6 The Daily Tar Heel Friday, October 13, 1978
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By JERE LINK
SUff Writer
Simon Hench, hero of Simon Gray's
entertaining Otherwise Engaged, does
not follow Marcus Aurelius advice to
himself: "only rarely and when
unavoidable to say or to write to
someone, 'I am too busy', (in order) to
excuse ourselves from performing duties
we owe to those who live with us." After
meeting the characters who continually
interrupt his long-awaited listening to
Wagner's Parsifal, we can hardly blame
him for wanting to be "engaged" (British
parlance for "busy" on the phone.)
The Gallery Theatre's production of
this "engaging" play promises to be the
first in a line of professional productions
in a diamond-in-the-rough setting.
Director William Hardy has made do
Theater
Otherwise Engaged
with Spartan arrangements, including
lack of a mall entrance and of a real stage
audience enclosure, in putting together a
nice working ensemble of local talent in a
tailor-made-for-fun play.
Simon, played superbly by Kurt
Corriher, is everyone's shoulder to cry on,
though God only knows why. He forgets
everything. He asks irrelevant questions.
He can't., follow the thread of a
conversation. And worse, it dawns on his
interlopers that he doesn't really care
about anyone save, perhaps, Wagner.
The interruptors are a motley group:
Dave (Dan Brady), sociology major and
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THE Daily Crossword
by Bert Beaman
ACROSS
1 Couch
5-British
goodbyes
10 Cad
14 Eye amor
ously 15 Ultra
modern
17 Think bet
ter of it
19 Sunday
talk: abbr.
20 Mil. groups
21 Mosquito
genus
22 Kind of
beaver
24 Der -(Adenauer)
25 Be careful
31 Painter
32
33
Pekoe and
oolong
Freefrom
marking:
abbr.
34 No, in
Berlin
35 Barker of
films
Grove item
Harding of
films
So be it
Dive
Is impartial
45 Taj Mahal
site
46 German city
47 Vietnam
city
49 Inner:
comb, form
36
37
38
40
42
50 Tibetan
gazelle
53 Be polite
56 Occurring
by chance
Hindu god
Printer's
direction
59 An odor to
follow
Grows
mellow
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letters
5 Trig func
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(French
toast)
7 Makes lace
8 Waterless:
abbr.
9 march on
(gets ahead
of)
10 Connecticut
town
11 New York
city
12 Published
works: abbr.
13 Conducted
16 Garboand
others
18 Greek town
23 Tennis
score
24 Pinnacle
25 Eskimo
" implement
26 Papas of
the stage
27 Office
employee
28 Sewing aid
29 Ruler
30 Bergen
dummy
35 Ms. Home
36 " and tide
wait ..."
38 as gold
39 Fighting
men
40 Kind of
psychology
41 Young actor
Williams
43 Indian
diplomat
44 Author
47 Slight
suggestion
48 Noun ending
49 Italian
family
51 French
river
52 Sale words
53 Bad: pref.
54 Letter
abbr.
55 Aviation
group: abbr.
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live-in bum; brother Stephan Hench (Bud
DeWinter), bumbling public
schoolteacher (trans, 'private' to us); Jeff
Golding (John Engell), lush friend who
prefaces every other word with 'bloody';
Davina Saunders (Julie Booe), bitch
goddess; Wood (Hugh Hodgin), latent
pederast and loser; and finally, the wife,
Beth (Martii Preston), an annoying
creature who refers to her lover as source
authority for all the nastiness she feels for
husband Hench.
The whole cast is more than adequate,
in fact 'bloody' good, except in the matter
of accents. They all try various British
accents with varying degrees of success,
from Dan Brady's excellent pseudo
Gockney to Julie Booe's lapsed Scarlet
O'Hara. Booe's performance, however,
redeems her accent, and in general her
accent is no great impediment.
Otherwise Engaged is playing in the
Carr Mill Playhouse Friday and
Saturday and Oct. 19-21. Tickets are
$150.
