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Strindberg' opens Oct. From staff reports The department of theatre and speech will present a rarely-produced play as part of their Second Season. The Pelican by August Strindberg opens 8 p.m. Thursday in Benson Theatre, located across from Bates House on Bull Street and continues through Saturday. The startling and dramatic play was written during the last years of Strindberg's life, after psychological illnarrar T t I tka Iflif t AtMie r* f tka uiu^aa^a. it is iaai crjjua v/i liiw Chamber Plays, which also include the better known Ghost Sonata. A macabre and exciting classic, The Pelican follows the lives of the members of a small household in 1907 who share grief and guilt after the Father's death. At the forefront of this stagnating family is the powerful Mother, whose greed and unintentional cruelt> have uined the lives of her children. As the ghostly presence of Father pervades the play, m TV \ I H I IBPiii J| R|M| < I |'E ]1 iwja. Pickin' an' grinnin' John Cowan and Pat Flynn do their day night Greenstreet's show. The bam Sam Bush, performs its own unique fui blues, gospel and reggae music. ,?1?i?i?i?i?1 i f I' ? rr^Trrrr \ : t rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 0UI-WYOU rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnrr' rrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrr y rjDRUC REVLON WE CASh FABU^XER I mr?m? ? Cou ! CAROLIN, | 20% OFF A ! AND NATURAL W( i i i j * LIPSTICKS * I [ * FACE POWDERS * I ?? Coupon Expi s 'Pelican' 20 at USC the truth is gradually revealed. In a moving scene the Son and Daughter reconcile their differences, escape the repression they have suffered and are able to help their Mother realize her shortcomings. The play ends with an explosion of destructive energies which release the characters from their turmoil. The innovative production, which contains elements of drama blended with the grotesque, is directed by English graduate student Katie Norminton. The acting ensemble is composed of Master of Fine Arts students Bill Collins, Robin Edwards and Tom Tuckey with undergraduates Emily Fox and Susan Richardson completing the cast. Tickets are $3 for the public and $2 for students. For reservations and further information call Longstreet Theatre, 777-2551 or 777-2552. J HPFl K.' r ' % Bt | ^,'- BE t- ' % BS CHUCK DEAN/The Gamecock stuff during New Grass Revival's Frid, which also includes Bela Fleck and sion of country, rock, jazz, rhythm & -rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr- rrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr r RE LUCKY, YOU'I rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-rrrrrrr - r r ^^rrrrrrrrrr^rrrrrrr rr^rrrrrrr-f-r-rf-rrrnrrrrf 1 : STORES i I STUDENT CHECKS | $5" ! Reg. or Super 1 pon 1 A GIRLS! j 1L REVLON | DNDER MAKE-UP ! i * EYE SHADOWS * j * FRAGRANCES * j Must I Bring In Coupon I res 10/31/88 A look at small-tc 'Tuna't From staff reports The CPU Cultural Series kicks off 8 p.m. Thursday with a grand tour of Tuna, Texas' third smallest town. Greater Tuna will be performed by a national touring company at Carolina Coliseum. Bill Fegan Attractions represents the first authorized nationally touring production, which delivers a fullv-rehearsed. costumed nroduc tion with a company of six. The two stars are Bryan Foster and Duane Black, who performed Greater Tuna for 16 months in Denver before going on the road. Foster has performed the show nearly 400 times. His work as a comedian/actor became nationally known during a six-month national tour with Imogene Coca in Makin' Whoopee. His regional work includes extensive direction, choreography and comedic acting in New York, Denver and St. Louis. Black is well known for critically acclaimed performances in repertory with The Denver Center Theatre Company, including roles as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Ariel in The Tempest and Bansinger in The Front Page, directed by Jerry Zaks. He reprised the role of Ariel in the Bard Productions' television version of The Tempest, starring Efrem Zimr Jrfec Egg 'Alien Natl By SCOTT PRUDEN Staff writer It's just an average day in 1989, when California sky comes a spaceship full of alien slaves, which proceeds to crash la Mojave Desert. ^ Npthing new for California, right? Well, if the folks behind the new mi Nation, have their way, that's precisely v to believe. We are presented with Los three years after the aforementioned After being in quarantine since their ai Newcomers, as the aliens are now called, ed and do their best to blend into ' society. Unfortunately, the Newcomers blend too well and adopt the nasty propensit human race for such things as crime, mu stitution and all