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What to do this weekend...
Parents invade the campus...
Concerts, classic, folk, rock and hybrids...
New plays...
, Old films...
Take your pick.
Tonight as part of the Black Culture Week
Johnny Shines does Delta-blues in the EMU
Ballroom. The slide-guitarist starts his show at 8
p.m. Tickets are a dollar.
Another guitarist, Eric Park, is featured in
Fishbowl Follies tonight. Beginning at 8:30 p.m.
this concert is free.
Two student recitals are slated for today.
Peter Brye, on cello performs at 12:30 p.m., in the
school of Music recital hall, and Virginia Hancock,
voice, sings in the Gerlinger Lounge at 8 p.m.
Friday marks the beginning of Parents’
Weekend festivities. A student art show and sale,
with wares displayed in craftsfair booths runs
Friday and Saturday from 1 p.m. through 5 p.m.
At 3 p.m. the varsity baseball team takes on
University of Washington and at 4 p.m. the Oregon
Track Club meets the University’s runners for a
Twilight Track Meet. The highpoint of Friday’s
events will be an appearance in Mac Court by Bill
Cosby. The Pair Extraordinaire, two dudes on
bass and tambourine back the comedian in his 8
p.m. show. Tickets are $3.
Parent Week activities continue Saturday
with an 8:30 a.m. awards breakfast in the EMU.
The $1.75 breakfast is accompanied by honorary
tappings and citizenship awards. At 11 a.m.
centennial anniversary slides will be shown in the
EMU Dad’s Room, followed by “Time to Live”
outdoor slides at 2:30 p.m. Treat your parents to a
campus tour at 1:30 p.m.
Back to Friday night events. And there’s a
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Two college plays open Friday night. Our
campus thespians are doing a light comedy set in
New Mexico, called “'Hie Inspector General."
Student rush at 7:45 p.m. enables you to secure
$1.50 tickets ; any in advance are $2.50 and $3.50. At
Lane Community College Forum Theatre "You
Can’t Take It With You" takes shape at 8 pan.
Tickets to the 1930’s period comedy are $1.50.
Pick and choose from among three films on
campus Friday night. Hie Luis Bunuel film class
is exhibiting his “El, Simon of the Desert" at 7:30
p.m. in 177 Lawrence. NUC is sponsoring a mid
sixties Cannes Festival winner, “IF”, and a
Feiffer cartoon, “Munro,” the 4-year-old inductee.
Profits from this flick, running at 7 and 9:15 p.m.
in 180 PLC, go to community groups. For heavy
class commentary check the University Film
Society’s offering, “Death in Venice” at 8 pan. in
150 Science. All these movies are just one dollar.
In a more traditional vein, Randall Smith,
trombone student, will entertain you at 8 p.m. in
the recital hall. And, no admission charge.
For rock, check the Cascade Club in
Springfield Friday or Saturday night. Cat Mother
will be trying to cut a tape, and will therefore be
playing at optimum. A Vippo light show ac
companies them, with movies during in
termission. A cover charge of $1.50 is requested.
Doors open at 8 p.m.
It’s rock up the valley, too. Jeff Beck’s new
group is doing a stint at the Portland Paramount
Northwest Theatre Friday. Bogert and Appice, the
other members of the trio formerly played with
Vanilla Fudge and Cactus. Appearing with Beck,
Bogert and Appice is Wet Willie. Show starts at 8
p.m. Save a dollar if you can, and buy your tickets
early for $5 rather than $6.
Sha Na Na plays in the Portland Paramount
Northwest Theatre tonight at 8 p.m. With them
Gentle Giant, an English group, will show. Gentle
Giant is composed of classical musicians who
have recently adopted some rock to survive.
Tickets are $4 in advance, $5 at the door.
Also in Portland is the New Theatre, at 215 SE
9th. Opening Friday night is Jean Anouilh’s
“Becket.” Doug Griffin will play the saint;
Michael Hopkins, King Henry II, Plantagenet king
of England. Student tickets cost only $1.50, so if
you are in the city Friday or Saturday, hungry for
professional theatre, see the play, at 8:30 p.m.
If you don’t have tickets to Elvis Presley at the
Coliseum Friday, forget the show. It’s sold out.
Here’s something different. The Second An
nual Artichoke Festival will be celebrated
Saturday in Alton Baker Park from noon to dusk.
Free music by Artie and the Chokes is provided,
but you’ll have to bring your own artichokes.