Disarmament
workshop set
Disarmament and Human Rights Human
Needs is the title of a workshop to be
sponsored by Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom from 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Saturday at the Carolian Theater m Durham.
Registration is $1 for students, persons
unemployed and over 65 and $2 for all others.
Refreshments will be available.
The program will begin with a presentation
by Dorothy R. Steffens, a writer, lecturer and
peace leader. As WILPF's national executive
director, she was one of two Americans invited
to represent the U.S. peace movement in
Hanoi when the Paris Accords were signed.
Steffens is known for her research on the
relationship between the arms race and the
needs of minorities, women, youth, workers
and other community groups.
There will be two simultaneous workshops,
one on Disarmament and Human Rights, the
other on Disarmament and Human Needs, led
by six WILPF members.
WeeCceimd! Faire 1 : 1
Cinema
, Duke University
Welcome to L.A. At 7. 9:30 and midnight Friday
in the Bio-Sci Auditorium. Admission $1.
Telefon At 7 and 9:15 p.m. Sunday in Page
Auditorium. Admission SI.
Chapel Hill
Carolina White Up In Smoke. Cheech and
Chong buzz the hjghway, unknowingly transporting
illegal drugs. At 3:30. 5:15, 7 and 9 p.m.
Carolina Blue Animal House. John Belushi and
Donald Sutherland star in this hilarious tale of
decadence. At 3. 5. 7:10 and 9:20 p.m.
Carolina Lateshows Wizard at 11:15 p.m. and
Reefer Madness and The Cocaine Fiend at 1 1:30 p.m.
Plaza I A Double Feature: Dherlork Holmes'
Smarter Brother and the World's Greatest I. over.
Gene Wilder stars in these slapstick comedies. TBA. '
Plaza II Heaen Can Wait. Warren Beatty, Julie
Christie and Dyan Cannon really shine in this story of
a man who simply died too soon. TBA.
Plaza HI Saturday Night Fever. John Travolta
discovers the true meaning of life lies somewhere
across the Brooklyn Bridge. TBA.
Ram I Almost Summer. Tim Matheson, fresh
from his success in Animal House, stars in this comic
romance about the joys of high school life. Weekdays
at 7 and 9 p.m. Weedends at 3. 5. 7, and p m
Ram II They Went Thataway & Thataway. A
western comedy starring Tim Conway. Wccdays at
7:15 and 9:15 p.m. Weekends at 3:15, 5:15. 7:15 and
9:15" p.m.
Ram III American Graffiti. In case you weren't
cruisin' in '62, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard,
Suzanne Somers. Harrison Ford, Mackenzie Phillips
and a host of other stars are set to show you what it
was like. Weedays at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Weekends at
3:30, 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Varsity The Erotic Adventures of Candy. Carol
Connors and John C. Holmes star. At 2:40, 4:20, 6.
7:40 and 9:20 p.m.
Varsity Lateshow The Rocky Horror Picture
Show. At midnight.
smuggling. At midnight on Channel II.
Saturday
Baseball Live coverage of the fourth game of the
World Series at 3 p.m. on Channel 28.
UNC Symphony A concert of American music
from the colonial era to the present at 7 p.m. on
Channel 4.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1 941) A young man
returns in another man's body after dying before his
time. Recently remade as Heaven Can Wait. At 5
p.m. on Channel 5. , ?
Rescue From Gilligan's Island Part I of a two
part movie continuation of the .1964-67 comedy
series. At 9 p.m. on Channel 28.
Cool Hand Luke (1967) A classic with Paul
Newman as a rebellious member of a chain gain.
George Kennedy also stars. At 1 1:30 p.m. on Channel
2. . : -
The Ugly American (1963)- Marlon Brando stars
as an American ambassador in Asia. At 1 1 :30 p.m. on
Channel II.
