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August ambition The Charlottesville Players Guild tells stories of the African-American experience through the lens of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle

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THIS WEEK NEWS 9 My first time on stage was a fairly high-profile role: as a magician’s 10 City councilors as assistant. I was 2 years old and visiting Disney World with my family. defendants in statue case?

11 Child advocacy center says During dinner, the magician asked if there was a willing participant to abuse is prevalent. help him with some tricks. My parents couldn’t believe it when my hand 12 Actor John Cleese on life after death. shot into the air (normally shy around strangers, I was too starstruck 12 Grand jury to take up Tyler that trip to even say anything to Alice in Wonderland), and they were even Davis case. more shocked when I was chosen out of a roomful of eager kids. But FEATURE 17 the pictures of me that night with a huge smile on my face say it all.

In this week’s feature (p. 17), you’ll meet people like Brenda Brown-Grooms, who has fond memories of performing on the Jefferson School stage as a child. On April 18, Brown-Grooms returns to that same stage, now at the Jefferson School African American Heritage The Charlottesville Players Guild Center, to perform in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, produced by the brings black theater back to Charlottesville.

Charlottesville Players Guild. The guild, an all-African-American troupe, was originally active in the 1940s and has been revived to give ARTS 27 29 Calendar Listings audiences a new perspective on the “Americana” experience, as it 30 Feedback: UVA student performs all 10 plays in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle over the next directs Le Devin du village.

31 Review: “Expressions in five years.—Jessica Luck

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—K. Matthew Dames, an associate librarian for scholarly resources and services at Georgetown University, on Twitter. Kelly had already planned to leave the Daily Progress, and August 12 was his last day.

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IN BRIEF Crozet triangle

A twin-engine Cessna crashed off Saddle Hollow Road April 15, killing the pilot, not far from where Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 slammed into Bucks Elbow Mountain in 1959 with one of the 27 people onboard surviving. Crozet also was the scene of a GOP congressional delegation-carrying Amtrak crash into a Time Disposal truck that killed one person January 31.

Rain tax quenched Albemarle Board of Supervisors decided April 11 to use its general fund to pay for the stormwater utility fee because of massive farmer outrage. Next issue to get riled about: property taxes going up.

COURTESY RENDERING

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Cullop walloped

Call to condemn Activist groups Black Lives Matter and Showing Up for Racial Justice want City Council and the Albemarle supes to approve a resolution written by Frank Dukes that condemns the Confederate battle flag that’s been erected in Louisa near I-64.

Power of the press During the 2017 Virginia Press Association awards ceremony on April 14, C-VILLE nabbed accolades in 10 categories in the specialty publication division, along with two best in show awards for design and presentation (Bill LeSueur and Max March) and artwork (Barry Bruner).

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Things are not looking good for 5th District Democratic candidate Ben Cullop, who scored zero delegates at the April 16 overflow Albemarle Democratic caucus in his home county.

Leslie Cockburn received 18 delegates, Andrew Sneathern 13 and R.D. Huffstetler will take eight to the Dem convention May 5 to choose a challenger to U.S. Congressman Tom Garrett.

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A capacity crowd packed the Monticello High School gymnasium April 16 to participate in the 5th District Democratic caucus.

The winners of a Bushman Dreyfus Architects and Tom Tom Founders Festival competition to use public spaces to create constructive dialogue and to reimagine Vinegar Hill, the city’s historic and predominantly African-American neighborhood, proposed an 80-foot wall made of layers of metal maps of the lost neighborhood on the west side of the Downtown Mall.

The wall, similar in size to the Freedom of Speech Wall on the opposite side of the mall, would be surrounded by rolling benches. Winning team members Lauren McQuistion, a UVA School of Architecture grad now based in Detroit, A.J. Artemel, director of communications at Yale School of Architecture, and Tyler Whitney, a former junior designer at local VMDO Architects who is also now in Detroit, received a grand prize of $5,000. All three are 2011 UVA graduates.

Thanks to urban renewal, Vinegar Hill was razed in 1964, and the city is currently considering how to memorialize it, independently from the competition, which garnered submissions from 80 applicants across 20 countries.

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It’s going to cost five bucks more to visit Shenandoah National Park this summer. Starting June 1, vehicle entrance fees will be $30, motorcycles $25, per person is $15 and an annual pass is $55. Good news for seniors and frequent parkers: The annual pass to all parks and the senior lifetime pass remains $80.

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o far, Judge Rick Moore has accumulated six files pertaining to the lawsuit filed a year ago against Charlottesville and its city councilors for voting to remove the statue of General Robert E. Lee—and that doesn’t include the transcripts, he told lawyers in Charlottesville Circuit Court April 11.

At the latest hearing, the city again attempted to get the suit thrown out. Before arguing its plea in bar, which maintains the individual city councilors should not be defendants in the case, Moore reversed himself on an earlier decision and said the plaintiffs could seek attorneys fees.

He previously ruled the plaintiffs could not seek damages because no damages to the statues had occurred—and he said that ruling still stands.

But upon a closer reading of the statute, which says damages may be awarded for “rebuilding, repairing, preserving and restoring” memorials, he reconsidered.

“What was planned by City Council encroached” upon the monuments, he said.

“The statute allows [the plaintiffs] to recover the cost of preservation.”

The tarps that covered the Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues, which Moore ordered removed February 27, were “in fact in my view an encroachment,” he said. “My original ruling on damages was premature.”

Statue plaintiff Buddy Weber says city councilors have a duty to know what the law is.

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Awareness campaign Child sexual abuse happens more often than you think

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LOCAL STATISTICS Rachel Thielmann is working to raise awareness about and prevent local child sexual abuse. Unfortunately, it’s more prevalent than you’d think, she says.

Thielmann. “Kids are typically groomed in that process.”

While adults may think young children should be able to recognize a “bad touch,” she says, “when someone they love says, ‘I love you,’ and ‘you’re really special to me, so we’re going to have a secret,’ kids don’t really understand that’s not okay.”

The employees at Foothills administer a free national training called Stewards of Children. Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman—who recently made headlines for being a victim of former national gymnastics team doctor and convicted child molester Larry Nassar—has advocated for every adult involved in youth sports to undergo this training.

The next Stewards of Children sessions are on Saturday, April 21, at the Foothills office on East High Street. It’ll be offered in English at 10am and in Spanish at 2pm.

Visit Foothillscac.org to register.

Rachel Thielmann, a prevention education specialist at the Foothills Child Advocacy Center, says a large majority of child abuse goes unreported. Many victims don’t speak out until they’re older, so the numbers are likely much higher. In fiscal year 2017, Foothills representatives served 236 new cases in Charlottesville and Albemarle, and 90 in surrounding counties.

The 326 children were: • 62% female • 38% male • 28% disabled • 32% 0-6 years old • 37% 7-12 years old • 31% 13-18 years old All kids were alleged victims of at least one type of abuse, but some of them reported more than one type.

• 65% sexual abuse • 20% child pornography/internet crimes/trafficking • 26% physical abuse • 17% neglect • 17% witness to violence • 28% other types of abuse

In fiscal year 2017, 55,258 children in Virginia were reported as possible victims of abuse or neglect, according to Child Protective Services. n 6,947 kids participated in founded investigations, which means a review of the facts gathered during the investigation met the state’s preponderance of evidence standard n 9,796 children were involved in unfounded investigations n 38,515 children were involved in reports that yielded family assessments n 120 investigations of child deaths due to suspected abuse or neglect n 38 children died as a result of abuse or neglect

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pril is one of the first warm and welcoming months of the new year, but it’s also given two not-so-ideal titles: National Child Abuse Prevention month and Sexual Assault Awareness month.

“Child sexual abuse is much more prevalent than people think,” says Rachel Thielmann, a prevention education specialist at Foothills Child Advocacy Center. Though her group served 326 local children last year—with 65 percent of them reportedly victims of sexual abuse—she says the number of abused kids is likely much higher because a lot of children never disclose it.

Many signs forewarn of child sexual abuse, but the specialist says it can be difficult to pinpoint them. She offers a few things to look for.

“For all kids, curiosity about sex and their bodies is really natural, but when you see a child who knows really specific things or specific language about sex that’s outside of what you would expect for their age, that could be a sign,” she says.

Adults should also notice when children are averse to being with a grown-up they used to spend a lot of time with, or any kind of unexplained physical mark or rash, or discomfort when using the bathroom.

When abuse is suspected, she says adults should immediately report it to Child Protective Services.

One in four children will be sexually abused in their lifetime, and more than 90 percent of them are abused by someone they know well, according to Thielmann, who adds that dodging perpetrators isn’t as simple as refusing candy from strangers, or staying away from the bad guy.

“They’re in your community,” she says, nodding to the case of former Venable Elementary School teacher Corey Schock, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to online coercion and enticement with a minor, and who is now serving 10 years in federal prison.

“He was that person that everybody loved,” she says. “Kids loved him. Other teachers loved him.”

She also mentions a more recent case that went through her office, in which a 14-yearold girl was being sexually abused by her father.

“She felt really, really terrible because she felt like she had gone along with it,” says

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Acting City Attorney Lisa Robertson again argued that those on council last year —Wes Bellamy, Bob Fenwick, Kathy Galvin, Mike Signer and Kristin Szakos—were immune from litigation because of sovereign and legislative immunity.

None of the councilors individually can enact legislation, said Robertson. “Not until it’s an aggregation of votes” as a body are resolutions made.

Plaintiffs attorney Braxton Puryear said immunity does not apply in cases of willful misconduct. The councilors had rulings from both Attorney General Mark Herring and then-city attorney Craig Brown that the state statute prohibited removal of war memorials, he said. “City Council was intentional and willful in its misconduct.”

Moore pondered the issue of immunity.

“The question for me is, does that apply when they’re engaged in unauthorized activity?” he asked. “If they decide to do something unlawful, does it still apply?” He called the issue a “gray area.”

Ralph Main, another plaintiffs attorney, said councilors made an “unauthorized appropriation of funds” when council passed a resolution authorizing up to $1 million to reconfigure the parks, including the removal of the Lee statue.

“The act itself is unlawful,” he said. “They had a duty to follow the law.” Councilors were aware of the criminal penalties in the state’s war memorials statute, he said.

And they were aware they were facing litigation when they voted to remove the Lee statue, asserted Main. Despite Moore issuing a temporary injunction prohibiting the removal of Lee, “they still voted to remove Jackson,” said the attorney.

City Council made that vote after the violent Unite the Right rally protesting the city’s decision to take down Lee. Individual councilors did not receive any money from their appropriation to reconfigure the park, said Robertson.

And Moore seemed to agree with her that elected officials have immunity so they can make decisions that may be unpopular without fear of getting sued every time they anger a constituent.

