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Community Youth Theatre
TJ. Reddy, Michael Rigsby:
Poet's Corner at the Artschool
The Artschool of Carrboro will host a
reading of original works by two North
Carolina poets, T.J. Reddy and Michael
Rigsby, tonight at 8 p.m. at the Artschool.
There is no admission charge.
For T.J. Reddy, whom Amnesty
International has named a "prisoner of
conscience," freedom is both a political
and artistic theme. As a poet he is ,
concerned with the direction and purpose
of art.
Reddy views poetry as a performing art,
an instrument of spontaneity, whose
purpose, like that of jazz, is "to point, to
illustrate sound." Poetry, he feels, should
maintain "the indigenous characteristics,
like sermons, spirituals, the blues, hand
jive, the body as an instrument." All this,
he points out, is "part of an aesthetic with
its roots in an Afro-American heritage."
Reddy 's commitment to the arts is
strong. He has helped coordinate Afro
Arts Festivals in Charlotte, and currently
serves on the Board of Directors of the
Charlotte Community Broadcasting
Foundation and the Charlotte
Mecklenburg Afro-American Cultural
Center.
Reddy 's poems have appeared in Red
Clay Reader, A Galaxy of Black Writers.
Hyperion, and Southern Poetry Review, and in
1964 he published Less Than a Score, But a
Point.
A native of Georgia, Michael Rigsby
writes poetry that reflects his
Appalachian roots and his love of the
mountain people.
"One thing I don't like is the way
hillbillies and red-necks are portrayed," he
says. "Mountain people aren't stupid like
that. They aren't degenerates the way
James Dickey makes them look."
Like the people he celebrates, Rigsby is
shrewd, plainspoken and not afraid of
manual labor. He uses his poetry wryly to
point out what is wrong with the world.
"Humor is thekey,"hesays,"tobeableto
laugh at ourselves but also to be able to
see that something is seriously wrong."
There is a sardonic edge to his vision, as
he notes in one poem:
"if this mess in America was done
on purpose just wait
until we have an accident."
Rigsby has published four books of
poetry Milky Way Poems, Spirit Happy,
What's a Nice Hillbilly Like You. . .and Shotgun
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Both T.J. Reddy and Michael Rigsby
were recently featured on WUNC's "New
Voices," a radio series porduced by
Soundscape, Inc., which examines the
works and views of young North Carolina
artists.
Several Orange County youths are
having the time of their lives these
summer days with the Community Youth
Theatre at the Cultural Arts Center on
the Chapel Hill High School campus.
The boys and girls, ranging in age from
9 through 14, are developing their
potential for the stage under several
highly skilled teachers of drama, speech,
music and dance.
On Friday and Saturday, July 14-15, the
young actors and musicians will present
their talents on stage in two one-act
musicals, "Aesops Falables" and
"Half Pint Windom Rides West."
Curtain time is 8 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m.
Saturday. Admission is $1.50 for adults
and .75 for children. Tickets can be
purchased at the door.
Betty Setzer is director of the summer
theatre program, now in its secondyear.
She has taught at UNC-CH and North
Carolina Central University and has
starred in many Carolina Playmaker
productions and with the Durham
Theatre Guild. June Burbage, who earned
her master's in piano performance at
UNC-CH, is the music director. Patricia
Yesulaitis and Pat Hurley are teaching
creative active and speech. Mrs. Yesulaitis
has taught speech for the past seven years
at Elon College. Hurley, a drama graduate
of UNC-CH, has worked in summer
stock, off-Broadway and regional theatre.
Costuming, one of the youth theatre's
most popular classes, is being taught by
Barbara Hannah, a UNC-CH drama
graduate. Linda Sobsy is the dance
movement director and choreographer,
and Mimi Herman is the teenage
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B. J. Campbell, acting president of
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school child in Orange County can try out
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Auditions are held each year in Chapel
Hill and Hillsborough. Over 100 tried out
last year but only 40 could be handled this
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the Community Youth Theatre summer
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