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: EntertainmenT 'The Trojan Wo USC pri By Margarita Pate The Trojan War brings to mind v horse, a beautiful seductress name romanticized vision of men locked in the control of an empire. But what What must the day after the fight h; Such is the premise of the tragedy ' Greek playwright Euripedes. Directc and updated this anti-war play w sadness and desperation of being an i adaptation is diiticultto say tne leas be congratulated for even attemptin The play bemoans the fate of the vn raped, beaten and abused by Greek in the play, seen as shadows behind < heighten the terror, but the result is a tion. The men's grunts and groans ; capture the intent of the scene. CAST AS Hecuba, Jayne Mulv tivating. She flows in and out of toui mad with despair. Her energy seems play goes on, but she is very convin and grief-stricken mother. Many Ann Baldwin, as Cassandra lamentations heighten the horror tl have felt at their plight. When Lucinda Brasington, as t emerges, you feel the hatred per betrayal of Troy is a humiliation aci chorus of women. In the role of Andromache, the Astynas, Pat Smith does a memorafc are filled with grief as she is forced tc CHARLES PETERSON in the r< Key to Columbia Mayor Pro-tem and Councilman Willlic Clark and B.J. Thomas at Carolina Ci Country con By Jerome Simpson "I'm a picking.. .and I'm grinning." These are the words made fam by "Hee Haw" country singers 1 Clark and Buck Owens. However, Clark was 'a picking a grinning' without Owens Thurs night at Carolina Coliseum. x Clark, a real crowd pleaser, dressed in a light blue suit witl burgundy shirt and playing a w guitar. Clark's first song titled "Alabi Jubilee" was one of his most seri songs of the night. By the third s< Clark was up to his antics of " Haw" fame, like making facial exp sions and changing his voice. C changed his voice And imitated Joh Mathis singing "I'm the gi pretender." Picking And grinning typil Clark's style of country music. A playing several songs, Clark begai wipe his forehead. A woman in the f\v/"l|prl "Tat/* it off RoV. VOI / men' oduction I isions of a huge wooden ?d Helen, or perhaps a < a struggle for power and of the innocent in war? ave been like? [' 'Trojan Women," by the . >r Ann Dreher translated ith an emphasis on the inwilling participant. The pSafe t, but Ann Dreher should I g such a feat. f|?|l 'omen of Troy as they are fepP soldiers. The rape scenes fe|?| i torn sheet, are meant to in uncomfortable distracsomehow fail to properly trnm aney is strong and cap^h with reality. She seems to dissipate slightly as the cing in her role as widow ,does a fine job. Her mad le women of Troy must '"e he vamp Helen, finally and c meating the stage. Her for t itely felt and acted by the altho stron mother of the small boy Tlv le job. Her face and eyes mom ) give up nci aun iv utaui. IUIC, Die of Menelaus is strong Th im Ouzts presents Sylvia with the ke< aliseum Saturday night. IGCIl JJIgcIdg too hot!" Clark responi a off his jacket and swingi like a stripper, ous The audience went wi <oy scene as Clark strutte( stage. The uproar stai and Clark made a joke day overweight. Someone in yelled, "I can't hear you was ed back, "I'll write it h a pass it around." hite Clark picked up hi challenged one of his ima members to a playing < _t j <i r\ i! n . ious piayea " uuenng oanj< >ng, hand and the crowd < Hee more. res- Clark ended his act i lark on the fiddle titled, "Oi nny Special," then smile reat "Charlie Daniels? Ha!" The most serious pei fied concert, B.J. Thomaj fter known songs like "?o i to Somebody Wrong Song au- Lonesome I Could Cry. ii're Thomas sang mostly r nf + a m rt 4 JldVC dLLdlM|JI ^8lP?:--5S8Si^i^v^S^^B8^k^ ;ent victims of war i Trojan Women,' a Greek classic by Euripedes, opened f onfident in his portrayal of the man who fell to 1 he love of Helen. He plays this part with e< ugh he doesn't have many lines, his presence on gly felt. e play is a bit too melodramatic and overdone. T ents when you really have had enough ? you get ~ U ~ 1 J.. ciiuu?ii ttncauy. e music by Sam Douglas is very effective and the ' '' ' ' ** '* h^^m * T^lf irZTt KL.,?**?