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Fuddy Meers: Bizzare theatre at its best

November 7, 2009

If you are looking for an evening of bizarre theatre, in the best sense of that phrase, have I got a recommendation for you! Go see “Fuddy Meers,” currently being presented in the Bartlett Theatre on the Fredonia State campus. The play, by David Lindsay-Abaire, explores questions about memory, language, and the ways in which we construct reality, and it does so with humor and affection. Of course, discussions about how we construct reality also get us into the realm of the unreal, which is how the bizarre enters the play. The play is about a woman who suffers from a form of amnesia that requires her to depend on those around her for her understanding of who she is, but none of those around her are fully trustworthy, so neither she nor the audience can be sure of who she is. The one character who does seem trustworthy has recently had a stroke, so that her ability to use language is severely impaired.

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‘La Boheme’ is this year’s Hillman Opera at SUNY Fredonia

November 3, 2009

An enduring, tragic love story will be brought to life this November at the State University of New York at Fredonia as the 2009-10 Hillman Opera.

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School of Music to host Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Friday

October 27, 2009



The School of Music Rosch Musical Art Series will present its fourth annual collaborative concert with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) on Friday at 8 p.m. in King Concert Hall on the SUNY Fredonia campus.

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Wine Trail’s Harvest Wine Weekends scheduled for November

October 25, 2009

WESTFIELD — The Chautauqua–Lake Erie Wine Trail will host its inaugural Harvest Wine Weekends Nov. 7-8 and 14-15 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Twenty-one wineries located along Lake Erie from Silver Creek to North East, Pa.

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A place of beauty: Burchfield-Penney Art Gallery

October 23, 2009

BUFFALO — It’s human nature to need moments, spent with beauty.

I recently spent an evening in a relatively new place of beauty: the new Burchfield-Penney Art Gallery, on Elmwood Ave., in Buffalo.

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Fredonia Opera House to screen the ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’

October 22, 2009

The romantic drama, “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” is the next featured film in the Cinema Series at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House. It will be screened on Saturday at 8 p.m. and Oct. 27 at 7:30 p..

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