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_November 4, 1983 Italian Immersion: The Lance Art Projects Unfolded In Italy Shakespeare Anthology To Be Performed By Connie Bowes “All Merely Players” an anthology of selected scenes from Shakespeare will be presented by the Highland Players Thursday through Saturday, November 10-12 at 8 p.m. in the Liberal Arts Auditorium. Cheryl Alcini, Kevin Dove, Tami Gardner, Kirk Gilmer, Jenny Gleach, Linda Marshall, Melissa Morton, Kevin Pinder, David Vest, Steve Wichard and Duncan Wood will perform in scenes form the classics “As You Like It,” “Henry IV, Part I.” “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Athello,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Taning of the Shrew,” and “Twelfth Night.” “1 chose cuttings that center around the idea of uman folly, “ said director Robbie Rankin. “This throws us into the comedies and dark comedies of Shakespeare,” said Rankin. “I chose cuttings from Shakespeare because our ac tors need it and because I it. My real love is the classics and even though our actors are very young in forms of classical stage ex perience, I have been very pleased with our rehearsals,” she said. “Having each actor analyze his/her character(s) has helped greatly in the development of the characters they will portray.” “I chose comical scences because it is difficult for young actors to pull off a Shakespeare tragedy. They are not old enough to have encountered some of life’s experiences essential to por traying a Shakespeare tragedy correctly,” said Rankin. “We have enhanced our script with the addition Of in strumental music, songs and Elizabethan dance for transi tional material. Our set is very open and flexible. This type of staging demands that the actors and audience together create with their im agination the world of the play.” Tickets for “All Merely Players” may be purchased in front of the mural in the Liberal Arts building. Ad mission is $3.00. A Brunnenburg Update By Bill Lide When 15 students from St. Andrews came over to ex plore the Brunnenburg castle and surrounding country, they had no idea what to ex pect. A foreign country, with several foreign dialects, is hard for a newcomer to im agine. As expected, the first weeks were hard, in some respects, but the staff at the castle helped in many ways to make the transition as smooth as possible. As we became more ad justed, things started to gell. To work around the castle became less arduous and the classes became more en joyable. As the second month sw ings into progress, we are learning more than we can express. The classes we are taking are interesting and are supported by a limitless number of resources in the surrounding culture. Drawing class at Brunnen burg abounds with spon- tanaeity, costume and calligraphic explosions. Space is the element the drawing class is presently concentrating on and exer cises range from the con struction of three dimen sional space constructions to “univeral fields.” Historicalicons are in the making, with various techni ques created by students to make their fragments look older. Get ready for a fan tastic February exhibit in Vardell Gallery! Italian art history at Brun nenburg revolves around preparing for the actual viewing of original master pieces. After a month’s study of Early Christian and Byzantine art at the castle, St. Andrews students made a pilgrimage to Ravenna, the major center for Byzantine mosaics in the world. The class continues to study Byzantine influences in Italian art history. Indepth studies of Trecento, Quatrocento and Cinquecen- to art is now under way before the class spends 6 days in Florence and Rome. Ma jor artists under study are Burnelleschi, Donatello, Massacio, Michealangelo and Raphael. Mary de Rachewiltz’s class, The Pound Era, is an indepth overview of Ezra Pound’s contemporaries and his cantos. Princess de Rachewiltz is the daughter of Pound and she has an in credible understanding of her father’s diverse, sometimes difficult, poetry. Poets that have been studied thus far in clude William Bulter Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Robinson Jef fers, Marian Moore, Hilda Doolittle and e.e. cummings The class has also been translating Dante Alighieri’s “La Divina Comedia” from Italian into English. In the second half of the semester, the class will be studying the cantos in depth. Class projects have included poems by the students, inter pretations of other poets’ works and a thorough reading of Pound’s “The ABC of Reading”. Several students are in volved in Guided Indepen dent Studies (GIS) while at Brunnenburg. Students are exploring a wide range of topics ranging from politics, economics, drama and poetry. Carole Knox, who is completing a GIS in SAGE in Brunnenburg, has found that' studying the economy in the Tirol engenders all aspects of Tirolian life. “When I proposed to do a GIS in SAGE 401 last spring I had no idea how exciting and enlightening it would be,” said Knox. “I have discovered that the possibilities are absolutely endless.” “My proposal originally consisted of doing several case studies centering around the economics of the Tirol and Italy, but I have added several studies in the culture and traditions of the area.” “I am not only learning through books and lectures, but also through first hand observation and experience, I strongly suggest any seniors who would like to spend a semester in Brunnenburg to seriously consider doing a GIS in SAGE.” Ihe Brunnenburg library received a welcome guest in Betty Holmes, a librarian whose usual home is De Tamble Library in Laurin- burg. Betty has been a big help in starting the library in Brunnenburg and is now busy trying to stock it for future St. Andrews students. The world of Brunnenburg is new and exciting to everyone present and we can only hope that we express our excitement through our correspondence, if not we will have to sit around, drink a couple of cases of beer and we will tell you all about it. Ciao for now! 14 K Gold Sale $ave Up to 50% Charms, Earrings, Chains November 3-5 Only 16” t4 K Gold Serpentine Chain 22.88 Compare @ 40.00 18” 14 K Gold Serpentine Chain 29.88 Compare @ 59.00 Harper’s Jewelry Downtown Laurinburg And Westwood Village (Next to Eckerds)
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