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2Thc Daily Tar HeelFriday, March 27, 1992 ME Islam 'Seduction' explores eccentricity of Hughes A suggestive strip-tease, a blue moon and an eccentric old man in a bomber jacket do these images sound like typical elements of modern drama? If your curiosity is piqued, you'll want to check out the Lab! Theatre's produc tion of Sam Shepard's eclectic play, "Seduced." "Seduced" is a play inspired by the end of millionaire Howard Hughes' life. It is Shepard's interpretation of the ru mors that surrounded Hughes' mysteri ous death. The characters, however, are fictional and quite colorful. One of the strong points of the per formance is its special effects. Direc tors Michael Allen and Mark Ariail make effective and unconventional use of lighting, music, sound and scenery. An intriguing feature in the otherwise ordinary scenery is a large, surreal moon that dominates the background during much of the play. Lurking behind the actors, it adds a strange mystique. Jenni Spitz Theater The play's opening focuses on cen tral character Henry Hackamore, played by Byron Thompson, as he lies in si lence on his bed. The entire action of the play, in fact, revolves around this bed. Henry, a quivering, decrepit old man with a fetish for cleanliness, is covering his body with Kleenex, presumably to ward away germs. He is so intent on this, however, that his action seems dramatic rather than humorous. This is only one of the nonsensical endeavors of Hackamore, who, though bedridden, is full of worldly gibberish and filled with past desires for women, adventure, power and seduction. Thompson portrays the strange old man with accuracy. Hisconstantly trem bling hands and cracked voice are testi monies to Henry's failing health. Thompson'seyes, which are never quite focused but always seem to be wander ing off into a more tantalizing world, are evidence of his character's senility. Thompson shows real force behind his character through the fearful, paranoid outbursts to which Henry is prone. Henry's servant, Raul, played by James Taylor, first appears as a flat, unemotional character. Subservient to his boss, Raul caters to Henry's insane demands with equally insane servility. Taylor later adds dimension to his character, for the story climaxes with an angry, revengeful Raul. His coming out in the second act saves Taylor's character from a fate of banality. Two female leads, Henry's old flames, contrast one another in "Seduc tion." Elana Hadler plays Luna, a so phisticated tease who speaks in over heated undertones. Hadler gives Luna a deliberate sensuality, and she is at her best when bantering with Henry in pro vocative innuendoes. Luna's counterpart, Miami, is played by Jenny Sutton. Miami lacks the class of Luna but shows a sleazy naivete. With her ghetto accent, Sutton fleshes out the character with responsive emo tion until she is almost charming. The show's real eye-opener is at the beginning of the second act, when Sutton and Hadler perform an erotic, flesh baring dance. After this, there is no questioning their innocence, nor their intentions toward Henry. "Seduced" is an accurate stab at the dark myth that surrounds one of our nation's legends. It does not revolve around scandalous sex, as its title may imply, but is still worth seeing. The performance does raise a brow or two. "Seduced" will be performed at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday and Monday and at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the basement ofCrahamMemorial.Admissionisfree. American Studies an Uncommon Major for Uncommon Students Summer School 1992 First Session: AMST40: Introduction to American Studies. 9:40. Fulfils Western Historical Perspective. Interdisciplinary study of American history and Literature. Prof. Lisa Nanney(Ceorgetown University). Second Session AMST20: Emergence of Modern America. 9:40. Fulfils Wester Historical Perspective. Uses art, architecture, popular culture, literature, and history to examine American culture. Prof. Joy Kasson. AMST 63: Artists & Writers in America. 1 1 :20. Fulfils Aesthetic Perspective. Examines pairs of writers and painters in nineteenth and twentieth century America, including Winslow Homer & Mark Twain, Emilly Dickinson & mary Cassatt, Ernest Hemingway & Edward Hopper, Toni Morrison & Judy Chi cago. Prof. Joy Kasson Fall 1992 AMST 20: The Emergence of Modern America. 12 MWF. Fulfils Western Historical Perspective. Uses art, architecture, popular culture, literature, and history to examine American culture. Prof. Joy Kasson. AMST 34H: Defining America. 1-1:50 MF, 1-2:50 W. Fulfils Aesthetic, Historical, or Philosophical perspective. An interdisciplinary course for junior-senior honors students that considers what it has meant to be "Ameri can" from colonial times to 1 865. Profs.Joy Kasson, John Nelson, & Michael Lienesch. AMST 40: Introduction to American Studies. 9:30 TTh. Fulfils Western Historical Perspective. Interdisciplinary study of American history & Litera ture. Prof. John Kasson. AMST 60: American Communities: A Photographic Approach. 