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Ullip Saily (Ear Hrrl Energy Puts Together Plays in 24 Hours Plays performed Saturday night By Michael Abernethy, Gabrielle Deßosa and Michael Pucci Staff Writers At 8 p.m. Saturday, a curious crowd shuffled into 100 Hamilton Hall to wit ness something that had never been seen at the University. The 24 Hour Plays was the culmina tion of the effort of current and former UNC students to write, cast, rehearse and ultimately perform six 10-minute plays - all in the span of 24 hours. The process began at 10 p.m. Friday, when junior Lyda Kendrick stood before the crowd of anxious actors, writ ers and directors and offered her special skills to the group as part of the meet and greet. “I can do this with my hands!” she said, and contorted her body in a bizarre manner. “I can also do a pretty good Jimmy Stewart impression,” she said, and then recited lines from “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The purpose of the meet and greet was to introduce the group and prompt the six writers with inspiration. In addi tion to goofy tricks, each participant was asked to bring a prop and a costume. “From here on out the clock is ticking,” said Lindsay Bowen, co-producer and UNC alumnus who also produces for the 24 Hour Plays company in New York. As the meet and greet came to an end at 10:45 p.m., the room emptied, leaving the writers to begin the process. They sat around a pile of Polaroids, trading cast members in a game of theatrical poker. The writers each had their own means of sparking the creative process. Sophomore Milind Dongre inspected the table of props while Amon Anderson, also a sophomore, preferred sketching in his notebook. Senior Bill Cochran, a member of the Chapel Hill Players, worried the event would “turn into a game of telephone” because of the large number of people involved in each phase. Writer Tessa Blake, a UNC alumna and veteran of 24 Hour Plays, spoke of the process’s randomness. She said that great writers don’t necessarily write great plays and that great actors don’t necessarily give the best performances. With coffee and pizza on the way, the first phase of the plays commenced. By 5:45 a.m., six brand-new plays were Spring Break 2003 in Panama Cify Beach, Florida? Y | BEACH RESORTS.CONFERENCE CENTER iin an iii taw # V *' • 800 Urk of Calf Brack Imtfaejr • 2 lartf Outdoor Swimming, Pools • Sailboat. .Jet Ski JjH, and I’ara.aail Rentals • * Beachfront Hot th • Suites up to 10 IVople - . *\ a \irport I imon.sinr Service ; I ■ \* WORLD FAMOUS n.i bar -I Mel I Shirt Contest and Wet .hwLca Short Content * ■ • Vo Cmcr for Sandpiper (.firsts . z? 3KT Reservations 800.188.8828 www.satidpiperbeaeon.roni GET READY FOR THE JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME THE COLOSSAL COLON TOUR IS COMING TO TOWN! February 19 ■ 22 UNC-Chapel Hill Campus Directly next to Morehead Planetarium y Tour a 40-foot long, 4-foot toll replica of a human colon. y Compete in the Colossal Quiz for prizes. y Learn how to prevent colorectal cancer. y Talk with health care professionals. y Exercise and learn about healthy eating. y Meet people who beat colorectal cancer. y Moke a pledge to live a healthier life. Check / IMhkTi Infra mi FOR COLORECTAL CANCER Free to the public For details, visit www. Check YourlnsidesOut.org I fn| !■ m m k'V, l 9| DTH/SHILPI PAUL Sarah Farnell (on screen), Chris Chapman and Laurie Kovacs act out" Subconscious" on Saturday night. It is one of six plays written, cast, rehearsed and performed in one day as a part of 24 Hour Plays. bom and delivered to the directors at 7 a.m. By 9 a.m. the actors were faced with the daunting task of rehearsing them off book. Off book is the most dreaded, frus trating and liberating term in the drama tist’s language. It’s the deadline by which all actors are required to know their lines by heart. Normally it takes weeks of practice and memorization. But these actors were mnning rehearsals off book by noon Saturday. Each 10-minute play was given an hour of onstage rehearsal time to chore ograph and block scenes. The tension onstage was visible as the actors struggled and fumbled with awk ward lines, losing patience with them selves as they had to ask directors for cues. At one point David Chapman, director of “Valentine’s Day,” decided to break the tension by having his cast members release some of their frustrations. “The only thing keeping this play from being great is our demons,” Chapman said. “So let’s sanctify this place by exorcising our ‘Do I look stu pid?’ demons.” With that, the cast began to shake and flail wildly around on stage to release pent-up energy. But besides the pressures of learning scripts in lightning speed, the casts also