The judge said there are a lot of moving parts in the case and that he wanted to read more cases on immunity. He also asked the attorneys to send him a letter outlining the issues they want him to decide in the plea in bar, the body of facts and what court cases he should consider in making his decision.

“This is not an easy case from a legal point of view,” said Moore. “I’ve never dealt with individual liability.”

A further hearing was scheduled April 16 because the city’s attorney, Richard Milnor, said an order prepared by the plaintiffs attorneys “does not accurately reflect the ruling” on the court’s decision that the shrouds on the statues had to go.

Outside the courthouse, Main had an issue with a story this reporter wrote about the “tarps covering Lee and his Confederate general buddy, Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson.”

“I don’t like it that you referred to Jackson as Lee’s buddy,” said Main. “I think you should retract that.”

The case is scheduled for an October 26 trial.

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after the death, said Tucker, although the boy who remembered making a movie with George Raft and sailing on the Queen Mary was born 40 years after movie extra Marty Martyn died. And the memories fade for most kids around 6 or 7 years old, Tucker said.

“These exceptional cases” seem to provide evidence consciousness does survive the body in some form, said Tucker.

A member of the audience asked the panelists if there’s life after death. Cleese replied,

“I remember my good friend Peter Cook, who was a genius and a comedian, and he was more worried about sex after death.”

Both Greyson and Tucker said they’re skeptical about the cases they’re documenting. “I look for defects in the data,” said Tucker.

Said Kelly, “We’re all just poor empirical scientists” who aren’t entirely sure what it all means.

“These phenomena exist as facts of existence, and science is going to have to accommodate them,” he said.

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or years, what’s now known as the Division of Perceptual Studies at UVA kept a pretty low profile under its reincarnation researcher and founder Ian Stevenson, who was notoriously publicity shy.

That seems to have changed in the department’s current incarnation, which sponsored the appearance of Monty Pythoner John Cleese at last week’s Tom Tom Founders Festival. Cleese’s solo appearance April 11 raised money for DOPS, and he moderated a “Life After Death” panel April 12 with the paranormal researchers themselves discussing their psi work.

“I’m here for one reason and that’s I’m a celebrity,” joked Cleese.

But he’s also a supporter of the group, and he met some of its staff at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, where Esalen’s founder, Michael Murphy, also is a fan of the Division of Perceptual Studies, according to Ed Kelly, a psychologist and neuroscientist who studies altered states of consciousness.

Another big fan of Stevenson’s reincarnation work was Chester F. Carlson, the inventor of xerography, who endowed the department’s first professorship when it was founded in 1967. The division remains one of the few university-associated groups in the world to use scientific methods to study the paranormal.

Former DOPS director Bruce Greyson is the Chester F. Carlson professor emeritus of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences, and he focuses on near-death experiences, crisis apparitions and deathbed visions to answer the question, “Does consciousness or the mind survive death?” he said.

Greyson has documented 1,000 cases of near-death experiences, including those in which a person accurately describes an outof-body scene at a time of being seriously impaired, such as on an operating table, said Greyson.

He’s also run across crisis apparitions, such as the 9-year-old boy in a coma who saw deceased family members, including his older sister, whom he and his family didn’t yet know had been killed in a car accident.

“How did Eddie know?” asked Greyson.

“That’s when I started getting interested in all this nonsense,” quipped Cleese.

Current director Jim Tucker has continued Stevenson’s work and now DOPS has documented 2,500 cases of children who claim to have memories of past lives, most of those in Asian cultures that believe in reincarnation.

“Now with the internet, they come from all over,” said Tucker, who has investigated children in the United States who seem to have knowledge of having lived in Hollywood or of dying in a fiery plane crash.

These memories tend to involve violent deaths and resurface on average of 4.5 years

Life after Monty Python finds John Cleese performing a solo show at the Tom Tom Founders Festival to raise money for UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies, as well as moderating a panel with the paranormal researchers.

“I remember my good friend Peter Cook, who was a genius and a comedian, and he was more worried about sex after death.” JOHN CLEESE

‘BOONIE HAT’ GOES TO GRAND JURY A Florida man charged with malicious wounding in the Davis, a member of the neo-Confederate group League August 12 Market Street Parking Garage attack on of the South, came to Charlottesville for the Unite the DeAndre Harris can thank the attorney of another man for Right rally to exercise his political opinions, said his his arrest—and for dubbing him “Boonie Hat.” attorney, Matthew Engle. “Opinions I find offensive,” Tyler Watkins Davis, 50, of Middleburg, Florida, was in added the attorney. “He had a right to do that.”

Charlottesville General District Court April 12 for a Engle played a video in which he said “two preliminary hearing, and his attorney argued Davis had incredibly stupid things happened”: Corey Long attempted been “overcharged” and that the single blow to grab a flag belonging to Harold Crews, the he struck against Harris did not rise to the head of the North Carolina League of the level of malicious wounding. However, Judge South, and Harris inserted himself into that.

Bob Downer found enough evidence to According to Engle, Harris pretty much certify the felony charge to the grand jury. provoked the vicious attack that left him with a The moniker “Boonie Hat” debuted in that broken wrist and stapled-together scalp. Harris same court December 14, when Blairs was found not guilty of assaulting Crews attorney Elmer Woodard, who represents March 16.

Jacob Goodwin, also charged in the garage The attorney also said that “it was brawl, played video of the assault and asked irresponsible” to send Unite the Right why police had not arrested the then-unprotesters out of the park and into the street known man wearing a brimmed hat who with counterprotesters. Davis walked up Tyler Watkins Davis can could be seen striking Harris. be released on bond if he Market Street as the two groups sparred.

Charlottesville police Detective Declan Once in the parking garage, when Harris finds a Florida home electronic monitoring Hickey testified that he hadn’t noticed stumbled in front of him and Davis hit him system that meets the Boonie Hat until Woodard pointed him out in with what was variously described as a stick requirements of the December, and he started looking for him. or club, “it was not self-defense” but it did commonwealth’s Davis was arrested January 24. lack malice, said Engle, who pointed out that attorney. C’VILLE POLICE

Davis only hit Harris once, unlike others involved in the attack.

Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Nina Antony disagreed. “Mr. Davis struck an individual who was unarmed and on the ground,” she said. “That in and of itself is malice.”

Before his ruling, Downer noted, there was “horrible behavior” on the part of many people. He said he didn’t think Davis was justified in striking Harris. “I think it was malicious,” and he said he found probable cause to certify the charge to the grand jury.

Downer allowed a bond hearing for Davis. Attorney Bernadette Donovan said her client was 50 years old with “absolutely no record.” Davis was raised in Lynchburg, where he met the woman to whom he’s been married for 25 years, she said. He’s a service technician for Comcast and the family’s main breadwinner.

Over the prosecution’s objection, Downer agreed to a $5,000 bond on the condition that the commonwealth’s attorney could vet a home electronic monitoring system first. If approved, Davis could only leave his house for work, medical appointments for himself or his son, court or to meet with his attorneys.

“We requested he sign a waiver of extradition,” says Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania.—Lisa Provence

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She’d been here before. local black churches, which supported plenty of religious pageants throughout the year.

The school was rebuilt in 1926, as the city’s first high school for black students, and was expanded four times, and still, the auditorium and its stage remained a center of activity even when the school became Jefferson Elementary School in 1951. The 1941 edition of Crimson & Black, the Jefferson School yearbook, counted 59 students as members of the dramatics club, and by 1944, that number had doubled, and the group participated in the Virginia State Theater competition in Petersburg, Virginia, up until 1951, Douglas and Scott-Jones note in the Vinegar Hill article.

Many of the dramatics club students later became members of the Charlottesville Players Guild, an adult theater group that, the article notes, had as many as 40 participants at the height of its membership. Started in the mid-1950s, the all-African-American troupe performed one- and threeact plays in the Charlottesville area and throughout the region and “remained a mainstay of local community theater into the late 1960s.”

Douglas first heard about the Charlottesville Players Guild from Mary Anderson, a Jefferson School alumna who Douglas believes is the only surviving member of the original guild. Douglas has learned a bit about the guild from Anderson, from Crimson & Black and from photography books that chronicle black life in Charlottesville through the 20th century, but says it’s been difficult to find information on which plays the troupe performed—active from the 1940s to ’60s—and when.

Douglas, who has served as executive director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center since it opened in 2012, says that supporting artists of color is an important part of honoring the school’s heritage. In addition to spaces devoted to exhibits on local AfricanAmerican history, the center has gallery rooms that regularly house the work of local African-American visual artists like Yolonda Coles Jones, Lisa Beane and Frank Walker, and Douglas says she’d long hoped to stage the plays of Wilson—America’s foremost African-American playwright who twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for Fences in

The Reverend Brenda Brown-Grooms plays the role of Bertha Holly in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, which runs through April 29 at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. Brown-Grooms first performed on this stage in the early 1960s, as a second-grader at Jefferson Elementary School.

1987 and for The Piano Lesson in 1990—on the Jefferson School stage.

“If you’re going to announce yourself as an institution that addresses the 20th-century African-American experience in the most interdisciplinary way, there is no other artist that does it as completely and thoroughly as August Wilson does,” Douglas says.

What’s more, she says, when one considers “the broad scope of the arts in Charlottesville and its focus on ‘Americana,’ loosely defined,” one realizes “what isn’t part of ‘Americana’ on a consistent basis,” and that which isn’t often part of that Charlottesville Americana is art that explores and depicts the African-American experience.

Douglas mentioned her desire to stage Wilson plays on an episode of “Home Grown,” an arts talk show on WPVC radio that Scott-Jones, a longtime local theater artist, often hosts.

Scott-Jones, who studied theater at VCU and has participated in various community theater productions at Live Arts, PlayOn Theatre, Gorilla Theater and elsewhere, was ready to go all-in. She wanted the chance to stage Wilson plays in Charlottesville, and the chance to give actors, directors and producers of color the opportunity to participate in theater that was written expressly for them. She wanted to do black theater.

Black theater, Scott-Jones explains, happens when a black director produces a work with black actors playing black characters written by a black playwright. Wilson’s plays fit this bill; the playwright had an unofficial condition that no white directors should direct his plays.

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During a recent rehearsal of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, a feeling of recollection overcame Brenda Brown-Grooms as she recited her lines. She was in character as Bertha Holly, wife of Seth Holly and a boarding house matron who likes to bake biscuits, make coffee and care for her tenants with warmth and laughter. But Brown-Grooms knew it was more than a line that’d tipped off her déjà vu.

She glanced down at her feet, and when Brown-Grooms looked back up and out into the auditorium, she traveled back in time to when she was a second-grader, sitting in that very spot on the very same wooden stage, pretending to sew an American flag out of construction paper, a pair of brand-new sky-blue patent leather shoes peeking out from beneath her Betsy Ross costume.

She had, indeed, been here before.

