THEATER
Characters remove masks in ‘Black Comedy’
By Nicoie Krueger
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When the lights ere out end no one t*
looking, people often behave as they never
would In bright daylight They frequently
mask their true selves in the present.* of oth
««. removing these masks only in the obecu
rity of darkness
imagine watching a group of individual*
who. believing themselves to he hidden by
darkness, cast aside their masks and reveal
their tme selves
Those who see the British farce Him k
CoUMHtf March 8-9 and 14-18 will esperi
ern e this.
'This play esplore* the idea that people
reveal their true selvas in the dark, that dark
ness can become a metaphor fur truth as
people give in to baser instinct* when no
one i* watching." director Skye Fitzgerald, a
graduate student in theater art*. *«id
The play adopt* a convention from (he
Peking Opera in which the visual urder of
light and dark is reversed to that when a
scene is set at night nr in the dark, the stage
is lit When the action occur* during (he day
or in a normally lit setting, the stage is
enveloped in darkness
This allows the audience to observe the
characters as they reveal qualities that they
conceal from eac h other
"This shows the tension between who
we're trying to lie and who we really are."
Fitzgerald said.At a British fame. Block
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Comedy present* • highly physic al form of
British comedy "It's exaggerated topsy
turvy and physically based.~ h# said “It
makes no pretense lo be intellectual*
Black Comedy was written by British
playwright Peter Shaffer in the mid 1060*
One of the challenges Pttrgerald has faced
is gelling the actors lo look and move as if
they are in the dark, when the stage is actu
ally lit "They tan mm but ar» playingchar
•cter* who can't. I bad to get them to roly on
Ibetr other sense*," he Mid
The play will take place in the Arena The
atwr in Vtilard Hall, and performance* will
begin at H p m Tli kot* are $1 for University
students, 1-4 for the senior Utirens, Untver
slty (acuity and staff and nonUniversity stu
dents. and S5 tor the general public
New Web site offers education, entertainment
By Amy Fast
There's a new univarsity in town, and student*
can visit it* campus without ever leaving their
chair*.
The new internet University on the World Wide
Web brings academic ami entertainment resources
to University students in one Web site. Using the
vast offerings of online businesses and services,
the Interne) University combine* links to various
site* in a stimulating graphic format
For educational purposes, the Internet Universe
ty connect* college resmut «* search engines and
Web sites on financial aid and graduate school
rankings These are also links to library directories
and on line encyclopedias
In addition to these connections, the Internet
University offers some entertainment There are 12
"department*," including Money. Travel, Career
Finding and Arts and Entertainment
For dudent* looking (or amuaement. (be Web
*ii» pre»ent» »ubdepartment* «uch a* “Fifteen
minute recipe* made with ingredient* tram 7-t I."
including a “Tequila Oreo Sunrise Dip “
Students can also custom make an "electronic
pixsa* and tend it online to anyone in (be world
Another feature of the web site allow* student* to
enter to wm a free spring break beach trip
One of the mod recent addition* i* Net Vote
m*», which provide* link* to presidential candi
date* home page* to unofficial or “joke* home
page* and lo topic » of dm uwUon such a* the bal
anted budget amendment, gun c ontrol and abor
lion
You can vi»it Internet University at
http //www internet uutv com
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