While many college fine arts programs get great local reviews, few earn top honors on an international stage.
UNLV's departments of dance, film, and theatre, in conjunction with England's Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts (LIPA), recently presented Rigged at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. The show, a mixture of theatre, dance, music, comedy, and slapstick, is a collaboration of students and faculty from both schools and earned a five-star review from The Scotsman, which called the show "delightfully original."
Rigged grew out of a faculty exchange program between the college and LIPA, which was founded by legendary musician Sir Paul McCartney.
LIPA professors traveled to UNLV for two weeks in the spring to develop the Edinburgh project. Then, in August, 12 students from UNLV (four from each participating department) traveled to Scotland for the performance along with 16 LIPA students. The goal is to soon have a study-abroad program for UNLV and LIPA students.
