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Fine action, acting in ‘Caesar’
■ The University Theatre
offers a modern version of a
Shakespearean tragedy
By Sara Jarrett
Oregon Daily Emerald
If the opening-night perfor
mance dictates the level of a play’s
success, “Julius Caesar” should
reach the top in no time. Universi
ty Theatre director and Professor
Robert Barton’s latest offering to
the Robinson Theatre is a refresh
ingly modernized version of
William Shakespeare’s late 16th
century tragedy.
It’s a play about overthrowing
dictatorship for the general good
of a country’s people. The subject
is timeless, and Barton’s adapta
tion proves it is placeless as well.
One could imagine it happening
in any country in the world right
now. There are a few instances
when the word “Rome” is actually
spoken, alluding to a specific place,
but in the words of Barton himself,
“Rome, in this case, should proba
bly be in quotation marks. ”
The title character, played by
Alexander Stanley, only appears
in three scenes and is murdered in
the middle of the performance
during Act HI. Though the play is
technically about Julius Caesar’s
life, his assassination and the peo
ple he ruled, it’s really the show of
Brutus, the main conspirator and
Caesar’s murderer.
Luke Hamilton successfully em
bodies the role of Brutus. Hamil
ton’s passion permeates his perfor
mance and adds an intensity to the
landscape of the show that would
be lacking without his obvious ded
ication to the craft. At times though,
Hamilton’s investment seems a lit
tle intense and restrictive, giving
Brutus too linear a persona.
Quinn Mattfeld, who plays Cas
ca, another conspirator against
Caesar, impressively displays an
ability to find ease in his perfor
mance while maintaining the be
lievability of his character. Bekki
Barnhart offers another display of
texture-rich acting in the role of
Portia, Brutus’ wife. The energy
she projects remains on stage long
after she exited. Danielle Ozyman
dias also has an extremely strong
stage presence. She deserves re
spect and praise for masterfully
pulling off a female Marc Antony.
Noticeable in nearly all cast
members is choppy, drawn-out ex
ecution of the lines in times of great
importance. This was seemingly
done to iterate the impact of what
they are saying, but when each
character uses the same technique,
it tends to take away from the well
crafted personalities. Barton’s fo
cus on diction and voice inflection,
however, is evident all-around.
The show’s level of listening ease
is extremely satisfying.
With three single death scenes
and two main battles, “Julius Cae
sar” offers an adequate amount of
action. Both "are extremely well
choreographed and executed, pro
viding a visual release from Jerry
Williams’ overall minimalist set
design concept. The scenes are so
well-placed and designed, it’s a
shame they weren’t longer. The
bright orange background lights,
fog billowing from behind huge
boulders and the piercing sound of
guns certainly provide the neces
sary whirlwind, destructive effect.
Overall, the Robinson Theatre
is off to another impressive season
of finely tuned performances.
“Julius Caesar” will be shown
Nov. 11,12,13,19 and 20 at 8:00
p.m. and on Nov. 14 at 2 p.m.
Kip Kinkel
Continued from Page 1
“emerging adults.”
In answering a question from
defense attorney Mark Sabbit, the
psychologist said he believed un
equivocally that the auditory hal
lucinations and paranoid person
ality disorder Kinkel suffered
were directly the cause for the
crimes he committed.
“It took over his ego and he be
came a very dangerous individ
ual,” Sack said.
The doctor further testified that
Kinkel’s mental illness would not,
in his opinion, hinder him from re
entering society in the distant future
because such strides are being made
in anti-psychotic medications.
“His illness is a treatable condi
tion,” Sack said. “I can’t claim it’s
curable, but it’s certainly treatable. ”
With a regimen of medications,
education about his illness and
the emotional support of a coun
selor, Sack testified that Kinkel
could forseeably be released from
incarceration without causing fur
ther harm.
“I’d be happy to have him as my
next door neighbor,” he said. “I
don’t think he would be a danger
to society.”
During a brief cross-examina
tion from prosecutor Caren Tracy,
Sack conceded that he couldn’t
make any promises or predictions
about Kinkel’s mental state in 25
years, only that post-prison super
vision of the defendant should be
considered.
When asked if the defendant’s
self-reporting of hearing voices
could be fabricated, Sack said,“If
he were lying, then he would be
the best actor I’ve ever seen. ”
Next, husband and wife Eugene
and Lynn Heinle both testified as
to their relationship with Kinkel’s
parents Bill and Faith as well as to
Kinkel’s sitting before the court.
The Heinles were very close
with the Kinkels. Eugene Heinle
testified that he and his wife had
dined with Bill and Faith the Fri
day before May 20,1998, and that
there didn’t seem to be any indica
tions of trouble with their son,
Kip. In fact, they mentioned that
Kinkel and his father were sched
uled to come to the University the
following Wednesday after the
dinner to try and get the teen-ager
a job cleaning dorm rooms during
the summer of 1998.
The afternoon’s testimony,
though only half an hour long, fea
tured several statements from
Kinkel’s past teachers.
Michael Michel, Kinkel’s fresh
man football coach and keyboard
ing teacher at Thurston High
School, said he was a good student
and they had a satisfactory stu
dent-teacher relationship.
He said Kinkel never lost con
trol or acted inappropriately dur
ing football games or practice.
Oleta Fountain, Kinkel’s second
grade teacher, echoed Michel’s
testimony and said Kinkel was an
average student who worked hard.
“He was a normal second grade
guy,” Fountain said.
Kinkel’s third grade teacher, Co
lette Trotter, put Kinkel in special
education and said he made
“somewhat of an improvement.”
But Kinkel could often not recog
nize spelling words he has been
previously tested on, she said.
Because of this frustration,
school counselor Patricia Reinker
evaluated Kinkel through a series
of tests in the second grade. She
did a neurological screening test,
on which Kinkel scored average in
14 of the 15 sub-tests.
The hearing will resume Tues
day, Nov. 9, with additional wit
nesses appearing for the defense.
Emerald reporter Felicity Ayles contributed to this
report.
Y2K: EWEB
Continued from Pagel
we’re ready and that it turns out to
be a non-event.”
The first step taken by the team
was to inventory all of EWEB’s
computer systems to prioritize the
critical and date-sensitive sys
tems. Critical systems are those
that are essential to supplying wa
ter, electricity and steam to EWEB
customers. Date-sensitive systems
are those that have specific func
tions relating to date and time.
Once the full inventory was
completed in 1998, the team un
dertook a series of tests to make
sure the systems were ready. In
1999, the team concentrated on
company-wide drills as utility ser
vices nationwide participated in a
series of Y2K preparedness tests
on April 9, 1999 and again on
Sept. 9,1999.
“The national tests were a
chance for us to work on reliability
issues,’* Mitchell said. “We want
ed to test our ability to keep the op
eration going in the event of an
outage.”
Power utility companies na
tionwide, including the ones on
which Eugene relies for power, are
Y2K ready.
“More than 99 percent of all the
critical elements of the U.S. and
Canadian electricity supply sys
tems are ready for Y2K,” North
American Electric Utility Council
President Michehl R. Gent said in
a statement released in August. “If
New Year’s Day 2000 was tomor
row, we believe the lights would
remain on in North America. ”
Mitchell is confident that
Northwest dams are ready for the
switch.
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