“I just knew I was gorgeous,” says Brown-Grooms, laughing as she recalls the memory of her first play. “I don’t suspect Betsy had sky-blue shoes,” she says, but that didn’t matter one bit to young Brenda. “[Betsy] looked like me that day,” like a sky-blue shoe-wearing African-American second-grader attending the Jefferson School in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the early 1960s.

“I like this,” she remembers thinking.

Brown-Grooms, who fell in love with reading out loud as soon as her teacher, Mrs. Cage, introduced her to the alphabet in the first grade, had found the play on a school bookshelf just two weeks before and asked if she could perform it for the class. “Why not the whole school?” BrownGrooms remembered Mrs. Cage asking.

And while Brown-Grooms liked performing, she loved knowing that “you can have an idea, and all of a sudden it’s born.”

Brown-Grooms, co-pastor of New Beginnings Christian Community here in Charlottesville, describes herself as “a diva and a ham.” She’s taught New Testament Greek language and grammar at the college level, she’s preached in cities all over the country, and has joined a theater troupe in every city she’s lived in: New York, New Jersey, California and elsewhere. But when she moved back to Charlottesville in 2011, she couldn’t find a troupe that seemed more fun than competitive.

Last September, Brown-Grooms caught a performance of Wilson’s Jitney, produced by the Charlottesville Players Guild on the Jefferson School stage, and she says she knew, in that moment, “I had found my peeps.”

“I am going to be in an August Wilson play,” BrownGrooms declared after the lights went down. A few months later, she auditioned for Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and nabbed the role of Bertha Holly. And when Brown-Grooms steps onto the Jefferson School auditorium stage on opening night on April 18, she’ll again be wearing sky blue—this time, a dress.

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Over the years, many students from the Jefferson High School dramatics club (pictured here in 1945-46) went on to perform with the Charlottesville Players Guild, active in the Charlottesville Area through the 1960s. PHOTO FROM CRIMSON AND BLACK, 1945-46 JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK

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Ike Anderson has acted and danced in, and choreographed for, many theater productions in Charlottesville. He makes his directorial debut with the Charlottesville Players Guild’s production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, where he’s helped a number of new actors find their voices.

things are valuable and shouldn’t be thrown away and not considered. And the people who do the work in order to give you their best should not be thrown away in that way, either.”

The staging of Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle began at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center in April 2017 with Fences, a play about a couple of garbage men in the 1950s who wonder why they can’t be garbage truck drivers, and the theater troupe has since staged two more: Jitney, about jitney cab drivers in the 1970s, in September 2017; and, currently, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, set in a boarding house in the 1910s. Among other things, the series examines common themes of responsibility to family and community, fatherhood, intergenerational relationships, the anxiety of change and race and racism in 20th century America.

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“It’s set among primarily African-Americans, but it’s just as relevant for refugees and immigrants, and anybody who’s human. It’s relevant because it’s human. And this is a time, and an age, when it’s very important to remember how we’re human, to see what it looks like, to access what it feels like, to cry together and laugh together and to go ‘Oh, my God’ together.” BRENDA BROWN-GROOMS

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Leslie Scott-Jones has helped revive the Charlottesville Players Guild, an all-black theater troupe that was an important part of black life and culture in Charlottesville in the early part of the 20th century. So far, the new iteration of the guild has performed three August Wilson plays on the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center stage and plans to do many more.

For Ike Anderson, an actor, dancer and choreographer who grew up in Charlottesville and is currently the membership coordinator at the Music Resource Center, participating in the Charlottesville Players Guild has been revelatory.

Sometime in his late 20s, Anderson, now 31, realized that after more than a decade of performing in Live Arts productions, he’d only ever had ensemble and supporting roles in plays like The Wiz (one of his earliest Live Arts efforts) and A Chorus Line. He started wondering why he wasn’t getting the roles he felt he deserved. And while he says he never felt like he missed out on parts because of his race, “I just felt like it wasn’t my place,” he says of the theater world.

He nabbed a major role in Live Arts’ 2013 production of The Motherfucker with the Hat—which Anderson remembers was described in the theater’s program as a “verbal cage match”—and that satisfied him for a while. But even still, he started looking around “to see where else I could take it,” he says of his acting career.

He suggested Live Arts mount Dreamgirls, and Anderson, who served as associate director and choreographer for the spring 2016 production, remembers that some folks at the theater wondered where they’d find a mostly black cast for the Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen-penned musical about a trio of young black female soul singers in the 1960s.

Anderson knew they’d have no problem filling the roles; put them out there and the actors would show, he said.

He was right. As for high-caliber black female singers? He found at least one of them, Kim Riley, who played Effie, at a karaoke night at Wild Wing Café.

While he was happy to see lines out the doors for Dreamgirls, Anderson says he knew that wasn’t an experience likely to be replicated over and over again, even though he was involved with Live Arts’ Melanin initiative, where he and other actors of color, including Scott-Jones, held staged table reads of plays like A Raisin in the Sun with the hope of increasing the visibility of actors and playwrights of color in Charlottesville theater (Melanin is no longer active).

So when Scott-Jones approached him with the opportunity to be part of the Charlottesville Players Guild and stage a Wilson play, Anderson jumped at the chance. He first played Gabriel, the pure, exuberant World War II veteran who suffered a head injury in combat that caused

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Black actors playing black characters does not necessarily qualify a play as black theater. Plays like Dreamgirls and The Wiz (both of which have been produced with great success at Live Arts in recent years) tell stories about black characters, but they are written by white men and thus view African-American life through that lens.

Turns out, that’s the lens through which most theater produced in America is viewed.

The November/December 2015 issue of The Dramatist published the findings of The Count, an ongoing study by the Lilly Awards in partnership with the Dramatists Guild, which analyzed three years of data from productions in regional theaters in America. It found that 78 percent of the plays produced in American community theaters are written by men (63 percent of the plays produced in American community theaters are written by American white men, 6 percent by American men of color, 22 percent are written

by American women, and just 3.4 percent are written by American women of color).

And so, in Charlottesville, as is the case across all of America, there are few opportunities to perform plays not written from that American white male perspective.

And while it’s true that the race of a character is not always specified in a script, Scott-Jones says that when a play is written by a white playwright, it’s often automatically assumed that that character is white, because playwrights typically write from their own perspective.

Scott-Jones didn’t play a black character until she was in her 30s, when she played Esther Mills in a January 2010 production of Lynn Notage’s Intimate Apparel at Live Arts.

While she’s enjoyed many of her roles, including Iago’s wife, Emilia, in a production of Shakespeare’s Othello at Live Arts, and bridesmaid Georgeann in Alan Ball’s Five Women Wearing the Same Dress at ShenanArts, Scott-Jones says she trusts African-American playwrights to write characters and experiences “that are mine,” characters where she doesn’t have to ask herself—a black woman who can “never sever” herself from being black—if she should play a character with an unspecified race “white” or “black.”

She knew the value of this as an actor and wanted to open this up to other theater artists in town who had never had this experience; actors who wanted it, or who had experienced it and wanted more.

Sometime after that episode of “Home Grown,” Scott-Jones and Douglas met with Clinton Johnston and Ike Anderson, two fellow Charlottesville theater artists of color, and talked about what it would take to stage a Wilson play at the Jefferson School. The discussion of staging one play turned into a conversation about staging all 10 plays in Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle (also called the Century Cycle) over the course of five years, and reviving the Charlottesville Players Guild.

Tiff Ames, a young theater artist from Charlottesville and current student at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio, says that when the group decided to revive the troupe, they asked for, and received, Mary Anderson’s blessing to use the name.

Douglas and Scott-Jones wrote grant proposals for money to cover the costs of mounting the plays—for modest sets, costumes, lighting equipment and such—and paying the actors for their work. It’s not a lot of money, Douglas says, but she feels it’s important to pay the actors for their work to show its value.

“To even have August Wilson’s words spoken in your lifetime is valuable,” Douglas says. “His message, and what he tells you and how he describes life during Jim Crow, and moves us through that history of black people so eloquently, if you’re not experiencing those things until you’re in your 20s and 30s and moved away from here, then you’re not having the full breadth of the possibilities of what language and thought of all of those kinds of things can do for you. Those

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outlined in that The Count survey, and present a season of plays in which about 80 percent are written by women and people of color and 20 percent are written by white men.

Human experience When Joe Turner’s Come and Gone opens on the Jefferson School stage, its cast and crew will be carrying on a rich tradition of African-American performance in a historically black space that they hope will shape Charlottesville’s future via an understanding of its past.

Set in a boarding house in Pittsburgh in the 1910s and chronicling the lives of a few freed formerly enslaved AfricanAmericans, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone has much to say about racism and discrimination, about the search for family and oneself. “This story could not be more relevant today than if it were, truly, 1911,” says Brown-Grooms. “It’s set among primarily African-Americans, but it’s just as relevant for refugees and immigrants, and anybody who’s human. It’s relevant because it’s human. And this is a time, and an age, when it’s very important to remember how we’re human, to see what it looks like, to access what it feels like, to cry together and laugh together and to go ‘Oh, my God’ together.”

As the city undergoes a close examination of its history with racism and white supremacy, as the community attempts to heal in the wake of last year’s torch-lit rallies and the Unite the Right rally that left three dead and dozens others injured on August 12, Scott-Jones says that the revival of the Charlottesville Players Guild “happening at this moment in Charlottesville was definitely divine intervention.”

Theater is “an opportunity for you to enter a life you could never live; for you to experience something that you could, or would, never do or never be,” says Scott-Jones, and that’s true for both actors and audiences. She hopes that people of all races, religions and beliefs will come to the Charlottesville Players Guild productions “with an open mind and be open to the experience of something that you think is so far removed from you and be surprised to find that it’s not.” Because while seeing these plays on the stage might mean something different for each person in the room, they are bound to mean something, because, as Charlottesville Players Guild member David Vaughn Straughn says, “this is no light work.”

Scott-Jones agrees. “As my nana would say, we are not given something that we can’t handle. And I think a lot of people in Charlottesville think we’ve been given stuff we can’t handle, without recognizing that we’ve also been given the tools to deal with it. And black theater is one of those tools. When you can understand someone else’s perspective without overlaying your own protectiveness or defensiveness over it, then you’re actually listening. Then you’re empathizing and not sympathizing...and that’s the beginning of finding a way out of it. And there is no other art form that does that better than theater.”

Fences also won a Tony Award in 1987. Wilson died in October 2005, just a few months after the final installment of the Pittsburgh Cycle, Radio Golf, premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut.

A New York Times article from 2009 noted that “in life, the playwright August Wilson had an all-but-official rule: no white directors for major productions of his work.” It was important to Wilson that his plays—black characters written by a black playwright for a (mostly) black cast—be directed by black directors who themselves know firsthand the black experience in 20th century America. It’s a likely reason for why his plays haven’t been more widely produced.

