Somnambulists explore avant-garde at Anti-Shakespeare Festival
By Kim Costello
Arts and Features Editor
Their name may refer to sleepwalk
ing, but members of the Somnambulist
Project, a fledgling theater group in
Chapel Hill, don’t plan on being sedate.
During the month of August, the
group, which began performing in the
area last summer, hopes to draw crowds
to Forest Theatre to see its latest pro
duction, the Chapel Hill Anti-
Shakespeare Festival.
“It’s Anti-Shakespeare because the
selection of plays are not quite like
other festivals,” said Sean Greimel, a
Somnambulist member.
The group will present “The Castle,”
by Howard Barker, an adaption of
Bonds
system, said legislators took the needs
of all the schools into consideration
before the bill was ratified.
“I think there’s a pretty good feeling
about the bill throughout the legisla
ture,” he said. “It’s one everybody can
support.”
The next step for the University is to
begin a campaign for the bonds.
“There’s not a lot of time between
now and November,” Martin said. “Our
job will be to sell the University part of
it
“The University is probably the best
in the world to campaign for. There are
a lot of assets with which to run a
campaign.”
The UNC-CH projects will allow the
University to begin other construction.
For example, if the business school re
ceives its bond, it will receive a match
ing grant from the Kenan family toward
anew building.
The move will free up space for other
departments to move into Carroll Hall
located on Polk Place.
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whom she believed were the most adversely affected by
crime in their neighborhoods.
Finally, Waldorf said she wanted a complete end to Chapel
Hill’s modified public-safety system by completely separat
ing the fire and police departments. Since the mid-19705,
police and fire officers have been cross-trained and could
rotate positions.
In the past three to four years, the town has been moving
away from the inefficient system but has not completed the
transition, Waldorf said. “My argument is that they should go
ahead and end it. It would free up our police force.”
Waldorf said the transition would require the town to hire
between four and six new firefighters, which would cost the
town about SIBO,OOO.
Opposed to raising the town’s property tax rate, Waldorf
paid Chapel Hill could find funds for pew firefighters without,
added costs to residents. “I will be interested in developing a
budget that works with the same amount of revenue as this
year,” she said.
Waldorf served as assistant to the Chapel Hill mayor from
1980 to 1982, as well as serving on the Orange Water and
Sewer Authority board of directors from 1989 to 1991.
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Shakespeare’s ‘Titus,” and an original
work written by the Somnambulists
called “Johnny Moonboots Saves the
World.” A $5 donation is requested at
each performance.
Members say their focus is on con
temporary and avant-garde works,
genres they say largely have been ig
nored by other production companies.
“There’s not a lot of what you would
consider to be contemporary theater
going on,” Greimel explained. “No one
is trying stuff that may not make money.”
The idea of forming the Somnambu
lists originated in East Lansing, Mich.,
where many members attended college
or were involved in local theater, he
said. Although many knew each other
only as casual colleagues, they soon
MghMnsoHhebonis bill
N.C. voters will decide Nov. 2 whether to let the state borrow a total of $740
rrwiiton. Below are highlights of how It would affect UWC-system schools.
East Carolina University ■ Addition to Joyner Library j $28,900,000
N.C.A&T ■ School of Technology classroom/ [ $7,961,900
laboratory building
■ Renovation of Bluford Library Building $5,051,400
N.C. Centra! University ■ Conversion of women’s gym In support of $1,970,900
i academic programs f
■ Chidtey Hail Complex | $9,018,300
N.C. School of the Arts j ■ School of Rim-making production facility j $6,999,200
N.C. State ■Engineering Graduate Research Center I $34,918,200
, ■ Agricultural Communications Building $4,484,900
< ■Agricultural programs—laboratory animal \ $4,484,100
i facilities !
The University of North j ■ New Building. School of Business j $13,490,900
Carolina at Chapel Hill Administration
i ■ Addition to Lineberger Cancer Research I $8,119,900
! Center i
I ■ Carolina Living and Learning Center for i $1,190,400
Autistic Adults—phase II
■Addition to School of Dentistry ■ $8,887,100
■AHEC—construction grants j $3,370,800
Board of Governors j ■ Other critical needs j $12,000,000
Source: Senate Bill 14, chapter 542
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Later that morning, Simpson told Parks his story, Parks
testified. Simpson left his house shortly after 5 a.m. that
morning hungry because there was no food in the house,
Parks recalled. Cycling around town, he went to a conve
nience store. He passed Lodge-Miller on his way back home.
Parks asked him what he was thinking when he passed the
woman jogging. Simpson answered that he thought she was
attractive, Parks said. “I asked him if he wanted to make love
to her,” Parks said. “He said: ‘That’s what I wanted to do. She
misunderstood what I wanted to do.’”
Simpson grabbed at her, but Lodge-Miller struggled from
his grasp and reached for her mace. Simpson had warned her
not to spray him with mace, but he said she did anyway, Parks
said. Lodge-Miller ran away, and Simpson said he opened
Zqgliljiijr handgun. “I had my gun in my lefthand
pocket, andXgpt my gun,” he told Parks. “He said then he
started shooting,” Parks said. “Then his gun jammed.”
