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Spotlight Friday, January 31, 1986 g USC student directs play r at Workshop By MARY JO MILLER Spotlight editor Reid Davis, a USC senior, is directing Lanford Wilson's award-winning comedy-drama "Hot 1 Baltimore," opening tonight at Workshop Theatre. "The play is about loss of family, loss of commitment, and I think its very relevant for our generation," the 21-year-old Davis said. ^ The play, set on Memorial Day 1973, centers on the family of prostitutes, degenerates and runaways who inhabit the formerlv luxurious Baltimore. Faced with imminent eviction from their seedy home, the flophouse residents review their lives and the circumstances that have brought them to the seedy hotel. "The play speaks out in favor ?of maintaining hope," Davis said. "If you don't have a dream, you're dead." Although loss of hope is a grim subject, Davis says the play isn't wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmmammmjm Review ir> -1 uanny ana tne i two bar patrons By EDWARD BOHAN Staff writer An Apache Dance, a violent dai Parisian Apaches, gangsters or John Patrick Shanley uses to de: and the Deep Blue Sea." Presented at Trustus Theatre, tl Danny and Roberta are two patr< Danny is a rough and tough guj fighting against the world. Robei with feelings of guilt over the i father. As Danny, Paris Peet provides emotions. His talent for playing and kindness are very evident. Natalie Picow, a USC theatre Roberta, particularly in light of th rehearse. Meredith Pouge, origin; had to be hospitalized, delaying t "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea tpany will open the Christopher L on Feb. 7. Call 254-9732 for rese You don'1 When you tell a story, make a b quilt, weave an attractive basket the rhythms of a quick?step d sing a soulful gospel tune, perpetuating South Carolina's I forms and may consider yoursel ? artist. You've probably never thoi yourself that way, said Gary Stan state's new folk arts coordinator USC's McKissick Museum. . We 1 - , , |M| ? / 'flfi o?.iqloraiobl ? M jmbia'j Chamber of Commerce has a new pUn expand both the city's business and employment The G? ded 1908 lme 78. No. 55 Univr JUt^e W$f 1 0 ca W&4 ***??? W*- X'X^X'X^X'X'X'X'X'X'X'X^X^XvftvXvX'X'l'I'X'X'X X*>M,>>X,XWX<*w*v-v?w*v.vXvXvXvX,X#X Ml 111?i |I B WK Hi 1*1 IliFII WITill 111 I ? W W M>h I <HH III III Mi III IWi IIIIIIMI fc I MWHMMff (left to right) Erin Thigpen and Nancy P depressing. "The play is a romantic comedy-drama," Davis said. "It's a very funny, musical play, and it has the rhythm of a rock opera." Deep Blue Sea': fear, loneliness nee for two people, orginated by the ruggians, is the fitting description scribe his poignant drama "Danny ic story opens in a sleazy Bronx bar. ans filled with loneliness and fear. i overcome with the feeling that he's rta is a 31-year-old divorcee racked ncestuous affair she had with her ?- ? .?v : . . the audience with a wide range of anger and hatred versus sensitivity : senior, did a remarkable job as e fact that she had only four days to ally cast in the role, became ill and he show opening for two days " will run through Feb. 1. The com)urang comedy "Beyond Therapy" rvations. t have to I leautiful "Art has been predefi , match us ? usually predefined j ance or talent," he said. you're But, he said, art isn't r folk art tings, prints, sculpture, f a folk even film or video ? it i tion passed down throug as part of one's cultural Light of Linn f - -I *-> ? ,lw?? ^oum Carolina s mor< based at traditions include buil creating dugout canoes want J \ Safe QG> ?T???* l.^s _ 1 amecock rsity of South Carolina J; ope play downontheir- luck prostitutes i To set the atmosphere for the play and emphasize its musical spirit, Davis compiled a soundtrack of vintage 1970s rock songs such as Joe Cocker's guttural "A Little Help from My Friends." Hailing the Cab The legendary "Hi Oe-Hi" man, Cab Wednesday night at the coliseum. le famous nfrl fnr mnct nf ihr, Dnn ? v? ix/ot VI U1V I I CJ as someone else's step dances and Traditions n estricted to pain- art fronts inclu photographs or living on the se :an be any tradi- well as Charle h the generations making by Cc heritage. County. "We want to : unusual folk art because, perhap ding with logs, form produced from the dirt of about the peo 'ou! ??g*3. Wednesday A0?\l " January 22. laX8 * ?\e WP"Jj ueach ci,v ^ i* H braces for -? invasion ^ ?<?' ?*,M*? VOW form, f/Jl tom ?<*??? ??<? . ~~"'" c/p , S<J*\U >r" "Z*"' 'iT**- "" 5*~"k>"? ? .!.?.. !?., k*> . Mf ^fL,* ** -!*"? 00 '?*"? ft, ii, 'V'"*. r4* "*"" ? ?0? * Mlf C," "n ? ,i?t? -;-l" ^4 ,,M ?"