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Entertaii Jcini By HENRY GREEN Gamecock Staff Writer "James at 16" is an honest t< gained considerable attentio Dealing with the pleasures a adolescent encounters in groi "James" is something of a 4 decade. Happily though, the s the television audience the sill Days" is prone to wallow in i People sometimes look back school and marvel at how i problems seemed-not finding i tantamount to the end of the c _i days. "James at 16," unlike "Hap although the show does have ii is not cute or sugary. "Jai problems as not finding a d; seriousness and delicacy, anc problems seem childish or ove in one episode James is stood \ much taller than he is, fears th right to dance with him at th< portrays the problem honest] someone who is six inches talle awkward. THE WAY JAMES (Lance K t "TOT 1 1 w orttshops ottere Acting Compan I to 9 perform IjUi ' ^ ?ii iment lesal problem si i nif_ n n wauons Mountain, ti Blevision show that has on his shou n for that honesty. and makes nd the pain which an height shou wing up in the 1970's, feel about < 'Happy Days" for our Not so on how manages to spare not James' iness to which "Happy should not 1; sometimes. to the prom : on their years in high James' pec important their small father does a date to the prom was cess. A si :ivilized world in those parental ini THE SHO py Days," is a drama, as can be s< ts comic moments, but episode. It nes" deals with such and more <j ate to the prom, with virginity at I does not make these It's someth rblowit. For example, Yet "Jam jp by a girl who, being adolescents at it just would not look and in other ; prom. rne program the show is i ly ; slow dancing with would expe ?r can indeed be a little ?v r \/l\ LAi erwin) copes with this Coley s*n8 d By LESLIE BATES Gamecock Staff Writer Academy award-winning acto John Houseman will be in Drayto Hall Theatre Friday night, not t perform but to observe. The producer-director-actor wi watch a performance c ^ Shakespeare's "King Lear" by Th /Acung company, the repertor group he founded and current! directs. "If Lear doesn't look right t him, he'll have a Saturda rehearsal of Lear, to try to get i ready to go into New York," sai Dr. Patti Gillespie, chairman c USC Department of Theatre an Speech. nnu -v c%c% L- ? i nt; ^z-meiiioer company wi present "King Lear" March 3 and \ C EY ROSCOEl \ AS YOUR J TE? J M m- ^YTt v?j hould bring raised eyebrows to any fan. If James were living on Walton's -.i j i? ai * us imuer wuuiu oe me one wno lays a nana lder, has a heart-to-heart talk with him, him see the light, makes him realize that Id have nothing to do with how two people sach other. "James at 16." Interestingly enough, it is parents who make him realize that he ash out at himself for being too short to gc i with his intended date, but a member ol t group, his black friend Sly. James' try to talk to his son, but with little sue ign of a most un-Waltonlike erosion ol fluence for the 1970's, maybe? W EXHIBITS boldness in subject matter, ien when James loses his virginity in one is true that television has become more laring in recent years, but to lose one's 16 - well, that's still a little controversial, ing Richie Cunningham would never do. ies" is honest in this matter - today man> do lose their virginity at 16 or younger ways as well. The music that is heard or mostly top 40 material, songs to which one ct teenagers to listen to. \MPLE, England Dan and John Ford the song which is heard during the See JAMES, page 16 at 8 p.m. and Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Couraee and her Children" at 8 p.m. on March 5. r Both performances will be in n Drayton Hall Theatre. o TWO WORKSHOPS will be ofII fered by the Acting Company. One ?f in wigs and make-up will be held e Saturday March 4 from 11:00 a.m. y until 1:00 p.m. in Drayton Hall y Theatre. One in stage fighting and combat will be held from 1:30 until o 3:30 p.m. on March 5 in Longstreet y Theatre. it d The Acting Company, which >f evolved out of a freshman drama J il T..11: 1 r>..i 1 * u cictaa ut mt; ciunicuu ocuooi in l\ew York City, tours the country for 11 several months before opening*new 4 shows in New York, Gillespie said. wgnn) JEWELL- DID SHE /e RSST [ XOU UP TO HER 1 ROOM ? HN\M, t k SHE? I \ I A \ I THINK \ I T\/^e^ /t uke her en [Mm wot to go aro mh babbun6 abo hhBH her morals i IHBl \ . IIKT I tv ?P"- - V7W*' wrr.v I Lance Kerwin as James...ti As many as 50 percent of the c company are Julliard graduates ? o and the other 50 percent are c selected after open auditions, said b Gillespie, who has kept up with the company through member David v Schramm, who will play the role of Lear. P tl "I'VE SEEN EVERY SEASON v that they've done," she added. "I c feel like I've known the rnmnnnv tl j -v now for quite a long time. r Repertory companies are not what today's public is accustomed to. A repertory company is a company 81 in which the same group of actors performs a variety of plays. a "In a repertory company, unlike B a stock company or the kind of 01 /?STRUCK >10/ OUT _ y \ AGAIN? ever j / about/i / ;ex,sexa / TWHI 1 V \V [XT ?mmm?mmmmmmmmmm , , ajf B?- ^ WmL V<%^3L '- *) eating youth seriously ompany we're used to, you get to QD nnf nnltf Ur* 41 bv nvi 1I1JT U1C JJltJJT UUl Ilcivt; lilt? pportunity to evaluate the acting raft of each individual person, ecause you get to see them in a ariety of roles." Gillespie said repertory comanies were very popular during tie 18th and 19th centuries, and "it /asn't until the end of the 19th entury that most companies in [lis country went away from the . pnortnrv anH ir.Jn " -f J ?..v ?IVV V?IV IUI15-IUII. Workshops are open to the eneral public. Tickets to per>rmances are $2 for students and j for the public. Tickets are vailable from the Drayton Hall ox Office or by phoning 777-2551 r 777-2552. 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