Visual, dramatic arts is bustling with fall activity

Visual, dramatic arts is bustling with fall activity

Rice Theater Program presents ‘No Exit’

Two women and one man are ushered into a room with no windows, no mirrors, no way to turn the light off and no way out.

John-Paul Sartre’s play “No Exit” is Rice Theater’s fall production set for Oct 20, 21, 27 and 28. The play starts at 8 each night and is in Hamman Hall.

Tickets are $5. For more information call 713-348-PLAY (7529).

Fashion draws inspiration from the masters

Where do fashion designers find inspiration for their collections? The models on the catwalks today are dressed in styles that come directly from the documentation that master artists have provided of the clothes people wore throughout time. Literally every major time period from Ancient Egypt to Post Modernism is represented in the fashion collections each year.

Trish Rigdon, director of the Theater Program, will discuss what this year’s fashions look like compared with the chronicles of time at a 4 p.m. lecture Wednesday, Oct. 25, in the Rice Media Center cinema auditorium.

The lecture, titled “Art x Inspiration = Fashion,” is free and open to the public.

Oct. 31 ball to celebrate oddity, exuberance and taffeta

The Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts is hosting an event disguised as a costume party to celebrate the arts major.

The Cirque du Arts Ball, “celebrating oddity, exuberance and taffeta,” is set for Tuesday,

Oct. 31, from 7 p.m. to midnight at the Rice Media Center.

Tickets are $10 and will go on sale Oct. 20. Prizes will be awarded for the most creative costume.

For tickets or more information, call Rachel Boyle, administrative coordinator for visual and dramatic arts, at 713-348-4882.

Rice Cinema has weekend film offerings

Two movies hit the screen at Rice Cinema this weekend.

Thursday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. is “Frances Newton’s Last Words: Chronicle of an Execution,” a powerful 2005 documentary by Thomas Greifer following the defense campaign of a death-row inmate.

Friday, Oct. 20, through Sunday, Oct. 22, Rice Cinema will show the Houston premiere of “Salvador Allende” by legendary Chilean director Patricio Guzman.

This film presents a history of Allende, who served Chile as president from 1970 until 1973, and traces his origins, rise to political power and impact on Chilean history.

The film, which is at 8 p.m., is in Spanish with English subtitles.

Admission charge for Rice Cinema movies is $6, unless otherwise noted. Senior citizens, faculty, staff and all full-time students with a college I.D. can receive $1 off the ticket price with presentation of I.D.

For more information, visit <http://ricecinema.rice.edu> or call 713-348-4853.