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CARNIVAL THEATRE!
| University Theatre's fun-filled season of plays will fill
your summer evenings with music and laughter!
I'm Getting My Act Together and
Taking It On The Road
The critically acclaimed musical starring
PRISCILLA LAURIS
July 5, 6, 7, 19, 25, 26; August 3, 4, 10
Side by Side by SmSkeim
A musical reme of
Broadway show tunes by the
master songwriter, Stephen
Sondheim
July 12, 13, 14, 20, 21
August 2, 11
Robinson Theatre • 8 p.m.
$5.00 - Any Friday or Saturday
$3.50 - Any other performance day
Call 686-4191 for ticket reservations and information.
Mass Appeal
A heartwarming comic
drama starring TOM
LASSWELL and DENNIS
SMITH
July 17, 18, 27, 28
August 1, 8, 9
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Sensitivity softens conflict
The Carnival Theatre’s production of Bill C.
Davis’ play “Mass Appeal’’ illustrates with
humor and sensitivity the conflicts between
idealists and ritualists that plague every social
movement or institution.
The institution is the Catholic Church. The
conflict is between a young seminarian, Mark,
whose efforts to become a priest are blocked by a
hierarchy too proud and secure in its corruption
to consider any change in the status quo, and
Father Tim Farley, a priest who prefers to paint a
“Norman Rockwell” image of the Church.
Mark, played by Dennis Smith, whose play
“Excursion Fare” premiered this spring on cam
pus and will be presented by the University
Theatre this fall, is placed under the tutelege of
Father Farley, played by Tom Lasswell.
Lasswell portrays Father Farley, and his at
tempts to tame the young maverick Mark, with
great ease. Whether he’s preaching from the
pulpit, high over the audience, or reeling around
in his office drunk on wine, he maintains his very
believable Catholic priest character.
As Father Farley trys to make Mark accept, or
at least understand, the contradictions of the
Church. These contradictions force Mark to make
a choice, which Father Farley clearly outlines for
him. “If you want to become a priest, you must
lie.”
After Mark’s first preaching attempt, a
miserable failure by the congregation’s standards,
Father Farley brings up the need for the Church's
mass appeal.
“What is the Church without people? What
is the Church without the tythe?”
Smith, in his portrayal of Mark, never loses
his tense malaise, which at first seems a part of
his character but later fails to disappear as his
character evolves. His fits of rage, where he stiffly
paces around Father Farley’s office tugging at his
hair, are particularly bothersome.
Yet, he brings to life a complex character bur
ning with an inner power and frustrated by those
who want him to entertain the masses when he
wants to preach.
It is this inner power that those over him
seem to fear.
Father Farley doesn’t fear that power; he
remembers it from somewhere in his distant past
“And I know I haven’t been as close to Christ
since,” he says to himself while practicing a ser
mon he will never preach. He has felt the power,
but he has lost it. Lasswell shows us this lost
man.
In the end it’s Father Farley that one feels the
most sympathy for. Mark will survive. That is ob
vious. He has youth and determination, but what
does Father Farley have? What does this man,
weakened by wine and his popularity, have left?
The play’s major flaw is its lack of balance
between the two acts. Unfortunately the second
act doesn’t have the content of the first. One
returns from the intermission expecting much
more than the few morsels delivered.
Still, “Mass Appeal" is a play well-worth
seeing. Admission is $5 with no reduced rate for
students. Its last two showings are Wednesday
and Thursday.
By Michael Clapp
Legislature
Continued from Page 3
work being done, he said.
“This is one of the few states
that have so much media
coverage of the Legislature...
but that coverage is over
simplified,” he said. Television
coverage of the body often
“borders on irresponsibility,”
Hansen added.
Several participants stressed
the Legislature’s inability to at
tract the people who are most
qualified to serve in it.
“We don’t have a recruiting
process to recruit good people,”
said political science Prof. Jim
Klonoski. The weakness of
Oregon’s political partica makes
recruiting difficult, he said. He
recommended public financing
to strengthen the parties.
Also, the “rigors of cam
paigning” and the demands of
the public spotlight have
dissuaded many qualified peo
ple from seeking public office,
said Henny Willis, associate
editor for The Register-Guard.
Willis predicted that annual
legislative sessions are in
evitable, but Rep. Wayne
Fawbush, D-Hood River, said
he did not think annual sessions
are necessary, and that biennial
sessions have their advantages.
“I like two year planning,”
he said. “That makes the state
look ahead.”
The solutions Oregon finds
for its problems will be watched
by other states, said Cindy
Simon of the National Con
ference of State Legislatures.
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“You’re not struggling with
issues unique to Oregon,” she
said. “But I don’t think other
states have the answers.”
State Reps. Mary Burrows,
Rick Bauman, and Hardy Myers
and Senate Pres. Ed Fadeley
also participated in the discus
sion, which touched on cam
paign financing, the effec
tiveness of legislative commit
tees and the quality of leader
ship in both houses.
The conference was spon
sored by the Central Lane Coun
ty League of Women Voters; the
University’s Department of
Planning, Public Policy and
Management; and the Bureau of
Governmental Research and
Service.
A published summary of the
conference will be available in
the fall. Ken Tollenaar, director
of the BGRS, said he hoped the
conference would help focus at
tention on the problems faced
by the Legislature.
“I’m impressed by the caliber
of people who gave up a whole
day to talk about this,” he said
after the conference.