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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
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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,
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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.
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'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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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show, part of the CPU Cultural Series, will be performed at 8 p.m. Thursday
at the coliseum.
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1 stead, Caan puts forth a sort of reluctant tolerance
that works much better, especially in the humorous
scenes.
toward the Newcomers
ner, while Francisco (call- Whait really makes the movie, though, are the lite
rest of the film because .tie touches. Director Graham Baker makes the
sco'is just too silly) has alien integration a complete one, with the
iy his new partner dislikes Newcomtrs even being featured on Pepsi
on their case, and high billboards. 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?
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