??i ?pn,M fw , ' "?, , -"til* ,? <* >" "T, *"> ' ir,v i?" ' * ." ,.??* 'j *' u"' '** "*?" ?" ***">*, ,,(\t# i.o* mo**1 * > crtMtf *?- iff* ">*&, *->* '> 'V? "* ^->< , ? -T, - - $*: 1 k ' ' '?>V"!.';i?jx. '* "* . ;'^C'^* '. ? ' ' 'T"<? n "Hot I Baltimore" "Hot 1 Baltimore" opens at 8 p.m. today and runs through Feb. 12. Student tickets are $6. An hour before each performance, all unsold student tickets will go on sale for $4. 50 K ?||| ;j ; A* I r Calloway, perforins "Jumpin' Jive" duri to hf> a fr jion, clogging and similar Terry, the singing gospel music. "We lore typically considered enrich \ de basketmaking by men tion of a islands off Beaufort as regular ston ladies and potteryitawba Indians in York McK exhibit preserve Southern folk art eluding >s more than any other art "South in the region, it tells more Folk: pie here," said George tion" 1 The Ga newspaf Com n I? AH thos St. copveditinf J*., < < *"?? . ' Black Fla ouiumuia By ART BOERKE Staff writer There are many bands on this pi loudest, the heaviest and the hard distinction belongs to a band reti Sunday at Rockafellas. That banc Since the spring of 1984, the Re out six albums and a live cassette each disc. Outside of the group's main fra bass in Tom Troccolli's Dog and le tion. Both projects released LPs la band called Gone. Rock music's ultimate frontn magazine columns, published two solo tour last fall which included Onstage, Black Flag is unmatch vocalist, clad only in gym shorts, The music of Black Flag has e' form. Originally a product of the has progressed. What is now prodi as "metal" or "hardcore." It is s Sunday's shows mark flip fonrfl umbia and the first at Rockafellas, at 6 p.m. and is for all ages. The alcohol will be served at the first Opening acts for both shows a will also play a free show Sunda Tapes on Main Street downtown. Previous Black Flag shows in to pie. Advance tickets are available l' wB m ^ *' ^ { SEAN KEEFERlThe Gamecock ng his Cotton Club Revisited show ill# artiot FBI* Ul il?ll director of McKissick. can learn how individuals helped their daily lives through the decorautilitarian objects that they used ly." issick has sponsored several major ions of Southern folk art, inI "Southern Folk Arts" in 1977, tern Make" in 1981 and "Carolina The Cradle of a Southern Tradiast summer. mecock is an >er searching f All majc /Ve provide tfc You provide e to rnnm ext Wednesdc :e interested ir I and reportin; g to rock Sunday anet laying claim to the titles of the pet u/nrlino Ac fnr fUn Vfi T.v/I nni^. /1J I V/1 IIIV lllilU, ( I 1(11 lrning to Columbia for two shows 1 is Black Flag. dondo Bcach, Calif., band has put , touring extensively in support of me, guitarist Greg Ginn has played :d noise merchants The Octoberfacst year. Ginn's new side project is a nan, Henry Rollins, has written books of poetry and undergone a Columbia. ed for intensity. By show's end, the is completely drenched. solved as dynamically as they pcrLos Angeles punk scene, the band jced can't be trapped by labels such imply Black Flag. h appearance of Black Flag in ColThe first show is scheduled to start second show starts at 9:30 p.m. No show. re Gone and Painted Willie. Gone y ai j p.m. at Manliest Discs and wn have drawn as many as 500 peoat Rockafellas and at Manifest. Actor to create one-man 'Tempest' in Drayton Hall Actor Fred Curchack will bring his one-man interpretation of Shakespeare's romance, "The Tempest," to USC Friday. His show, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 8 p.m. in Drayton Hall. Curchack, a San Francisco native, is a teacher and professional actor who has taken this act through the country. "Curchack is an international^" ly acclaimed avante- garde theatre artist," said Barbara Hickson, a spokesman for the department of theatre and speech and sponsor of the production. Curchack will use masks and props to convey several characters from this classic play, including Alonso, the King of Naples, and Prospero, the right Duke of Milan. ms snow is drawn trom diverse sources. The interpertation includes South Indian dance, Eugene O'Neil's prose and William Blake's poetry," Hickson said. In addition to his show, Curchack will be conducting two workshops on Friday at 1:15 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. at Drayton Hall. "Curchack's workshop will concentrate on blending theater techniques like stage movement, ventriloquism and puppetry," Hickson said. Hickson said the public is welcome to observe the workshops. award-winning or new talent. Drs are invited, le information, the creativity. Russell House ly at 5:00 p.m. i photography, g (any section) are welcome.