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.
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