Friday, October 14, 1988
THE COMPASS
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Players to put on
Lysistrata in Nov.
By Lynne Chapman
The ECSU University Players
will open their fall drama season
with Aristophane’s Greek com
edy, Lysistrata. The basic plot
of Lysistrata, first produced in
Athens around 411 B.C., is sim
ple, yet the bawdy play has a hu
morous appeal for the modern
audience.
The women of Athens, tired of
war, go on a sex strike, in an at
tempt to convince their hus
bands to renounce war. Under
the leadership of Lysistrata, the
strike succeeds, and unites the
people of Athens and Sparta-
with hilarious complications.
Shawn Smith is directing the
cast which consists of students
and faculty ECSU and towns
people. The cast of 28 includes
Velma Brown (Lysistrata), Can
dace Newman (Kleonike), Bon
nie Cuffie (Myrrhine), Janis Mc
Dermott (Lampito), Stephanie
Crouail (Ismenia), Lolia Jones
(Mellonia), Eric Harris (Uno),
Gretchan Wicker (Unolaya),
Tom Williams (Commissioner of
Police), Alex Perry (Kenesias),
and many other talented people.
Performance nights for Lysis
trata are November 9, 10, 11,
and 13 at 8:00 p.m. in the Little
Theater.
In the spring the Players will
produce When You Comini’’
Back, Red Ryder?, a medievB(l-
religious comedy in February.T
Hold Me, a Jules Feiffer comedy'
in April will complete the sea-,
son.
Black Folk Heritage Tour:
brings concert to ECSU ;;
jMembers of the cast of Aristophanes’ classic comedy Lysistrata include (front row).
Bonnie Cuffie, Alex Perry, and Stephanie Crouail. Back row: R. Edwin Duke, Myrtle
I
Rivers, Eric Harris, Bertille Lofton, Candice Newman, and Vincent Swift. The University
Players will perform the play November 9-13. photo by shawn smith
Choir itinerary
includes N. Y, trip
Photo courtesy of Holly-Fonville Photography
"ading Dream
imber 72 Richard Wilkers, a senior offensive tackle, looks over Foreman Field as the
kings hope of a Fish Bowl victory become a fading dream. The Vikings lost to the
tartans 20-6 in the annual contest between ECSU and Norfolk State.
By Alisa Robinson
ECSU’s 1988-89 Gospel Choir
began working just as the Uni
versity’s doors were first open
ing.
The Choir lost only eight mem
bers due to graduation. But the
positions were quickly filled af
ter auditions, held the first week
of school.
This year’s schedule promises
to be just as busy as last year’s,
said Crystal Godfrey, secretary
and alto in the Choir. Last year
the Gospel Choir visited New
York twice, and performed in
concerts all over North Carolina
and Virginia.
The Choir’s second New York
trip was to compete with other
college choirs on the East Coast.
ECSU brought home 4th Place,
in the competition, which in
cluded choirs from Bowie State,
North Carolina A&T and How
ard University.
“The award was very good,
and the trip was wonderful,”
said the Choir’s percussionist,
Eric Brown.
“Everyone seemed to have
had a great time,” said soprano
Onya Johnson.
This year the Choir’s itinerary
includes trips to Houston, At
lanta, and two more trips to New
York.
The Choir will also perform
concerts in North Carolina and
Virginia, as well as fall and
spring concerts on ECSU’s cam
pus. Already this year the Choir
has performed at Olive Branch
Church in Elizabeth City, and at
Metropolitan AME Zion Church,
in Norfolk, Va.
Directed by Dr. B. Dexter Al
lgood, the Choir has 53 mem
bers.
“The choir has grown a lot
since my freshmen year,” said
Lt. Antonio Boston, a tenor.
“The members are more serious
about singing and what they
sing.
“I enjoy rehearsals just as
much as I enjoy performances,”
said Boston. “It gives everyone
a chance to relax and ease their
minds from the worries of the
world.”
The North Carolina Black
Folk Heritage Tour will come to
ECSU’s Moore Auditorium Fri
day, October 15.
The tour will feature an excit
ing concert of spirituals, gospel
songs, Br’er Rabbit tales, blues
and buckdancing performed by
some of the state’s outstanding
black folk artists.
The concert is presented by
master dance instructor and Ra
leigh native Chuck Davis, who
opens the program with an exu
berant demonstration of tradi
tional West African dance styles
performed by the African Amer
ican Dance Ensemble. Davis
then explores the history of the
black experience in North Caro
lina through story, dance and
song.
Following the “roots” perfor
mance by the African American
Dance Ensemble, the Badgett
Sisters of Yanceyville will sing
the old-time spirituals and jubi
lee songs in the traditional unac
companied style.
Another segment of the show
highlights the blues music and
buckdancing styles which began
to emerge in North Carolina
around the turn of the centurx.
These traditions are rep-j
resented by Durham residents
John Dee Holeman and Quentin^
‘Fris” Holloway, who per-^
formed for audiences around the i
world in behalf of the U.S. StateJ
Department. They will be joined"
by the remarkable guitarists
and buckdancers from Johnston'^
County, Ms. Alquia Mae, who"!
will narrate one of her favorite'*
Br’er Rabbit tales to the chil-^
dren in the audience. *
The Black Folk Heritage Tour'
was first organized in 1985 by the^
North Carolina Arts CounciL It;
was so well received that funds'
from the National Endowment*
for the Arts were obstained to-
bring the program to nine more;
North Carolina communities in^
1986 and now more communities
in 1987 and 1988.
Tickets to the concert are $5.00
for non-students, and $2.00 for
students. They can be purchased
in advance at Crank’s Shoe Re
pair, Rex Cleaners, Keystone
Barber Shop, ECSU Ticket Of
fice or the ECSU Music Office.
Sandra Jordan
Gates County High School
Senior
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