‘White Whore’ unfolds midnight series
h conxroversiai, sensual one-act play opens
Oregon Repertory Theatre’s (ORT) Midnight
Mafia series. Tom Eyen’s The White Whore and
the Bit Player runs Friday, Saturday and March 3
and 4, with all performances at midnight.
White Whore is the story of “one woman, before
and after she made it.” Eyen presents the struggle
between “the nun-mind — what she imagines
herself to be — and the whore-flesh — what the
world saw her to be.”
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Guest artist Allan Gross directs the two
character production of the myth of the
madonna-whore dichotomy. Carolanne Young
plays the whore and Jane VanBoskirk is featured
as the nun.
ORT’s Midnight Mafia was created last year as
a workshop type adventure for the company using
not-so commercially viable productions. The ex
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The Whore (Carolanne Young, Left) and the Nun (Jane Van
Boskirk, top) portray one woman’s two sides, which are dramati
cally brought together at the moment of her suicide death.
Christo’s Fence
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was just in the nick of time that a
CETA grant for nine full-time posi
tions appeared. As an added
blessing Richard Braun, manager
of the Atrium, donated space to
the Gallery for the month of
January.
It was then that the Gallery
began to blossom. A publication
has begun, titled Yellow Tabloid
and edited by publicity director
Paul Ollswang. Outreach prog
rams have materialized that are
bringing the Gallery out and into
the surrounding world: the Artist
in-the-Schools Program is de
signed to coordinate workshops
and continuing projects with the
needs of local teachers; the
Artist’s Forum, to be held the last
Tuesday of each month, is plan
ned to keep area artists in touch
with each other and the flow of
ideas; mural projects have been
started in several high schools;
out-of-gallery exhibits are in the
planning stages as well as a
spring show of student work to be
presented throughout the city.
It's modest; it calls itself alterna
tive and it’s a definite link between
the exhibits in conventional gal
leries and current modes of artistic
expression. Art as synthesis; art
as the combined whole from the
many parts of the Process. Open
Gallery is caught up in the
paradox of artist as individual
alongside artist as integral part of
his/her surroundings just as
Paul Helford’s
(following Monty Pythons Flying Circus)
CASABLANCA
Christo was. Running Fence
would not exist without sheep
farmer or unfriendly environ
mentalist. Open Gallery would not
exist without CETA (praise be thy
name, grand patron of the arts in
Eugene!), the public school sys
tem or the person walking in off
the streets.
Presently located in a partially
donated space in Midgeley’s Mill,
Open Gallery boasts a full
schedule for the next month. Fri
day night at 8 p.m. there will be a
poetry reading. Admission con
tribution is 50 cents. Saturday at 8
p.m. Brian Zahn will give a multi
media presentation on Jain art
and its contrast to modern paint
ings. Zahn (who founded the pub
lication Yarrow Stalks and was the
first to see and publish R. Crumb’s
work) will show a 20 minute film on
India and present slides and
music. Admission contribution is
$1. Tuesday night there will be an
Artists Forum; artists presenting
their works will be: Harold Hoy,
Gary Buckendorf and Godfrey
Warner. Admission is free.
Christo's Running Fence and
Valley Curtain, another Maysles
Brothers film about a Christo art
work, can be seen tonight at 7 and
9 p.m. in 150 Geology. Admission
is $1.25 for students and $2 for
others. On Sunday, both films will
be shown at Cinema 7 at 4:30 p.m.
Admission is $2.
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