Leslie Scott-Jones, an actor, director and producer with the Charlottesville Players Guild, which is in the process of staging all 10 Pittsburgh Cycle plays at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, says that some refer to Wilson as “the black Shakespeare” for his ability to write beautiful dialogue that reads so simply and naturally on the surface, but upon more careful exploration reveals complex layers of deeper meaning.

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AUGUST WILSON was born Frederick August Kittel Jr. in Pittsburgh in 1945 to August Kittel, a German immigrant, and Daisy Wilson, an African-American woman from North Carolina whose mother reportedly walked from North Carolina to Pennsylvania with the hope of finding a better life.

Wilson’s father abandoned the family when Wilson was just a boy, and he was raised mainly by his mother and maternal grandmother. He fell in love with the work of Langston Hughes and Ralph Ellison when he was a teenager and at age 16 dropped out of school and worked menial jobs that allowed him to focus on reading and writing.

Wilson published 16 plays throughout his life, 10 of which make up the Pittsburgh Cycle, a series of plays set mostly in Pittsburgh’s Hill district that track decade by decade the African-American experience throughout the 20th century.

Each play presents a unique story, but some characters— and their offspring—appear throughout the series.

Wilson was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama five times—all for Pittsburgh Cycle plays—and won twice, for Fences in 1987 and for The Piano Lesson in 1990.

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irreparable brain damage, in Fences. At one point in the play, Gabriel does a dance to send his brother, Troy, up to heaven.

Anderson, having a hard time finding Gabriel’s dance, talked before a rehearsal with Scott-Jones, Johnston and Ames about performing on the Jefferson School stage, on hallowed ground for black families in Charlottesville, and how “the work of our ancestors comes from the ground up.”

In that rehearsal, Anderson remembers how he closed his eyes and went beyond a script that he felt a strong connection to, one that read like the stories told by his aunts, his uncles, his parents and grandparents. “I naturally found myself towards the ground, and then coming up and sending that dance up. I never felt myself do anything like that before,” Anderson says. “It was like a warmth in a place that you could not touch. It was...it was every feeling. It was love, it was anger, it was joy, it was rage. It was freedom. I’d never felt that free, like I did in that moment.”

He says that with Wilson’s plays, “there’s already that connection, because I know that story; I’ve seen my uncles, my aunts, my family dealing with the same issues. It’s pure blackness. It may be somebody else’s story, and people of other colors can connect to it, but as an actor, it makes it that much easier and that much more challenging, because you feel an immediate connection to the character, the story.

When you’re already connected to those things and you don’t know why and you find out through a play, that changes you.”

Anderson, who took a lead role in Jitney as the play’s fasttalking moral compass, Turnbo, makes his directorial debut with Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, and feels an enormous amount of pressure with this production, both in spite of and because the Charlottesville Players Guild is telling actors of color “you can do this too. You can have your voice not only be heard, but be felt,” Anderson says. And what’s more, he says Wilson’s plays have brought him to a deeper understanding of what it means to be a black man in America.

For Ames, who fell in love with theater at age 9 while playing a sprite in a Live Arts summer camp production of The Tempest, the guild offers a place to try out some more experimental pieces of theater. Ames says that, aside from playing the title role in Cleopatra VII, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra that Scott-Jones directed at Gorilla Theater Productions in 2016, there were few opportunities to play characters of color on Charlottesville stages, and Ames didn’t even think about that until being introduced to black theater at Oberlin. “I had no connection to blackness in that world at all,” says Ames of Charlottesville theater.

Ames stage-directed Fences, and later played the role of Rena, a young woman trying to make a good life for herself and her son in a 1970s Pittsburgh that’s being boarded up in the name of urban renewal, in last fall’s Jitney.

Ames’ directorial debut for the Charlottesville Players Guild will be the summer production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth featuring an all-black cast.

Ames’ love for Shakespeare runs deep; Ames was the first black actor to win the English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition in 2012 at age 16. Ames loves the poetry, the universal themes, the way reciting iambic pentameter feels so natural, like a heartbeat in one’s mouth.

With this production, Ames wants to show how African diasporan storytelling works “so beautifully” with Shakespeare. Ames says that many productions of Macbeth focus on the blood, the gore, the tragedy. “This show is not a tragedy, in my opinion,” Ames says. Instead, it’s about learning the consequences of wanting power.

Ames has cut the script and made a few other changes, such as presenting the Weird Sisters of “double, double toil and trouble” fame not as witches but as elders of the community; when those characters are introduced into the play, they’ll be dressed in all white, like the elders in an AfricanAmerican Christian church ritual. The show bends gender and age, too, and Ames hopes that the guild can stage the performance annually, almost like a ritual, using these characters to warn of the desire for power over and over again.

Douglas says that part of the Charlottesville Players Guild’s charge is to allow serious theater artists like Ames “to feel as if [they] can come back to Charlottesville and function, because there’s culture and opportunity [for them]. Ultimately, if you look at the history of this place, and what causes black flight, it is the notion of opportunity and the lack thereof,” she says.

With the Charlottesville Players Guild, “I feel like I am part of something bigger,” says Ames. It’s not just about putting on a good show; it’s about putting on a good show and adding to the tradition of black theater in the Jefferson School and in Charlottesville.

It’s also about creating something for future generations to look to. Ames is particularly moved by the fact that young black children in Charlottesville “can see black people doing beautiful things on stage,” that the two young actors in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone are able to participate in this kind of theater from such an early age. Ames is sad to have missed out on this, but is glad it’s happening now. These plays say to young actors of color, “You are welcome here.”

The work of the Charlottesville Players Guild has sparked conversation in other community theaters in town. Bree Luck, producing artistic director at Live Arts who has worked on productions with Scott-Jones, Ames, Johnston and Anderson, says that she’s looked to what the Charlottesville Players Guild is doing as a guide to how to increase diversity and equity in Charlottesville theater, while also supporting—and not competing with— it.

“I think all of us in Charlottesville need to know where our blind spots are and how we can continue to grow,” says Luck, and that includes Live Arts and other community theaters. Luck says that the conversations she’s had with Scott-Jones, Ames, Johnston, Anderson and others inspired the 2018/2019 Live Arts season, where she’ll flip the ratio

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Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. See listing for Wednesday, April 18. $10-15, 7pm. Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Auditorium, 233 Fourth St. NW. 260-8720.

words Explorations in Music-Theater: Blurring the Lines. Composer and interdisciplinary artist Paul Brody talks about the intersection of music, theater and the spoken word. Free, 10:30am. Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture, 160 McCormick Rd., UVA. 924-3376.

MFA Reading. UVA creative writing students Helen Chung and Adam Rour read from their work. Free, 8pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

Writing Circle. Poet Jess Brophy leads a 90minute exercise for writers of all levels inspired by the artwork on display. Free (registration required), 6:30pm. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, 400 Worrell Drive. 244-0234.

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Ghost Town to Havana. Documentary film follows the lives of two extraordinary youth baseball coaches in Oakland and Havana.

Free, 7pm. Wayne Theatre, 521 W. Main St., Waynesboro. (540) 943-9999.

Wordplay. Team-based competition for people who love words, vocabulary, pop culture, history, literature and showing off their smarts to raise funds for Literacy Volunteers. $20, 7pm.

Paramount Theatre, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

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Susan Okie. Poet Susan Okie reads from her new chapbook, Let You Fly. Free, 7pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 295-2552.

Dr. Dog. Philadelphia-based band is part of a long tradition of D.I.Y. pop oddballs unapologetically devoted to 1960s pop and lo-fi recording techniques. With Kyle Craft. $26-28, 7pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

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Challenge into Change. Winners of the Challenge into Change writing contest read from their work during an event celebrating courage, wisdom, hope and healing. Free, 6pm. Carver Recreation Center, 233 Fourth St NW. 970-3053.

Daze of the Dead Allstars. Blending Gnawa music, traditional African and spiritual songs characterized by trance, with modern influences of funk, jam, jazz, rock, soul, reggae, blues chaabi and electronic. 21-plus. No cover, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

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Hand to God. Jason, a painfully shy, mild-mannered kid joins his mother Margery’s Christian Puppet Ministry and creates an alter ego in the form of a diabolically funny puppet named Tyrone. The show contains explicit, sexual and sacrilegious content by both humans and puppets. This is a pay-what-you-can performance, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

Danny Schmidt. With lyrical depth drawing comparisons to Leonard Cohen and Townes Van Zandt, Schmidt is considered a preeminent songwriter. With local indie-roots legend Devon Sproule. $15-18, 7:30pm. Fry’s Spring Beach Club, 2512 Jefferson Park Ave. 296-4181.

Peter Yarrow. Folk legend of Peter, Paul and Mary fame plays a set as part of Listen First in Charlottesville. No cover, 8:30pm. The Haven, 112 W. Market St. 973-1234.

Pickin’ and Grinnin’. Instrumental and vocal jam open to the public. No cover, 7pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville.

286-7837.

Ryan Dunne. Songwriter and puppeteer performs an intimate, coffee shop show. With Marian McLaughlin. $5 suggested donation, 7pm. The Space Lab, 705 W. Main St. 228-1120.

Susie and The Pistols. Andrew Green, Susannah Hornsby, Michael Clem and Paul Rosner play Americana tunes. No cover, 6pm.

Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. Free Union. 975-0094.

Tara Mills. Original mountain Americana inspired by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the rich musical traditions tied to them. No cover, 6pm. Blue Mountain Barrel House, 495 Cooperative Way, Arrington. 263-4002.

UVA African Music and Dance Ensemble.

Spectators might be invited to sing and dance alongside this group that explores traditional music and dance forms from Western and Central Africa. Free, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

Wes Swing and Juliana Daugherty. Two local artists play dreamy pop sets for an outdoor audience. $5 suggested donation, 7pm. The Garage, 250 N. First St. thegaragecville.com.

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LG and Friends. Bassist brings a group of friends together for blues, jazz, R&B and a little rock ‘n’ roll. 21-plus. No cover, 6:30pm.

The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

Chestnut Grove. Playing music that’ll make you shake, rattle and rock ‘n’ roll. 21-plus. No cover, 10:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

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Wesley Diener, Josephine Miller and Rachel Mink will perform in Le Devin du village accompanied by pianist John Mayhood on Saturday at Old Cabell Hall.

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n the months before graduation, many students in UVA’s fourth-year class embrace “senior spring” by soaking up sun on the Lawn, checking items off the list of “118 things to do before you graduate” or hanging out with friends instead of attending class. But Wesley Diener, who’s graduating from the music department’s distinguished major program, won’t have any of those luxuries until after April 21, when he presents and performs in his second capstone project—Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s opera Le Devin du village.

Diener’s love of music and performance began when he was 8 years old, and evolved into his current specialty as a baritone. “I’m an opera performer, but I’ve become passionate about directing in the past few years,” Diener says. “Opera is a perfect marriage of music and theater, and being involved in the production lets you choose what the product is going to be.”

