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4The Daily Tar HeelTuesday. February 'Curse' tedious for all but 1 1 i a peculiar quality of Sam Shcpard's plays that they can be insightful and compelling one moment but opaque and disengaging the next. His is a fractured style, one that weaves together abstruse, meandering mono logues and ferociously, witty dialogue. Curse of i he Starving Class, which opened Thursday as part of the Play Makers Repertory Company's PlayKcst K?. is. for better and for worse, a quintessential Shepard drama. PRC's rendition of it is a straightforward one that neither trims the eccentric, beat generation playwright's excesses nor slights his more powerful moments. ; Curse treads territory familiar to much of -Shepard's work. It is set in a rural limbo whose inhabitants have been fully integrated into mainstream. American culture but curiously forgot ten by the American dream. The family at the center of this drama owns the land it lives on but derives little of value from it. 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As Shepard sees it and as the four members of this family demonstrate it, America is not a land of upward mobility but of lateral stasis. Mother Ella wants to get out of both the country and her- marriage 'through the sale of the family's land,-but her efforts are doomed from the start, partly because husband Weston has similar intentions. Their daughter, Emma, is a bright student, but she gets little encourage ment at home and will soon grow disillusioned. Their son, Wesley, the most enigmatic and least ambitious of this quartet of dreamers, simply wants to live off the land. The play is at its best when these well drawn, hauhtingly familiar characters interact with each other; each cruelly debunks and ridicules the other's illusions in dialogue that is crisp and witty. Left alone, however, Weston and Wesley especially become the mouth pieces for Shepard's placebo profundi ties and far-out allegories. Only a few of their monologues are effective. 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Free Parking is available across Duke University Road from the Alumni Affairs Building. S hep ard f arts will inherit his father's undistinguished place in society. Teetering on the edge of vapidity. Goulet makes his perfor mance work by using his entire body its almost imperceptible slouching and twitching and stretching to convey the turmoil beneath his char acter's apparent torpor. Karen Ingenthron adds the most spice to the often murky proceedings. As the groping, griping Ella, she, more than any other member of the cast, cuts to the comic underbelly of self-delusion. That element of self-parody doesn't show up as well in Kathryn Meisle's disappointing portrait of the precocious adolescent . Emma. Meisle is a bit too rewed-up, often reading her lines in a hysterical, hurried fashion. Director Gregory Boyd, whose inter pretations of the tried-and-true are often irreverent and fascinating, plays it pretty conservative here, perhaps because Shepard 's work contains its own elements of lunacy. PRC's production most certainly does justice to Shepard's work. But it doesn't render his work any more accessible. Shepard fans will be satis fied, and those unacquainted with his work will be intrigued. Those who have never warmed to the musings of America's most overrated playwright, however, will find Curse tedious and tiresome. Curse of the Starving Class will he performed by the Play Makers Reper tory Company at 8 p.m. today, Feb. 15, 20, 26 and 28. and at 5 and 9 p.m. Feb. 23 in Paul Green Theatre. Call 962 1121 for ticket information. C L A S S i I F T - I IS 5 O V R S P I R I T I 5 - S HOW I N C N O W "My pledge to the "85 Senior Class Gift Campaign is a way of giving back to the University a small measure of my appreciation for the benefits IVe derived from being a student here." Sally Pistole Vice President, Class of 5 7:G9 ONLYTHE 4TH MAN 4:50, 9:50 ONLY PARADISE 3:00, 5:00, 7:30 and 9:30 EXTRA! "EUCKAROO EANZAl 1 1;45 FRI & SAT "BEST AMERICAN FILM!" -Natl Society of Film Critics -ooarrey Cheshire When it comes to loyalty, diehard wrestling fans can 't be matched By BOB YOUNG StafT Writer Wrestling fans ... They're the most biased, most loyal, loudest, rowdiest, hardest-on-the-referee fans in the world. Theyll shout U!S!A! U !S!A! at the mere sight of red, white and blue. Bruce Springsteen sings about wrestling fans. Fans at -UNC. home wrestling matches are taken from the same mold. Although it's a little tougher to get a U!N!CI U!N!C! out of them (unless N.C. State visits Carmichael Audito rium), they are still the epitome of sports fandom. "I like the action and excitement," said David Stone, a sophomore from Mt. Pilot. "I wrestled when I was in high school and once you're involved in wrestling. hard to :f'v away." Marc Greenberg, a UNC 'graduate and Chapel Hill resident, agreed. SCOREBOARD Calendar Today WOMEN'S BASKETBALL vs. Duke at Carmichael Auditorium. 