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Skyles Likes Challenge Of One-Man Play
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favorites.
"I cry; sometimes externally
but always internally. It just gets
me so much. Things Hke that
just keep me wanting to do this
forever or for as long as long as
I can."
Came, who has been
working with Skyles for more
than five years said that Skyles
was the first man he thought of
to do the play.
"I had to hold open
auditions, and I had 11 or 12
people read for the part. But
Skyles was far and above the
best actor for the part.
"He is not just typecast as a
Black. He has also portrayed
traditional white heroes such as
Stanley Kowolski in ’A Streetcar
Named Desire’. A lot more
directors are holding colorblind
auditions and realizing that they
must choose the best actor for
the part. (Skyles) is a true actor
in that sense."
Skyles said that he was also
very excited about the play from
his first reading.
"I was a little anxious that
Mr. Carne would find someone
better suited for the part than
me. Fortunately, he decided to
stick with me. I was so anxious
to memorize the lines for the
play that I surprised Mr. Carne
and memorized the dialogue in
two weeks."
"It was a challenge to do
a one-man production," Skyles
continued, "I have to stay in
character. Most of the emotions
put into the performance are
internal things that I hope will
be big enough to read through
to the audience."
According to Skyles,
"Frederick The Great" has been
performed about 35 to 40 times
in the past two and a half years.
Out of all the performances,
Skyles cannot recall one time he
Frederick Douglas.
"There hasn’t really been
one time. (But) it seems like the
more I do it, the more absorbed
I get into the character. Each
dme is a little better than the
last."
The actor and the director
both have expectations for the
plays’ future. Skyles says the
play was staged in Douglas’
really caught the essence of
In Defense Of War Protestors (from page two)
that protesters may be effective
in increasing soldier resistance to
the war.
These questions and opinions
represent a large fraction of the
views of many war protesters.
Hussein=Hitler equation as well.
Mitchell Kaidy of The Guardian
believes this analogy has been a
conscious effort to distort the
truth and rally the support of
specific ethnic groups. He states,
"This comparison, still invoked
in the media, suffers from a
paucity of historical
understanding or knowledge of
Hitler or of nazism."
4. "Protesters decrease soldier
morale and put their lives in
danger."
This logic fails the best of
anti-war protesters. No amount
of chants and slogans yelled at
any level could possibly damage
a soldier as much as a bomb.
Beyond that, if the press is
negligent in its coverage of war
protesters in the ’free’ U.S., how
and why would they portray war
protesters on state-controlled
Saudi Arabian television?
Many protesters, like
Vietnam Veterans Against
War/Anti-Imperialist, believe the
real fear is not that protesters
decrease morale. The real fear is
However, minute differences in
political opinions cannot erase
the one thing all war protestors
are calling for: U.S. Troops Out
of the Middle East!
As the war escalates and the
body count rises, there will be
many more voices added to
these.
"It seems the more I do it, t)ie more
absorbed / get into the character.
Each time is a little better than
the last."- Rhoden Skyles II, star of
"Frederick The Great"
(Photo: Dennis McNair)
hometown of Washington for the
first time during the Christmas
holidays. According to Skyles,
the performance was in the
hometown, but not actually in
the Douglas home.
"What we are trying to
accomplish now, he said, is to
go back into the home and film
or videotape the performances in
the actual surroundings. During
the filming, we will actually be
in the home, living spaces, and
etc. I think it will be an honor
to portray him in his home."
Skyles has thought of
doing his own work, but his
problem is finding the time.
Along with his work in
"Frederick the Great"-, Skyl^ is
a part of Carne’s murder
mystery group. He also works
with a comedy sketch group in
Washington and he is studying
to become a certified producer
in the cable television industry.
Before Skyles begins these
activities, he puts in a full day
as an architect.
Both Carne and Skyles plan
to return to the Fayetteville area
■ to present "Frederick The Great"
to local elementary and high
schools.
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nearly three thousand young
black men are murdered every
year. That is a 67 percent
increase since 1984.
"We’ve got to stop killing
one another," Dr. Hackley said,
"we’ve got to rise above that
and help one another deal with
this society."