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arts_____________________ Linda Barr Former College student turns playwright By Amy De Vour Of The Print The College and com munity will be in for a fantastic treat when the theater depart ment’s winter production, “Not Anymore” opens on Thursday, March 4. The world premiere com edy is quite unique because of it’s playwright, Linda Barr, a liberal arts graduate from the College. The story idea for the play came from actual incidents that happened to Barr or one of her sisters when on blind dates. Jane, the heroine, is a young divorcee who is confus ed and disillusioned with her life, her love, and her work. She is constantly being pushed or dragged around by others, namely her sister and her employer. She thinks she is still in love with her ex-husband, a sloppy, lazy, beer-swilling sofa jockey. While her sister, Barbara, determined to find a “man” for her sister, sets Jane up on a series of blind dates. Sadly enough, they are all flops. Jane’s main problem is that she can’t say “no,” but she leams. Barr was on vacation when she began the play. Sit ting in front of an empty typewriter, she decided to write. Says Barr of the play’s “blind date” characters, “It was pretty funny, some of the most offensive lines were said by ac tual blind dates that I or one of my sisters had.” Barr began writing in July and finished in November. “I’ve got a rather weird sense of humor. I wasn’t sure if others would find it funny, but I guess they do,” she said of her com edic flair. Barr was bit by the acting bug early in life. She was five years old when she saw her first Shirley Temple movie. From then on it was little Barr spit- curled and shining, singing “On the Good Ship Lolly Pop.”, Laughingly, Barr says, “I used to drive my mother crazy with all my singing, I really got on her nerves.” In sixth grade, Barr wrote her first “masterpiece” which Barr recalls dryly, “It was called ‘What a tree said to me’.” Barr has come a long way since theri. While attending CCC, she participated in the CC Reper- tory Theater, (Satellite Outreach Program} as a writer/director and performer. Included in her stage ac complishments is the title role in CCC’s 1975 winter produc tion of “Mary, Mary.” During the writing of her play, Barr had some doubts about her first character, Jane. She was con ple who can find a humorous cerned about whether others angle' to everything, and then would accept or relate to the find the right words to say it.” character. “It’s not a ‘woman’s’ Linda Barr and the theater play, it is a ‘person’s’ play,” she explains. department will do the College Theater Secretary, Joette proud. “Not Anymore” will run Rose, comments, “She (Linda March 4, 5, 6, and 7. Come Barr) is one, of those rare peo- see it, you won’t-be sorry. Departments rally for Performing Arts Festival “We’re really excited. The Commented Baker, “We are expecting things to be music department has been Once again it’s time for the easier because we aren’t having performing a lot lately and the Performing Arts Festival. The as many prop changes, that will other departments have been music, theater, video, and eliminate the '^technical working to make this a fine dance departments are prepar hassles.” show,” Baker said. ing for the second anriual festival, scheduled for Wednes day, Feb. 17, at noon, Friday, Feb. 19, at 8 p.m. and Thurs day, Feb. 25, at noon. The performances, which will be held in the Community The Associated Student Government will present “Treasure Center Mall and are free to the of Sierra Madre” Friday at noon in the Fireside Lounge. Thè public, will be as varied in event is free and open tò the public. theme as last, year’s. The theater department will present excerpts from Pfeifer’s People performed The Valentine’s Dance will be held Friday in the Community by David Harvey, who is also Center Mall from 9 p.m. - midnight. Admission is $2-for students, serving as the Master of Cer- $2.50 for non-students and $1 off per couple. monies. “No Ties,” a well-known Portland band, will provide the Les Mimes Feminiques, a music. mime duo, will be featured at the Friday night show only. The dance and video department will once again combine their resources in Dr. Glen Love will be featured Feb. 17 in the Speaker Series’ ‘Night People.” Video Writer’s Visions of the Western Landscapes. The lecture will be Technology will also present a presented at 7 p.m. in McLoughlin Hall. film entitled “The Love will be speaking on “Oregon Literature: Coming to Wheeler’s—The Fiddling Fami Terms With the Land.” He will discuss early accounts of the Nor ly.” thwest from legends, explorers, and pioneer diaries. The music department Focusing more on modem works, Love will discuss the at will provide jazz and dixieland tack James Stevens and H.L. Davis leveled against the genteel • music to complete the Festival. tradition in ‘Staus Rerum.’ Debbie Baker, director of Love is a professor of English at the University of Oregon. He student activities,said this has published many articles on Oregon and American literature year’s show will run much and co-edited ‘Northwest Perspectives: Essays on the Culture of smoother than the first festival. the Pacific Northwest.’ By Tina Riggs Of The Print art briefs Movie at noon “No Ties” at Valentine’s Dance Dr. Love lectures on Oregon literature JAMES DURST: SONGSMITH will perform a mini* program today from 11:30-1 p.m. in the Fireside Lounge. Durst, a noted songwriter and singer, claims to be “inter nationally unknown.” The program is presented by the ASG and is free to the public. page 6 Clackamas Community College