{"id":25472,"date":"2007-02-14T09:55:44","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T16:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=25472"},"modified":"2015-08-17T15:22:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T22:22:02","slug":"nau-theater-to-share-magic-of-iris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-theater-to-share-magic-of-iris\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU theater to share magic of &#8216;Iris&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A play for the whole family,\u00a0<em>Still Life with Iris<\/em>, Steven Dietz&#8217;s fantasy drama, will be performed by NAU theater students Feb. 23 through March 3 in the Clifford White Theater on the Mountain Campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This play will take you totally out of reality and into several other worlds,&#8221; said director\u00a0<strong>Barbara-Jo Maier<\/strong>, assistant professor in the Theatre department. &#8220;The lighting, music and color will transport you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Set in the magical land of Nocturno, a place where during the night, workers make all of the things we see in the world by day, the drama follows Iris, a perfect girl. Iris has been kidnapped by the rulers of Nocturno, who are determined to have the &#8220;best&#8221; of everything. Mozart, at age 11, and Annabel Lee, help Iris return to her homeland.<\/p>\n<p>The music to the score was composed by sociology graduate student\u00a0<strong>Matt Hornbeck<\/strong>. The set and costumes were designed by former theater students\u00a0<strong>Sarah Triecke<\/strong>l and\u00a0<strong>Laura Wirth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This play allows everyone to be really creative,&#8221; Maier said. &#8220;We are playing with art, playing with music and weaving it into theater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Still Life with Iris<\/em>\u00a0will be staged at 8 p.m. Feb. 23, 24 and 28 and March 1, 2, 3, and at 2 p.m. Feb. 24 and 25.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $11 for general admission, $10 for faculty, staff and senior citizens, and $8 for NAU students and staff. Call the NAU Central Ticket Office at (928) 523-5661, or go to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cal.nau.edu\/theatre\" target=\"_blank\">www.cal.nau.edu\/theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-theater-to-share-magic-of-iris\/\">A play for the whole family,\u00a0Still Life with Iris, Steven Dietz&#8217;s fantasy drama, will be performed by NAU theater students Feb. 23 through March 3 in the Clifford White Theater on the Mountain Campus. &#8220;This play will take you totally out of reality and into several other worlds,&#8221; said director\u00a0Barbara-Jo Maier, assistant professor in the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":25475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}