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10 Thursday, February 3, 2000 Play Confronts Sexual Politics Between Teacher and Student "Oleanna," a Company Carolina production, deals with issues of gender and class in a collegiate setting. By Jeremy Hertz Staff Writer Travis Chamberlain, director of Company Carolina’s production of “Oleanna,’’ which opens today, has a clear goal in mind for the show. “1 think the audience should get pissed off,” he said. “Hopefully, it’ll make them fight as they’re leaving the theater.” The play by David Mamet deals with issues of gender and class - hot topics in any climate. But these issues are pre sented in a story of particular interest to college students, about a sexual harass ment lawsuit between its only two char acters: college student Carol (senior Michelle Ries) and her professor, John (alumnus Matthew Kinney). Ries said the play debuted on Broadway in 1992, w ithin months of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill harass ment hearing. “Of course, there were all these par allels drawn, and it w as this big kind of gender battle,” she said. CYBERSCHOOLS The future of education... Help your future students go the distance through online education A '' Master the education tools that cut costs and build minds ...is it leaving you behind? jjk f cyberschoolsfcy Glenn R. Jones - founder and CEO of Jones International University: The University of the Web™. Get it before you get left behind CYBERSCHOOLS An Education Renaissance ISBN 1-885400-76-4 • $14.95 ■ #4= nu] i I 1 I ■ M V W? ' B*. - 4B ■/ n ■ ■ i *SS£S~r .. ’ Li " _ > “Oleanna” provides a unique per spective on a sexual harassment suit, Chamberlain said. “All we had (in the Thomas hearing) were the accusations, and we could only go from that point forward,” Chamberlain said. “But with this play you get to see what happens before the accusations and then judge for yourself whether the accusations are valid” Which character is at fault - or more at fault - remains open to debate, Chamberlain said. “You can side more with Carol, or you can side with John, depend ing on how the actors play it that night.” “I think the audience should get pissed off. Hopefully, it’ll make them fight as they’re leaving the theater.” Travis Chamberlain Director, "Oleanna" Ries, for whom this production rep resents an honors thesis in the dramatic art program, has been researching pre vious productions of “Oleanna” since last summer. “We’ve had the time to play around with different interpretations,” she said. “Part of the reason that 1 chose it for my honors thesis is because it is so ambiguous ... on the basic level of what happened, what the plot is.” Although the story unfolds in a linear fashion, it’s anything but straightfor ward, Ries said. In keeping with Mamet’s trademark trickery, the audience doesn't get all the facts. Kinney said important events are not presented onstage, instead occurring between acts. “It’s a tease,” he said. “The lights go down, and whatever happens ... you don’t know.” Another charac teristic of Mamet’s oeuvre, hyper realistic dialogue, poses difficulty to the actors perform ing the play. “Although you’d think it would be easy to memorize how people speak, it’s much easier to have a paragraph of prose,” Ries said. “Oleanna” will play at 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday in Swain Hall. A postmortem discussion will follow the final performance. For more information, call Company Carolina at 918-3851. The Arts & Entertainment Editor can be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu. New! 2 nd Edition available 3/2000 News Top Stories From the State, Nation and World In The News Four Suspects Named In Residence Hall Fire NEWARK, NJ. - Investigators of the deadly fire at a Seton Hall University residence hall believe the blaze was set, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported Wednesday. Authorities have identified at least four suspects in the Jan. 19 fire that killed three freshmen, the newspaper reported, citing law enforcement sources it did not name. No charges have been filed. Charlotte Smith, Essex County exec utive assistant prosecutor, said her office would not comment on the newspaper report or on the investigation in gener al. The newspaper said investigators believe the incident may have resulted from a feud between a group of students and some non-students who were visit ing the building on the night of the blaze. But they have not concluded whether the third-floor lounge fire was started as a prank or an