8 WCC CAMPUS VOICE - MAY 22,1989
Oz performs to
full houses
By Cindy Smith
Cetrter Stage Theater
presented "The Wizard o-f Oz"
March 4-5 and March 9-ii at
Herman Park Center. Gene
McLendon directed the
production.
Dr. Ron Taylor, WCC chemistry
instructor, played Uncle Henry.
Kim Radford, daughter of Phyllis
Radford, Assessment Counselor
Aid in the Career Center, played
Dorothy.
"The selection of the cast
was difficult," according to
McLendon. The most difficult of
all were the parts of the
Scarecrow, Lion, Tinman, and
Dorothy.”
Freddie Pierce had the most
versatile part in the
performance. He played the dual
parts of Professor Marvel and
the Wizard.
The rehearsals ran eight
weeks, from the middle of
January to the first of March.
McLendon's resourcefulness
was evident in the way he used a
fire extinguisher to produce
smoke to show the wizard's anger
and power.
Sean Norris was responsible
for the imaginative and
fanciful scenery. Flo Vail,
Mary-Lee Jeffries and the entire
cast designed and made the
fantastic costumes.
The house was filled to
capacity four nights and the
Sunday matinee. McLendon said
that CST has never had a sell
out performance on Sunday
before. House managers turned
away about eighty people on the
nights of the sell outs.
According to McLendon,
"there's nothing that I would
change even if I wanted to".
McLendon's most favorite part in
Oz was that of Scarecrow. The
person who played the Tinman
made his own costume with the
help of his wife.
Students attend wild
version of Shakespeare's
Taming’
By Cindy Smith
On April 18,1989, twenty
students from Rosalyn Lomax's
English 261 and 152 classes
attended a modern-dress version
of Shakespeare's play, "Taming
of the Shrew" at UNC-Chapel
Hill in the Paul Green Theater.
Lomax arranged the trip for
her students in Major British
Writers as part of their study
of Shakespeare's plays, "King
Lear" and "The Tempest."
College Composition II students
attended as part of their study
of drama.
Prior to the play Amy Brown
presented an oral report on "The
Taming of the Shrew," supple
menting her presentation with a
video tape of a "Moonlighting"
episode which parodied the play.
OUR TOWN
A Play By
Thornton Wilder
"Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc."
Program cover for May 19-20
drama. WCC Media Department
'Our Town'
comes to
WCC
By Cindy Smith and Doug Collier
The Foundation of Wayne
Community College will present
"Our Town," a play by Thornton
Wilder on May 18, 19, and 20 in
the Learning Center on the new
(north) campus beginning at 8:00
p.m.
The play consists of three
acts: The first act introduces
the main charaters and the basic
lifestyle of the people of
Grovers Corners.
The households of Dr. Gibb
and Editor Webb are portrayed
throughout one full day.
In the second act, a love
affair develops between George
Gibbs and Emily Webb.
They first realize their
feelings for one another in a
soda shop scene.
The act ends with an
emotional wedding, filled with
the doubts and fears that are
characteristic of many such
occasions.
Student Esther Ellison
commented on the play: "It was
very enjoyable to watch." It is
the first play she's seen in the
three and one-half years she has
lived in Goldsboro. Ellison
said that the modern version was
good because teenagers could
understand it a lot better than
the traditional version.
Sudents especially enjoyed a
portion the actors performed in
modern rap style.
After the play everyone
enjoyed dinner at the Pyewacket
Restaurant.
Bill Cherry and Liz Meador
assisted Lomax in providing
transportation.
The third act portrays the
cemetery near Grovers Corners at
the time of Emily's death.
She joins the people who have
subsequently left earth's
reality to the world beyond.
She soon realizes the
futility of looking at the past
and realizes how blind the
livinq really are.
Dr. Ron Taylor, director,
said: "It was very hard choosing
the cast; in fact that is the
most difficult time in working
with a play.
"You have so many things to
consider—whether the person
fits the role you want him to
play and how he will project."
The cast and characters are as
follows: Stage Manager, Dr. Ed
Hogan; Emily Webb, Fleming
Lomax; George Gibbs, Doug
Collier; Mr. Webb, Dr. Taylor;
Mrs. Webb, Laura Shiver; Dr.
Gibbs, Ray Brannon; Mrs. Gibbs,
Rosalyn Lomax.
Also, Simon Stimson, John
Wyatt; Rebecca Gibbs, Kim
Radford; Wally Webb, Fred Lomax
IV; Howie Newsome, Glenn Smith;
Joe Crowell, Charlie Taylor;
Si Crowell, Charlie Taylor: Mrs.
Soames, Marion Dees; Professor
Willard ,-Chuckie Mayros;
Constable Warren, Fred Sproul;
Joe Stoddard, Mike Bruce; Sam
Craig, Waiston Lee.
Also, Man in the Auditorium,
Chris Plummer; Lady in the Box,
Grace Lutz; Baseball Players,
Charlie Taylor and Chris
Plummer: 1st Dead Man, Chris
Plummer; 1st Dead Woman, Grace
Lutz; 2nd Dead Woman, Chuckie
Mayros; 3rd Dead Woman, Irene
Wallace,
Assistant Stage Managers are
Irene Wallace, Chris Plummer,
Chuckie Mayros, and Grace Lutz.
Townspeople include Chris
Plummer, Grace Lutz, Phyllis
Radford, Irene Wallace, Victoria
Freeman-Ubanis, Chuckie Mayros,
Portia Benjamin, and Glenn
Smith.
Writers and Readers
Series takes off in fifth
season
By Cindy Smith
The Writers and Readers
Series sends poets and fiction
writers to ten locations in
North Carolina each year to read
and talk about their works.
The purpose is to promote and
encourage N.C.'s best writers
and to build audiences for
literature.
Recently the local writers'
guild invited poet Cedar Koons
and fiction writer Catherine
Petroski to read from their
works.
Cedar Koons, a poet from
Timberlake, N.C., has been
published in the "Sun Magazine",
"Blue Pitcher", "Tobacco Road",
and "Mothering Magazine." She
has also had essays and reviews
published in newspapers.
Catherine Petroski, a fiction
writer from Durham, N.C., is the
author of "Gravity and Other
Stories" and two children's
books, "Beautiful My Mane in the
Wind" and "The Summer That
Lasted Forever." She has taught
Fiction Writing at Duke
University.
Both writers said they kept
journals and wrote in them
almost every day.
Gtfbr Kdoiis
Photo; Cindy Smith
Pearl Harbor revisited
By De Elliott
Today I was assaulted by the
Japanese- no warning was given,
no hint of hostility. They just
suddenly were there. No—today
isn't December 7. 1941. but I
feel as if I've been kamikazied
anyway.
I had pulled up at a stop
light on the highway while
heading to co:'<?ge this morning,
and I noticed t '.t all the cars
and trucks in frunt of me were
of Japanese make, Toyotas and
Hondas.
I was shocked.... I
looked to my side and there was
another one, a Subaru, I think.
"This can't be," I thought. "I'm
in America, not Japan. If I
look into my rear view mirror,
surely I'll see some cars of
American make."
I looked into my mirror and
saw more Toyotas and Hondas,
with a few Subarus. "No," I
thought. "I'm no longer in
America. Maybe I'd better learn
the Japanese anthem? But, ah!
Wait! What is that car behind
the red Isuzu? Surely they
can't all be of Japanese make?"
I was right. It wasn't a
Japanese import—it was an Audi.
Goodbye Sweet America. You
were nice while you lasted.