Film: My Neighbor Totoro
This Friday, come experience one of Japan’s most celebrated animated films with the Undergraduate Film Organization. In “Totoro,” two young children grapple with the idea of death, loneliness and their mother’s illness with the help of Totoro, a large, friendly spirit who watches over the forest, and his Catbus. Filled with the vivid imagery and detail of any Hayao Miyazaki film, Totoro’s dark emotional center will resonate with anyone who has ever struggled with the idea of growing up.
McCormick Hall 101
Friday, 9 p.m.
Concert: Princeton University Concert Jazz Ensemble
Join the Princeton University Concert Jazz Ensemble for a night of groovy tunes, featuring Sunnyside recording artist, jazz pianist and composer Jonny King ’87. King, named “perhaps the best of the young composers” by music critic Bob Blumenthal, will play with bassist Ed Howard, drummer Victor Lewis and the University’s own jazz ensemble.
Richardson Auditorium
Saturday, 8 p.m.
Concert: Richardson Chamber Players present “Art and Memory”
Princeton’s resident faculty performance ensemble performs works by Ravel, Chausson and Messiaen. The show will crescendo into its main feature, Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time,” a piece with an epic survival story of its own: The quartet was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in Silesia, and first performed with broken instruments and tattered clothes.
Richardson Auditorium
Sunday, 3 p.m.
Theater: I’m Going to Make a Small Incision Behind Your Ear to Check and See If You are Actually Human
Do you enjoy blindfolded wrestling, people in lizard costumes, or messing with live performers onstage? You’ll get to experience all three in Witness Relocation Spellbinding Dance/Theater Company’s wild show, “I’m Going to Make a Small Incision Behind Your Ear to Check and See If You are Actually Human.” Witness Relocation is a critically acclaimed avant-garde company that has traveled internationally to expose audiences to its edgy and electrifying style. This show is comprised of 30 short segments presented in random order, with risque humor, thrilling dance numbers and a whole lot of chaos.
Matthews Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street
Thursday, 8 p.m.
Film: Pre-Release Screening of “Miss Representation”
Sundance Film Festival audiences were riveted by REACT to FILM’s stories of teenage girls interspersed with interviews with women like Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Gloria Steinem and Rachel Maddow. Princeton audiences are sure to enjoy this powerful questioning of the media’s perspective on sexuality, so remember to reserve seats in advance! (http://missrep1014.eventbrite.com/).
Friend Center, Room 101
Friday, 7 p.m.
Campus picks compiled by Sam Kaseta, Michael Becker, Sophia Deng, Emily Tseng, Neelay Patil and Lisa Han.
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