Southern
Discomfort
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comedy
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Arena Theater's
next Wednesday
THEATER PREVIEW
Coup/Clucks
Lord leehruk Theatre (
Written by pne Martin
Opens Sf\ 8
up/Clucks. a comedy
Martin, will open the
1995-96 season at H p m
in Villard Hall
Theater Arts doctoral student and director of the
play Jim Utz said. 1 chose this play t»*cause it is a
great, funny comedy one of the best American
comedies in the last 10-15 years
"It is also socially relevant because it talks about
changing nice relations in the South "The humor
is adult. I mean I wouldn't take im 0
year-old to the play."
The play is a farce of (.'one With the
Wind and life in the South I he audi
once will see actors playing actors,
whir h Utz said requires a more skilled
actor to play the part
Steven Grant, who plays Dr
Kennedy, said his ( harm ter grants the
audience an exposition of the racism
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Senior theater arts student Justin Guadagni, who
plays the part of Travis, said. The play is a come
dy with deep racial under-tones
Cuadngni's i haracter usually plavs the character
of Rhett Butler in the town’s annual parade in the
ploy But. the characters in the plav cannot decide
who will piny the roles for a float that will he
entered in the parade.
“Some of the ( hara< ters are striving for the days
of old, and some of the characters are striving for
the future," Utz said. “And that creates a lot of
comical tension.”
Utz thinks the play will probably not appeal to
a racist or a person whose distaste for “taboo” top
ics gets in the way of having fun.
"Be prepared." ho said. "This play features peo
ple running around in black face and Ku Klux Klan
robes. While the play mercilessly ridicules this
type of behavior, 1 suppose that some people might
be a bit uncomfortable by seeing these things actu
ally represented on stage ”
Martin has gained national acclaim through her
plays' premieres at festivals, sui h as the Actors
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Ml* Zifl (Slacia Jansan) and Don Savanah (Eric Larson) talk about Yankaas In Coup/C!uck».
Tha play runs Movambar 8-11 and 18-18 and all shows bagln at 8p.m. Tlckats ara S3-S5.
Theater of l.ouisvillo and liie Humana Festival of
New Plays Her other plays in< lode Talking With
and Kft-lv ami Du'
The cast consists of Michael Rleker. Chris H
Curtis, Troy Fischnallar, Sydney Foils. Steven
Grunt. Justin Cuada^ni. Shanisse llownrd. Staciu
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String quartet to
perform at Beall
The Pefersen String Quartet c!
Germany vrnil play music from
Haydn. Beethoven and 'String
Quartet No 1* by town Schul
holt as pad oi rhe Chamber
Music Sei« concert at 8 p m m Bead Concert Hall Nov 9
Sludent rusn tickets will be sold a! the door and are S5 and
$9 A bee lecture precedes the concert in Room 198 ot the
School ol Music
For more information call the Music Hotline al 346 3764 v
the Hull Center at 687 5000 to reserve tickets
Jerry’s Dead! Go home! Wash! Get a job!
The number of Volkswagen vans
and converted school buses
with flowers and pea* u signs
has int reased on the streets of
Eugene these davs.
Some ( an fw seen putting about
on routine errands to the natural
foods' store or the head shop, but
most just sit at the edge of the street,
like ghost ships on the highways
Their crews of Deadheads are
uncharacteristically stationary as
well.
They wait for one more trip to set
sail across the U S. Interstate. They
wait for news of a rendez vous from
their ghost leader, but the word
never comes from his cold grave
Jerry Garcia is really dead.
Worm food. How grateful is a
matter of debate.
Quo thing is for sme. however,
and that is. many fans still have no
idea what to do with themselves or
the peace van parked out front.
I'm not bashing
the Grateful I)»?<»»!.
lik»* many conserv
atives who are no
doubt grateful that
J*trry is actually
dead. I'm at tually
about the farthest
thing away from a
conservative that
there is at the
Emerald In fact. I kindn liked the
Dead I went to four of their t on
certs and actually bought tic k*«ts to
go inside 6n two of those im i asions
OK, so I never dropped acid ut a
Dead show But. In 19H7,1 did hang
out in the parking lot at I-ong Beach
Arena with people who were frying
I even got ferociously stoned at the
Silver Bowl in Lis Vegas back in
1902. The last time the Grateful
Dud played at Autan Stadium,
two years ago, I went so far as to
drink a beer.
Point tv 1 < nn relate, man! But
what better time than the Friday fol
lowing Halloween add All Soul’s
Day to make fun of Deadheads' So. I
took it upon myself to t ome up with
the top ten answers to every I toad
head's most vexing question these
days:
What are we going to do now that
Jerry Garcia is dead'
10 Fatten up Hob Weir and take
his razor away
o. l ake the van to Guyana and
join with Jerry via an arsenic-spiked
Kooi-Aid party.
H. Tie a Img of heroin to a string
and drag it across Jerry's grave until
ho pops out to grab it.
7. All Deadheads unite in voodoo
ritual to bring back Jerry as an evil,
rotting ghoul.
(i Kxhume Jerry's grave and
quickly rush him into a cryogenics
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