Shawn Wilson
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Ghosts of Christmas Carols Past
- By gentleguide
- On Sun 10 dec 2017
A tradition of the holiday season is A Christmas Carol. While no less than 5 different area groups are doing variations of the classic tale of Scrooge and his late night visitors this season, the real legacy version is being presented by Iowa Stage. Carrying on the tradition of years past from Repertory Theatre of Iowa, A Christmas Carol has more than its share of continuity and history.
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Still Lives in Motion
- By gentleguide
- On Thu 02 nov 2017
Although you don’t think about it when you are watching a movie, a strip of film is just a bunch of still pictures projected in series, and the apparent “motion” is what our brain sees when these slightly different snapshots are shown at speed. Life is like that too, as a series of discrete moments connected by our experiences into a (hopefully) cohesive whole.