![]() ![]() Starry collaborations with artists like Charli XCX culminated in a multi-record deal with Atlantic Records. Staggering streaming figures (their ecstatic trash-pop “money machine” is within arms reach of 90 million listens on Spotify). “Insane s***,” remarks Les.)ġ000 gecs punched the pedal on a viral climb. (So original was their sound that it spawned a new subgenre of hyperpop. Sonically, it’s about as smooth as glass in a blender. Their debut is a flash-bang of high-energy dance-pop as you’ve never heard it, sliced through with razor-sharp shards of ska, dubstep, trance, quick-jab rhymes and greasy industrial sound effects. With 2019’s 1000 gecs, Les and Brady did not so much burst onto the scene as explode. Reviews of their second album – bar that bazooka comparison – have been very nice, if a little surprised by 10,000 gecs. “But it’s nice when they’re nice.”Īnd they are. “I hate it,” says Les in her chronic deadpan. But the duo – Laura Les, 28, and Dylan Brady, 29 – loathe reading reviews. Divisiveness to that extent – the sort that has one critic heralding the record as a glimmering bravura of 21st-century pop music, another comparing it to a bazooka firing out the world’s worst genres at your face – is almost unheard of these days. To order, 31.It’s not every day that an album receives polar-opposite reviews. Tickets are $11 for UIC students, $14 for UIC faculty and staff and $16 for the general public. 19 at noon, all at the UIC Theatre, 1044 W. He is artistic director of Kestrel Theatre Company, working in the United Kingdom criminal justice system. He soon will work on “Hamlet” with the Royal Shakespeare Company ensemble. Last summer, he co-directed “Henry IV” for the Marin Shakespeare Company. Since completing a doctorate at Oxford University in approaches to acting Shakespeare, he has become an internationally recognized specialist. UIC brings the play closer to home, placing it “in the Caribbean or Central America, a hundred years or so ago,” Clare says, but the characters remain timeless as they struggle to make sense of emotional chaos.Ĭlare trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester before serving as staff director at the National Theatre.Īs associate artistic director of Compass Theatre, he directed national tours of “Amadeus” with Tim Pigott-Smith and a prisons tour of “Comedians” with Rufus Sewell. Shakespeare set the story in the fictional Balkan seaboard state of Illyria, which he described in other works as the home of notorious pirates. 15, directed by Rob Clare, a British specialist in the Bard’s work.Ĭlare says “Twelfth Night” is “perhaps the darkest and most complex of Shakespeare’s comedies, a play of love, loss, mistaken identity, and actual as well as emotional shipwreck.” ![]() The UIC Theatre production of “Twelfth Night” - considered one of Shakespeare’s finest mixtures of lowbrow bawdiness and highbrow wit - opens Nov. Left to right: Chiagoziem Nawakanma, Aislinn Eng, Dana Muelchi, Becca Brown, Emily Woods and Destiny Strothers in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” Photo: Michael Brosilow ![]()
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