4The Daily Tar HeelFriday, October 1 1, 1985
Lab Theater to present-comedies
By JIM GILES
Staff Writer
II NC Lab Theatre is gearing up for
another production. This weekend, the
Lab will present a double bill of original
comedies. The Idiot Box and Altered
Males.
Tlie Idiot Boxis an ensemble piece
with eight cast members. Written and
directed by Glenn Gillen, the play's
main character is Phoebe, a television
addict who employs the medium as a
means of escape. The other cast
members represent different TV pro
grams and commercials as Phoebe
switches the channels. Gillen said that
the script of the play was originally
written as an English assignment, but
has turned out to be an entertaining
mini-play.
Altered Mates is a slightly different
kind of comedy in a style reminiscent
of Second City TV. The idea for Mates
was conceived by the show's director,
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Hall.
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By ELIZABETH ELLEN
Arts Editor
A regional ballet company with
impressive reviews and big plans for
the future, the Louisville Ballet will
perform Sunday in Memorial Hall
as the Triangle Dance Guild's season
opener. For its first Chapel Hill
appearance, the company will pres
ent a program demonstrating a
versatility which the Ballet's artistic
director Alun Jones calls one of its
major strengths.
Allegro Brilliante, a contemporary
ballet choreographed by the Amer
ican innovator George Balanchine,
will open the program. Set to
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.
3, the piece is "technically very
difficult but enjoyable," according to
Jones.
The next work, Billy the Kid, is
a marked contrast to Allegro. Jones
said this version of the old legend
was the first fully American ballet,
choreographed by Eugene Loring to
the music of Aaron Copeland. "Billy
has become a classic of its kind," said
Jones. "It's a wonderful work."
The last piece is the brand new
collection of dances known as The
Judy Dances. Set to eight Judy
Garland songs, the dances are "jazzy
and lighthearted," according to
Jones. Period costumes from the
1920s and '30s add to the nostalgic
feel of the work.
The Louisville Ballet was founded
in 1952 as a civic ballet. It has grown
to be a nationally recognized pro
fessional company and has been
named the State Ballet of Kentucky.
One of the highlights of the com
pany's history was a two-season
collaboration with Mikhail
Barishnikov.
Jones' plans
future include
for
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more touring and
enlarging the company's member
ship. "We have a very large reper
toire," he added. "I would like to
expand it."
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Sunday at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
Call 962-1449 for ticket information.
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By GARRET VEYR
Staff Writer
"An Evening of Tennessee Williams,"
a collection of three one-act plays
presented by the department of dra
matic art, is probably the best theatre
to be seen right now in the Triangle
area. The directing is sure and deft, the
acting is outstanding, and the plays are
virtually flawless and mesmerizing.
This Property is Condemned is
basically a dialogue between a boy and
a girl who meet at a railroad track. The
set for this play, a life-size broken track,
is particularly spectacular. The girl,
played shiningly by Margaret Jemison,
wears her dead sister's old clothes and
dreams of dating the same sister's old
beaus. She is aware of the dichotomy
between life and movies (her sister had
the same disease as Camille but did not
die like Greta Garbo), but at the same
time is blissfully unaware of the
dichotomy between her own reality and
her imagination. The boy serves bas
ically to prod the girl on in her stories,
but Kenn Russell brings lovely under
statement to the part.
The Case of the Crushed Petunias
leaves Williams' South and takes place
in Primanproper, Mass. The play is a
lightweight story of an old maid, played
by Tania Drummond, who is released
from New England staidness by a
strange young man, played with high
energy by Reed Edward Diamond, who
says things like "Live, just live." The
staging in this play is very clever and
sharp, but the play itself is not as strong
as the two between which it is
sandwiched.
In 27 Wagons Full of Cotton can be
seen elements foreshadowing Williams'
A Streetcar Named Desire. Diana
Osberg, who plays the heroine Flora
Meighan, Is the star of the evening with
no false moments. Flora is a fragile, silly
southern belle with a leaning toward
migraines and a penchant for Coca
Cola. Her husband Jake, played by Jim
Shores, pushes her around and calls her
names. He comes into a large piece of
business (ginning the 27 wagons full of
cotton of the title) because of a
mysterious fire at Silva Viccaro's farm.
It is Flora who is left to deal with the
wrathful and suspicious Viccaro, played
by the ever stiff and wooden Fetzer
Mills. What Viccaro actually does to
her is never seen, but the look on Flora's
face when she returns to the porch after
going into the house speaks Volumes.
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