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By BARBARA COLEMAN
Of the Emerald
If you feel artistic this
weekend, you might make a trip
up north to Cannon Beach.
They’re having their annual Sand
Castle Building Contest there this
Saturday. You not only get the
opportunity fo display your ar
tistic talent, but you can soak up
the sun of the Oregon beach. The
only drawback is that there is no
way to save your artwork for
posterity. It will be washed away
with the next tide.
However, if there’s no possible
way you can get to Cannon Beach
this weekend, or even out of town,
there are a few plays and movies
showing.
Carnival Theatre’s “Com
pany” continues with three
performances tonight, Friday
and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. under
the Carnival Theatre tent.
“Company” is a musical-comedy
concerning the trials and
tribulations of marriage.
You might want to think about
getting tickets for next weekend’s
Carnival Theatre performances
of “Life With Father.” The play
begins at 8:30 on July 21 and 22.
Tickets are available from the
Carnival Theatre box office or at
the EMU main desk.
"1776” opens two weekends
from now, but you might also
want to get tickets for that play,
because productions by the Lane
County Auditorium Association
are usually sold out in advance.
Tickets range from $2 to $4 and
are available at the box office.
“Little Murders,” starring
Elliot Gould and Donald
Sutherland, is showing this
Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 6
and 9 p.m. in 180 PLC. The movie
is the story of the Newquist
family and their willingness and
abilities to accept an urban world
SKRAP roams parks
#o tell children stories
What merrily roves through the
parks telling stories to children?
The Out-of-No-Where SKRAP
theatre, of course.
SKRAP theatre is part of the
Eugene Parks and Recreation
Department. The department
will present original productions
combining music, mime, and
theatre in the local parks and
playgrounds this summer,
beginning next Monday, July 17.
The name SKRAP comes from
parks spelled backwards, ac
cording to the director of SKRAP,
Jeff Spolan. SKRAP is ap
propriate, he says, because they
have no budget and are forced to
use whatever bits and scraps of
material they can find to produce
their performances.
This summer, in a continuation
of the theatre begun last sum
mer, SKRAP will present four
pantomimes and two short plays.
One of the plays, Spolan says,
comes from a Berkeley street
story or cultural myth called “In
I the good old daze, (or the saga of
fche warm fuzzies).” In the
Deginning or in the good old days,
Spolan says, people had “warm
fuzzies” to give to each other to
make them feel happy. But
someone got greedy and started
hoarding the warm fuzzies to
himself.
Pretty soon everyone else
started hoarding them too
because they were all afraid
there wouldn’t be enough if they
kept giving them away. With no
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warm fuzzies, no one was happy
anymore. The moral, Spolan
says, is that “nobody realizes
that there might be an unlimited
supply of warm fuzzies.”
In addition to the plays and
pantomimes, The Traveling
Troubador, played by Spolan and
his faithful companion, Enkidu,
are touring the parks involving
children in impromptu drama,
games and pantomimes until
August 18.
Performance schedule for
plays is as follows:
July 17—University Park
July 18—Monroe Park
July 19—Fairmount Park
July 24—Fairfield School
July 25—Washington Park
July 26—McCornack School
July 31—South Amazon Park
Aug. 1- Edgewood School
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Thursday. “The Hustler” will be
shown tonight, “The Magnificent
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Kid,” July 27 and “Ballots or
Bullets” will be shown Aug. 3.
The Odyssey Coffee House, in
downtown Eugene, is presenting
Diane Adams on Friday and
Wheatfield on Saturday. Both
performances are at 9 p.m. and
cost about 75c.
Finally, if you’re all out of
money, or almost all out, there is
a bicycle race at Skinner’s
Butte Park this Sunday, for only
25c entry fee. Events begin at
9:30 a.m. but you have to have
your entry fee in to the Parks and
Recreation office in City Hall by 5
p.m. Friday. The race is
primarily for riders with little or
no experience in racing, so don’t
feel that you aren’t good enough.
Anyone over eight can compete.
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