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4The Daisy Tar HeelMonday, April 2, 1984 'Foreigners' lacks on-stage focus i Campus Calendar The "Me Generation" has spawned endless talk about failed relationships and missed connections, both in real life and in the arts. A conversation about misunderstandings is as likely to be overheard in a restaurant as read in Ann Beattie's short stories or seen in a Michael Weller play. Joining the list of this vogue trend are tnree one-act plays by Candide Carrasco, which were presented this weekend at the ArtSchool under the collective title Foreigners. Though well-acted, -directed and -produced at the ArtSchool, the plays suffer from structural weaknesses. Par ticularly in the first two plays, Carrasco overlooks two important elements of ef fective drama conflict and com munication. In Old Tangos two friends come together after several years apart. But they never really touch. Maria enters Isabel's apartment, bring ing with her a gust of winter air and a flurry of memories. But the memories are mostly about her ex-husband, Ricardo. The audience learns all it can stand to know about the failed marriage vomit, abortion and all. But it finds out next to nothing about Maria's friendship with Isabel. W ' '" Mayor ANDREW YOUNG will present a lecture Wednesday April 4 8:00 pm Memorial Hall Admission is Free Presentation of the Carolina Union Forum Committee Steve Murray Review , The only information given is that the women were best friends, that in the past they had survived something together, and that their friendship will go on. Why, what and how aren't provided. The rela tionship never seems real. Adding the problem in this produc tion were the performances of Jo Ferguson as Isabel and Susan Payne as Maria. Ferguson fit her role and the small theatre snugly, but Payne's characteriza tion was too robust and toothy. The women seemed to be acting on different stages, and they never clicked as friends. The second play, Another Sunday, chronicles the affairs of three homosexual roommates. But again, the central con flicts occur offstage, and nothing much happens. With few exceptions (Harvey Fierstein and Joe Orton are two), playwrights tend to treat gay characters as Pagliacci figures laughing as their hearts break. Homosex uals are sketched as either frivolous or miserable, with no human zone in bet ween. Carrasco falls into this trap. Alex is misery. Lewis and Nathan, working as a team, are frivolity. They ELLIOT ROAD at E. FRANKLIN 967-4737 $2.00 TIL 6.00 PM EVERYDAY! 3:00 5:10 7:20 9:30 Sean Penn (PG) "a powerful movie" -Rex Reed Racing with the Moon 2:55 5:00 7:05 9:10 fG Michael Douglas Danny DeVito Romancing the Stone 2:45 4:55 7:10 9:20 Ken Wahl Cheryl Ladd AREA DOLBY STEREO EXCLUSIVE Purple Hearts r) 46: REUBEN, REUBEN OURS EXCLUSIVELY IN KINTEX STEREO "HERE'S THE COMEDY CATCH OF THE YEAR It's the best time to be had at the movies since 'Tootsie!" 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At one point, Alex, played a shade too darkly by Ward Virts, paced around the living room soliloquizing to his offstage lover, Jesse. Again, the main relationship as with Maria and Isabel was never dramatized, but was summarized, handed out like leftovers. In both Old Tangos and Another Sun day, Carrasco seemed to observe the Greek dramatic unities too strictly. A single set and a single period of time are fine, but hearing about the central action instead of witnessing it makes for tepid theatre. It is no surprise, then, that Night Passengers works best of the three plays. In it, characters known as He and She go home together after meeting in a bar, talk directly to each other, touch each other, and consequently connect with the au dience. Though the structure is no more com plex than "boy meets girl" or "older woman snares young man," the play works. Karl D. Vass as He generated a believable boyish spirit. As She, Coro Malaxecheverria, who co-directed with Carrasco, offered cosmopolitan allure and delivered some deft one-liners about Chapel Hill. Except for a few lapses into melodrama and overstated symbolism (the three types of masks in Another Sunday, for in stance), Carrasco's lines