A benefit film showing for the Canterbury
Center features Luis Bunuel’s “Viridiana” and
a Ron Finne (Springfield) film, “Earthspirit” at 7
and 9 p.m. Saturday. 180 PLC will serve as the
theatre. A dollar donation is asked of all who at
tend.
A program of music and dances of the Middle
East, i.e. belly dancing, is to be presented at
Photo by Pomelo Fitzsimmons
Maude Kerns Saturday night at 8 p.m. Tickets to
the Persian and Arabic arts are $2.
Jane Martin will give her master’s recital on
flute Saturday at 8 p.m. in the recital hall.
In the Portland Coliseum Saturday an English
folksinging group will do bluegrass, jig-reels and
madrigal at 8 p.m. Calling themselves Steeleye,
the group puts 17th and 18th century music to
electronic instrumentation, an unusual sound.
Sunday the cultural Forum is running “Play
Misty for Me.” Admission to any of the showings
(3,6 and 9 p.m. at 180 PLC) is 81.
Another Alton Baker Park celebration is
scheduled for Sunday. This time Baha’i is spon
soring a kite festival at 2 p.m.
The Committee for Mill Race Development is
sponsoring a clean-up Sunday at 8:30 a.m. along
the lower Millrace. All you need to participate is
grubbies and a shovel or rake.
KFMY-FM is sponsoring a car rally Sunday at
11 a.m. If you love your car show it at the South
Eugene High parking lot.
Your best bet for a local concert happens at
7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Lane County Fairgrounds.
Top billing goes to the Chambers Brothers. First
to move gospel music into California coffee
houses, the Chambers have developed a unique
hybrid folk-gospel sound. With the Chambers
Brothers will appear the Rowan Brothers,
sparkly, shiny guitarists from Stinson Beach,
California. Tickets are $2.50 in advance, 50 cents
more at the door.
That’s it.
(P.S. — don’t forget the beach.)
Terry Sotta
“ ‘The Inspector General’ is like a
mountain. It’s there, and you can’t wait
to get your mits on it,” remarked
Horace Robinson. He has now had his
mits on ‘‘The Inspector General” and
the results of his direction will be
presented on the main stage of the
University Theatre the next three
weekends.
This play has always been a
tremendous challenge to direct ac
cording to Robinson. Many of the great
modern directors have attempted doing
this play with varying degrees of
success.
Part of the difficulty in directing this
show, Robinson believes, stems from
the fact that the play lies on the thin line
between comedy and farce. The style of
the play is quite dated which also adds
to the problems of production.
With a script that poses such
problems, why did Robinson want to
direct it? “Because it’s a supreme
challenge.”
It offers a challenge for the actors,
too, because of the great depth of the
characters. He also wanted to do the
play “because of its tantalizing title.”
Much of the plot deals with the
question of who the real Inspector
General is. This question has been left
unanswered in Robinson’s production
and is open to each audience member’s
opinion. Robinson expressed that he is
as interested as any audience member
as to who is the real Inspector General.
The work is the first major play by
Russian author Nikolai Gogol. The Czar
gave special permission for the play’s
original production in the 1920’s. It was
immensely popular and became a
standard Russian play.
The political satire is one of the
earliest modern dramas, and Robinson
considers it one of the best 10 Russian
plays.
Robinson was not satisfied with any
of the translations available, so he has
written his own for this production. He
said this is a common practice when
producing this show because of the
difficulties involved in the original
script. The play’s many adaptors have
each kept the basic shell of the play, but
have changed many of its elements to
make them more workable.
The play has been so greatly
reworked that unless a person was very
familiar with the play he would not
recognize it. Even so, Robinson insists
it is still Gogol’s work.
The location of the play has been
moved from a remote Russian village
to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The director
did this because the original setting and
the people involved in it were too
foreign to most audience members. A
second reason for the shift in locale is
that a play located in Russia infers a
heavy drama — which this play is not.
The time of the play has also been
shifted slightly from 1836 to 1846.
Several new characters have been
added as well as the elimination of
some others.
Because Robinson is using his own
material he has felt free to alter it
during the course of the production.
Some shifting was taking place even
during the final week of production. Not
working with a fixed script, Robinson
admitted, gave the cast some difficulty,
but he feels they have handled it well.
The chance to see “The Inspector
General’’ is rare, and to see an original
adaptation is rarer still. The play will
run Thursday and Friday and May 4, 5,
11 and 12. Tickets are available at the
University Theatre box office, 686-4191,
between noon and 5 p.m.
Glen Bushey