those other little qu; which we've no doubt made a name for across the galaxy. Into the picture comes Sgt. Sikes, a Lc homicide detective, played by James Ca: partner has just been killed during an s bust a convenience store holdup by a couj ticularly brutal Newcomers. In an ai discover the murderer of his partner, Si tantly agrees to work on a related case Francisco, played by Mandy Patinkin, Newcomer detective in the LAPD. And, surprise, the two don't hit it off \ rrrrrTrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrr -rrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrr r rrr r mtmmrnmt -rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrf rrrrrrrrrrrr rrr rrrrrrr "rrrrrrrrrrrr r r r r r r r r r i j SENIi L Don't forget to sign up for r below. Sign up is in the Pla< I H. William Close Building, < \ tober 20. ( BABCOCK C BENNIGAN'S R [ ELI LI I FLUOR C ) INVESTOR'! ) MELLON BANK C ) PEEBLES DEPAR1 ) RUBY TUESDAY/L & [ SCEi J SEAI j TRU GF >wn Texas ouring pr balist Jr. Other regional credits include The Actor's Nightmare and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You in San Francisco, and the title role in Tom Jones with the Dallas Theatre Company. Next in the Cultural Series is Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band Nov. 10. Opening at the Koger Center Feb. 1 will be the Ntozake Shange play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, followed by comedy and improvisation with Chicago City Limits March 23 and the folk-traditional music of Pierre Bensusan with Metamora and the Turtle Island String Quartet April 12. Tickets to individual events will go on sale a few weeks before each performance. Admission to Greater Tuna is $4 for students and $8 for the public; Queen Ida, $5 and $10; Colored Girls, $5 and $10; Chicago City Limits, $5 and $10; and Pierre Bensusan, $6 and $12. iter 1 \ mmzi on' a strait md in the has become quite jaded since the death of his part ed t^Crge throughout th> ovie,Alien Sikes thinks 'Sam Franci vhat we're trouble understanding wh ; Angeles, him so. The two set off scenario, jinks ensue, rrival, the Lethal Weapon, comb are releas- perhaps? California Quite possibly, but bee in a little wall at the producers m< ies of the What we do have is essen irder, pro- an alien twist. The potent alities for Alien Nation is explored 1 ourselves with a straight-up crime Despite the fact that tl nored, the alien-human >s Angeles wonderful comic underb an, whose Patinkin, who stole The ittempt to portrayal of the vindict pie 01 par- manages to keep tne cl ttempt to spoken and congenial th kes reluc- even in the face of his f with Sam When circumstances rise the first underlying emotion and s pie show through with si veil. Sikes As Sikes, Caan is ap rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr mmmmm -rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr S r r r r r S S J~ S J~ S r-r 0RS! j the organizations listed / cement Office, 6th Floor, I deadline is Thursday, Oc- i CENTER J ESTAURANTS ) ANIEL ) S CENTER ) "N /-\pI 1"^ /"M?t A TI K I I /unrunft 11^1^ rMENT STORES N SEAFOOD GRILL &G RS }EEN ( oduction hits USC i }?.t '??*> /M *. 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As disgusting as it sounds, the Newcomers drink sour milk rather than alcoholic lined with Enemy Mine, beverages, which results in a great male-bondingthrough-booze scene between Sikes and George, one downing Jack Daniels and the other swigging ause I wasn't a fly on the out-of-date Jersey Cow Skim. :eting, I won't speculate. Now, to finally get it out of the way . . . yes, I tially a buddy movie with did like this movie, and I would recommend it to ial science fiction angle of anyone out to see a fast-moving action/adventure, ittle so the audience is left Alien Nation is witty, clever and well-directed, thriller. le sci-fi vein is all but ig- Even so, I did have one problem with the plot. I relationship does add a found it quite unfortunate that, despite the United one to the whole movie. States' smugness in being the land of the free with Princess Bride with his liberty and justice for all, modern day society is ive Spanish swordsman, portrayed as accepting the members of an alien laracter of George soft- race within three years, while after hundreds of irough most of the film, years the real America still has not completely ac>artner's overt prejudice. cepted all those of the human race. OK, I'll get off ; to a head, though, his my soapbox now. Just a little something for you trong devotion to his peo- folks to keep in mind while you enjoy a great irprising intensity. movie. Wouldn't want the collective social consjpropriately seedy for a cience to get slack, now would we? A ^ ^^^ nTUEaMKKuii^ ^ 1