or fails is kind of left open to your super awesome,” he finished, hinting at all were able to apply to direct this show, and of meeting the design team on this show, interpretation.” the ideas he has in his mind that will all Benes was chosen. I told them that I was gonna ask the After four years of learning and However, this won’t be Benes’s first world from them,” he said, chuckling. “In growing in this field, as a senior Benes BENES, PAGE 11 campuscategory calendar CAMPUS CALENDAR American Red Cross Blood Drive Student Wednesday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Research Day April 5 NSU Podersosa Room A&B Tuesday, April 11th 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Justice Week 24-Hour Stand The 19th annual Student Research Day features undergraduate and Thursday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. graduate research projects. Held in the NSU Ponderosa Room. Awards April 6 Ceremony will begin at 3:30 p.m. Contact the URCA Office at 865-8702 or Cope Fountain unk.edu/ugr for further details. UNK Presents The Whistleblower film Oral Presentations Posters Music Friday 7:30-9:30 p.m. April 7 The World Theatre Saturday The Big Event 9 a.m.-1 p.m. April 8 FREAKY Kearney Community Sunday Cello Recital 5-6:30 p.m. April 9 FAST! 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You can’t voice criticism, had to before Donald Trump’s perplexing herself having to swing further and further Antelope Staff no matter how measured or deserved, of campaign with its countless surprises. left to attract his supporters. This resulted Trump or Ryan or Pence without being Any one of the Trump scandals would in a presidential election pitting socialist You may have labeled a socialist. have derailed the momentum of any other ideas against Trump’s isolationist and recently heard that Tomi Similarly, a Democrat must give their candidate in the history of American nationalist agenda. Lahren was fired from full-throated support to every talking politics, and yet somehow he is sitting in The spectrum of politics is not a The Blaze for her liberal point. You can’t argue against including the Oval Office as our 45th President. straight line, stretching eternally in either beliefs. That’s right – abortion or birth control in a universal A typical campaign has changed over direction. Instead, it is a horseshoe shape, ‘ snowflake-bashing, gun-toting, liberal- health care program. You can’t say, “Hey, the last decade to become a mouthpiece ‘ with the extreme elements of both being mocking Tomi was found to be too far to Hilary Clinton isn’t actually that great. She of talking points for every single exact closer to each other than they are the the left. Why, you may well ask? lost to Obama in 2008. Maybe we party policy. If a Republican candidate middle. Socialism and fascism are but two She identified herself as pro-choice. sides of the same coin. To be exact, she said that, just as Instead of closing our ears to any she wants the government to stay out of ideas different than those we espouse, we her gun safe, she wants them out of her The problem is one-note politics and should allow for dissent and debate within body. Even though the argument may be the ever-widening schism between the ranks of each party. Failing to do so made that bodily autonomy is a greater right and left. will only deepen the gulf between the two inalienable right than that to bear arms, extremes. the logic behind her statement is evident. It’s completely possible that this The problem with this situation is whole scandal is a headline-grabbing not Tomi Lahren or what she believes or has a more nuanced view of gay marriage way for Tomi to garner some buzz before doesn’t believe.