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Page 4 The Pendulum Arts Thursday, February 26, ‘The Gilded Age’ delights Elon audience By Yvonne Evans News Editor Although the roads were still covered with snow and ice from North Carolina’s second major snow storm since December, The Acting Company presented The Gilded Age to a large crowd on Feb. 17 in Jordan Gym. The company, based at the Kennedy Center in Washington, was to have perfonned in Whitley Auditorium but discovered earlier in the day that Whidey’s stage was too small to accommodate the props for the performance. The Gilded Age is a play from a novel by the same title, written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. Directed by Mark Lamos, The Acting Com pany provided its Elon College with a truly entertaining evening. The 14 actors and actresses portrayed the more than 60 characters in the play, often hav ing to change clothes and characters within a few seconds. Play review We first saw the players as they appear on stage singing a melody entided “Hard Times.” The hard times to which the group were the years following the Civil War, when many people were trying to get rich quick; they were years of westward expansion, rapid in dustrial growth, reckless fmancial ventures and rampant political corruption. We discovered Colonel Beriah Sellers, played wonderfully by Arts shorts Gallery Players Stage Cole PDrter The Gallery PLjqrers, Alamance County’s community theater, will present Anything Goes by Cole Porter on Friday and Saturday at the Paramount Theater in Burlington. The musical comedy will also be presented March 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14 and 15. All Friday and Saturday productions begin at 8:15 p.m. The Sunday matinees will begin at 2:15 p.m. Anthing Goes takes place aboard a luxury oceanliner, the S.S. American, bound for England. On board are a femed female evangelist and a celebrated gambler who has become “public enemy No. 13.” During the voyage, these two join forces to help a young friend win the women he loves. This amusing story is wrapped about a magical score by ft)fler which includes “Friendship,”"! Get A Kick Out of You,”“Aitything Goes,““Let’s Misbehave,” and “Blow, Gabriel,Blow.” The director of this performance, Joan PCijlman, has a long history of community theater in the Triad area. Borealis Wind Quintet To Perform The Borealis Wuid Quintet, a nationally acclaimed chamber music group, will perform in Whitley Auditorium on March 3 at 8 p.m. Ad mission is $5 or collie identification. The event is sponsored 1^ the Elon College Lyceum. Formed in 1976 at the Juilliard School of Music, the quintet features Richard Price, horn; Kathryn Tkylor, clarinet; Katherine Fink, flute; Michael Finn, bassoon; and Tkmar Beach Wells, oboe. Their perfor mance will include a selection of woodwind classics from well-known symphonies and operas in addition to modem works, including some specially commissioned by the performers. Goter Tb Present Carnegie Program Here Dr. Arlene Goter, assistant professor of music at Elon, will pre sent a preview of her upcoming Carnegie Hall recital at 8 p.m. Sun- diO' in WhiUey Auditorium. The performance is free and open to the public. The concert will include a Bach French suite, a Beethoven sonata, three Dubussy etudes and a Prokcrfiev suite. The Carnegie Hall per formance, Goter’s New York debut, is scheduled for March 26. The Elon recital is one of five that Goter will play in North Carolina in the weeks before the Carnegie date. Phillip Goodwin, trying to con vince the others to join him in Missouri in building a town call ed Napoleon. As he excitedly mapped out the town on a linen tablecloth, the others were cap tured by his enthusiasm and decided to join him in his brave venture. The action shifted between three different story lines. While the Hawkins family plamied to leave their home in Tennessee to go west. Senator Dill worthy and a lawyer discussed opening a Negro industrial school, which would suppress the free slaves while benefiting the senator’s reputation and wallet. Their discussion takes place at a performace of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which Eva pleaded with her father to free the slaves and help the poor. Eva’s dying voice was weak compared to Dillwor- thy’s booming voice, possibly symbolizing the death of humani ty in the money-making schemes. The stage was then easily con verted to a Mississippi river boat on which all those with hopes of a new future in Napoleon were traveling. It was on this boat that Laura May Hawkins and Major Charles Langhome Gillette met and fall in love. As the two courted, the captain somehow got the boat in a race. We saw the director’s true charm during this scene as the characters swam for their lives after the boat crashed. The waves of water were really long sheets of cloth that were drawn across the stage. The folks finally arrived at the sight of their new town an began to discuss construction plans, which included changing the course of the Columbus River so that it would flow past Napoleon. Once the cha-acters discovered that the money appropriated to them by the government had not arrived, they sent Harry, a Yale engineer with a sense of eventual greatness, to Washington to find out where the money was. Twain and Warner have clear ly depicted the political corrup tion of the time in Hi discovery that the money w( spent bribing congressmen vote for the measure to all them to build the town In the meantime, Laura ha gone to Washington with hi beloved, only to be abandonedb him for his wife. She sougl shelter with the senator and fiia ly became the society always wanted to be. She wi also very powerful because owned the land on whii Dillworthy intended to build school. A chance encounter with Mi jor Gillette ruined the plans Lai had of becoming rich by sell her and her brother’s land Dill worthy, but came up with scheme that will return her ii society’s favor. As she Dillworthy were left reachii their respective goals, the characters travelled off into future, dreaming of bigger better notions. ‘Platoon’ gives realistic view of horrors of Vietnam warfart By Carrie Tbwn Arts Editor As I stood in line to see Platoon, I noticed people from the previous screening slowly leaving the theater. They were all strangely silent. Even the children were quiet. In contrast, the people in my line were laughing and munching on popcorn. We were all waiting to see the movie which recently collected eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. We soon found out what had so obviously shaken those at the earlier showing. Movie review The first scene of Platoon showed the clean shaven, freshly pressed Army recruits stepping ftxjm their airplane. On one side, the men see two men loading body bags onto an airplane. On the other side, the men see a group of combat veterans walking toward the same plane on their way home. These troops, with hollowed-out feces and tom c odnng, look at the new recruits with distaste. One black soldier yells sarcastically to the recmits, “Ya’U gonna love Nam.“ The veterans have come to resent new, untested recruits because newcomers’ blunders in batUe have often resulted in the deaths of many AmencaiJ soldiers. The story is told through the eyes of Chris (play«J Charlie Sheen), a coll^ student who droppe out of school to fight in Vietnam. He quickly realiz that he made a mistake. The men in his platoon do not bother to learn hi! name because they have seen new men die quick!) and because th^ consider newcomers bad luck. Th rookies arc too green for jungle fighting and, mos of the time, they freeze up in combat. Chris is told in his first week that if he is iucM he will die within two weeks and save himself a lo^ of suffering. Platoon showed the U.S. soldiers with no direc tion and no reason to fight. One man said,' 1 why I was here in 1965, but in ‘67,1 don’t know any more.” Platoon shows the U.S. soldiers as drug-usingj destmctive rapists. Director Oliver Stone, him« a Vietnam vet, uses details that are so graphic a veteran beside me left in the middle because movie brought back too many ui^leasant raemon«' Platoon ends with a scene of an airlift of wu ed while Chris’ voice-over narration asks peop ® leam from what they have just seen and to that war is not the only answer to solve the wor problems.
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