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Tuesday, May 2, 2000
Emotional Acting Saves Beckett Play
Studio I's performance of
"Waiting for Godot" will
end with a show tonight at
5 p.m. at the Kenan Theater.
By Cari Jacobs
Staff Writer
Studio l’s latest production is about
as good as student theater gets. The act
ing is wonderful, staging near perfect
and the result
ing play is
probably exact
ly how Samuel
Beckett envi
sioned it.
The only
problem is that
Hg Theater Review
Studio 1
“Waiting for Godot”
ffff
the play is also painfully boring to
watch.
Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” exem-
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plifies theater of the absurd. There’s
essentially no plot, and the dialogue,
upon which the play relies, is meander
ing and confusing.
Nevertheless, the play delves into
serious philosophical issues. Questions
arise about perception, reality and reli
gion.
It’s like an old, slow, artistic black
and-white French movie. The experi
ence isn’t exacdy enjoyable, but at least
it makes you think. And if you manage
to pay attention, you may learn some
thing.
Directed by Adam Gerdts, “Waiting
for Godot” opens with Gogo, a homeless
man played by Ken Keech, asleep on a
ramp next to a Plexiglas willow tree.
Soon his friend Didi, played by
Charlie Todd, comes to help sit and wait
for Godot.
They don’t know who Godot is. They
don’t know where they’re supposed to
meet him. And they don’t know if he’s
a 20 percent turnout.
Vicki Boyer, president of Chapel
Hill-Carrboro League of Women Voters,
said voter apathy was a major problem
with the primaries.
“People may not even be aware there
is a primary (today),” she said.
Boyer also said people often felt like
their votes did not count.
“It’s being a part of the voting process
that’s more important than whether
your candidate wins or loses,” she said.
While some students said voting was
too inconvenient, others said they
planned to vote in the primaries.
Kristen Bradley, a freshman political
science and physics major from Dallas,
Texas, said many political issues affected
young people who were, for the most part,
disconnected from the political process.
“I’m going to vote and encourage
other people to vote to encourage rep
resentation in our age group.”
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ever going to come. So during the whole
play they simply wait and try to figure
out how to pass the time.
At the end of each day, a boy, played
by Scott Turner, comes to tell the duo
that Godot won’t be coming today, but
he’ll surely come tomorrow'. But anoth
er day passes without Godot’s arrival
onto the scene.
Dave Willner plays a rich man who
occasionally walks past the waiting spot
with his slave (Carey Sveen) on a leash.
Gerdts wisely chooses a simple set,
consisting of a black backdrop and the
aforementioned tree and ramp. The use
of bare essentials helps the audience
devote its hill attention to thinking about
the meaning behind the script’s gibber
ish.
Expressive and talented perfor
mances from each actor, despite a
dreadfully slow' script, make the show
worth the viewer’s while and ultimately
highlight the confused and dismal state
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of the play.
The catch is that this confusion is sup
posed to mimic a confused reality. The
audience doesn’t know what actually is
going on, because everything that it sees
exists only in the characters’ eyes.
Several clues indicate that this account is
less than accurate.
At some point during the play the
viewers, except for maybe those three
who fall asleep, figure out who Godot is
supposed to symbolize. And the cynical
message all comes together at that point.
Or does it?
Thumbs up to all involved with the
play, except for maybe Beckett himself.
The final showing of “Waiting for
Godot” will take place at 5 p.m. tonight
at the Elizabeth Price Kenan theater.
Tickets are $3 and can be purchased at
the door.
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Downs praised Smiley’s commitment
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but said putting someone without expe
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Matthews said he would continue to
support Downs for the post. “She is the
best candidate and the most qualified,
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a month’s worth of work done in two
weeks,” she said. “I’m overwhelmed
with schoolwork, leaving UNC, find
ing somewhere to live (at ASU) and
going to anew place."
Biggs, a senior from Hiddenite and
Meadows’ roommate for four years,
said she was glad to be staying at UNC
so she didn’t have to think about grad
uation stresses. “I’m more than happy
to be staying here,” Biggs said. “Some
days I feel like I’ve done my time at
UNC, but most days I’m happy to be
here another year.”
Busy with schoolwork, Biggs is also
interviewing for nursing jobs for the
summer, something that is required for
her major. She and Meadows seemed
sad to be leaving each other, but both
said they would e-mail often and pay a
higher telephone bill next year.
Biggs said it would take time to
become accustomed to Meadows not
being nearby, something that will
make this Graduation Day sadder.
“That day will be sad because Leslie
is leaving and I’m not," Biggs said. “I
want to be here next year, but it will
be weird and I might feel left out.
“I’ve been doing senior stuff. I want
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friends.”
Wagner, who will graduate with a
business degree, said he had spent
much of his time with his senior
friends. He said he had been more
emotional than usual, being intensely
excited to start anew life but sad to
leave people he might not see again.
“I really haven’t wanted to talk
about graduation,” the senior from
Cary said. “I’m going out as much as
possible, and I will miss going out with
my friends here.”
Wagner said his UNC experience
had changed him. “When I was in high
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school, I didn’t have the desire to
make a radical change and leave North
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said. “1 am ready to do them.”
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remember most about UNC was a
mixture of classroom and social life.
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pride in my degree,” he said. “But I
didn’t have to sacrifice a social life to
get that.”
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against sports rivals, study sessions in
the Undergraduate Library, nights on
Franklin Street and the survival of nat
ural disasters like Hurricane Fran and
the historic snowfall this past winter.
But Eapen said great memories
went beyond the larger events. “The
best memories are the things you don’t
expect to happen,” he said. “Those are
memories that happen one night when
you’re with friends and something
crazy happens. ... The things you
share with other people become your
fondest memories.”
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Biggs, Eapen, Meadows and Wagner
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days in Chapel Hill - at least in their
minds - long after they exit Carolina.
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people convened outside of the
Community Church to hear her speak.
“It is easy to visualize bombs, but hard
to visualize sanctions,” she said. “The
U.S. is bombing Iraq, and the sanctions
are directly contributing to the deaths of
thousands of people - it’s genocide.”
She said 500,000 Iraqi people had
died direcdy because of U.S. sanctions,
and 5,000 children under age five were
dying every month.
“Bill Clinton and (British Prime’
Minister) Tony Blair might as well be
shooting each child in the head,” she
said.
“It’s our government that should be
indicted for human rights violations.”
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