7-9:30 T. Fulfils Aesthetic perspective. A field-work seminar in which each students will become involved in the process of producing a photographic documen tary. Bill Bamberger. AMST 63: Early American Modernism in Art & Literature. 2-5 M. Fulfils aesthetic perspective. Drawing extensively on local resources, this seminar will examine the nature of modernism in American art & literature of the first decades of the twentieth century. Profs. Arthur Marks & Townsend Ludington. (Crosslisted with ART 1 1 9). AMST 80: American Expatriate Women Artists. 12:30 TTh. Since before Mary Cassatt, American women have gone oversees to find themselves & help define the American character. We wil I look at work by Cassatt & other 1 9th century artists as well as the life & work of Gertrude Stein, Isadora Duncan, Sylvia Beach & others. Prof. Margaret O'Conner. MaleFemale Monday-Friday work week Two convenient work shifts 3 a.m.-8 a.m. 6 p.m. 11 p.m. Excellent wages Starting pay $8 per hour Contact UNC Career Placement Center for March 31 Group Sessions and Interviews An Equal Opportunity Employer HEE1 WORKING FOR STUDENTS WHO WORK FOR US. QpS UPS DEUVEBS EDUCATION mi mi Him mmmm I " piiuii.il 1 11 I n inn ill I 11 himself a messenger of Allah and thus equating himself with Muhammad, the founder of Orthodox Islam. Malcolm X became the national spokesman for the nation under Elijah Muhammad, after discovering Islam while in jail. The movement under Malcolm X had more converts than any other time in its history. "Malcolm was ... fiery, informed, visionary," Phillips said, the opposite of Elijah Muhammad. The B lack Muslims were one of many groups in the '60s that were working to reject stereotypes, Phillips said. "They were recasting a whole, new, different image of what it meant to be an urban black in Harlem, Pittsburgh, Boston." On his deathbed, Elijah Muhammad passed the torch of the Nation of Islam to his son, W.D. Muhammad, whom he had struggled with for years because he adhered to Orthodox Islam rather than his father's teachings. A few years later, in 1978, Louis Fatrakhan, who had been the national spokesman for Elijah Muhammad after Malcolm X, resur rected the waning Nation of Islam. Today Orthodox Islam adherents contend their religion and the Nation of Islam are two distinct religions. In a pamphlet distributed by their national Campus Calendar FRIDAY 9 a.m. Newman Catholic Student Center will sponsora day 'sdiscussion on (he history, background and theology of the Lenten season with speaker Rev. Ed Foley. Bring a bag lunch and a donation. 10 a.m. CAA will be having registrations for the Tar Heel 10,000 Road Race until 2 pm in the Pit. The Tar Heel 10,000 is a 2-mile, SK. and IOK road race. NOON: Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center official naming ceremony and reception until 3 p.m. Open to the public. 12:30 p.m. CGLA Lesbian Lunch in 220 Union until 1:30 p.m. 1 :30 p.m. Juggling Club will meet at the flagpole between Wilson Library and South Building. Rain or cold location Carmichael Ballroom. 5 p.m. CGLA Gay and Lesbian Triangle Student Organizations Caucus in 208-9 Union. SUNDAY 6 p.m. WXYC 89.3 FM welcomes Larry Agran, former mayor of Irvine, Calif., and dark-horse presi dential candidate, to "Northern Hemisphere Live." Call 962-8989 until 8 p.m. frompagjf. headquarters in Chicago, Orthodox-, Muslims claim vehemently that Black J Muslims should drop all reference Jo j Islam in their name and call themselves j practitioners of Farrakhanism. Orthodox Muslims believe? Muhammad was the last and final me; 1 senger, and anyone else claiming to bd-: a messenger is a false prophet, Dar saldin According to the pamphlet, Black Mu: lims contradict the Koran in their haV tional publication. The Final Call, and ' in Farrakhan's speeches. . Even Malcolm X recognized the tre-' mendous differences when he made his pilgrimage to Mecca and converted to ' Orthodox Islam after his return, Dar said. "He realized what was true Islam." '' Race consciousness is de-emphasized ; in Islam. A person's character and piety ' sets him apart, not his race, Dar said.: In 1990, there were 5.6 million Mus-y lims in North America, according to the 1991 Encyclopedia Britannica year book. The Nation of Islam under Farrakhan's leadership has 20,000 mem bers, according to The Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience. David X, minister of Durham's mosque, said he did not disclose the' membership in his mosque because he wanted all local blacks to consider them selves members. . , ' "I'm a Muslim, but we're trying to be inclusive. We're trying to bring unity to our people," David X said, adding that this included black Christians. The mosque offers services three days a week. On Sunday a lecture is offered, on Wednesday they invite people from the community to run programs, and on - -Friday they study the Koran. "The Nation of Islam exists to el evate the moral standards and econom ic ' situation in our own (black) community first," he said. Wallace said the message of the Black Muslims is as relevant today as ever. "Blacks are worseoff economically than, they have been for a long time. Black . men are killing black men like flies.'. Islam comes along with a message that's enticing to people." 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