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Curtain Call:
T-Bone’
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By D. Lee Williams
Emerald Contributor
T Hone N Weasel is a bi-ohromatic
nightmare.
The plav, showing March fi and fi in
the Arena Theater, tracks the exploits of
two escaped Southern convicts, one
white, one blac k Director Grant MoK
emie uills the show "farcical*' yet also a
"genuine exploration of serious social
issues."
So it is — at least on paper — a come
Lett to right: Devon Russell asT -Bone, Jon Egging as Weasel and Richard Egan as a
derelict In T Bone N Weasel,' a University theater production.
dy-drama. Hut McKernie's production is
barely funny and hardly dramatic, A
night spent with this limp play is like a
luckless night spent with an impotent 80
year-old. The comedy falls flat and the
drama never rises
But don't blame the actors. That T
Bone N Weasel is able to produce even
These inane, initial sit-com-like scenes are
supposed to propel the map less plot, which, in Act
II, continues winding around like a drunken driver
downtown, hitting all of Eugene s annoying, go
nowhere one-ways.
the least amount of laughter is. in fact,
duo more to the actors' frenetic blind
faith in their roles than to anv offstage
direction or truly funny dialogue
And. since all roles are cliches in this
play, no one in the cast seems to have
trouble going overboard in his character
ization: Jon Egging as the wiry,white
Weasel gives his role a wild work-out.
Richard Egan, playing a doctor, n
derelict, and a down-home Southern
whore, and Andrew Bauer as a cop. a
car-salesman, and a stuttering sweep
stakes-winner are both superb stage
chameleons Davon Russell as T-Bone is
medium-well.
But all acting efforts are sadly academ
ic. The cast is trapped in a sinkboat of a
story, with no visible plot -1 mtt to pull
them to safety. Under the guise of living
a frolicky, anti-hero road-trip, author Ion
Klein flashes these scenes at us. all in
Act I a fumbled liquor store robbery. a
gun-ditch and a gun-search and breath
lessly brief enc ounters with the first act's
round of tired-old Southern stereotypes.
Those inane, initial sit-com-like
scenes are supposed to propel the map
les* plot, which, to Ac t II. continues
winding around like a drunken driver
downtown, hitting all of huge tie's
annoying, go-nowhere one-ways Exac My
midway, T-Bone — who's smart enough
to have a plan by now — senses that
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Storytelling
HUl.T CENTER — If spirits could walk the earth,
they would find a voice in Brenda Wong Aoki. a sor
ceress of storytelling whose tales awaken ancient
Asian lore.
Tales of spirits past and present will prevail when
Aoki presents her latest collection of stories in
"OBAKE!" (oh-bah'-kay), which means "ghost" in
Japanese.
She adapts three of her "Obake" stories — "Black
Hair." “Havoc in Heaven" and "The Bell of Dojoji" —
from ancient Chinese and Japanese fables.
Aoki transforms into an arrogant husband, a loving
wife and a venomous, wealthy woman in "Black
Hair." a tale of a man who discovers he can't regain
the wonderful wife he left for a world of unhappy
wealth.
A generous and laving girl refuses to acknowledge
the rejection of a Buddhist monk she loves in "The
Bell of Dojoji." Instead, she pursues him and trans
forms into a snake. Aoki calls this a Japanese version
of "Women Who Love Too Much."
"Havoc in Heaven" provides comic relief between
more haunting tales. Aoki plays the famous Monkey
King, who tricks death and the gods and eats so much
that he groans from the complete overdose of his
lower chakra.
With "Dancing in California.*' Aoki turns from
ancient fables to VVWII California, where a Japanese
American ballerina's career is shattered when she is
forced into a "relocation" camp.
Aoki performs on a bare stage with only her |apan
ese Noh fan (used to portray a sake cup. a tray and
other props), a short rod and her long hair. She carves
woods, castles, animals and spirits out of thin air with
a few simple twists of her fingers and expresive face.
"I do traditional Kabuki/Noh drama from the per
spective of a woman, a completely different perspec
tive than the traditional style presents." Aoki said.
“This is, in fact, the most unique thing about my sto
ries. They unfold from u personal point of view rather
than from the universal."
Aoki’s energetic blend of modern dam e with tradi
tional lapanesu Noh and Kyogen theater, spiced with
some western vocal techniques, earned her a reputa
lion us the star of the 198H Northwest Storytelling Fes
tival. Aoki's dehut album, Dreams and Illusions
Tales of the Pacific Him, won the National Asnih in
lion of Independent Record Distributors Imst spoken
words album of 1900.
“In Western theatrical technique, the actor tends to
speak in terms of developing a character." Aoki said
"In Noh/Kyogen. we search for the hanu or essence of
the character, assuming that a character exists by and
of itself, and all we have to do is find it "
Yet she found that as a person of color, the only per
forming roles she could get were as maids, prostitutes
and cooks, she said. So she began creating her own
solo theater works, gaining recognition across the
country as a leader in developing art forms that
express the experience of the growing A*ian-Amon
can population. Aoki won a NFA Solo Theater Fel
lowship in 1991
Aoki performs in the Hull Center's Sarong Theatre
March 9 and 10 at 7:30 p hi
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