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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Tuesday, February 11th
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‘Book of Days ’ offers great audience
involvement, asks poignant questions
The play explores the world
of small-town values and
religion, and raises questions
about real life situations
Aaron Shakra
Pulse Reporter
The set design for Lanford Wil
son’s play “Book of Days” — cur
rently running at the Robinson The
atre — mirrors its content. It’s
based on numerous levels and lacks
solid ground.
Director Rich Brown grew up in a
small town and writes about his per
sonal connection to the work in the
playbill. Brown called Wilson “one
of the most prolific playwrights in
America,” and met him, along with
seasoned Wilson director Marshall
Mason, in October. Wilson’s work
has been receiving more publica
tion attention recently. The Signa
ture Theatre Company in New York
is exclusively running his plays for
its 2002-03 season: “Burn This,”
“Book of Days,” “Fifth of July” and
“Raindance.”
Published in 2000, “Book of
Days” is one of Wilson’s more re
cent plays. The plot revolves around
various happenings in the small
town of Dublin, Miss. The town’s
production of another play, George
Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan” is a big
strand of the plot. There are paral
lels to “Saint Joan,” as the main
protagonist Ruth Hoch ends up with
her role in this play within a play.
Brown said the play raises ques
tions poignant for college students
because it asks, “What would you do
to remain true to your convictions?”
“This is the time to make that de
cision,” Brown said.
Small-town values, religion and
conservativism/liberalism are other
themes traeed during the play.
The production, which took
about nine weeks to design, cast
and rehearse, defies theater con
ventions by breaking down the
“fourth wall,” and taking into ac
count audience presence. Various
Dublin townsfolk double as a cho
rus. The play’s intermission and
ending are both announced directly
within it.
“The audience becomes emotion
al detectives,” Brown said. “The ac
tors as characters get to share with
the audiences as storytellers. Al
ways present in mind is that we’re
in a theater and we’re being told a
"It makes this a
visceral experience
that the audience is
part of-it breaks
down the division
between audience and
spectator"
Rich Brown
director
story. It’s somewhat jolting.”
The outsider in the town is Boyd
Middleton, played by actor Christo
pher Hirsh. Hirsh said his character
brings the audience into the play.
“The characters are so real —
these things happen to us in every
day life,” he said. “It really points
the finger at you.”
The Boyd Middleton character
is a “big shot” director who has
come to town to direct the “Saint
Joan” production. Hirsh offered
an alternate take regarding the
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play’s story, one in which Middle
ton directs all the events that un
fold. This is evidenced by his
character’s nearly continual stage
presence.
Close to halfway through “Book
of Days,” roughly 135 minutes in
running time, a large storm occurs.
Instead of using a typical array of
low-budget sound props to produce
this effect, Brown enlisted the help
of composer and graduate student
Troy Rogers who said during the
opening performance of the play,
“someone started cheering as if it
was a roller coaster.”
Rogers designed the storm sound
scape using electronic equipment
and live samples, largely recorded
with his digital audio tape device.
Sounds of the wind through trees,
waterfalls, cars, rain and trains are
all used.
“I like bringing out things we
can’t normally hear,” Rogers said.
“By stretching out the sound, we
can hear things we can’t usually
perceive.”
Brown’s comments on the sound
scape were similar.
“It makes this a visceral experi
ence that the audience is part of —
it breaks down the division between
audience and spectator,” he said.
“Theater should be visceral; it
should be connected.”
The three remaining perform
ances for “Book of Days” are Feb.
6, 7 and 8. Each show begins at 8
p.m. Tickets are available at the
Robinson Theatre box office, the
Hult Center for the Performing
Arts and in the Ticket Office in
the EMU.
Contact the Pulse reporter
at aaronshakra@dailyemerald.com.
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