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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1982)
MAFIA: Plays you can’t refuse What does MAFIA mean to you? To the Oregon Repertory Theatre (ORT), and a number of its patrons, it means Midnight-Affair-For-Intelligent-Audiences “The Mafia productions allow our actors, directors and technicians an opportunity to stretch artistic muscles that often are not used for mainstage shows," said Bob Webb, director of “A Woman Alone,” the next Mafia production “They are aimed at audiences who are interested in experimental, off-beat and/or outrageous forms of theatre ” The series began in 1976 and did well finan cially for several years, although the ORT's recent move from the Atrium to the old Eugene Hotel has since slowed audience attendance While on the second floor of the Atrium, the Mafia performances, showing at 9:00 and mid night, attracted various groups from de Frisco's, Cinema 7, and other nearby haunts, a fortunate situation which couldn't be duplicated in the more remote Eugene Hotel But the ORT is now ex ploring new ways of making up for this loss of audience, Webb said Next season the Mafia productions will run for one week only at 9 p m with 11 p m perfor mances added onto the Friday and Saturday of the run, as opposed to the two weekend schedule they are now on “This will better enable us to keep our publicity budget down by concentrating our drive into one week instead of spreading it out over two or three weeks," said Webb He added that casts and crews would also be smaller than in the past, thereby cutting down on production costs as well Webb is optimistic about the opening of “A Woman Alone," and about its star, Jane Van Boskirk Van Boskirk, who is known throughout Oregon for her performances with University professor Edwin Bingham in “The Northwest Woman,” is the sole performer onstage in “A Woman Alone ” The play was written by Dario Fo, whom Webb calls, "a somewhat crazed Italian anarchist.” The play concerns a woman who must deal with being locked up in her own home by her husband, groped by her brother-in-law (who is in a full body cast), tormented by an old lover and verbally abused by an obscene phone caller. “A Woman Alone" will play tonight at 9, Thursday at 11 pm, and Friday and Saturday at 9 and 11 p m Tickets are S3 50 Reservations may be made by calling 485-1946 by gerine sandall Weekend Special $2500 200 FREE MILES Friday afternoon to Monday morning A-WAV liri 1 683-0874 #7 Coburg Road Some Restrictions Recycle this paper jlmu Cultural Forum presents JOHN HARTFORD NEW GRASi REVIVAL BLUEGRASS, JAZZ, ROCK SAWMDAYT, EOAffifflU ns ra© ipbo rani dbmjlikmhi Tickets: *5.50, UO Students ‘6.50 General Public Available at: EMU Main Desk; Buy & Sell Center at 361 W. 5th, Eugene; Earth River Records on the Eugene Mall. Freebee 37% larger KODAK Color Prints at no extra cost magnapnnf ■ Special Freebee savings processed by Kodak. ■ Ask for MAGNAPRINT35 Service by Kodak and receive big 4 x 6-inch KODAK Color Prints for the same price as regular prints. ■ You'll get a handy print wallet back with every order, too. ■ Hurry, this Freebee offer ends April 21, 1982. COLOR PROCESSING >. Kodak moj / GET STUFFED! I wanna stuff you an' yer favorite wid a small Southsider pizza anna pitcher a soft drink er beer fer TAKE OUTS 652 EAST 345 4114 BROADWAY don’t avoid distractions