Though Le Devin is the first opera Diener will direct, he’s no stranger to the director’s chair. Last year he shepherded a musical and a play performed at UVA’s Helms Theatre, and last summer Diener worked on the directing team for Charlottesville Opera’s performance of Oklahoma!.

“It’s always a learning game, and each thing I’ve done has been so different,” he says. “It’s exciting. Since I’ve started directing, it’s informed me as an actor.”

Diener hopes to take Le Devin’s timeless yet old sensibilities and imbue reinvented humor and contemporary qualities into his interpretation of the piece—to “breathe new life into it” and “bring it into today.”

First performed in 1752 in front of Fontainebleau’s royal court, the one-act French opera was originally presented as an intermezzo and would show between acts of a

larger opera. Diener chose to “cut the fluff ” even further and forego a lot of music, the ballet divertissement and courses that the traditional French presentation of the opera would include.

“My first priority was choosing something that was realistic and practical in order to be successful,” he says. “It’s a small cast with music appropriate for young singers.” (He points out that his baritone voice won’t be in its prime until his late 30s.)

“The opera’s generalized story is one that is contemporary in nature,” Diener says. “It’s two lovers who aren’t able to express themselves in the way that they want to or should.”

Playing the role of Colette is Josephine Miller, another distinguished major in the performance concentration, and performing the role of Colin is Rachel Mink, a recent graduate and development officer for UVA’s architecture school. Diener will play Le Devin, the soothsayer and the opera’s third and final character. His presentation will reinterpret the soothsayer as a puppeteering tarot card reader whose ill-advised recommendations and antics sway the young lovers and cause chaos.

“In today’s world, it’s very easy to look into each other’s lives and think we have clarity over other people,” says Diener. “It’s so easy to say, ‘This person should do this, and that person should do that.’ How far is too far in directing one another’s lives?”

With the role of Colin written for a tenor, Diener’s choice to cast two female leads was less an act against heteronormative operatic traditions, and more an act of necessity.

He says it’s exciting to see actors who are actually close to the age of their characters.

“Rachel has been working on her masculinity. I have to tell her to keep her wrists down,” Diener says of the cast’s preparation. “In reinterpreting the opera, we have to use physicality the most. It’s what we have the most freedom over.”

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Finer details Les Yeux du Monde shows brilliance in black and white

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tions of tone that he achieves and how he adeptly conveys the lushness of the landscape.

“I would definitely say my work is very process-oriented,” says Suzanne Tanner Chitwood. “As much as I can, I try and get out of the way of myself and let the work be a process. When I do, the work is stronger and far more genuine.”

That she “knows from” cattle is abundantly clear from her soulful representations of these gentle beasts. Chitwood grew up with Herefords on her family farm, and has had Black Angus on her property outside Charlottesville. She’s attracted to their powerful bodies, expressions and how they look against the landscape. Her nearly life-size charcoal drawings are insightful portrayals of individual animals that capture their essential cowiness. And in Chitwood’s hands they transcend representation to become something of real artistic import.

One way she achieves this is through the use of collage. Initially, putting a piece of paper over the drawing enabled her to try different options without changing the original drawing—the paper added dimensionality and fractured the image in a way she admired and so she began leaving it there.

It’s about fragmenting things, tearing them up and moving them around, adding and taking away.

Chitwood embraces the unexpected, welcoming it into her work. It adds more than substance; for Chitwood, it is where the very essence of the piece resides. And on those occasions when she uses an unadulterated sheet of paper, she makes sure it’s messy because as Chitwood says, “Things are messy.”

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In a sense, David Wilson Hawkins also takes an inside-out approach using the subtractive, or dark field method, to make his black-and-white monotypes. Beginning with a plate entirely covered with ink, the ink is removed by degrees until the desired image is created, and then the plate is run through a press to produce a one-off print.

In Hawkins’ hands, the results are supremely satisfying. His romantic compositions, “Hurry Up Please, It’s Time” and “Ninety-Nine and One Half Days,” evoke an academic grandeur, but also possess a brutish dash thanks to a medium that tempers the beauty, and places them solidly in the here and now. “I like the way they come out looking like badass, beat-up Xerox copies of photographs of landscapes,” Hawkins says.

It’s clear he knows his way around a picture plane. You see this in the confidence of Hawkins’ line and form and how they relate and interact within the composition. The absence of color means the attention of both the artist and the viewer is trained on these elements. And like a great old film, you don’t miss the color, but appreciate the rich grada-

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ith “Expressions in Black and White” at Les Yeux du Monde, gallery director Lyn Warren brings together four artists whose work spans a range of media, from soft sculpture to monotypes, and offers juxtapositions of technique and style that are both visually interesting and thought-provoking.

“For this show, what really inspired me was the materials. I’ve been looking at new materials and how to use them to inform new processes,” says sculptor Nick Watson. “I’m trying to add some things in a more interesting way.”

Watson works from preliminary drawings and directly from the materials, which consist of a variety of metals, wood and acrylic. “The finished piece never comes out the way the sketches look in the beginning,” he says.

The recent UVA graduate is employed by Charlottesville’s Monolith Knives, which manufactures artisanal knives. “Working with the knives has instilled a finer attention to detail...helped me to slow down and not rush through things,” he says. “Knife-making has also expanded the range of materials I’m comfortable working with.”

It’s clear that Watson values craftsmanship. His “Ave” mounts to the wall so that some of the mounting hardware becomes the piece and the rest is hidden, and “Heavy Moon” features a zinc disk pierced by a copper chain that suspends a sideways pendulum. A kinetic element runs through much of the work. Some, like Watson’s mobiles, actually move, others suggest movement through the thrust of a shape.

It’s hard to resist Ivy Naté’s animals. Her inside-out IFFMs (Inanimate Furry Family Members) are made, “exactly how they sound like they’re made,” says Naté. She works exclusively with stuffed animals that have been thrown away, characterizing them as “unaccepted items that I have chosen to accept.”

Naté’s IFFMs are hapless, vulnerable creatures you want to cuddle, and thanks to their surprised bug eyes, somewhat creepy. You’re attracted and also a little repelled by them. This tension continues with mixed-media works that have been dipped in a plaster-like material rendering it into something brittle and hard. The outer shell adds a degree of gravitas to the work that’s no longer recognizable as a child’s toy. The forlorn little “Owl” with wings outstretched pulls at your heartstrings and the “Owl in Costume” is laugh-outloud funny. Naté works with restraint, doing just enough to create artworks that are imbued with striking emotional resonance.

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“One time she defended my work to a critical male, to a somewhat haphazard rearts@c-ville.com sponse to one of my poems that I put in s a kid in grade school, Angie Hothe workshop, and that really taught me gan began writing poetry for the how to stand up for my own work.” same reason her peers wrote in a By the time she graduated, Hogan knew diary or passed notes in class: She wanted how an audience would respond to her privacy. work. “I could make my own decisions “I felt the need to express myself, but I about whether I was going to revise the didn’t want to express myself straightforpoem based on that or whether I’d just as wardly,” she says. “I was definitely writing soon take the risk and do what I wanted.” things that were extreme metaphors. Not While her first manuscript involved “a to go so far as to say coded and secret—but lot of autobiographical things” but “plenty kind of.” of fiction too,” ranging on topics like idenNow a multi-award-winning poet with tity, performance, role playing and multiple an MFA from UVA’s creative writing proselves, she says her recent work is different. gram, Hogan pauses as she thinks back.

“It’s more historically informed, layered “They were bad,” she says with a laugh. in terms of other people’s thinking over “They were really bad mixed metaphors. the course of history,” says Hogan. “...The Lots of stuff about the natural risk here is that I don’t really world, but also ships and rocks know what I’m doing. I’m and things, and always protecwriting from what I’m trying tive in some way. You know, to understand, as opposed to ‘I’m strong as a rock,’ or ‘The just writing what I know.” shipwreck can’t destroy me.’”

Sharing Hogan’s appetite Perhaps that’s why, years latfor historical exploration is er, she points to confidence and Jeffery Renard Allen, the celcalculated risk-taking as some ebrated author of two poetry of her biggest lessons learned. collections, two works of fic“Having Rita Dove as a mention, one collection of short tor [at UVA] helped a lot with stories and countless essays, Jeffery Renard Allen that, actually,” Hogan says. who spends his days teaching

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The writers, both of whom will read from their newest work in this month’s Charlottesville Reading Series, share more than their interest in reference material.

Like Hogan, who grew up in Tennessee and learned to love words because her father constantly read children’s books out loud to her, Allen began to write because he loved to read as a child.

As writers, we show something about our common humanity, despite whatever kinds of cultural, racial or gender differences and sexual differences might separate us or distinguish us.

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Distinguished Major Project Opera: Le Devin du Village Directed by Wesley Diener Saturday, April 21, 2pm, Old Cabell Hall

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. See listing for Wednesday, April 18. $10-15, 7pm. Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Auditorium, 233 Fourth St. NW. 260-8720.

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The Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia-directed 1977 rockumentary focuses on the seminal band’s fans and their commitment to the Deadhead community. $10, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

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An Evening with Runaway Gin: a Tribute to Phish. The world’s most active Phish tribute band never plays the same show twice. $10-12, 10pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Big Spring Sing Thing XXX. UVA’s Hullabahoos a cappella group celebrates its 30th anniversary with a concert. $10-15, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

UVA Chamber Music Series presents Ayn Balija, viola Sunday, April 22, 3:30pm, Old Cabell Hall

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Eli Cook and The Band. Celebrated local bluesman plays a set. No cover, 8pm. Durty Nelly’s, 2200 Jefferson Park Ave. 295-1278.

Evan Mook. Experienced pianist plays a set. No cover, 6pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Fulltone to the Max. This duo has been playing R&B, rock ‘n’ roll and blues together for two decades. No cover, 4pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837.

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“When I was 8 or 9 I started trying to write stories that were based on the stories that I read,” he says. “From a young age I saw myself as a writer, something I would like to do as a career someday, even if I didn’t really know what that meant.”

Educated in Chicago public schools, and the first in his family to attend college, Allen says he feels fortunate to have teachers who supported him along the way.

“In the very first writing workshop I took, I wrote a terrible story, but the professor pointed out one word and one sentence, and he said something like, ‘That’s the way a writer uses language,’” says Allen. That single boost of confidence was so tremendous, that he began to take writing seriously.

He went on to receive his Ph.D. in English (creative writing) from the University of Illinois at Chicago, then he taught by invitation at writing programs around the globe and co-founded a writing conference in Ghana. He says he spends a lot of time talking about inspiration, how writers think and exist in the world.

