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Summer Repertory season opens t
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Staff writer MacNicholas said.
Everyone in Lowndes, Ala. wants to know why In addition to being produced
Miss Lilla Barton refuses to move out of the All Moving of Lilla Barton will open
Saints Episcopal rectory. Mount Gretna Playhouse in Penns
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cter of the com- will be staged by the same person who directed
irton written by MacNicholas' Alexander Dumas at the Walnut
Theatre in Philadelphia. Dumas also nremiered at
t at Longstreet Longstreet Theatre.
arton, a widow The cast includes Lisa Norman as Lilla Barton,
d for 28 years at Ray Lind as Bishop Harold Clark, Karen Eterovich
as Luwanna Harp, Paul McMahon as Jonas
) the church and Mabry, George Hughes as Matthew Parker and
e out. Church Bernard Addison as Sheriff Hannibal Tate,
r to go, but she Costumes were created by Sherry Lyon, Dean
y. Wilcox designed the lighting and Robert
x'ith life after a Kinglehoefer designed the set.
hanges that oc- "Lilla Barton" marks the return of Bernard AdIso
about good dison to USC theater. Addison, who acted in
th each other." several productions as an undergraduate, recently
nate play, that received his masters in Fine Arts from UNC at
mall town life," Chapel Hill while earning his union card from the
who directs the Actor's Equity Association.
Lisa Norman, a veteran of summer repertory is
ne they know," also an Actor's Equity member.
Within five years, the theatre department hopes
!arp is a lovely t0 achieve full professional standing for the Sumalf
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The Moving of Lilla Barton opens the 15th
xation between season of summer theatre at USC. Other produciummer,
Patter- tions in the season include: Tennessee Williams'
slation of the Summer and Smoke, Andrew Bergman's Social
ryed to sold-out Security and Charlotte's Web, a production for
children by Joe Robinette.
d a reading of USC's Summer Repertory theater has produced
gstreet Theatre, about 50 plays and given more than 500 perforMacNicholas
to mances since its debut in 1975.
irtory season. The company consists of 17 actors, 11 techni*/
play his "best cians, four directors and five designers.
The Moving of Lilla Barton will continue
iroduced in Col- through Sunday, then will be performed in rolling
onment to write repertory July 7, 13, 15, 19, 21, 26 and 30. Perforclosely
with the mances will be at 8 p.m. weekdays and Saturdays
and 3 p.m. Sundays,
ing new work," Tickets for the play are $8 for the public, $7 for
USC faculty, staff, military personnel and senior
in town, The citizens and $4 for students. Season tickets are still
i in July at the available. Call 777-2551 for reservations,
ylvania.
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Staff writer
Editor's note: Thi.
series of book review
A Turn in the So
Alfred A. Knopf, Ne
Acclaimed novelis
Naipaul has penned a
Southeast America.
"A travel book is i
as the travels," wrot
the genre. Interviews
Oxford-trained Trini<
fascination with rack
File photo Rednecks, cracker
vill thrash at Rockafellas' tomorrow night. escape Naipaul's liter
"raised to be belles'
hilarious tales of life
ig- fulfills the non-conventional reputation of yhe journeying at
ir- the group. Atlanta, Ga., Charl
ve Lead vocalist and guitarist, Elvis Hitler Fla., Tuskegee, Ala.,
(a.k.a. Jim Leedy), co-produced Tenn., and Chape
jr. Disgrace/and with Len Punch, formerly of distances and the hea
ve Snake-Out fame. slovv the pace (0 ai|(
he There are apparently ties between the two pu]| 0f history.
groups since some of Elvis Hitler's album Ethnic and racial
tif covers were printed on the other side of mind Najpaui descri
of Snake-Out covers. v in the New World, of
Although the band's name has sparked . jt had brought toge
n- controversy among Elvis-loving freedom now there was a con
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-'s fascism, racial hatred, or bad movies. Booker T. Washii
u- Rather, it is a symbol of the iconoclastic Naipaul read Up froi
lie spirit inherent in the greatest rock and roll. journey. Respect for
Other members of Elvis Hitler include emerges from Naipa
st John Defever, lead guitar and vocals, Da- teachers at the eleme
>el mian Young, who shares drums with Todd Trinidad were black.
;ss Glass, and Warren Defever on fretless bass. Naipaul writes: "
PS neighborhood or toe
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for "The Moving of Lilla Barton."
Wem y x
)us writer discovers
lature of the South
were not too friendly, then it could be a help if
you knew who you were ?if you were depens
is the first in a summer dent on other people for your idea of your own
1 columns. worth ?then you were in trouble."
uth, V.S. Naipaul. 1989. History buffs will be absorbed by the anecw
York, N.Y. 307 pages, dotes. The cheeseburger originated when black
t and travel writer V.S. cooks served take-out food to other blacks. The
in outsider's impression of cooks would defy the restaurant owners who
refused sit-down service to blacks by giving out
is much about the traveler cheeseburgers and double burgers for the price
e Paul Theroux, master of of a single.
conducted by Naipaul, an Less trivial stories are told by people along
dad native, reveal his own the way. Descendants of South Carolinian
il relations. planters relate the series of events which
s and jive artists do not resulted in the economic decline of their
ary undressing. Even girls families.
' and catfish farmers spin Before the Civil War, planters built the
in the Deep South. houses of Charleston and Newport, R.I. After
ithor takes the reader to the war, three great hurricanes hroke plantation
eston, S.C., Tallahassee, dykes, boll weevils set in, California began
Jackson, Miss., Nashville, agricultural production, and the Great Depres1
Hill, N.C. American sion finished off any remaining fortunes,
it of the Southern summer Elvis Presley who, although born in a dirt)w
an examination of the poor shotgun house in Mississippi, personified a
whole new culture of "music and community,
issues are never out of tears and faith."
bes the "oddity of slavery Naipaul is bewildered at first by country
the two far-removed races music. He writes: "How much talent was there
ther, African, European, on display?" But travelling is learning, and
imon language and even a Naipaul finds that country music is the basis for
a distinctive lifestyle.
-" 'nn ic .ouoroH- In font Trnvpllprs in fhp Snnfh pxnpripnrp a mix of
77 Slavery twice during his Southern hospitality and a "Yankee-go-home"
and a rapport with blacks attitude. Suspicion of outsiders is common
ul's training. Most of the which explains the "American Owned" signs on
ntary school he went to in many motels.
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