sound true, sharp and often funny. The only real flaw is focus. Once the characters stop looking off into the wings toward distant lovers and instead pay at tention to each other, the plays will become more than snippets of conversa tion. They will become drama. The Carolina Student FundDTH Campus Calendar will appear daily. Announcements tc be run in the expanded version on Mon days and Thursdays must be placed in .he box outside the Carolina Student Fund, of fice on the third floor of South Building by 5 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Wednesday, respec tively. The deadlines for the limited editions will be noon one day before the announce ment is to run. Only announcements from University recognized and campus organiza tions will be printpri Today l I l-L Noon CG A will have Voter Registration in the Pit until 2 p.m. Table will be in the Union if it rains. 3 p.m. Patrick J. Conway and Martin Eakes will speak on "Worker Ownership in Theory and Prac tice," 207 Hamilton. 6 p.m. MLK: The Dream Today Coali tion planning meeting for April 4 in the Union. 6:30 p.m. UNC Model United Nations Club meeting, 470 Hamilton. 7 p.m. Carolina Students for Jim Hunt cookie pick-up in the Union. UNC with Hart voter registration drive meeting in the Union. 7:30 p.m. EK-Phi Speech Societies debate on Japanese imports, 300 New West, 933-8445. Tuesday 5 p.m. CGA will sponsor a "Coming Out" workshop as part of Gay Awareness Week, in the South Gallery Meeting Room. Campus Y's Footfalls Roadrace organizational meeting. Call the Campus Y at 962-2333. 6 p.m. Delta Sigma Pi executive com mittee meeting in T-l Carroll. 6:30 p.m. Delta Sigma Pi officer installa tion in T-l Carroll. 7 p.m. NCSL weekly meeting and of ficer elections in the Union. Alpha Epsilon Delta presents ' Don Fidler to lecture on depres sion. Also elections for new of ficers in 105 Berryhill. CGA and AWS will sponsor speaker Lou Sawyer on "Special Issues Concerning Lesbians" in 209 Union. 8 p.m. UNC Young Democrats will hold a 4th District congressional can didates forum in the Union. Wednesday Noon Environmental Seminar: Nicholas ' Ashford of MIT speaks on "As sessment of Risk Through Human Monitoring: Scientific, Ethical and Legal Considera tions," in 331 Rosenau. MLK: The Dream Today. Rally in the Pit to be followed by an afternoon of programs in the Union. 4 p.m. Public lecture by Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary General of the UN, on the "Crisis of Confi dence in International Affairs," in Gerrard Hall. 5 p.m. CGA will sponsor a lecture on "Racism in the Gay Com munity," in 204 Union. 5:15 p.m. Lutheran Campus Ministry Holy Eucharist at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church , to be followed at 6 p.m. by the Fellowship Meal. 7 p.m. AWS is sponsoring a lecture on women in films by Barbara Hammer in the Union. CGA will sponsor a discussion on "Gay Health" in 220 Union. UNC Scuba Club meeting on elections and summer , and fall dive schedule in 109 Fetzer. Call 968-1271. 8 p.m. MLK: The Dream Today. An drew Young, former ambassador to the UN and present mayor of Atlanta will speak in Memorial Hall. 10 p.m. Campus Eucharist sponsored by the Anglican Student Fellowshop at the Chapel of the Cross. Thursday 5 p.m. Film: "Pink Triangles" a film about prejudice against gays pre . sented as part of Gay Awareness Week; 218 Union. Call 962-4401 . 6 p.m. UNC Flag Line try-outs practice all students welcome in the Tin Can. Check by the band of fice in the Union for more infor mation. 6:30 p.m. The Navigators small group Bi ble studies in the Union. 7 p.m. CGA presents a speech on "Gays and Religion," in 301 Dey. ngs From page 1 semester From page 1 margin, with Barlow supporting an allocation of $2,000. "I agree 100 percent that it's a way to reach black students in and out of the state, but we're looking at a lot of money to cut back," Barlow said. Four other groups went before the Committee Friday and Saturday. The Fine Arts Festival was allocated $14,453; YE OLE WAFFLE SHOP Tuesday Special All the pancakes you can eat for $2.50 Mon.-Sat. 7 am-10 pm Sun. 9 am-9 pm Yam Kb. 1 Choice 8 ox. 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