The Undergraduate Prize Plays: One night. Three performances. All the feels.
It’s not easy teaching a subject like poetry to career-focused college students, unless that happens to be the career they are looking to go into, which is rare at UNH.
Full Disclosure: Proceed with caution, for spoilers lie ahead. This article will focus on HBO’s hit television series “Game of Thrones,” but if you wish to discuss the books then seek me out.
I have been to jazz halls, I have been to orchestras and I have been to church. But I have never been to a dance show. It was a frigid Saturday on the second day of April, in the year 2016.
On Thursday night at the Thirsty Moose Tap Room in Portsmouth, the Durham based band Barefoot Young brought a diverse audience their mix of hip-hop, funk, reggae. Downstairs, in a red-lit room filled with both college-aged fans and older bar patrons, the beer and bass-lines flowed alike. The genre-bending, groove heavy band consisting of UNH students Derek Bolivar, Matt James, Mark Delgrosso, Ben Taylor, and Ian Howard recently brought their sound back to the Seacoast after playing in New York and look forward to upcoming shows in Boston. After opening for the funk duo Jig & Funk twice before, the bill was swapped on Thursday night.
The Johnson Theater buzzed with anticipation on Sunday afternoon in preparation for the matinee showing of “The Crucible.” Although it was the last performance, the theater was still considerably full.
The Broadway adaption of Stephen King’s novel “Carrie” was considered one of “Broadway’s biggest flops” when first performed in the 1980s as written by Dean Pitchford, Michael Gore and Lawrence Cohen. The reworked version, however, which premiered in 2012, was a hit when performed at UNH last weekend. The show was even sold out on Saturday evening’s performance, the last one of the weekend.
By ZERINA BAJRAMOVIC
Growing up, everyone has had a dream job, but oftentimes, those dreams are replaced with realities. For Gary Sabbag, this is not the case.