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Theate: By Michelle Baiemore Staff Writer The Tooth of Crime, an Qbie-winning play by contemporary playwright Sam Shepard, opens in Longstreet Theater Sept. 2527, and it is not one to miss. The Tooth of Crime was the first performed in London in 1972. It opened in (hp IT in Prinrpfnn N .1 and had its off-Broadway premiere in New York in 1973. The play is produced by the department of theatre and speech, and is directed by David Engel. Shepard is the recipient of 10 Obies, more than any other contemporary playwright. The Obie is awarded to the best in offBroadway productions. Shepard was born in 1943 * ?<... '" ! J|:H ip-5' M||Ihm * :." ::\.pYj---:t' ***Sa8M< sw|Hk %m Jim Holmes port Horn Homeco and float c from tin 2n< 1) DEADLINE OG TURN ^ THE STXJ 1 iTh | She ffl I I Reduced Kate 3s | Name I Dorm I Tele-phone S P I Circle your choi | 7-day State $7.0< *<y If interested caJ I vour check and < r seasoi and grew up in southern California. When he was 18 he went to New York and more or less fell into writing plays. "The world I was living in was the most fascinating thing to me, and I thought the best thing I could do maybe would be to write about it." He did indeed write about his world, almost thirty plays since the mid 1960s. More than any other American playwright, Shepard weaves into his own dramatic idiom the strands of a youth culture thriving on drugs, rock and roll, astrology, science fiction, old movies and cowboys. "I'm interested in exploring the writing of plays through the attitudes derived from other forms such as music, .^Q< < gpj|jM^ffl^J |: >'! my < v rays "Hoss" ecoming 11 ming queen appl ^ ? -A- ** _ tnvry xorms can b Student Activi 1 floor Russell H etween 9am-Bpm FOB. BOTH APP1 TOBER 1. 1980 6 APPLICATIONS nPTwr A r?PTirTTT X/ AJ A1 JL V JL A V A JL A nhimhia "V > ^ ^ ;s for On-Campus J ? ' ce: 7-dav State $10.50 ) 6-day :ord 1 f Prince ai S48H subscription order. i opens painting, sculpture, film, and art, all the while keeping in mind that I'm writine for the theater." Even now, Shepard prefers seeing his works performed in little regional meaires or coneges, Decause he feels professional, commercial iheater is a very stifling environment creatively. All he hopes for from an audience is that "they bring to a play a certain kind of openness, an expectation of seeing something they haven't seen before, a particular vision thnt lhf? nnHipnrp and fhp actors take part in, in which something, some truth, is revealed and seen." The focus of The Tooth of Crime is on myth and language. The basic myth is that of the aging gunfighter who must fight one last duei. In The Tooth of Crime this figure is a rock star, the form of his duel is bizarre language and he engages in miont-ont of wnrns Thp American past, present, and future ? last cars mecnanical gaogetrv. chrome and plastic vaiues festoon the stape and torm a symooiic veneer vnuer which the Amprican ineais are s 11 r 1 v e i 1 n e. 7' h e American myth is caoturea by Shepara's brilliant idioms and stage imagery. The hero is Hoss,' rockstar killer that is weary, vicious, and doped to the gills. He is still number one. on top. His ihrone '.s challenged by 'Crow' who is lean, hungry and on the move. The battle is part musical cutting session and part machine gun duel of farout words and is as strikingly ancient as a tribal rite. The Tooth of Crime is style, the American style that encompasses everything from a rock star to a Western gun-siinger, tc a mob killer, to a movie star *80 ' ications toe obtained tes office, ouse iICATIONS IS pm. IN AT ES OFFICE s fate Record students . I 7-day Record and he will pick up with' T to a super-fly dope pusher, to the president. Hoss and Crow are all of these and mnrp Jim Holmes has the lead role as Hoss. Holmes is a senior theater major and has played a number of roles for USC, Workshop Theatre, Town Theatre, and Hiers Dinner Theatre. Gerald Heaton is Hoss's competitor, Crow. Heaton is a sophomore theater major from Reevesville S.C. Heaton just returned from H.B. Studios in New York, where he studied for the summer. The set design is by Isabel Vandervelde, lighting by Debbie Rosengrantz, sound bv Brian Gilbert, costumes by Norma Jean True, and technical direction by >> .<*? 4; If ^ ? >.< -OS 1 5 ! f tt Fun < |; tv oper > | ? * oeliv * All Y< | " Serving th< ORDER ANY 12" WH< S 6" HALF SUB - FREE. I 11 AND 20.02 COKE -Ol l2l I \ Special of the weel i PERSON ) 1 roi iwqi DEVEL DREAM CROUP Learn how to Improve dr dreams. 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