“I don’t feel that a writer has to be a public figure, to be a political voice or a social voice,” he says. “Writing might be the only medium of art that allows this type of empathy, this ability to be in someone else’s shoes. As writers, we show something about our common humanity, despite whatever kinds of cultural, racial or gender differences and sexual differences might separate us or distinguish us.”

He finds himself concerned with questions of family and levels of reality. Though he often uses historical subject matter as source material, “I’m drawn to doing stories that somehow broaden our sense of reality, of possibility,” he says.

“There’s a lot that’s said about African-American boys or people in terms of their feelings of being limited, but truth to tell, as a kid, I always believed that I could do anything. I never saw race as a barrier, even though I lived in a segregated city like Chicago. I really feel that reading encouraged me to believe that I could go any place and that I could think about anything and that I could do anything. I think I still feel that way.”

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The East Pointers. New, original roots music that feels like the hippest, most vibrant thing.

Part of the Prism Coffeehouse series. $15-18, 7pm. C’ville Coffee, 1301 Harris St. 817-2633.

The Gladstones. Playing straight-up, oldschool rock ‘n’ roll of every variety. No cover, 6:30pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

The Hunts. Rising stars of the indie-folk music scene layer stringed instruments, harmonies and driving rhythms in songs that reveal a sophisticated sense of melody. $18, 7:30pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

The Pollocks. Local rock band plays a Sunset Saturdays set. No cover, 5pm. Knight’s Gambit Vineyard, 2228 Lake Albemarle Rd. 326-2374.

The Record Company. Raw and righteous rock ‘n’ roll. With The Suitcase Junket. $20-23, 8:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

UVA Chamber Music Ensemble Recital.

Student chamber music ensemble closes out the semester with a concert. Free, 3:30pm.

Brooks Hall, UVA. 924-3052.

Willie DE. Former Downtown Mall busker now tours nationally with his country-tinged guitar-driven rock ‘n’ roll. No cover, 2:30pm.

Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. 297-2326.

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n case you forgot why people still put on pants and leave the house in order to partake in live theater (as opposed to Netflix-ing their way to human-sized sinkholes on the couch), allow Live Arts’ production of Hand to God to spell it out for you.

Full-frontal nudity! Cursing in church!

Legit cigarette smoking! Blood spray so realistic the front row gets splash guards—and all of this, thanks to hand puppets.

Yes, Hand to God is a wild ride. And holy cannoli, it is fun.

Lest you think such debauchery comes across as gratuitous, trust me when I say it doesn’t. This show is equal parts sincere and self-aware; its wicked humor streaks across a deep and loving heart. And thanks to powerful direction, supreme casting and clever stage, lighting and prop design, it’s one of the most enjoyable and engaging shows I’ve seen in a very long time.

And okay, maybe it’s a little gratuitous— but I’m a nerd who hates excess violence and jump-scare movies, and I absolutely loved it.

Set in a church basement in sleepy Cypress, Texas, Robert Askins’ Tony-nominated comedy follows the rapid devolution of a teenage puppet club, spearheaded by Margery, a recent widow whose idle hands (and misfit son Jason) need some work to do.

Gifted space and materials by Pastor Greg, who carries a not-so-secret torch for his congregant-in-mourning (and whose profession of passion made me laugh out loud), Margery attempts to corral three local teens into rehearsals of a puppet performance for the church.

There’s Timmy, the James Dean-inspired bully with an alcoholic mother and a hidden crush. There’s Jessica, the girl-next-door who bravely (and hilariously) takes matters into her own hands when the situation demands it. There’s Jason, whose underwhelming mustache, overlarge button-down and stammering peacemaker attitude suppress myriad frustrations, including a desire for Jessica, anger at Timmy, obedience to his mother and grief about his dead father.

And then there’s Tyrone, a mop-haired puppet fixed on Jason’s right arm, who takes on a life of his own. Acting as Jason’s expletive-spitting id and/or supernatural conduit, Tyrone eventually reveals himself as the devil incarnate (by possession or proxy, we’re still not sure). Spilling “hidden knowledge” as light bulbs flicker overhead, Tyrone unveils the darkness each character hides, and instigates chaos in their lives. As he insists, in soliloquy and furious lecture, the devil is merely an idea, a scapegoat, a label slapped on natural

Julian Sanchez has the devil on his arm in the enjoyable and engaging Hand to God, at Live Arts through May 6.

human impulses—the ones we fear or fail to understand.

In this age of social condemnation, it’s a theme that will hit home for most people.

For Cristan Keighly, the director of Live Arts’ production, it hits even closer.

“Hand to God is intensely and eerily personal to me,” he writes in the director’s note in the show’s Playbill. “The Bible used on opening night is my own, from my teen years, largely spent in a church that was a 20-minute drive from the playwright’s own.”

Keighly shares a glimpse of the pain inflicted by his experience at that church, including pointed condemnation by a pastor distinctly lacking moral high ground.

This show presents the moral high ground as, itself, the problem—therefore lampooning what many hold sacred and rejecting tribal alliances that smother individuality and our habit of demonizing desire and heartfelt emotion—so much of that which makes us human. Because, as the director writes, “This play is about love, as most things are.”

That love is subtle, a current beneath the madness, yet rendered masterfully, and I suspect Keighly’s talent and heart are the reasons for it.

As Timmy, Evan Post is brooding and overeager, and you can’t help feeling sorry for him, no matter what he says Jessica

smells like. Gwyneth Sholar brings warmth and lightness to Jessica, infusing the character with an echo of laughter that gives audience members permission to not take this whole thing so seriously. James Sanford is pitch-perfect as Pastor Greg, offering a painful blend of desperation, good intentions and intimate creepiness. As Margery, Virginia Wawner brings us along as she turns from pearls and polished hairdos to sadomasochistic underbelly. When she screams with the authentic fury of a strungout, frustrated mom, you believe her.

One word about Julian Sanchez, the actor who Jekyll-and-Hydes as Jason and Tyrone: wow.

His performance literally made my jaw drop. His portrayal of Tyrone was so captivating, I consistently forgot the puppet/ devil was being animated by the hand and voice box next to him.

Word on the street is it took prop master Kerry Moran 174 hours to create the puppets used in the show, so I have to give them their due, because they look great, they go through the wringer and Tyrone feels like a legitimate member of the cast.

All in all, Live Arts’ production of Hand to God is fun and crazy, and really well done.

So put on your pants, go out to the theater and sit there side-by-side in the dark—for the glory of it.

Love is subtle, a current beneath the madness, yet rendered masterfully, and I suspect Cristan Keighly’s talent and heart are the reasons for it.

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DMP Opera: Le Devin du village. A performance of the opera project of UVA voice student Wesley Diener. Free, 2pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

Hand to God. See listing for Wednesday, April 18. $20-25, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

Indian Classical Night. Musicians, dancers and vocalists from the University of Virginia community perform a concert highlighting the beauty of the Indian classical arts. Free, 6pm. McLeod Hall Auditorium at UVA Nursing School, 202 Jeanette Lancaster Way. nk5dz@virginia.edu.

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. See listing for Wednesday, April 18. $10-15, 7pm. Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Auditorium, 233 Fourth St. NW. 260-8720.

Providence: An Evening of Dance, Poems and Music. Through dance, poems and music, Providence tells the real and imagined story of Nellie, who left her home in Ireland at just 17. $12-22, 8pm. The Front Porch, 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

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Eggs Benefit Brunch. Live jazz music to benefit the Sexual Assault Resource Agency. No cover, 11am. Brasserie Saison, 111 E. Main St. 202-7027.

Hollie and Eric Hendrickson. Dynamic duo entertains with acoustic alternative, bluegrass, folk, and more. No cover, 3pm. James River Brewery, 561 Valley St., Scottsville. 286-7837.

John Kelly. Charlottesville-based longtime singer-songwriter plays a solo acoustic set.

No cover, 1pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd., Batesville. 823-2001.

Travis Elliott. Singer and guitarist takes on everything from love to spaceships. 21-plus.

Free, 10pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

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Monday 4/23 Red & The Romantics. A blend of vintage folk and Americana music. No cover, 6:30pm.

The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

King Golden Banshee. The right amount of raucous colors traditional Irish music. No cover, 5:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

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Julius Caesar. Alarmed by Caesar’s autocrat’s popularity, the educated elite conspire to bring him down in Shakespeare’s version of the tale.

Broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre in London. $10-14, 7pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 979-1333.

Charlottesville Municipal Band: Dogwood Festival Spring Concert. Local band plays a program including pieces such as the Morceau Symphonique for Trombone and Band, Beethoven’s Prometheus Overture and more. Free, 3:30pm. V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC, 501 College Dr. 961-5376.

Kat and the Travelers. Local trio with diverse musical backgrounds include R&B, soul, country, big band jazz and hillbilly boogie. No cover, 3pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. 975-0094.

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UVA Chamber Music Series: Violist Ayn Balija. Pieces by Mignone, Minsky and Bloch, along with pianist Shelby Sender.Free-$15, 3:30pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

stage Hand to God. See listing for Wednesday, April 18. $20-25, 2pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. 977-4177.

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. See listing for Wednesday, April 18. $10-15, 1:30pm. Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Auditorium, 233 Fourth St. NW. 260-8720.

Providence: An Evening of Dance, Poems and Music. See listing for Saturday, April 21. $12-22, 8pm. The Front Porch , 221 E. Water St. 242-7012.

Tuesday 4/24 Anderson East. Singer/songwriter plays a potent, heartfelt fusion of soul, rhythm ‘n’ blues, gospel and early rock ‘n’ roll With Mt. Joy. $17-20, 8:30pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 245-4948.

Bob Huntington. Hear everything from The Beatles to Gordon Lightfoot. No cover, 6pm.

Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Karaoke with Jen Dville. A karaoke night for future pop stars to showcase their vocal chops. 21-plus. No cover, 8pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 293-9526.

Perpetual Groove. A genre-bending, highly original sound touching upon jazz-rock, neopsychedelia, R&B, trance electronica and more. With CBDB. $15, 9pm. The Southern Café and Music Hall, 103 S. First St. 977-5590.

Ragged Mountain String Band. Playing old-time Appalachian tunes with modern-day appeal. No cover, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 202-1549.

Traditional Irish Session. Musicians join in a weekly session. No cover, 7:30pm. Tin Whistle Irish Pub, 609 E. Market St. 202-8387.

Travis Elliott. See listing for Sunday, April 22.

No cover, 10:30pm. Fellini’s, 200 Market St. 979-4279.

Tuesday Evening Concert Series: Les Violons du Roy Chamber Orchestra. This renowned Canadian ensemble returns to the series for founder Bernard Labadie’s farewell tour with an all-Bach program. $5-39, 7:30pm.

Old Cabell Hall, UVA. 924-3376.

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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel. An intimate portrait of an icon of 20th century culture. Part of The Fralin Downtown film series. $9, 7pm. Violet Crown Charlottesville, 200 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. (512) 495-9600.