attempt to harm someone. A student resident adviser had asked three of the non-student suspects to leave Boland Hall less than an hour before the fire broke out. Investigators said they believe one of the three remained in the building, located on the campus of the f),200-student Roman Catholic university in suburban South Orange. The resident adviser, Dana Christmas, remained in critical condi tion Wednesday with severe bums and has yet to speak with investigators. Three other students who are in critical condition also have not been inter viewed. Former Sumo Wrestler Alleges Match Fixing TOKYO - In Japan, the sumo wrestling ring is sacred ground, blessed by priests and purified w ith salt before each bout. A headline-grabbing scandal over a former wrestler’s claim that Japan’s national sport is rife with fixed contests has renewed suspicions that sumo is not as clean as its image might suggest. “I regret what 1 did in the past,” Keisuke Itai said Wednesday, acknowl edging that he intentionally lost many bouts. “Sumo wrestlers are true athletes, so there should be no fixed matches.” Since Itai first made his allegations last month, saying he wants to revive flagging interest in the sport with a thor ough cleansing, sumo officials have issued ardent protests denying anv problem. As for fans, they aren’t necessarily ruffled by the allegations. “This kind of thing probably happens in any sport, and I imagine it happens in sumo,” said Mitsukuni Kida, 56, a ramen-noodle street vendor and sumo devotee. “What can you really do about it? As long as it’s not every wrestler, 1 don’t mind.” Some 2,000 years old and with roots in Japan’s indigenous Shinto religion, sumo is, along with baseball, the coun try’s most popular sport. Fans see it as more of a cultural treasure than a mere competition. Problems Plague Peace Deal in North Ireland BELFAST, Northern Ireland Politicians in Belfast, Dublin and London struggled today to salvage Northern Ireland’s joint Protestant-Catholic administration, a crisis triggered by the Irish Republican Army’s continued unwillingness to dis arm. The British government was weigh ing the prospect of suspending the adniinistratrb'ri ,; f ’ 'Ws!h I d'with’ Do you suffer from < cold sores? 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But a disar-—— mament commission’s report, required j as part of the deal and Monday to the British and Irish govern- ments, indicated no disarmament had taken place. I>u The major Protestant party, the Ulster Unionists, has accused its Cabinet , colleagues in the IRA-linked Sinn Fein . party of reneging on their end of thq, deal mediated by American diplomat George Mitchell in November. \- ;6 Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble _ warned that the only way now to keep " the Cabinet intact is for the British gov r eminent to suspend its powers, resume “direct rule” from London, and hopq„ fresh negotiations would produce either , a start to disarmament or political sane-. ’T tions against Sinn Fein. ' ■ Trimble, in London to meet Blair," J 5 until now has out J_ Protestants opposed to the 1998 peace - 1 accord. But he received only narrow support from his party grassroots to "... form the Cabinet -and only because hoj ’ pledged to withdraw by February if the, IRA didn’t cooperate' with the disarma ’ ment commission. The Cabinet cannot work Ulster Unionist participation. Pilot’s Actions Cause Nudists to Complain T ABOR CITY - Nudists at Nirvana iltv; Sun Resort have complained to the— Federal Aviation Administration that m pilot in a single-engine plane has dropping suggestive notes over theii“~ camp since last summer. FA A spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen, nfi; in Atlanta said the agency’s investigationbni into the matter could take several mcrcure, weeks. “Last summer he dropped a coufl pie of plastic bottles, like soft drink botooac ties with water, a streamer and a note,”eiQ said Chuck Gardner, who has the 3-year-old clothing-optional club) to* in the New' Life Community east of/ Tabor City for two years. ojio'i “Basically the note said, Looks lik§iift r fun, can I join?” Gardner said. “One ofi.ir , my members who is also a pilot calletf . him and warned him to stop.” noV Gardner said members were con-c cerned about their safety. comments in notes, inviting women to 301 go flying with the pilot, also offendedned Nirvana members, he said. - oO “Thai’s not the kind of place this is/’.bUi Uarrthor'snitl." ■ . ... . vltn-yw. Associated Press -to
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