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Rhythm Renews FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1997 ‘Strange folks’ are here Strangefolk, a self-proclaimed folk, blue grass and jam rock combination, will visit WOW Hall on Sunday, Oct. 12 at 8p.m. PAGE 11A Emerald CD-quality sound Quality lyrics set Dar Williams' album liml of the Summer apart from recent release’s PAGE 10A Volume 99, Issue 28 mm\N Hall will present Marigold, Hot For Choco late, The Asthma Hounds and Johnny Voodoo tonight at 9 p.m. Marigold, based in Springfield, won the 1996 Na tional Ticketmas ter Music Show case and was named one of “America’s Top Five Unsigned Bands.” Tickets are $5 at the door. ■ Garrison Starr will perform at The Wild Duck Oct. 12. This Memphis singer songwriter-gui tarist mixes rock, pure pop and acoustic folk. » On Oct. 13, WOW Hall will present the 1997 Rainforest Deep Ecology Road show, featuring Joanne Rand, John Seed, Neil Pike and Joyful Noise. Proceeds will benefit rain forest conserva tion projects in Ecuador and In dia. * University lin guistics professor Tom Givon will be at the University Bookstore from 4 to 5:30 p.m.Oct. 15 to sign copies of his novel, Run ning Through the Tall Grass. Givon’s novel has been described as having created “one of the dark est, most com plex relationships in literature." Huzzah! University actor Charlie Kimball lands roles in th ree Ash la ndplays Once ‘the servant of tivo masters,' junior Charlie Kimball will tem porarily leave academia to join Ashland's profes sional acting j scene. ' I \ r By Nicole Krueger Managing tdilor Y L ast year, dad in a dowuish cos tume, Charlie Kimball cavorted about the Robinson stage fora local audience. This year, he will don soldier’s garb and perform Shake speare in front of hundreds of thousands of people in Ashland. The junior theater arts major achieved a longtime goal, scoring parts in three plays for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 1098 season. Kimball got trie call Monday instruct ing him to report to Ashland by January 6. There he will begin rehearsing and preparing for 10 months of constantly switching costumes. Because the Shakespeare festival has a running repertoire, he said, an actor might have roles in three different plays at once — as well as several understudy roles. “The whole idea of waking up in the morning and going to a matinee, where you perform some contemporary character, and then spending your afternoon hanging out in Ashland, and then in the evening, playing a completely different Shake spearean role in a different theater ... it really in trigues me and excites me," Kimball said. Kimball said he will perform three small roles: a soldier in Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs, a sol dier and ensemble member in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Pail One, and an ensemble member in Shake speare's lesser-known play Cymbeline. He will also be responsible for several understudy roles, which he said is required of all actors in the festival. “I’ll have to do probably five to seven roles total throughout the course of the year," he said, “it’s scary, because you only get six to eight hours of un derstudy rehearsal time with the cast.” Kimball will sign a renewable, 10-month con trail, a time span he considers "really long" for pro fessional theater, for a weekly salary of $350, plus medical and dental coverage. In exchange, he will have to postpone his education. Turn to KIMBALL, Page 12A Singer brings intimacy to Eugene scene The folk-rock musician Dar Williams has embarked upon a national tour, which will stop in the EMU Ballroom this week Evan A. Denbaum Entertainment Editor When singer-songwriter Dar Williams takes the stage, she radiates an unusual con fidence for someone made so vulnerable by her honest, often personal music. On Oct. 13, she will bring this duality to the EMU Ballroom following tour dates with the highly acclaimed Lilith Faire, an all-female concert series that was embraced by fans around the country for its comfort able, testosterone-free environment. Williams is now on her own nationwide tour in support of her newest album, End of the Summer. On stage, when Dar Williams sings she shares her world with the audience — each song is a story — conveying deeply person al experiences and intimate ideas. And when her voice is soft, you can sometimes hear a slight quiver or a light laugh from the emotion in it. She allows herself to be vul nerable, confiding in her audience with an openness and honesty one would only ex pect from a close friend. The emotion builds as each tale unfolds. An acoustic gui tar helps to create tension by accentuating her words as she paints descriptive pictures and leads the listener through a series of events. In the song “Mortal City,” on her album by tile same name, Williams tells tbe story of two lonely people on one dark, frigid night in the city: “It was like another centu ry, with dim lamps and candles lighting up the icy trees and the clouds and a covered moon.” The two individuals were to have a sim ple first date dinner, but when an emer gency broadcast comes over the radio ask Turnto WILLIAMS, Page 10A In the comer pocket Absolute Improv!, the University’s only traveling improvisational comedy troupe, will open the 1997-98 Pocket Playhouse season Oct. 16-18. Absolute Improv! performances are unique because the audience is so heavily involved. The way the troupe works is that the audience is responsible for telling the ac tors what to do, and then the actors must do it. There are no rehearsed scenes and no planning before the game begins. The audi ence holds the fate of the performers in their hands. Absolute Improv! has expanded overtime to include more than 15 performers. The troupe has played venues all overthe area, including The Wild Duck, Actor’s Cabaret, and John Henry’s. All three shows will begin at 5 p.m. with a $1 suggested donation. n.wnna g