King Kong. Starring Jessica Lange in her first film role, this 1976 movie follows an expedition for oil that results in the discovery of a giant ape. $10, 7pm. Light House Studio: Vinegar Hill Theatre, 220 W. Market St. 293-6992.

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adapted from a video game with the thinnest of plots to begin with, casting Johnson in another role where his job has little to do with his impossible size and set of skills— Rampage is the perfect antidote to the notion that movies like this succeed because they don’t take things seriously. On the contrary, Rampage takes a great deal about itself seriously; with a surprisingly trenchant anti-poaching and animal welfare message, extremely expensive-looking set pieces and technical and emotional resources invested

in the character of George, it’s clear that the filmmakers want to be certain that the audience gets its money’s worth.

Director Brad Peyton strikes the same tone with Johnson as he did when they teamed up for San Andreas: this is more than a little ridiculous, but not to the characters who have to live through it. If our hero is sliding down a collapsing building in a helicopter that’s missing a tail, he better be fearful for his life, not winking and cracking one-liners. The relationship between Davis

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and George is what makes you accept the notion that any of this matters—there is a personal and societal reason why George must punch the hell out of the monster croc.

Sure, this was no doubt greenlit by Hollywood moneymen who have no particular attachment to the material, they only know that nostalgia bucks go a long way, but there’s something to be said for Johnson, Peyton and everyone involved that they took the time to make Rampage as good as it could conceivably be.

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here’s really only one way to sell the story of a Special Forces veteran and anti-poaching commando turned conservationist who’s helping his overgrown gorilla friend overcome anger issues to stop a flying porcupine-wolf and a crocodile-leviathan from destroying Chicago: completely straight-faced. And if there’s one face in the movie business capable of that level of sincerity, it’s Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. His gregarious screen presence in successive blockbusters is proof of a genuine commitment to the good time had by his audience. He’s the reason to see otherwise unwatchable flops, so it’s a pleasure when a movie like Rampage doesn’t turn out to be half bad in its own right.

Johnson plays Davis Okoye, a primatologist at the San Diego Zoo who has foregone most human bonds in favor of caring for animals, in particular a rescued albino gorilla named George. When a laboratory based on a space station orbiting the Earth is destroyed, the experimental, gene-modifying gas it contained crash lands in George’s pen, and in Wyoming and Florida. The three otherwise normal beasts mutate into enormous, rage-filled versions of themselves with the attributes of other creatures, and are dead set on destroying a low-frequency radio signal coming from Chicago intended as a means of control by the experiment’s evil overseer, Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman). Along the way, Davis recruits the help of Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris) and mysterious government/cowboy Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).

Putting aside the fact that this kind of movie can only be so good—very loosely

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Is this the best IPA ever?

JM Stock Provisions tops its buttermilk-and-lard biscuit with tasso ham and a drizzle of honey and hot sauce.

Michael Prichard, founder and CEO of Metis Machine, wants to quash those fears.

“All we really wanted to do was arm the brewer with some information they could work with,” he says. “It’s still a craft; we don’t want people to think we’re trying to replace the brewer.”

Hunter Smith, president and head brewer at Champion, confirms: “At the end of the day, all I was given was some parameters.

After that, it was brewing as usual.”

Prichard and Smith met at a machine learning talk about a year ago, and they decided to collaborate; it seemed appropriate to have the ML IPA ready to serve during the innovation-focused Tom Tom Festival.

The ML IPA, which could stay on the menu after Tom Tom if the demand is there, is, according to Smith, a “spot-on typical IPA.”

Market Street Wine opens Back in February, we reported that Market Street Wineshop owner Robert Harllee had decided to retire and sell his shop at 311 E. Market St. to two longtime employees, Siân Richards and Thadd McQuade. Market Street Wineshop 2.0—now called Market Street Wine—will open this weekend, with an open house from 1 to 4pm on Saturday, April 21.—Erin O’Hare

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Learn about local environmental organizations and businesses, listen to speakers and enjoy live music, workshops, a book swap and more. Free, 11am-4pm. IX Art Park, 522 Second St. earthweek.org

This team-based trivia night includes questions on pop culture, history, literature and more. Audience members are invited to play along and cheer for their favorite team. Annual fundraiser for Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle. $20, 7pm.

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Learn how different apple varieties are made into cider, and the importance of orchard “terroir” at this workshop led by Diane Flynt of Foggy Ridge Cider. $35, 3-5pm.

Blenheim Vineyards, 31 Blenheim Farm. 293-5366.

These five-mile hikes through the woodlands of Monticello to the Rivanna River are a perennial favorite of plant-lovers. The trek includes uphill climbs, so sturdy shoes are required. $20, 9am-noon. Meet at the David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center, 931 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy.

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Luddites might want to steer clear of Champion Brewing Company’s new ML IPA, which debuted last week during the Tom Tom Founders Festival. In conjunction with local startup Metis Machine Learning (the “ML” in the name), Champion’s newest beverage was designed via computer. Using machine learning algorithms, information about the nation’s top 10 best-selling IPAs, as well as Charlottesville’s 10 worst-selling IPAs, was fed into a program that output the desired parameters for the theoretical best IPA. While there are plenty of variables that make up the taste of the beer, they analyzed the beers’ IBUs (International Bittering Unit, a measure of bitterness), SRM (Standard Reference Method, a color system brewers use to determine finished beer and malt color) and alcohol content.

The results for each variable were 60, 6 and 6, respectively, possibly stoking more fear of a machine uprising.

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onsidering our broad food and drink world, it’s difficult to imagine a single dish that could represent the city’s local food scene. Charlottesville, on account of its geography and demographics, has a more dynamic selection of foods compared to the seafood-obsessed southeastern part of the state and metropolitan areas of Northern Virginia. However, difficult as it might be to identify the dish of the city, a panel of four judges assembled by the Tom Tom Founders Festival made the executive decision that it is the humble ham biscuit.

Leni Sorensen, a culinary historian and the writer behind the Indigo House blog, sees ham biscuits as an inevitability of living in Charlottesville. Sorensen moved here later in life, and the ubiquity of ham biscuits made an impression on her. “They’re everywhere,” she says. “They’re a part of every cocktail party, every museum opening, every kind of festive occasion. I personally know people who would not dream of having a party without ham biscuits.”

Besides its abundance, Sorensen sees the ham biscuit as something that cuts across all spectrums of dining, from gourmet to everyday. Locally, the adaptability of the ham biscuit is extraordinarily clear.

Specialty foods store Feast! has a 2-inch li’l cutie of a slider-style ham biscuit made with local sweet potato biscuits, local ham and a dollop of Virginia spicy plum chutney.

Timberlake Drugs makes its traditional version with a fluffy white biscuit and ham, and there’s the option to add egg and cheese, too.

JM Stock Provisions tops a buttermilk-and-lard biscuit with tasso (spicy, smoky,

Louisiana-style ham) and a drizzle of both honey and hot sauce.

The Ivy Inn uses Kite’s Country ham, a sugar-cured ham from Madison County, served with hickory syrup mustard.

The Whiskey Jar also uses Kite’s ham and offers the option of adding egg and cheese.

Ace Biscuit & Barbecue, Fox’s Cafe, Tip Top Restaurant, Commonwealth Restaurant & Skybar, Keevil & Keevil Grocery and Kitchen, Bluegrass Grill & Bakery and plenty of other spots that we don’t have room to name here have ’em, too.

What’s your favorite local version of the ham biscuit? Tell us at eatdrink@c-ville.com.

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s the state’s economy invests heavily in animal farming, agriculture and wine and beer production—and as chefs take advantage of the new bounty around them—is a new Virginia cuisine emerging?

Local chefs say yes.

“When I first started here, you’d have to seek out your local produce and go to the vendor to get it,” says Bizou sous chef Brett Venditti. “Now, we have two or three people come by each week with fresh local products. It spurs so much creativity when you have local people bringing you this huge bounty of food all at once. It gets your brain going, and you start thinking about how you might prepare it, even days before it arrives.”

The state’s geography drives a big part of regional culinary identity. In Charlottesville, Bizou owners Vincent Derquenne and Tim Burgess pioneered a push toward local, high-quality ingredients with Metropolitain restaurant (now Bizou) on the Downtown Mall.

“We started working with local ingredients very early at Metropolitain,” says Derquenne. But in the early 1990s, he says, the produce was different. “People are much more organized now, and now they plant more things restaurants need.” There is a new synergy as local farmers and restaurants get on the same page.

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The Pigeon Hole Cozy all-day breakfast spot with fresh-squeezed juices and stone-ground grits. 11 Elliewood Ave. 977-4711. $.

The Villa American breakfast all day. Inside, the look is classic greasy spoon, but the booths are oh-so-comfy. 129 N. Emmet St. 296-9977. $.

The Well House Cafe Coffee, tea, smoothies and pastries. 118 10 1/2 St. NW. 973-0002. $.

Waffle House Smothered, covered, scrambled and fried. It’s breakfast ’round the clock. 1162 Fifth St. SW, 296-5010; 495 Premier Cir. on 29N, 975-5860. $.

Family-Friendly Ann’s Family Restaurant Good old country cooking. Fresh vegetables and specials every day. 1170 Thomas Nelson Hwy. (Rte. 29, south of Lovingston). 263-8110. $.

Michie Tavern Traditional Southern lunch in an 18th-century tavern near Monticello. Servers in Colonial attire. 683 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy. 9771234. $$.

Red Robin Gourmet burgers, salads and bottomless pits of steak fries. Kid-friendly. Fashion Square Mall. 964-9523. $.

The Light Well This coffee-kitchen-tavern combination offers healthy, local and organic ingredients in original homemade recipes. 110 E. Main St., Orange. (540) 661-0004. $.

The Nook Half-century-old Charlottesville diner serving breakfast, lunch and dinner with a full bar.

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Wood Grill Buffet Big buffet featuring things grilled on wood. 576 Branchlands Blvd. 975-5613. $.

Bashir’s Taverna Authentic Mediterranean cuisine by a Mediterranean chef. Outdoor seating available. 507 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 9230927. $$.

Basil Mediterranean Bistro Mediterranean fare from grape leaves to tapas, plus a late-night wine bar. 109 14th St. 977-5700. $.

Copper Mine Bistro Mediterranean-inspired menu features tapas, pizzas and entrées like shrimp provençal and veal saltimbocca. Wintergreen Resort. 325-8090. $/$$.

Mezeh Mediterranean Grill Bowls, wraps and pita pockets, all prepared with the fresh ingredients of your choosing. The Shops at Stonefield.

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Orzo Kitchen & Wine Bar Mediterranean eatery has dishes from Spain to Greece and wines of the world. Main Street Market. 975-6796. $$.