had to contend with the distraction of technical crews setting up light and sound equipment during their stage rehearsals. “Having it all shoved together like this, it’s really a different experience,” said producer Greg Lewis. “You have tech setting up while they’re onstage rehearsing. The suddenness of it really adds to the atmosphere.” But Lewis said putting together a per formance in 24 hours is a valuable exer cise for everyone involved. “Twenty-four hours brings everyone down to the same level,” he said. “You don’t know anything that’s going to hap pen going into it, so you can’t assume that you know more than anyone else. It’s a great learning experience.” Up until the moment the audience walked in, the cast and crew continued to run through each play, perfecting everything from lighting to stage props created at the last second. The plays were an emotional whirl wind, ranging from the poignancy of traveling to a best friend’s funeral to the utter absurdity of attending a “date bait.” A trip into the subconscious of a guy in a serious dating drought was hilarious, while in another play, a chess game became a metaphor for a strug gling relationship. There were some awkward segues and flubbed lines, but all could be for News given. The enthusiasm of both the cast and the audience always kept the show at a highly entertaining level. “It’s absolutely amazing that every thing came together,” an exhausted but proud Bowen said after the show. “There was such a creative charge in the air.” Even in the midst of the utter chaos onstage, director Daniel Kananen had no doubts that 24-hour plays would reappear on campus. “It’s wild, isn’t it?” Kananen said. “But it’s great. I think we’re going to try to do it again in April.” The Arts & Entertainment Editor can be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu. 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Metcalf Resigns From WCU Position By Elyse Ash burn State & National Editor Sen. Steve Metcalf announced Thursday that he will resign from his post at Western Carolina University to avoid any apparent conflict with his leg islative duties. The Buncombe County Democrat was appointed chairman of the Senate Education Committee and the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Education last week. Critics claimed that Metcalfs $95,000-per-year job at WCU would conflict with his ability to serve judi ciously in his new posts, prompting the senator to resign from the WCU position he has held for a little more than a year. Metcalf also said he will resign from the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Board of Trustees, on which he has served for six years. “The next two years are going to be really rough, especially as regards fund ing our universities,” Metcalf said in an interview Monday. “I resigned lest anyone be thinking I would champion those things because I work for them.” But Metcalf maintained that his deci sion was only a matter of appearance and that his job at WCU would not have conflicted with his service in the Senate. “I don’t think I had a conflict of inter est,” he said. “I just felt like it was time to move on.” Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand, the Cumberland Democrat who helped lA/hoit c>o / knou, about me?.. / biou/ one day / ft uant to ?a//ta jamtfy.. tut not yet. • Birth Control • Pregnancy Testing ''•'-Abortion By Pill • Surgical Abortion •IV SedatioaE (optional* and • STD/HIV Tiling Tuesday, February 18, 2003 select Metcalf for his chairmanships, was outraged Monday to learn that Metcalf had been pressured into resigning. “I never thought it even looked like a conflict,” he said. “I thought it was just a tempest in a teapot” The N.C. General Assembly prides itself on being a citizens legislature, Rand said, and individuals shouldn’t be exclud ed from service simply because their pro fessional careen fall in a particular sector. “If you’re going to exclude, then you should have to tell lawyers they can’t serve on judiciary committees,” he said. If anything, Metcalfs experience in higher education made him more qual ified to lead his slated committees, Rand said. “He’s highly intelligent and knowl edgeable,” he said. “You really can’t find anybody better." Sen. Virginia Foxx, R-Watauga, said that while she trusts that Metcalf would have been unbiased, she thinks he made the right decision in leaving his job at WCU. “I support his decision to do this,” Foxx said. “I certainly didn’t think it was the best situation.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. ( MOVIES AT TIMBERLYNE ] • Weaver Dairy at Airport Rd. V 933-8600 J DAREDEVIL* SS Daily 305,320,5:10,525,720,7:35,925, 9:50 . 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