> / ;JtB Photo by J( / to the city at the Loading Dock. Sylvia appeared wi s Coliseum crow dcd by taking songs with the steel guitar or ng it in the air back up. Some songs were s someone in the audience Id during this "Hey, B.J.! How about sor 1 around the tian songs?"Thomas asked ted again as much did you pay for that ti about being Thomas also sang "Raindr i the audience hailing On My Head," the i." Clark yell- sang from the movie "Butcl on paper and and the Sundance Kid." The song, "I've Been Saving b is banjo and Times For You," drew a stan young band tion from the audience. iuel. The two Sylvia's singing was as go ds" with one looked. Her first song, "Bi jpplauded for Vicksburg," was an upbeai song with a lot of movemenl claying a song Sylvia then slowed down a range Blossom ballad titled "1 Never Quite d and said, from Loving You." After th< ' confessed she never aui former at the remember the name of the s< >, sang well- Country music lovers enj mebody Done round up of country music si ?? I Kit? anu i in cover girl singer, a pic grinning guitarist and a mellc nellow country country boy. [ at breeK i I M 111181 ^^jj^^-^r'i"" v^" V. khjrfj jj^^iy^^Jsli iS^H^^pKlii :riday night. Under the direction of Ann Dreher, lis knees by Deborah. Rosengrant adc ise, and essential to the mood of the p stage is being burned to the ground is tire production. The orange here are spectacular. the pic- "The Trojan Women" run just under an hour and 30 mi lighting much. I Russell Hoi to showca: From Staff Reports A Luis Bunuel film festi\ master surrealist, will be she Russell House Theatre thi Cinematic Arts Committee. The films are "Un Chie Bureau, los uiviaaaos : tee borrowed the films fro Film Library and offers the Bunuel, born in the tiny ci 1900, died last year. His thplace, using the landscap passionate interest in insect BUT THE human being terest, according to his b whose book, "Luis Bunue published in English in 197 Bunuel got his start as ? studied the art with Jean E surrealist artist Salvador D >soph Gamett film in the festival, "Un Ch much controversy among t th Roy leading critics of the day \n Bunuel said the film wa i reactions of revulsion an III Nothing in the film symbc f U black-and-white film was 1 The second film in the f< piano as was made by Bunuel in 19: 0 mellow of Spain near impassable shouted, backward there is little of ; ne Chris[, "How BUNUEL SPENT two cket?" The film-maker himself de ops Keep tive document, a humai song he originally prohibited its r< 1 Cassidy that country; France was t Unas' last Jhc thjrd film in the fest Ay Good ecj Qn yunuei's three year ding ova- abandoned children and e> them before. od as she He used real cases for obby's in wretched condition of the t country loathed films that made tl I. The result is what Bum nd sang a hjs own films. In it, he ex Got Back Gf affection and ; song she criminal." te could ong. XHE FESTIVAL'S fir toyed this been "Exterminating Ang ngers ? a maturity, in 1962, but ins ? MiiK-anu- por more information c >w-singing tee?s Work, call Chairmar tragedy & 1 Photo by Chip LowbII the show will run through Feb. 5. Is a wonderful eeriness that is lay. The last scene where Troy is perhaps the highlight of the en: and yellow glow of lights is ft) is without an intermission and is inutes. It isn't too long, just too use Theatre se surrealist .t r'al, featuring four films by the >wn only at 7 p.m. today in the -oueh the snonsorshin of the :n Andalou," "Land Without and "Viridiana." The commitm the university's Humanities ;m free to viewers. ommunity of Calanda, Spain in films often allude to his bir>e of Calanda and include his s and animals. is always Bunuel's center of in- 4b iographer, Francisco Aranda, 1: A Critical Biography," was 6. \ filmmaker in Paris, where he pstein. He became friends with ali and with him made the first ien Andalou." That film stirred he nublic as well as amone the /hen it was released in 1929. s made "to provoke instinctive d attraction in the spectator, dizes anything." The 17-minute Bunuel's first. jstival, "Land Without Bread," 13 and concerns an isolated area mountains and so unbelievably anything there, including bread. months there making the film, scribes the movie as "an objec1 geographical study." Spain please because it "dishonored" he first to distribute it. ival, 44Los Olvidados," was bass in Mexico City, where he saw itreme poverty as he'd never seen the film, trying "to expose the ^ poor in real terms," because he tie poor "romantic and sweet." nel alwavs called the favorite of ;plained "how social conditions, poverty make a child into a lal film was suppossed to have el," which was made in BunuePs tpaH 1' Y/irirl io ? a '' tuill Hp chnwtl IVUV4 T II 1UIUIIU Tf III l/V >n the schedule or on the commit\ Charles Tuten at 777-7130. ^