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Arts & Entertainment "Deadly Game" to be Performed by Buck Tredway A judge and two attor neys who amuse themselves by retrying famous cases make up the plot of the play "The Deadly Game" to be performed here next Thursday and Friday as part of German Week fest ivities. Written by James Jaffe, the stageplay is based on the novel "Trapps" by Freidrich Duerrenmatt and is set in the mountains of Switzerland. It is there where the former jurists replay great ca ses from history or play fully prosecute strangers who drop in, St. Andrews stage ve teran Charles D. (Wally) Mann plays Judge emile Carpeau. Mann is joined by another talented vete ran, Amy Sarno, cast in the role of the defense attorney. Disc Spin I By Steve Skinner CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Keep Your Distance Mercury Records, Tapes, Conpact Discs It didn't happen fast, but "Keep Your Dis tance," the new album from a relatively new band is out in America. Actually it's quite odd to hear a record labelled as new, when you've been listening to it for close to six months, but so it goes with import record fanatics. Curiosity fol lows a string of quick- to-rise pop bands who break commerically in England with, hot dance tracks. Besides the heat from their record, these guys are blessed with a media appeal that makes them hot on camera as well. Closely followed by media magazines and pop star photographers, they remind one off the record Other cast members in clude Kate Blackburn as the prosecuting attorney; Karen Vossler as Nicole; Don Smith as Howard Trapp; Murray Lide as Pierre and Margaret Wad dle as Helen Trapp, Alison Foley is the stage manager with set designs by D.K. Beyer and costumes by Barbara Sny der. The play is directed by assistant professor of theatre, Janice Burgess. "Things are going well despite the time re straints," Burgess said. "It's been an uphill struggle to get thiw pro duction ready for German Week festivities but we're having a good time with it." Tickets, which cost $4 for students, will be available at the door. The play will be per formed again Oct. 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. and on Hal loween as a matinee at 2 p.m. o£ other such breaking celebrities only a few years back - namely IDuran Duran and Wham!. Theit music brings them through it all with a sort of lackluster glitter and shine. It has a definite beat, but the vocals are unmistakably British in tone and variety. Curiosity springs out with a bump and swings with a jazzy rhythm. "Misfit," their recent release is a pop monster, which took the charts by storm in England twice, just falling recently from a second go around. The single has been re leased here in the States, and \^ile showing some response, it is mainly known on the dance floors, vrfiere its swing appeal can sting. The upbeat tunes are favo rites, Try "Shallow Me mory" and "Ordinary Man" for a test spin. Notice the sax in action and the ladies vocals from be hind. With a palette full of vocal color, streams of cool and sty lish rhytlim, and beat with thump and bump, you may find it a bit hard to "keep your distance"! UB40 CCCP Live in Moscow A&M Re CO rds, Tape s, Compact Discs So the reggae beat of Britain sounds better on track in the studio! You gotta admire these guys for the statement they've made. First to tour the Soviet Union, UB40 did a series of shows early this summer to promote their international sound. The real fvin on this one is to listen to the Russian translator as he relates the titles to the audience. At one point well into the disc. Astro shouts "Everyone!" in an attempt to "liven" up the crowd. But a mea ger response is all that follows, leading you to believe the crowd is to tally out of it. Howev er, listen to the craze which follows at the end. It's hard to believe how universal music really is. The album is a col lection of the band's greatest hits, and you'd think you were listening to a pop show, rather than a reggae beat mix ture vrtiich is so complete on the band's earlier discs. Many of their best covers from "Labour of Love" are missing and the album comes close to repeating last year's studio album, "Rat in the Kitchen." Indeed many of the songs are repeated, but this time out they're live. Great for a col lector's copy, but I'd rather have an out-of- print reggae showcase from the band anyday. OPAL Happy Nightmare Baby SST Records and Tapes Hold on to your weed! The psychodelia of the 60's is alive and well. In fact, this is not only the perfect dream in re- memberance of the Summer of Love, but an anniver sary celebration of the time period, twenty years ago and still entangled. Eerie sounds and dark warm passages surround this one, sending a mere breath haxantingly throughout the room. It's actually a collabo ration of Rain Parade's Dave Roback and Kendra Smith of Dream Syndicate. It was three years in the making, due to record company contract problems, and now a part of a mysterious rebirth. Cut through the tracks "She's a Diamond", "Rock et Machine "Supernova." As a post-hypnotic suggestion, breathe deeply! REM'S Work Tour Underway by Steve Skinner REM October 4th Cameron Indoor Stadium Duke University From the opening ! pulse and pound of "The Finest Worksong," it was evident REM fans were in for a evening of everlas- ' ting college rock favori tes. And college rock | they got. The band's two I hour show was a chart of | songs college stations ! have been playing since j 1981 and the first relea se of "radio freedom." Tour No. 5 - better known now as "The Work Tour," celebrated on tee-shirts worn by con- certgoers, hurls the band on the road again, this time in ^ support of their latest album release, "Document." This time out the album has fired effo rtlessly upon the tops of the college charts. So what's behind this recent j REM craze? Is it the ; gruff Stipe vocals, inte rspersed with pale whines and shrill, painful frills, or the Buck guitar, which provides the right punch at just I the right time to offset ^ the production in an alt ernative sort of way? Perhaps it's just the Berry and Mills, beat bassline, \^ich milk a hard roll, then soften by a solemn, ballad bounce. | Whatever the case, the collaboration was tremen- j dous Sunday night as the band played before a packed house. With a continued on page 11
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