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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1995)
July I5.??S?9 « I Odm 5 50pm ?i hours photography % ceramics jeuielry c /emu craft center louier level emu • UO ^ 546 4501 Advertise in I Oregon Classifieds! 3 4ta-‘l-34 3 ! Be cool... Make a better world RECYCLE! ■ ENTERTAINMENT The Chest of Dreams’ liberates imagination Andrew Mayer F{jt OhBQOn OdM^y l trnw&kj Audienc es who experience Mbx Hush's play. The (Ju s! of Dreams. could leave the theater believing in themselves and the powers they possess The Chest of Dreams, direct ltd by Rolan < a Foster, opens the University's Mad Dm l Repertory Theater season on the south lawn in front of Villard Hall, at ! IOW Old ( ampus lame The play begin* Friday at 2 p in and continues through July H, 14 15, if-12. 2n 2H. and Aug 4-5 Lily is the i entrol charm ter of the pi..V She f li . ! he •!•-„!!, ..( her grandmother and her desire to realize her dreams Her grandmother left a chest that possesses the power to allow I ilv and her friends to momen tarily visualize a glimpse of their dreams Rond Kagan desi nla*s her i harm.ter. Lily, as "like poporn at the point of popping." Kagan is an ini inning fieshman from Marist High School in Kugene While at Marist. she was in the school's prodie turn of Gih/s/m/i and other plays Uly s friends arc- played by Tether A Ilia of l ugene as the Gypsy Ghost who protects I iT, s home from the evil Karkino; lonn\ Lozar of Cottage Grove, who piny* Karkino; and Sonya Miller of Eugene, who is l.ily's mother, June I've always playad mature* women's roles." Miller said The last also includes University senior and English major I’aul Rubenstem of Goos Hay. who plays Hockley, the aspiring guitar player University business majoi Sandy Lowe of Greswell. play a debutante dancer named «* HOME ^ FERMENTER CENTER Beer & wine making supplies i larsejt Selection in the Valley Since 1979 ♦ NOW OPEN SUNDAYS: 11-4 pm ♦ M f 10 6, Sat 10 5 ♦ 123 Monroe St *485 6238 I C.J. Pepper's I j "Healthy Fast Food"™ | FREE FAT-FREE SHAKE (small) with purchase of any side order and sandwich Limit 1 per party 1275 Alder (13th & Alder) Offer valid thru July 7, 1995 J mi i1 i,UNHUT t mmwu Gypsy Ghost Tether Alba shares stories with Lily, played by RenS Ragan, In "The Chest of Dreams." The play, written by Mai Bush, Is directed by Rebecca Foster Meena anti theater arts major Justin Devanzo of Kugette, who starred in the University's 1 ')‘M Set ond Season production of Uon in the Streets, plays the future rt« It singer named David Imagination fill* the hearts and minds of the t hildren. They spend endless hours playing in their grandmother's old room with hopes of refining the let h niques that will help them become the person they most aspire to t>e The chest gives them the power to open up their minds, but only in the beginning The children learn to rely on their own powers after the Gypsy Ghost helps them rui their lives of Karkino. who is the embodi ment of failure and self doubt The play may prove to be entertaining, as the audience is invited to interact with the adore in song The song brings the downfall of Karkino, and everyone in the audience will experience the overriding theme of believing in ourselves and the powers we possess Foster, a University masters student of theater arts, said. "I believe that every child should be encouraged to follow his or her dreams, and everyone should believe in their own power as a human lietng, with an imagination to dream with, and to figure out how to make your dreams come true." Lozar and Devanzo designed the set. Company members of the Mad Duck Repertory helped build the set and Foster created the costumes. Each performance seats at 130 p m. and the play begins at 2 p.m. The play is performed outdoors on the open lawn, so bring your picnic stuff. Tickets are S3 for students and $5 for the general public. For more information about tickets and upcoming summer theater events, call the University Box Office at 346-4191. Mad Duck Repertory hits the stage Inc Mad Du< k Repertory Theatre opens July 7 with The Chest of Drt-ams and performs three shows in repertory throughout the summer. Tlif company follows up with the productions of a i.om«*d\ titled Afonin's Room, and a music al titled A ,\f> Some is Alter from mid-July until mid August Marvin's Room opens Thursday. July t i. trt the Arena Theatre. The play is about Bessie, who takes (.are of her bed-tround father, sharing her home with a 70-year-old aunt The dark comedy explores painful issues (entering on family val ues, A \/v Some is Ala r opens Thursday, July lit*. in the Annin Theatre aiui dramatizes women as friends, rivals, sisters, mothers, daughters and businesswomen. Twenty musical numbers encap sulate the humor and fun of this contemporary revue The Mad Duck Rejwrtory is a t redit-lwsed the ater company that involves company members in all ns(H*ds of theater production. The cast con structs the sets, paints the stage, sews the cos tumes and ac ts in the shows The University Theatre box offu e hours are Monday Friday from 11 a m to l 30 p m. and 3 to p m until f> p.m. - compiled by Anne Moser Kornfeld *11 For 18 holes with student I.D. • 18 hole course • No tee limes • Challenging par 61 course Bring in this ad for 1/2 off club rental Good until VJ l/9:> OAKWAY GOLF 2000 Cal Young K<! • 484 1927 — poppf/— _y4na.4olia. 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