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6The Daily Tar HeelFriday, April 26, 1991 tptrt aw River Festival w ii ii iiv in i, i ey . i i w .a ,i ii , i is i in ii II ti j iy ,n .i in r - "Pericles," the final show in 1 PlayMakers Repertory Company's 1990-91 season, is a stunning conclu- s'ion to a spectacular season. Nothing is 1 rong with this play the acting is 'tremendous; the text, well, the text is Shakespeare; the costumes are lavish ' and the play is wonderful. On the rare " occasions when a play is flawless, find ing words that describe anything be- yond the above gushing is difficult. The play itself is a somewhat unusual hoice for a repertory company to per 'form. The play is not one of ' Shakespeare's better-known works. '' Neither a history, a tragedy nor a com edy, the play is lost to the usual 'Shakespearian genres. Combining ele ' ments of all three, Pericles could best be described as a romance. As a hero Pericles isn't absolutely ' loved or absolutely hated, like many of Shakespeare's characters. Although . Craig Wroe's acting is impressive, Pericles isn't an incredibly dynamic protagonist. This choice of a play with a rather passive hero at first seems odd; ' however, all the other characters are ' strong and inspire so much feeling that ' his passivity doesn't detract from the -play. Pericles, Prince of Tyre, flees the ' land of Antioch, where he had jour- fieyed to obtain a beautiful princess, after discovering her incestuous rela rionship with her father, the King. The "evil King, afraid of Pericles spreading the word of his iniquity, sends an assas- 5 Get Fully Prepared with the LEGAL PREP LSAT PREPARATION SEMINAR ". . . fun, challenging, highly effective! Clearly w the best value in LSATDreoaration!" FALL SEMINARS FORMING NOW EdPreofi SUMMER HOME-STUDY PROGRAMS U CALL 1 - 800 - 654 - ' Sponsored by Educational Preparation Services, Inc r 70XCROFT APARTMENT S JX. 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Marina's heavenly virtue enables her to escape harm. Soon her goodness spreads to her captors, and the family is united in the end. In almost a contrived deus ex machina, the goddess Diana steps in and lends a hand. In many ways "Pericles" is the story of the journey from innocence to expe rience, naivete to adulthood. In the be ginning Pericles is wide-eyed and inno cent. After fleeing his homeland he dis covers how unfair the world can be. After he loses his love and daughter he loses faith in the goodness of the world and is caught in an existentialist's di lemma. Circumstance has convinced him that there is no justice, meaning or reward in the world. But he remains a good character and doesn't fall to treach- 2385 IIIJI in I Ml) I 3 vTX f Lvti aUttrt I.i ""' ' mmt9mmkWmmm ...... .... ... .. . .wmrmm - - "- ' j -!4 t j.Mt v A 1 "Yiiirifiiii Connan Morrissey, Craig Wroe ery. Eventually Marina's faith and Thaisa' s loyalty save the family, and like the biblical, suffering Job he is rewarded with happiness in the end. PlayMakers has manipulated Shakespeare's text in several interest ing ways. The comic relief scenes are highlighted with a slapstick comedy that does credit to Shakespeare's sense of humor. The military costumes worn by the men of Antioch and Tyre are reminiscent of a modern Middle East ern country, complete with submachine guns. The costuming as a whole was excellent and added much to the play. Marina's captors, swindling brothel owners, are clad in cheap modern attire. T-shirts, tight pants, hair spray and gaudy makeup enhance the comedic effect of the otherwise evil characters. This choice of costuming, which had the potential to be out of place and alien, is original and humorous. Dramaturge Adam Versenyi and ar tistic director David Hammond said the play was about "the desire we all have 31vc Acoustics Qpndays at 03 0V with no April 29 Casual Arrogance May 3 Had Matters The Monday Special $1.00 Domestics Hot New T -Shirts Have Arrived! 101 East Franklin St. 967-2678 II "FUNNY, MOVING Gary Giddens, I ""T 3 battlefields of Spo'm, hrJ VK - " , she won the heart I P f m"" I and Ray Dooley star in "Pericles" for a universal order that we can under stand, that can give coherence and mean ing to our lives." In the beginning so many hardships befall this pure and virtuous prince, the universe seems to be meaningless and to punish good. In the end, good is rewarded and evil is punished. The production features three guest artists, all of whom deliver fine perfor mances. Craig Wroe as Pericles, Ken Strong as the good King Simonides and Peter Bradbury as Cleon are all excel lent. The two female leads, Thaisa and Marina, played by Eve Eaton and Connan Morrissey, are also impressive. Since there are only so many adjectives to describe how good the play is and my thesaurus is running out, I will just tell you to go see the play. You'll be glad you did. "Pericles" will be presented at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday with 2 p.m. matinees on Sunday. Performances will last through Sunday, May 12. For more information call 962-PLAY. NisW cover "fYVTE fXU TUV "DUCT FILMS OF THE YEAR! j tAt "A" ir "Ar ! Exhilarating!' lom Jacobs, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS "BOLD, IRONIC AND GREAT FUN!" Richard Corliss, TIME MAGAZINE A PROVOCATIVE COMEDY X X ABOUT SECRETS AND SURPRISES. 4:00 7:00 A Mm by MICHAEL VUHOEVEN 9.QQ & IRRESISTIBLE!" VILLAGE VOICE "SENSATIONAL!" Jcffcry Lyons, CBS-RADIO "SPLENDID!" Sheila Benson, LOS ANGELES TIMES "POWERFUL!" Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS reminds residents of the beauty By Pia Doersam Staff Writer "Did you ever try to hug a shadow?" Zuck Ralston asks the fourth graders from Rockingham County. The snowy-white hair of a 75-year-old peeks out from under his beige safari hat, but his voice has the timeless miracle of a storyteller. He tells a tale of six men captured in a cave, and all they could see was the shadow of animals thrown on the wall of the cave by the guard's fire. One day, a man dared to escape. Over whelmed by the beauty of the real animals and the real nature, he hugged a dogwood tree. "Do you know where the entrance of the cave is?" Ralston asks. No an swer, only 1 2 pairs of spellbound eyes. Ralston knocks on his head. "The ears! The nose! The eyes!" the children shout. To open children's eyes to the beauty of nature and the Haw River, Ralston and 1 9 other river-lovers came to Guilford County to celebrate the first week of the Haw River Festival. In Forsyth County, the crew of edu cators and performers took a jug of spring water from the source of the Haw River on April 1 9. In four weeks, the jug and a crew whose members change weekly will travel the entire 1 00-mile length of the river by canoe. The Haw turns from a swampy, calm stream into a broad, wild Whitewater river. Farther along, treated waste water from the city of Greens boro and Burlington's textile facto ries mix with the river. At-the end of the journey, when the Haw feeds into the Cape Fear River, the crew will pour the last drops of clear spring water out of the jar into a now-brownish, lumbering Haw. The crew stop six times along the way to bring a "hands-on learning celebration of rivers, reptiles and re cycling" to a total of 3,000 school children in the five counties the river connects. Hands-on means grinding corn by stone, playing games Native-American children used to play or touching the skull of a beaver. "Ooh," 10-year-old Betty squeals. She shakes her head in disgust, mak ing her little black plaits fly, when Chris Garter at the animals station pulls the beaver's teeth out of its skull. They are three inches long, bowed and sharp. If a beaver doesn't nibble all the time to keep his teeth short, they grow into its head and it dies, says Garter, an expert on local reptiles and a juggler from Chapel Hill. WE (SOT is 8 years young & still growing! ft Join now or add to S2iz(fyeu ! Carrboro503 W. Gangster "snaps" provolone HAS UNTIL NOON TO BECOME AN HONEST MAN. SVlVSTtt STALLONE IN N CRI!,!E AND COMEDY, TIMING PG Pm 6UCAACE SUGGESTED tarn Mftimuu. mat not m wntmu k ojm of nature To restore and preserve the health and beauty of the Haw River, where the bear er, the copperhead snake and even the endangered bald eagle live, the Haw River Assembly was founded in 1982. Besides the festival, which won a 'Take Pride in America" award last year, the non-profit citizen's group organizes river clean-ups, keeps track of the principle polluters of the river and sends comments to legislators on matters affecting the water quality. With nature hikes, canoe trips and community concerts during the festi val, the assembly wants to make people along the river more aware of the spe cial place they live. "When people really love the place where they live," says festival coordi nator Louise Kessel, "they think more about the choices they make and how those choices will affect their environ ment and community." Kessel, a storyteller from Bynum, won the Independent Weekly's 1990 Citizen of the Year Award for orga nizing the first Haw River Festival. She said volunteers were still needed. For more information on the Haw River Festival, call Kessel at (919) 542-5599. At this year's festival finale in Bynum on May 18, everybody is in vited to celebrate on the river's shores, listen to live music and learn about local crafts, solar energy and the Haw Knowledge is important, because it's the Haw's water they drink. It's on the Haw's shores they fish and walk. To protect their river, 400 volun teers are willing to sacrifice a day, a week or a month. "It takes people from all parts of life to make an environmental movement work," says Sonia Mumford, a senior at UNC. "The nver ties everybody together." Mumford, a SEAC member, worked on the crew last year. There she got to know Liz Stiles, who works at the Women's Center in Chapel Hill. Seven days of camping out and eating lentils with carrots together, listening to ban jos, canoeing and discovering snakes birds and beavers together turned an acquaintance into a lasting friendship Both have come back this year. "Our purpose is to teach children,' Mumford says. "But the team becomes like a family. Like the journey of the jug of water down the river, the crew learns about friendship. Getting out of the routine of a Chape! Hill life is refreshing, she says. "It is so easy for us students to get so consumed in classes, but there is a whole world out there." your current membership! Tifceis (Specials f . STVPENTS PROFESSIONALS g j Main St. 933-9249 Taud&anci Ihiiimiii r lini Fiw Iuiiimiim IM Cleililli Miwi Pictures 1 XX - nit V5 IS EVERYTHING. Niahtlv NCN8 Plaza 967-8284 Sat & Sun 2:304:30 EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT A FILM BY CARLOS SAURA 2:10 4:10 7:10 9:10 7:309:45 HEM J 1
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