6The Daily Tar HeelMonday, August 30. 1982
'Lovers': a fine comedy
starts Duke Players year
By JEFF GROVE
Assistant Arts Kditor
The Dukies have returned.
With them comes the annual Orienta
tion weekend production by the Duke
Players. Designed to be a prelude to the
Players' regular season and a grabber for
potential drama majors, this year's
opener, Brian Friel's Lovers, will proba
bly work on both counts. -. 4
Lovers is an unusual comedy, set fn
Ireland in June, 1966. Joe and Mag, teen-'
agers about to finish high school, are
being rushed into a marriage of necessity
because Mag is pregnant. The play is set
on a hilltop overlooking Joe and Mag's
town where they are studying for final ex
ams. It becomes apparent that this mar
riage has a limited chance for survival.
Neither partner is emotionally ready. In
addition, Mag is impractical and Joe is in
sensitive. A running commentary by two un
emotional narrators who seem to be
reading newspaper accounts of what hap
pened to the young lovers is interspersed
throughout the story. While Joe and Mag
act out their story in one time frame, the
narrators exist in three. They begin Joe
and Mag's story before the events of the
afternoon on the hilltop, continue it as
they catch up to that day, and overtake
the teenagers, relating the eventual fate of
the pair.
Jamie Rae Fleisher plays Mag. Every
thing about her performance clicks except
her Irish brogue, which frequently lapses
into Exclusive American Prep Schoolese.
But Fleisher lays a strong foundation for
her character, preventing Mag from be
coming merely a dim-witted ingenue.
In the role of Joe, John Austin is pro
perly subdued and blank until Meg's
chattering drives his patience to the
breaking point. Joe is not allowed much
development until late in the hour-long
one-act play, but he seizes the chance
when it comes. And his accent stays in
place. He is particularly engaging in one
sequence where he does impressions of
notable town figures.
Dan Clancy and Lindsey Amtmann are
appropriately detached as the narrators,
although Gancy sometimes strains for
too-perfect diction and ends up tripping
over his tongue.
Barbara J. Balph's direction fails to
take advantage of the ample space of
fered by Susan Lacey Maxwell's simple
set. But while she keeps her characters
confined to a relatively small area, she
does create the illusion of great motion.
Her work with Fleisher and Austin on
character interaction pays off in a be
lievable relationship.
All things considered, Lovers is a good
sign for this year's Duke Players season,
which officially kicks off with Brecht's
Galileo Oct. 20-24. Lovers continues to
night and Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. in the
Emma Sheaf er Laboratory Theatre in the
Bryan Center on the Duke campus. Ad
mission is $1.
6Fat Times' satirises youth, high school
By FRANK BRUM
Staff Writer
It is a rare person who is able to laugh at his own
shortcomings. It is a rare film which can satirize the
same subject matter it embraces with a contagious
joviality. Fast Times at Ridgemont High is such a film.
Employing a quintessential California suburb for
their setting, novice director Amy Heckerling and
screenwriter Cameron Crowe take a humorous, affec
tionate glance at youth today and present this genera
tion with a tale which captures our crazy, fad-filled
times in much the same fashion as Grease depicted the
young adults of the '50s.
The story which showcases this satire is a neat varia
tion of the usual teenage maturation theme. Our
heroine, Stacy, doesn't take the usual path from in
nocence to experience through sexual awareness. After
several disappointing one-night stands and a rather
bothersome abortion, Stacy realizes that she does not
want to assume adult responsibility. There are no tears
or melodramatic situations. Stacy simply recognizes
that the sexual liberation of her generation is not
worry-free, and she decides to strike up a relationship
with a physically clumsy but endlessly considerate
schoolmate. It's an optimistic, yet believable, tale.
As the title of the film suggests, Fast Tunes often
lapses into crude jokes and tasteless gags. These flaws,
however, are easily overlooked, for Fast Times
skillfully mocks the eccentricities" of contemporary
culture. When the camera pans a row of seemingly
anorexic teenage girls, who are all wearing different
designer jeans and piaying video games, it is obvious
that someone with a shrewd, satiric eye is behind this
project. Indeed, Heckerling and Crowe leave no area
overlooked in their satirization of current youth fads.
They explore everything from fast food addiction and
marijuana-induced mellowness to passionate concerns
for clearing up acne, emulating pop music idols and
losing one's virginity.
All said, Fast Times still stands as less than truly
sophisticated fare. Like Frank Zappa's "Valley Girl,"
which comes immediately to mind when watching this
film, Fast Times is unpretentious, raunchy fun laced
with truth and affection for the quirky identity our
generation has-created for itself. And it's certainly a
welcome break from the more esoteric rewards of a
college textbook.
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Another change involves the "refine
ment" of parts of the old curriculum,
Graves said. "We're not just making a
tougher curriculum. We're refining the old
one by closing a few cracks and shoring
some leaks."
One example of "shoring some leaks" is
the change in the , General College
mathematical and foreign language op
tion, Graves said.
The new plan requires either two
courses from both mathematical sciences
and a foreign language either through
course 2 in a high school language or
course 3 in a new language or one
course from mathematical sciences and
any foreign language through course 4.
The third, and perhaps most important,
change involves the creation of a full-time
faculty committee to monitor the General
College curriculum to ensure quality,
Graves said. This change created the Of
fice of General Education of which Graves
is associate dean.
"Through my office we're setting up a
vehicle so that breadth in general courses
has as much emphasis as specialization in
each major," he said.
Universities across the country are in the
midst of a trend of curriculum revision and
review, Graves said, citing Harvard's core
curriculum and revisions at Indiana and
Stanford universities. UNC did not use a
model for revision, he said. "We took our
own unique situation and proceeded on
our own strengths."
One of the main reasons for UNC's cur
riculum revision was the indication that
upper level students were not . getting
enough emphasis on writing, math and
science, causing professors to spend a lot
of time with "catch-up work," said
Samuel Williamson, dean of the School of
Arts and Sciences.
UNC also has recognized the impor
tance of communication in the future,
leading to increased emphasis on math and
foreign language, Williamson said.
Another motivation for the curriculum
revision is to add a sense of logic to the
organization of the foreign language and
math option, Williamson said. "I've been
an adviser myself and have failed to ever
see any logical organization of the
option," he said.
"It is my belief that every decade the
curriculum should be examined.
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began in the summer of 1978, when
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"Perhaps the most important thing the
committee did was to redefine course
categories from administration divisions or
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perspectives," Thornton said. Upper
classmen will be allowed to pursue the new
curriculum, as well, Graves said. "The
new system will provide maximum flex
ibility for students already at UNC."
Many of the actual courses offered in
General College will remain the same,
Graves said, although older ones may be '
revamped and new ones introduced, with a
course reward being offered to faculty
members as an incentive to design courses
to fit under the new curriculum.
"The new curriculum tries to give
students a better liberal arts education with
better direction," Graves said. "UNC has
always emphasized liberal arts and
sciences, but the new curriculum em
phasizes to the student the importance of
breadth in education.
"We (at UNQ think our basic strength
is in libeal arts and sciences and that
students should come here to sample
them."
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"Obviously there is a virus around,"
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