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page 6 Wednesday, April 10,1996 (^Art^Entertainmen^ Use your student voice to enlighten! The Campus Echo is soliciting membership and editorship for the 1996-97 school year. Please call Dr. Gladstone Ycarwood at 560-3346 for more information or bring a resume to Room 330 of the Farrison-Newton Communications Building. (positions wiii be paid) All Services Free & Confidential ' Fetal Development Information ^ Infant Clothing & Equipment * Post Abortion Counseling * Pregnancy Counseling ' Pregnancy Tests PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES A Caring Staff A Christian Agency 3500 Westgate Drive * Suite 401 * Durham NC 27707 (919) 490-0203 * In Chapel Hill Call: (919) 942-7318 Congratulate that graduating Senior or tell friends Goodbye!!!! Buy an ad in our final issue for only $1.00 Please come to the Communications Building rm 319- Ask for any editor Ufte City Witfiout Love Russian folk tale concludes drama season Drama Correspondent The North Carolina Central University will close the 1995-1996 season withaproductionofr/ieCify Without Love, a Russian folk tale written by Lev Ustinov and di rected by Doris Schneider. The City Without Love has a universal theme expressing the emptiness and “grayness” of a so ciety or even a single individual who has not loved. It ultimately encourages con scious choices of leaders and warns against following those who would denoimce good and reward evil. The play begins in a city where people fearfully deny their better qualities. There is no laughter and only hidden smiles and kindness. The commentators (a cat and dog) talk to the audience about the sad state of affairs. At the arrival of the clown ( a bearer of magic and laughter) and the urchin ( a bearer of courage, curiosity and hope), the towns people defensively protect the sta tus quo and follow their comqrt leaders. Very soonintheplay,thepeople begin to learn from the clown and urchin, thus causing them to re lease their own creative and hu manistic values. They covertly imitate the clown’s juggling and the urchin’s aaobatics. As their love grows they all begin to question the leaders and defend the clown. The urchin, with the help of the swallow outwits the leaders and saves the clown. His courage is Bettina Freese, as Anna and Vincent Terry as the Clown, in City Without Love contagious and the people revolt. The clown is then able to teach the townspeople how to laugh and en joy life. The play concludes with an up beat song focusing on the concept of building a rainbow around the Earth. Schneider believes that even adults will find this play as mean ingful and entertaining as childrea Each age group will take some thing different from the perfor mance based on their individual life experiences. This is the seventh play Schneider has directed at NCCU. “This experience differs be cause so many artists have been brought into the regular production family to add to the richness of the performance,” said Schneider. Some of those individuals in clude Montrose “Monty” Moses, Jonathan Nyberg, Frankie Bumphus, Adam Cave, Bettina Freese, William C. Brown and Douglass Graves. NCCU alumnus, Oba, served as music director and composer for the play. “Oba is wonderful to work with. Rather than impose his own style or musical preferences, he tries to sense the mood and action of the scrip,” said Schneider. “He also writes for the voices of the per formers. Heevenconsiders the type of music the actors like to sing.” PeifonnaiKes are April 12, and 13 at 7; 15 p.m. and April 13 and 14 at 3:15 p.m. All performances will be held in the University Theatre in the Farrison-Newton Communi cations Building located on the comers ofFayettevilleandLawson Streets. Tickets are available by calling the NCCU ticket office at 560- 5170. STOP SC^EPIING WITH YOlR PTlFESSORS. Is it the sound of that whispery voice, or those big, intellectual words? if your professors are putting you to Sleep, Revive with Vivahn. Don't let fatigue get the best of you. Vivarin's the safe way to stay mentally alert, with the same caffeine as about two cups of coffee. So stay sharp in class. Don't sleep your way to the bottom. sSJf: nevWe vrtth
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