OPERATION MOZART

Thursday, April 13th at ECU in Ada, Oklahoma


Schedule of events
4:00 Keyboard recital directed by Mr. Skye Garcia

4:30 Instrumental recital directed by Dr. Nathaniel Berman

5:00 A Taste of Germany* (snacks) provided by ECU's chapter of the National Association for Music Educators (NAfME)

5:30 Choral recital featuring the University Chorale, directed by Dr. Steve Walker

6:00 "Amadeus: The Lines vs. the Letters," a talk given by Dr. Joshua Grasso

6:30 A Taste of Germany provided by NAfME: grilled brats with sauerkraut, potato cakes, and Black Forest cake.

7:30 Royal National Theatre of Great Britain's Amadeus, a recorded-live production. $10 for the general public; free for ECU students.

*When Wolfgang Mozart was born in Salzburg on the 27th of January, 1756, the Archbishopric of Salzburg was part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, but the state of Germany and the state of Austria as we know them did not yet exist.

Seventh Annual Film Festival Finale

Friday, February 24 at 4 pm
WHERE DO WE GO NOW? 
Directed by Nadine Labaki. Lebanon; Free.

Spring 2017 Schedule

All eight films will be screened in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center located inside the Bill S. Cole University Center (near the corner of E. 13th Street and South Francis) on the campus of East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.

Tickets are available at the door for $10 per person or $5 for students (with ID) unless otherwise noted.

Friday, January 13 at 7 p.m.
NO MAN'S LAND
By Harold Pinter. NT Live.
Starring Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.

Tuesday, January 31 at 7 p.m.
FRANKENSTEIN
By Nick Dear; based on the novel by Mary Shelley NT Live.
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Frankenstein and Jonny Lee Miller as the Creature.

ECU's SIXTH ANNUAL FOREIGN FILM FESTIVAL
FREE FOREIGN FILMS: FRIDAYS IN FEBRUARY AT FOUR

Friday, February 3 at 4 pm
THE BLACK HEN
Directed by Min Bahadur Bham. Nepal; Free.

Friday, February 10 at  4 pm
LABYRINTH OF LIES
Directed by Giulio Ricciarelli. Germany; Free.

Friday, February 17 at 4 pm
THE GOLDEN DREAM 
Directed by Diego Quemada-Díez. Mexico; Free.

Friday, February 24 at 4 pm
WHERE DO WE GO NOW? 
Directed by Nadine Labaki. Lebanon; Free.

Thursday, March 23 at 7 pm
ANNA KARENINA 

Directed and choreographed by Angelica Cholina; based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. Stage Russia HD; Free.

Thursday, April 13 at 7:30 pm
AMADEUS
By Peter Shaffer. NT Live.

No Man's Land

On Friday, January 13th at 7 pm in the Estep: Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart star in Harold Pinter’s "No Man's Land,"recorded live at Wyndham’s Theatre, London.

One summer's evening, two aging writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.

Don’t miss this glorious revival of Pinter’s comic classic. The broadcast will be followed by an exclusive Q&A with the cast and director Sean Mathias.

War Horse

Wednesday, December 21st at 2:00 p.m. in the Estep: the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain's production of "War Horse."

Since its first performance at the National Theatre in 2007, War Horse has become an international smash hit, capturing the imagination of millions of people around the world.

Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France. Filled with stirring music and songs, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama is a show of phenomenal inventiveness. At its heart are astonishing life-size puppets by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling life on stage.

We'll serve free ice cream during the interval.

The Three Penny Opera

Friday, December 16th at 7:00 p.m. in the Estep: the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain's production of "The Threepenny Opera" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann in a new adaptation by Simon Stephens. First performed in Berlin in 1928, when Germany was on the cusp of a period of political extremity, Brecht's comic opera shines a deliberately unattractive light on a narcissistic, morally despicable strongman and the society that empowers him. Rated “R” due to “filthy language and immoral behavior." Runtime: 3 hours (including a 20-minute interval--we'll serve ice cream. Olivier-Award winner Rory Kinnear is Mack the Knife in a new version of this landmark twentieth-century musical, captured-live on of the stage of the National Theatre in London.

The Deep Blue Sea

Tuesday, November 29 at 7:30 pm in the Estep: "The Deep Blue Sea," starring Helen McCrory. Run time: 2 hours 30 mins, including a 20 min.interval (ice cream will be served: free!).

Helen McCrory plays one of the greatest female roles in contemporary drama in Terence Rattigan’s devastating masterpiece in this recorded-live, 5-star 2016 National Theatre production.

A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952.

When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbors in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge.

With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.

Come early for an Active Minds mental and emotional health informational session and Q&A, featuring: Jennifer Cox (MS, LPC), the Director of ECU's Student Counseling Center; and Susan Youngblood (MS, LPC), Clinical Counselor in ECU's Student Counseling Center. Finger foods and snacks will be served for those attending the meeting, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Estep.