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Macbeth lacks a core, which leaves a bunch of artists looking around for how they can fill a center-less space.
Four young Scandinavian musicians, the Danish String Quartet, dazzled UC San Diego’s ArtPower audience with their Friday (Jan. 31) concert of Debussy, Mendelssohn and Abrahamsen at the university’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.
Forced to fight for custody of her five-year-old daughter, an impressive homeless mom struggles to muster enough middle-class dignity to impress the state agency that seized the child. But everybody is sinking in the recession of 2009.
“I didn’t start out to make work that was funny,” says Monica Bill Barnes, who teams with radio host Ira Glass in “Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host.” “What I find tragic can make people burst into laughter.” ///
“I’ve done serious dances, but you can communicate a lot more with humor,” says Pat Sandback, who restages “Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries.” “I loved soap operas on the radio, especially “As the World Turns,” because it was so outrageous.”
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