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4 The Gamecock Wednesday, February 7, 1990
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By KATHY HEBERGER
Staff Writer
After hours of relaxing with guitar music ai
vodka, sharing dinner, eating pizza pastries ai
talking with the people of Russia, the cast
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"The young people are the same as youi
people here. It was a different place with a di
ferent government, but they do the same thin]
we do. They drink and listen to music and talk
music sophomore Bill Combs said. "It's just tl
same except for the subtle differences of beii
in a different country."
The cast returned Saturday after two wee!
of performing and watching theater groups fro
European countries perform at the first Intern
tional University and College Theatre Festivj
The eight-member cast represented the Unit<
States at the festival.
The cast's performance of the musical le
the audience chanting "USA! USA!." The Ru
sian and European performances "were so goc
they made you feel humble," music sophomo
Workshop's '
hrinps return
By KATHY BLACKWELL "Highwa
Managing Editor Judge."
An eccentric old lady is faced Telfon
with the choice of pleasing her ing 1
community or fighting her fears to Worksho
reach self-fulfillment in Pulitzer- t0 Mecct
prize winner Athol Fugard's The big t0 hir
Road, to Mecca, playing now at 'The c
Workshop Theatre. markable
This intense and uplifting drama be sa^;
by the South African playwright, so * didi
who has also written such plays as bave *? J
"Master Harold"? and the Boys 10 band
The Island, will be directed by Beside
special guest artist Bob Telford. Telford, I
For Los Angeles-based actor by a S"!*
and director Telford, The Road to Televisio
Mecca is a sort of homecoming. Gottlieb
He was artistic director of Town centric
Theatre from 1955-1958, and this Martinezwill
be his first time working in Elsa Bar!
Columbia since that period. Marius B
In the years following his time Moore,
in Columbia, he's had a successful bia stage,
career, appearing in such movies of a worn
as Something Wicked this Way ing her p<
Comes and Two Moon Junction, but whost
His television experience includes stops he
such shows as "North and South," destinatioi
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opinions," graduate student Firdous Bamji said
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can't get easily there," said Levine, wh
lie brought back a Moscow State University swea
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bring us oranges, which are very hard to obta:
;ft in Russia," Combs said,
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re ous about us first as Americans, then as peop
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tween Moore's acti
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n and film actress Ruth a^? lawless as the
Moore stars as the ec- minded Byleveld.
Miss Helen, Elena por Telford, work
Vidal portrays her friend seeing old friends ha
low, and Ed Grady plays ing Road t0 Me(
yleveld. able experience,
a veteran of the Colum- "It's not often th;
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3r worse than the Towers, gave them a chance
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USC professors comment
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By KATHY HEBERGER
Staff Writer "
Russians carried banners reading "Gorbachev, we're with you" at Sunve
day's protest by the Kremlin, but USC theater students spoke with Russians
who blamed Gorbachev for the bad economic situation in their
;t_ country.
u-. USC professors agree that these conflicting signals are typical of the
n. situation in Moscow.
ng "I think people are very split over Gorbachev. They're frustrated on a
wide range of issues. They're trying to change the atmosphere in Russia,
a and they feel that change isn't coming fast enough," Government and
International Studies Professor Gordon Smith said.
id He added that Gorbachev is walking a tightrope, trying to please peoid.
pie wanting either conservative or radical government reforms.
5i- "One big problem is that the Soviet Union is still a very backward
of place. Correcting all the problems there is a job beyond the powers of
one man, even if it is Gorbachev," Smith said.
>r- Government and International Studies Professor Donald Weatherbee
es feels that the forces Gorbachev has initiated in the Soviet Union, the
to economic reforms and break-down of the central control over its states,
will continue with or without Gorbachev.
0t "I doubt if the Soviet army will go into the streets and shoot down the
re people," he said.
rS History instructor Philip Cockrell says Gorbachev is the main factor
?_ keeping Russia from a bloody revolution. "I think everything will be fine
as long as Gorbachev is in power, but without Gorbachev, the whole
equation changes," he said.
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