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Lab Theatre presents final full play by Shaw By ANN SMALLWOOl) Asst. Arts Kditor George Bernard Shaw's last full length play, In Good Kir 2 Charles' Golden Days, will open at 8 tonight in Graham Memorial. The play, billed as "a true history that never happened," is directed by UNC graduate student Fed Corlett as his final master of fine arts directing project. Corlett, who received his bachelor of fine arts degree from UNC in 1971, this year directed a Lab Theatre production of Ibsen's A Doll's House and appeared with PRC in Hamlet. The play centers around a hypothetical meeting in 1680 between several well-known persons who lived during England's King Charles II's "golden" reign: Charles' queen, Catherine; his brother, James 11; his mistresses actress Nell Gwynn, the wealthy Duchess of Cleveland and Louise Carwell from the court of King Louis of France; scientist Sir Isaac Newton; portrait artist Godfrey Kneller and George Fox, founder of the Quaker movement. Director Corlett describes the characters as "the most improbable collection of people who congregate by sheerest chanc." Corlett said that despite the unbelievable coincidence of their meeting at Isaac Newton's house, the characters themselves are very believable. He added, "They are all notorious, but all independent of type." Corlett said the play is not so much a history of Charles II, rather it is more universal, a "play about identity." He said the play is "alive and vital" and reflects the attitudes of England in 1939 toward the rising fascism in Europe. For those reasons, they chose to use a modern setting and modern costumes, he said. The large number of substantial characters is a plus for the production, Corlett sa d, because they provide "good soli J roles" for the graduate acting students. Ten graduate actors and one undergraduate will appear in the Play Performances will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday in Graham Memorial. Free tickets to guarantee seating are available outside the Playmakers Box Office in Graham. Wednesday, April 26, 19""J The Daily Tar Heel 5 Troubled life of Plath Oral interpretation tonight Patti Tush will perform The Disquieting Muses of Sylvia Plath, an oral interpretation of Plath's life and poetry, at 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in Rooms 2 1 3-2 1 5 Carolina Union. The performance incorporates eight of Plath's poems with facts about her life. Plath is best known for having written The Bell Jar, in which she relates the first suicide attempt of a 1 9-year-old eirl actuallv S Ivia herself. Plath ultimately did commit suicide when she was 30 years old. Plath also wrote l our books of poetry: The Colossus. Crossing the Water. Winter Trees and Ariel. Tush used poetry from these books in the adaptation ol the script which is part of a senior honors thesis in the speech depaitment. The performance is free. S.C. 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September (Random House. 302 pp. $8.95) is the latest novel by Shelby Foote. a Mississippi author who attended UNC-CH, served in the field artillery during the war. wrote five other novels ( Follow Me Down. Love in a Dry Season), won three Guggenheim Fellowships and spent some 20 years writing a highly praised, three-volume opus on the Civil War. A reader or reviewer might wonder just why Foote decided the subject of this unusual novel was worth tackling, but once we grant him the author's right to choose his own material, then we can move on to noting how effectively he did his job. The three kidnappers are: Rufus. a college drop-out with more imagination than good sense; Podgo. a 40-year-old compulsive gambler who needs a little cash to feed a gambling habit and Reeny Perdew. a rather amateurish prostitute who passes easil from one man to another (the passing includes Rufus and Podgo) and develops a solicitous maternal feeling for the little black boy they pick up on his way home from school1. All three criminals are about as amateurish in crime as Reeny is in prostitution. They use Noctec to dose their young victim into quietness and clown white to paint his face so no neighbors will suspect they have stolen a black boy. And they use the radio to keep amused and to find out what Orval Faubus is doing every day that may help them collect the $60,000 from the frightened black family. Foote gives each of his principal characters a turn as narrator, although it is not always easy to distinguish who is speaking, since each character appears u have some speech patterns of Foote himself B OOKS -By WA L TER SPEA RMA N- September September Shelby Foote and occasionally goes off into lyric rhapsodies not germane to the character. Other sections of auctorial explanation lie the monologues together. Each character also gets an opportunity to reminisce about his own life, so the author himself does not have to tell all. One of the more impressive features of the novel is the skill with which Foote notes the changes in his characters' relationships to each other: the fickle Reeny shifting slowly from Rufus to Podgo; the consternation of a busy Rufus w hen his sexual dalliance with Reeny is interrupted by little Teddy and Reeny has to explain that they are "jus" rassling." In the black family, the father, Eben. grows strong enough to make demands upon his w ife Martha and to face up to the domination of his wealthy father-in-law. Foote has been living in Memphis for some years and makes the sleepy, hot. race conscious city come slowly to life as the three kidnappers sit out their waiting-for-ransom period in a dilapidated old house perched on the river's bluff. It's hard tocare muchabout any of the characters emotionally but ,r they grow and change and work their way into difficulties and out again, it is also difficult not to accept them for very real people rather than just figments of Foote's healthy imagination. September, September makes you wonder what the author will tackle next. Books in Brief Valley of the Kings. By Elizabeth Eliot Carter. (E. P. Dutton. 231 pp. $7.95.) 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