The shift Venditti describes—from having to seek out local produce to the grower now bringing them to the restaurant—is mirrored in the wine world, too. Sommelier Elaine Futhey remembers driving to Virginia wineries to bring back bottles for the wine list in

Parallel 38 Small plates, cocktails and an impressive wine selection near the tracks. 817 W. Main St. 260-8793. $$.

Steaks and Seafood Aberdeen Barn More beef than you can shake a T-bone at, since 1965. Candlelit atmosphere and piano bar. 2018 Holiday Dr. 296-4630. $$$.

Bonefish Grill Sister to mega-popular Outback Steakhouse featuring seafood, grilled non-fish specialties and a full bar. Hollymead Town Center.

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Devils Grill Restaurant & Lounge Above Devils Knob Golf Course with 50-mile views. Dinner

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Downtown Grille Upscale steak and seafood with white-linen service and a chummy bar scene. 201 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. 817-7080. $$$.

Outback Steakhouse Bloomin’ onions and giant steaks. Bar’s open late. A link in the Australianthemed steakery chain. 1101 Seminole Trail. 9754329. $$.

Public Fish & Oyster Simply prepared, responsibly sourced seafood. Shucked oysters, raw bar and a full bar. 513 W. Main St., 995-5542. $/$$.

Red Lobster Seafood with daily specials. 1648 E. Rio Rd. 973-0315. $$.

Rhett’s River Grill and Raw Bar She-crab soup, half-shell delicacies and steaks. Located north of Rio Road on 29N. 2335 Seminole Trail, Suite 100.

974-7818. $$.

Rocksalt Seafood-centric chain with an outdoor bar and patio. The Shops at Stonefield. 326-5665. $$.

Shadwell’s Seafood, steaks, burgers, pasta and salads made out of fresh, local ingredients. Upscale dining with a casual atmosphere. 1791 Richmond Rd. 202-2568. $$.

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Box’d Kitchen Custom salads and homemade sauces. 909 W. Main St. 202-2749. $.

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the early days at C&O Restaurant. Today, local wines are more easily obtainable through organized distribution.

That’s a good thing, because the savvier diners become as it pertains to the food menu, the more they ask for local wine. At Fleurie, for example, nearly 20 percent of wine bottle sales are local, which is an increase from about 5 percent a decade ago.

And restaurants are proud to feature local food and wine.

“Everybody’s got their chalkboard showing which menu items come from where,” says Venditti. And each chef has their favorite local product to work with.

“Trout from Rag Mountain,” says Derquenne. “We started with them at Metropolitain, and they’ve provided 28 years of a consistent product. And it’s delicious.”

Venditti pays homage to the mushrooms from Bear Dog Farms, and to the okra from Wayside Produce. “At the height of the season, they were bringing us okra, these baby eggplants that grilled up so light, patty pan squash and, of course, heirlooms [tomatoes].”

The Alley Light chef Robin McDaniel points to the unrelenting demand for prime ingredients as what defines Charlottesville’s culinary scene. “Charlottesville cuisine, as a whole, is much like its population: very diverse yet unified by a commitment to quality,” she says.

As this new Virginia cuisine emerges, unique pairings of local food, wine and beer help anchor regional culinary identity that will—hopefully—define this state for decades to come.

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“Eggs were the first local product to make an impact,” says Derquenne. “Polyface Farm (founded by Joel Salatin’s parents) was the pioneer, and then many people moved toward a similar model.”

But chefs and farmers aren’t the only ones driving the change.

“People are a lot more concerned about where their food is coming from,” says Rachel Gendreau, general manager and sommelier at Bizou. “Much of that has to do with Michael Pollan’s influence,” and in particular, the impact of his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which denounces industrialized food production and touts locally sourced cuisine.

“People are more savvy than ever before, and they are holding restaurants to a higher ethical standard,” says Gendreau. Locally farmed artisanal products can often cost more than mass-produced imported foods, thus in addition to a new demand for local products, customers are also “more willing to pay a premium for that experience.”

When Bizou’s Brett Venditti first started, finding local produce required reaching out vendors directly. “Now, we have two or three people come by each week with fresh local products,” he says.

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Taurus (April 20-May 20): The Chesapeake Bay is a fertile estuary that teems with life. It’s 200 miles long and holds 18 trillion gallons of water. More than 150 streams and rivers course into its drainage basin. And yet it’s relatively shallow. If you’re 6 feet tall, you could wade through more than 1,000 square miles of its mix of fresh and salt water without getting your hat wet. I see this place as an apt metaphor for your life in the coming weeks: an expanse of flowing fecundity that is vast but not so deep that you’ll get overwhelmed.

Aries (March 21-April 19): In the early history of the automobile, electric engines were more popular and common than gasoline-powered engines. They were less noisy, dirty, smelly and difficult to operate. It’s too bad that thereafter the technology for gasoline cars developed at a faster rate than the technology for electric cars.

By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the petroleum-suckers were in ascendance. They have remained so ever since, playing a significant role in our world’s ongoing environmental degradation. Moral of the story: Sometimes the original idea or the early model or the first try is better. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should consider applying this hypothesis to your current state of affairs.

Gemini

vitalizing influence would you like to have in your life for at least the next 30 years?

Scorpio

(May 21-June 20): You’ll soon arrive at a pressure-packed turning point. You’ll stand poised at a pivotal twist of fate where you must trust your intuition to reveal the differences between smart risks and careless gambles. Are you willing to let your half-naked emotions show? Will you have the courage to be brazenly loyal to your deepest values?

I won’t wish you luck, because how the story evolves will be fueled solely by your determination, not by accident or happenstance. You will know you’re in a good position to solve the big riddles if they feel both scary and fun.

Virgo

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve been to the Land of No Return and back more than anyone.

But soon you’ll be visiting a remote enclave in this realm that you’re not very familiar with. I call it the Mother Lode of Sexy Truth.

It’s where tender explorers go when they must transform outworn aspects of their approach to partnership and togetherness. On the eve of your quest, shall we conduct an inventory of your capacity to outgrow your habitual assumptions about relationships? No, let’s not. That sounds too stiff and formal. Instead, I’ll simply ask you to strip away any falseness that interferes with vivacious and catalytic intimacy.

Cancer (June 21-July 22): Strong softness is one of your specialties. So are empathetic rigor, creative responsiveness and daring acts of nurturing. Now is a perfect time to summon and express all of these qualities with extra flair. If you do, your influence will exceed its normal quotas. Your ability to heal and inspire your favorite people will be at a peak.

So I hereby invite you to explore the frontiers of aggressive receptivity. Wield your courage and power with a fierce vulnerability. Be tenderly sensitive as an antidote to any headstrong lovelessness you encounter.

Leo

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I beg you to take a break sometime soon. Give yourself permission to indulge in a vacation or recess or sabbatical.

Wander away on a leave of absence. Explore the mysteries of a siesta blended with a fiesta.

If you don’t grant yourself this favor, I may be forced to bark “Chill out, dammit!” at you until you do. Please don’t misunderstand my intention here. The rest of us appreciate the way you’ve been attending to the complicated details that are too exacting for us. But we can also see that if you don’t ease up, there will soon be diminishing returns. It’s time to return to your studies of relaxing freedom.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Singer-songwriter Roy Orbison achieved great success in the 1960s, charting 22 songs on the Billboard Top 40.

But his career declined after that. Years later, in 1986, filmmaker David Lynch asked him for the right to use his tune “In Dreams” for the movie Blue Velvet. Orbison denied the request, but Lynch incorporated the tune anyway. Surprise! Blue Velvet was nominated for an Academy Award and played a big role in reviving Orbison’s fame. Later, the singer came to appreciate not only the career boost, but also Lynch’s unusual aesthetic, testifying that the film gave his song an “otherworldly quality that added a whole new dimension.”

Now let’s meditate on how this story might serve as a parable for your life. Was there an opportunity that you once turned down but will benefit from anyway? Or is there a current opportunity that maybe you shouldn’t turn down, even if it seems odd?

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1824, two British explorers climbed a mountain in southwestern Australia. They were hoping to get a sweeping view of Port Phillip Bay, on which the present-day city of Melbourne is located. But when they reached the top, their view was largely obstructed by trees. Out of perverse spite, they decided to call the peak Mount Disappointment, a name it retains to this day. I suspect you may soon have your own personal version of an adventure that falls short of your expectations. I hope—and also predict—that your experience won’t demoralize you, but will rather mobilize you to attempt a new experiment that ultimately surpasses your original expectations.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn rock musician Lemmy Kilmister bragged that he swigged a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey every day from 1975 to 2013. While I admire his dedication to inducing altered states of consciousness,

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I can’t recommend such a strategy for you.

But I will love it if you undertake a more disciplined crusade to escape numbing routines and irrelevant habits in the next four weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have a special knack for this practical art.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Germany was one of the big losers of World War I, which ended in 1919.

By accepting the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, it agreed to pay reparations equivalent to 96,000 tons of gold. Not until 2010, decades after the war, did Germany finally settle its bill and fulfill its obligation. I’m sure your own big, long-running debt is nowhere near as big or as long-running as that one, Aquarius.

But you will nonetheless have reason to be ecstatic when you finally discharge it. And according to my reading of the astrological omens, that could and should happen sometime soon. (P.S. The debt could be emotional or spiritual rather than financial.)

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): “I would rather have a drop of luck than a barrel of brains,” said the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes. Fortunately, that’s not a choice you will have to face in the coming weeks, Pisces. According to my reading of the cosmic signs, your brain will be working with even greater efficiency and ingenuity than it usually does. Meanwhile, a stronger-than-expected flow of luck will be swirling around in your vicinity. One of your main tasks will be to harness your enhanced intelligence to take shrewd advantage of the good fortune.

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SHAKESPEARE’S AMERICAN HOME

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Men and women, ages 30-75, with and without type 2 diabetes are needed to study how sugar is used by the body after meals at different times.

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Q&A What was your first time performing on a stage like?

In sixth grade, I played a mean beggar who ended up giving his bread to some birds. I was so scared, I couldn’t look at the audience. @DULCIMERT/INSTAGRAM

Groundbreaking appearance as Third Cowboy from the Left in a 1979 high school production of Oklahoma!.

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I was 3 years old, standing on the altar at church, when I decided I needed to lift up my dress and readjust my tights in front of the whole congregation.

I was a mole in a play and I really liked it because I just got to hide.

I was in Narnia and I got to battle with the guy who played Peter. I nailed it.

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Greathouse School, St. Matthews, Kentucky. Third grade play. Second Brownie. I killed.

It’s been downhill since then. Sigh.

1985. Second grade. Rocking some high-water JCPenney polyester pants and a clip-on tie, telling jokes to the entire school at the talent show. My jokes were subpar at best, yet in my 8-year-old mind, my bit was absolute magic! I mean, “What’s a ghost’s favorite sandwich? A boo-loney sandwich!” Comical genius, I know. Man, I had those elementary school kids rollin’!

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