7:30 p.m. MtN'S SWIMMING al N.C. Stale. 7 p.m. Wednesday MEN'S BASKETBALL al Maryland. 7 p.m. MFNS FENCING at N.C. Stale. 1 BA WOMEN'S EFNCTG at N.C". Stale. TBA Thursday WOMEN'S SWIMMING at ACC Championship in Clemson. S.C. BASEBALL at Stetson. 3 p.m. oil Its a new era of great taste, when Subway sub or salad. Better food an age! (MM "4 3 ge. IRQ) - , ,- vJrArt.v.ml ,,7r T i if -1 m You'll drive the revolutionary Dodge Daytona Turbo through a competition rally course set up right here on campus. Your lap will be electronically timed and the student with the best official score wins a trip to Daytona Beach to compete in the National Grand Finals Other prizes will be awarded to 2nd and 3rd place finishers and each hour spectators and drivers alike will win great campus prizes Absolutely no purchase is necessary ... it s all free fun. complete rally ant) prize award rules available at competition ste EASTER crT3 "I just love wrestling," he says. "I come to every home match that I'm in town for." "We're just out looking for a little sports action to start the night off and we're big Tar Heel fans," say Bennett Colle and Al Gorry, freshmen from Chapel Hill and Hickory, respectively. But Gorry has another reason to be a wrestling fan. Like many of the fans, he is linked to the Tar Heel wrestling program by family ties. "My brother, Tom, was a senior on the team last year and my family and I would come over and watch him wrestle a lot," he said. "I still like to come out and watch the team." "This is the second match I've come to this year," said Steve Punch, father of Todd Purich, a backup wrestler at 126 from Johnstown, Pa. "It gives me a chance to leave the snow for a couple Friday BASEBALL at Stetson. 3 p.m. MEN'S GOLF, at Hilton Head Intercollegiate (Palmetto Dunes) - - WOMEN'S TENNIS at Indiana Invitational. Blooming ton. Ind. WOMEN'S SWIMMING at ACC Championship in Clemson. S.C. ' Saturday MEN'S BASKETBALL at N.C. State. 1:30 p.m. MEN'S FENCING tournament at Feter gym TBA WOMEN'S FENCING tournament at Feter gvm TBA GYMNASTICS vs. Jacksonville State and Sooulheast. Missouri in Jacksonville. Ala. : BASEBALL at Central Florida. I p.m. MEN'S GOLF at Hilton Head Intercollegiate (Palmetto Dunes) WOMEN'S TENNIS at Indiana Invitational. Blooming ton. Ind MEN'S TENNIS at Tennessee. 10 a.m. WRESTLING vs. Appalachian State and The Citadel. 2 p.m. m I '.- i i-i iX -i :::-: .- ft-: :::-. . you try a delicious Ay J than you've had in Aewafoie wwHrt' J Franklin Centre Chapel HiU Willow ..Mavwt , j ST" ;i JmVfT-'Jf, ? f ill Vfi u SACK" ycense; WITH ADDITIONAL SPONSORSHIP FROM SUPPORTED BY Notional Highway U S Department Traffic Safty at transportation Administration il of days." Carol Richards, wife of the Tar Heel assistant coach Dean Richards, is also a migrant from Pennsylvania, where her husband was a high school coach and led the Pennsylvania team in national high school all-star competitions. "I just love it down here, I come to all of the matches," she said. "The area is just so positive. C'mon ref! Where are the back points? And wrestling is really starting to catch on down here." Other fans come because they have friends on the team. "I was roommates with Stacey Davis my freshman year," says Stanley Brown, a junior from Lillington. "So I really got involved in wrestling through him. I've been to most of the home matches since then." Whatever their reasons for going to the matches, all the fans are extremely biased towards the Tar Heels. One fan refused to be interviewed, saying he was "too biased" to say anything worthwhile. "This eam is very young and very talented just an excellent team," Purich says. "I'm very happy my son came to school down here." "This year's team is the. most out standing one I've seen here," Greenberg says. "They're definitely one of the better schools in the nation and what's more, they put together a top-notch Division I schedule. They're very young and in a couple of years they're going to be contending for the national title." And what about the losses to N.C. State thus far this season? "Just flukes," he says. "But UNC will definitely take the ACC tournament (being held in Carmichael). I'll be here cheering them on." Eamm 'ft '"4 4. Creek Shopping Center Carrboro 4 it l 'tf 1 ! i t 3 3 S v. ,-, 1 ul1 ull llallLI I . ,. , , i iiinii-ifruTit T-n-lr'T-"'""- -- m Over $125,000 in prizes will be awarded in the 3rd Annual National Collegiate Driving Championships brought to you by Dodge and other participating sponsors National Grand Final Award 1st Place $5,000 cash scholarship and use of a Dodge Daytona Turbo for 1 year 2nd Place $3,000 cash scholarship and use of a Dodge Daytona Turbo for 1 year 3rd Place $2 .000 cash scholarship and use of a Dodge Daytona Turbo for 1 year National Safety Council
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