Simpson took police to find the gun, which he had stashed in
a shed that morning.
After the hearing, Simpson was returned to Orange County
Jail where he is being held without bond.
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learned they had something in common
difficulty in getting support from the
university. Together, they began to look
for alternatives.
After scouting out several other loca
tions, such as Boulder, Colo., and Min
neapolis, Minn., the group finally settled
on migrating to Chapel Hill.
“We wanted to find a place where we
could do our own work in that scene,”
Greimel said. “We decided we wanted
to go where the environment was con
ducive to our type of work.”
About 20 people made the move south
to form the company, an unusual step
even in the theater business.
“In Chapel Hill, we found a very avid
music scene but little outlet after that,”
Greimel said. “There was no real alter
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native scene. It’s all mainstream.”
Jay O’Bersky, who helped assemble
the group when he was a theater major
at MSU, said the group was glad to have
found an open atmosphere here. ‘We
had a hard time at Michigan State get
ting support. We were seen as a threat,
as troublemakers.”
But the Somnambulists already have
developed a following in the commu
nity, and they eventually hope to make
the Anti-Shakespeare Festival notewor
thy among other summer theater events.
“We really want to open up experi
mental and avant-garde works,” said
O’Bersky, who is directing ‘Titus,” an
early Shakespeare play, for the festival.
“In this instance, we’re taking a play
that was considered the most hated by
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“Force Dawg” and “Money Man.”
Barnett responds to anything big:
“Big Cookie” (What? Am I missing
something here?), “Big Slush” (Excuse
me?) and “Big Sexy” (I don’t wanna
know).
Senior wide receiver Steven Jerry
also has a lot of names: “Showtime,”
“One Heartbeat,” ‘Too Hype” and, my
personal favorite, “O-so-strong.” Idon’t
think I’ve ever heard anything like that
Imagine if he catches a pass from
junior quarterback Jason “Stano/J-
Bone” Stanicek. Woody Durham could
say, “J-Bone drops back, fires and hits
O-so-strong across the middle.”
Some of these monikers seem to be
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interested and responsive. The faculty
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critics and historians. We’re totally re
writing and modernizing it.”
Greimel said that most viewers would
be unfamiliar with the way the Som
nambulists chose to interpret many of
the works. “No matter what show it is,
we probably present it quite differently
that any other production they’ve seen,”
However, he said that the approach
used stressed the importance of the
message.
“For theater to be alive, in my opin
ion, it should stir something in die per
son who witnesses it,” he said. “Some
thing should have been challenged in
you something should have been
moved.”
Jay’s brother, Steve O’Bersky, a se
nior English major at the University of
stretching it a bit Sean Crocker, who
blocked a punt and returned it for a
touchdown in 1991 against Cincinnati,
is called “Crocker the Punt Blocker.”
You’d think he’d have some kind of
nickname from when he broke his thumb
last year and played with his right arm
in a club-like cast. Maybe, say, “Club”
Crocker? Kind of sounds like a cracker.
There also seems to be a bit of an ego
in someTar Heels. To the question, “One
player on our team I would not like to
get hit by,” defensive linemen Austin
Robbins and Marcus Jones answered,
“Myself.” Running back Curtis Johnson
had the same answer for the question,
“Biggest surprise player in 1993.”
there appears to be no problem with the
teachers’ morale.
■ “Bar passage rates are consistently
high. The placement program is well
managed and active.”
■ Students are actively involved in
many activities and projects.
■ Alumni are proud and supportive
of the school.
■ The admissions program is well
organized and efficient.
Michigan who is working with die group
for the summer, said, “It’s pretty unique
for such young people to be consis
tently turning out such quality work.”
The group also has been dealing with
the challenge of working in Forest The
atre. Because the theater is outdoors,
and because of its structure, it presents
special problems.
“I’ve never seen a place that had trees
on stage, so it was strange to have to
work around that,” said Steve O’Bersky.
His brother agreed. “It’s tough per
forming in Forest Theatre. You have to
have a broad acting style coarse,
movements, project loudly and really
exaggerate your gestures.
“But it’s a beautiful space if you can
compensate for those annoyances.”
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Perhaps the most interesting ques
tion posed to the ’93 Tar Heels involves ■
their pre-game rituals. Jerry says he
“Listens to some Miami Bass.” Barnett,
Crocker and others pray before the game.
But stay away from Robbins and
second-team All-ACC offensive line
man Curtis Parker. These guys sound
focused. Parker says he likes to “Get
alone and give myself a stem pep talk.”
But Robbins takes it one step further: “I
try to find something to make me angry,,
to boost my intensity.”
Somehow, I think Big A will manage J
to find something between now and!
UNC’s season opener, Aug. 29 against !
Southern Cal, to be angry about !
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tempted to diversify its student body t
and has achieved a considerable amount
of success.”
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