State Fair Country Concerts Singer Larry Gatlin
performs at 7 p.m. today and singers Stella Parton
and O.B. McClinton perform at 7 p.m. Saturday in
Dorton Arena, State Fairgrounds, Raleigh. ; L
Wynhwn Harpsichord Duo At 4 p.m. in Kress
Galleries of the N.C. Museum of Art, Raleigh.
String Recital Dorothy Kitchen (violin) and
Kathryn Huestis (piano) perform at 8: 15 - p.m.
Sunday .in the fast Duke Music Room, Duke
University..' ,5
Kenny Loggins and the Outlaws At , 4 P sii,
Sunday : iri Cameron Indoor Stadium at: Duke
University. - . - ' ..'., - - t
Nite life
Theatre
Cat'i , Cradle The Tony Williamson Band
performs today and Saturday nights. Tickets for the
Oct. 27-28 appearance of the Red Clay Ramblers will
go on sale today. ;" S :
The Pier, Raleigh (Village Subway) Glassmoon
performs today and Saturday nights.
Somethyme, Durham (Broad Street)- Jake
Washburn today Jeff Gibbons Saturday and classical'
guitarist David Barrison at 7:30 p.m; Sunday. "
The Station, Carrboro Phil and Gaye Johnson
perform today and Saturday. Hands play jazz
Sunday. , .
The Yacht Club The Jazz Trio performs
Saturday and Sunday nights.
" Holiday on Ice At 8 p.m. today. 2 and 8 p.m.
- Saturday and 2 and 6 p.m. Sunday at the Greensboro
Coliseum.
Television
Today
A Guide For the Married Woman Premiere of
movie with Cybill Shepherd as a housewife whose
dreams are stifled by her husband. At 9' p.m. on
Channels 5 and 8.
A Man Could Get Killed (1966) James Garner
and Melina "Mercouri in a tale of espionage and
Dracula The Playmakers Repertory Company
production of Bram Stoker's horror story will be
presented at 8 p.m. nightly except Mondays and at 2
p.m. Sunday at Playmakers Theatre. Reservations:
933-1121.
Otherwise Engaged The Gallery Theatre of the
Carrboro Artschool presents Simon Gray's adult
comedy, directed by UNC professor William Hardy,
at 8 p.m. today and Saturday in Carr Mill Playhouse.
Reservations: 942-2041.
My Fair Lady Presented at 8:30 p.m. nightly
except Mondays (buffet begins at 6:45 p.m.) at the
Village Dinner Theater, Morrisville. Reservations
787-7771.
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry's drama
is presented at 8:15 p.m. today and Saturday and at
3:15 p.m. Sunday at the N.C. Central University
Theater, Fayettevllle and Lawson Streets, Durham.
Reservations: 683-6242.
Pippin Musical comedy will be presented at 8
p.m. today through Sunday and again at 3 p.m.
Sunday at the Raleigh Little Theater (Pogue Street).
Reservations: 821-3111. ' 'f51ai L-
Dance Black Invitational Concert Sponsored by
the black student alliances of Puke, UNC and N.C.
Central Upiversity at 8:1 J p.m. today in Page
Auditorium, Duke University.,
N.C. Symphony Performing with guest soprano
Elizabeth Suderburg at 8 p.m. today in Memorial
Auditorium, Raleigh.
Planetarium
; Technicolor Sky The Morehead Planetarium
feature at 8 p.m. today, II a.m.. I, 3 and 8 p.m.
Saturday and 2, 3 and 8 p.m. Sunday.
Gallery
Ackland Museum The annual faculty exhibition
runs through Nov. 20. Open from 2-6 daily except
Monday. ' .
Horace Williams House Prints by Anne Wall
Thomas and Raymon Twiddy will be on display
through Oct. 20. ;
Lecture
Tarheel Speech Tournament The UNC
Individual Events Team will host the '2nd Annual
Speech Tournament this weekend on Saturday and
Sunday. For more information call 933-7648.
