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; Entertain r 'III'*# fflll % ' Funi I By CHRIS HANDAL oofc Citoc Don't let the title confuse you: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is no strange almanac or travel book but perhaps the funniest novtl of the year. In The Hitchhiker's Guide, Douglas Adams wisks the reader on a fanciful journey that begins with the destruction of Earth and follows the adventures of the , #Mara1 Stimi Inte > 1 C By DORO' I su* If you want to see a stii "Marat/Sade" is the play for drama that will easily stimula Upon entering the theatre phenomenal replication of a France. The scenery, by St patients, already milling abo the realistic mood of the play. ( * "Marat/Sade" is, in fact, a i W of the asylum are acting out a Marquis de Sade. Their task and assassination of Jean-1 educational therapy for the j the opportunity to watch them AT FIRST the play tends there are so many disturbing easily be distracted by the _ However, it is vital to focu } r fe characters since their mor development of the plot. As the play progresses, hou The audience is aided by a he who acts as a narrator throug performance as the herald is i Marat and de Sade argue i want change, but their metht believed in destroying tne no I peasants. De Sade challenge ? thought before action. Both men's theories are exj o kj Play. Their discussion is in * | truths about life, revolution revealed. An ironic twist "Marat/Sade" which is dynai OVERALL PERFORMANI quartet, the male nurses, and main characters in the play commitment to their roles n and leave the audience characterizations. "Marat/Sade" is perform needed ten-minute interims H" ^ brief intermissions provide t their thoughts about this exhs You can catch "Marat/Sj Sunday, Oct. 18. This fasc concentration...but it's well v nent niesf lone human survivor, Ar- I thur, throughout the galaxy. i Arthur is rescued from ] Earth by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the bestselling book in the galaxy, The Hitchhiker's Guide, which is described frequently as a "wholly remarkable" book. The reader is told that it sells 1 A. A. 1.1 A. ? A uener man me great t.n- i cyclopedia Galactica because "it is slightly 1 cheaper; and second, it has i t/Sade' plates ! t Ilect j rHYGRAY !2 j Ting theatrical performance, you. It is a thought-provoking 1 teyour intellect. ?, you find yourself facing a 19th-century insane asylum in isan Gratch. is flawless. The lut before curtain time, add to piay within a play. The inmates t play under the direction of the is to re-enact the persecution Paul Marat. It is a kind of patients, and the audience has i perform. to be rather confusing. Since { characters to watch, you can actions of peculiar inmates, s your attention on the main mlnffiiM are essential to the 'ever, the plot becomes clearer. < jrald, played by Allen McCalla, 1 ^hout "Marat/Sade." McCalla's superb. 2 throughout the play. Both men xls of attaining it differ. Marat Mlity through a rebellion by the d Marat's theory with intellect ' >anded further in each act of the teresting because in it, many I i, and the nature of man are ( is presented at the end of 1 mic and very effective as well. ' :;ES by the patients, the musical the sisters are exceptional. The are extremely well cast; their lake the play more believable, intrigued by their accurate ed in three acts with a much sion between each act. These ime for the audience to gather lustive mental piece. ade" at Drayton Hall through inating drama requires much forth it! ifs Gu Novel ( the words DON'T PANIC mm inscribed in large friendly 'M/k . : .-f> letters on its covers.'' ?J|||g|||||g ARTHUR AND FORD stumble about the galaxy with their copy of The Hit- ViWffiSRw chhiker's Guide to help them along. During his ad- j?|||j|ggp ventures, Arthur learns about Vogon poetry, the tfflfifljlll babel fish, what creature HjS|g||i|| was really the smartest on liillJliSI Sarth and all about the second-smartest computer in the galaxy ? Deep TU ^ w L i ... t? 1 - L luuugni, which can r calculate the vector of every BlK? atom during the Big Bang. ? -.f! Little in this novel is V ' : ? serious, even though on the 1 ? back cover the publishers try to make an oblique t ^ comparison to Kurt Von- 8 S [iegut. While The Hitzhhiker's Guide does have the wild and irreverent numor that characterizes Bjjj! Vonnegut's work, it lacks the w ? seriousness that is at the iMSi core of Vonnegut's books. ffiBS Adams does, however, .. w present a good satire on Hps| philosophers: r "I am Majikthise!" an- IMH trounced the older one. WW "And I demand that I am Vroomfondel!" 'JBl Majikthise turned on yB Vroomfondel. "It's alright," 1e explained angrily, "You 81 ion't need to demand that." "All right! I am Vroom- ? ondel, and that is not a w demand, that is a solid fact! H What we demand is solid n facts!" I "No we don't!" exclaimed H 2? ! nujiMuise in irriiaiion. 1 'That is precisely what we fi Ion't demand!" \ Vroomfondel shouted, \ 'We don't demand solid ] facts! What we demand is a :otal absence of solid facts. I iematid that I may or may _ . , ~ . K>t be Vroomfondel! Guld?. Perha "But who the devil are it hardly mat "We," said Maiikthise, !ieilxa?e t? "are Philosophers. ofthisbook. "Though we may not be," | mid Vroomfondel. | ADAM'S BOOK is full of * minor like this. His writing style is crisp and the humor FRIDAY s original. His technique of Alien repeating certain phrases Rosev/OC tuch as "wholly Pharce) emarkable" only helps to cnarge;, einforce the nonsensical * ^ lature of the book. Adams charge). ioesn't strain the reader. SATURD *is goal is to make us Alien augh and he is very sue- D !essful. A semblance of plot HOSCWOC ioes exist, but for the most charge); >art it is only there to get the F. St. A] -eader from one hilarious charge) episode to the next or to ciiMnAx; mother fantastically ahsurd _ jntry in The Hitchhiker's JOUTne; m ? am mm we' Mi w '1 wi? ps the plot will Many people may h i the sequel but already heard The ters as long as chhiker's Guide in se licit the laughs form on National Pu Radio. Regardless, the pr sekend Enter , OCTOBER 16 Carolin at Dundee's, 2701 $10.50 ai d Dr. ($2 cover TUESD Red Zone at Zack's, 736 Airbai ldrew's Rd. ($2 cover Golden i AY, OCTOBER 17 WEDNI at Dundee's, 2701 Holljn d Dr. ($2 cover F. 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