6The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, February 4, 1988
6 Woolgatherer' focuses
on unusual love story
By MICHAEL SPIRT AS
Staff Writer
Manbites Dog Theater, a new
local company which "works to
challenge as well as entertain," will
present its production of "The
Woolgatherer" beginning this
week. The play, an eccentric love
story" by William Mastrosimone,
opens tonight at the company's
Durham theater.
The play, set in working-class
South Philadelphia, is centered
around the chance meeting
between Cliff, a cynical truck
driver, and Rose, a clerk at a five
and dime. Ed Hunt, managing
director of Manbites Dog,
explained that artistic director Jeff
Storer chose to present this play
because it is an excellent work that
has yet to be performed in this
area.
The theater has been rearranged
since "Seventy Scenes of Hallo
ween," which was Manbites Dog's
first production. The stage has
been repositioned within the
theater building, and the audience
will be seated around the stage
rather than in front of it. Hunt
explains that this will help draw
the audience in to the characters
as well as surprise those who
attended the first production.
Hunt feels that this "tight
character play" will be especially
fitting during the Valentine sea
son. The story unfolds as Rose
invites Cliff, whose truck has
broken down, up to her sparse
apartment. Cliff, looking for a
good time, brings a six-pack of
beer and his cynical wit. Much to
his (and the audience's) bewilder
ment, Rose fails to receive his
advances. This frustrates Cliff and
confuses the audience. Rose is
definitely the mystery of the play.
Patricia Esperon, who portrays
Rose, explains that there's very
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little biographical detail about her
(Rose's) life, which explains the
confusion about the character.
Even Esperon is not sure when
Rose is lying, telling the truth, or
just fooling herself. Esperon, a
Duke graduate and veteran of
New York's American Folk
Theater, called this confusion the
most difficult aspect of her role.
Less confusion is evident in the
character of Cliff, portrayed by
Jim Stowe. Stowe, who recently
appeared in an English production
of "A Christmas Carol," plays
Cliff as a realist with a hidden
sensitivity.
An interesting aspect about the
production is the physical attrib
utes of the characters. Stowe is a
towering 6-foot-4, weighing 295
lbs., while the diminutive Esperon
carries 108 lbs. on her 5-foot-2
frame. Despite his size the tow
ering truck driver is held captive
by Rose's bewildering innocence.
Thus, the physical disparity
emphasizes the irony evident in
Rose's contol over Cliff.
Esperon describes "The Wool
gatherer" as "a play about redemp
tion." During the course of the
play the two characters discard
their selfish motives to reach out
to each other and eventually unite.
Both characters, shouldering con
siderable working-class woes, find
consolation in one another. This
quest for consolation, as well as
the complex nature of the char
acters, makes "The Woolgatherer"
a ground-level look at two modern
survivors.
"The Woolgatherer" will be
performed Thursday through
Saturday at 8:15 p.m.; Feb. 11-13;
and Feb. 18-20 at Manbites Dog
Theater in Durham. Call 286-2890
for ticket information.
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TT"1 ranch conjugations, calculus
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to studying success, and experts say
mnemonics, devices designed to
assist memory skills, include a wide
range of methods ranging from
rhymes to simple association.
Beginning in 1986, UNC psychol
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with associate jpsychology professor
Joseph Lowman, conducted a
memory experiment with their Psy
chology 10 class. After videotaping
225 students1 faces, names and
majors, the two professors memo
rized this information. Three weeks
later, a third professor randomly
chose IS people from the class for
Lowman and King to identify.
"It was an experiment to get to
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King said. "When someone walks in,
I can put the name with the face and
say hi. It just adds a personal
touch."
King explained that the first step
to memorization was to scan the
whole set, because some students
would stand out and could be recog
nized immediately. Then he broke
up the list of students into small
units of 10 and learned those fairly
well before previewing the next 10.
"It's a serial kind of thing," he
said. "It's rehearsal and maintenance
going back over things."
The same plan is suggested to stu
dents studying for an exam. Scan
the chapter, learn a few sections,
review the material and add other
sections gradually.
Martha Keever, acting director of
The Learning Center in Phillips
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the most effective way to memorize.
"It's in the nature of the way we
learn and memorize that we must do
it in clusters," she said.
Keever also added that there
seems to be . break-off point at
seven that allows us to handle the
information. This, she explained, is
why phone numbers and social
security numbers are broken down
into three and four digits.
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for ages.But, according to King,
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