Radio
In Focus Tonight's featured artists are The Who
and Spirit. Aired from 6-11 p.m. on WDBS-FM 107.
Jazz Show The best in mainstream, big band and
fusion jazz is featured from noon-4 p.m. Sunday on
WXYC-FM 89.
Artist Profile Karen Lawrence, the lead singer of
1994 will be the featured artist at 7 p.m. Sunday on
WXYC-FM 89.
Cult k
eeps hard rock .alive in; disco times
By MARK PEEL
Staff Writer
The ability to hammer an audience into
frothing-at-the-mouth senselessness is a
dying art in rock music. One reason might
be that rock listeners have just become
too sophisticated to respond to the
primitive elements , that are the
foundation of heavy metal rock pile
driving rhythms, bloodcurdling vocals
and feedback-enriched guitars exploring
the nine possible permutations of ihe
three known heavy metal chords.
Why pay $7 to go to a. concert where
Records
Some Enchanted Evening
Blue Oyster Cult
5,000 14- and 15-year-olds run amok
dropping, ashes on your new corduroy
sports coat, only to be pounded into
submission by four or five frightening
madmen who wouldn't know a melody if
one bit them in the ear?
Heavy Metal is out, dead, passe.
Nobody listens to Black Sabbath or Ted
"hit me" Nugent (except in the Midwest
and in Fayetteville) anymore. So why
does anyone bother to make these
records? Well, Blue Oyster Cult is one
convincing reason.
For one thing, you can't be sensitive all
of the time; it'd be oppressive. And it's a
scientific fact that after one has reached a
certain level of intoxication, it is
impossible to distinguish a guitar from a
saxophone. Some people can't even tell if
a melodic line is ascending or descending!
DEW
ON CAMFU
with
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When you've reached that point, the last
thing you need is a song about how much
some guy loves some girl. What you need
is a song about Godzilla. And that's why
we have Blue Oyster Cult. '
Some Enchanted Evening is Blue
Oyster Cult's second live album.
Recorded at four different concerts in
April and June of this year, the album is
testimony to the riveting power of hard
rock to grab the listener by the hair and
box his ears. The selections draw from the
Cult's most recent albums (the brilliant
Agents of Fortune and largely ignored
but also quite good Spectres as jyell as
jwa.clapics, theC5's
ihe 'Jams' ana! uie 'Aninials "alienated
youth of the Sixties" anthem: "We Gotta
Get Out of This Place."
Pop radio aficionados will recognize
the band's only hit single "(Don't Fear)
the Reaper" (winner of Billboard
Magazine's best single by a group with
four alburns no one has heard of award
for 1977 and my award for best single of
1977 period). The tunes are aggressively
performed, so much so that I would
advise pausing between the first and
second sides for a glass of Gatorade or
perhaps a quick nap to prevent
hyperexhaustion.
Lest the reader interpret the above as
an unqualified approbation of heavy
metal rock in general, I hasten to add that
its progressive demise is probably a
deserved one. Were Blue Oyster Cult's
only contribution that of acting as an
outlet for the listner's suppressed frenzy,
a good round of bowling or wind sprints
easily could be substituted.
But the current decline of the genre
only serves to underscore the Cult's
virtues. They are among the most
engrossing of rock's songwriters, able to
convincingly evoke a sinister yet plausible
occult point of view. Their single hit
"(Don't Fear) the Reaper," for example,
was an allegorical representation of death
in the person of a shrouded young man
who beckons his lover to enter into a
suicide pact hardly the stuff of which
Top 40 is made. And their musicianship
rivals that of Little Feat in performance
(if not in structural complexity).
Above all, Blue Oyster Cult appeals on
a remarkably elevated intellectual level
for a band working within such narrow
generic limitations, and their macabre,
terrifying vision makes it very unlikely
that heavy metal rock will die with a
whimper.
Mark Peel is music critic for the Daily
Tar Heel.
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