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4 WHAT'SUP Guide to Arts & Enterfe tic COMMUNITY SERVICE pi The Office of Community A< Service Programs is currently putting together the 1995 S< Alternative Spring Break Trip. A Tl team of students and profession- ne als will travel from USC to im John's Island to engage in a ci week-long community service ur project. To get involved, attend to an information session at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 1 in RH Room 205. Ri Pr CONCERTS In The Columbia Community Hi Concert Band will be performing th at 8 p.m. Dec. 15 in the Dreher G High School Auditorium. I he or concert is free to the public. Si ta The Columbia Museum of Art Ei features Gilbert Sak, violinist, at gr the Baker and Baker concert 3 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. PI The museum is located at 1112 "S Bull St. PI b< LECTURE ar "Rainforest Conservation and the tu Search for New Jungle w Medicines" will be presented by h< Mark Plotkin, author of 'Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice," 6 p.m. Tl Monday in the USC Law School A auditorium. e< b< MOVIES Ti International Programs for E< Students presents the fourth film of its Cinema du Monde Film "1 Festival. "The Last Metro" will be tri shown 7;30 p.m. Sunday in the di Belk Auditorium. The movie is in w< French with English subtitles, Pi and admission is free. Bi at MUSEUMS / GALLERIES 9 McKissick Museum The USC art department faculty Tl show is featuring approximately Di 40 recent works in a variety of Tl media, including paintings, draw- "E ings, mixed media, printmaking, 2. photography, watercolors, jewelry and sculpture. The exhibit will W run through Feb. 12, 1995. Iri si< Columbia Museum of Art Si "Richard Estes: The Complete gi Prints" will run through Dec. 11. d< This is the first traveling exhibi- ar EYE Vffifg/ Dispos ? includes 715 Gervais Street Best selection 01 I Looking The solution is simple! Move to Wl living with on-campus conveniena costs more to live close to campu! student rates and special leases to i grad students. So save time and m Mill we always have a Now Pre-Leasir I , /iv , Where home isn't far awa * _ fc Coi i ft ???? Th -tinment >n surveying the print work of loto-realist Richard Estes. Emission is free. DUth Carolina State Museum ie museum has introduced a jw exhibit, "Brain Teaser," that eludes a puzzle so difficult the irator is ottering a tree musen membership to the first visir who can solve it. ex Ellis, director of museum ograms with the Smithsonian's stitution's Division of Arts and umanities, will join members of e Three Rivers Story Telling uild for "Tellabration! The Night Storytelling" from 7-9 p.m. aturday. Storytellers will relate les from mountain, African and jropean traditions. The proam is free. LANETARIUM Season of Light" at the Gibbes anetarium is open. The show agins with the winter solstice id examines how ancient culres celebrated this dark time ith their warmest and brightest Dlidays of the year. ELEVISION series of discussions about _ ducation in South Carolina will 3 shown on SCETV 8 p.m. uesday in "Conversations on ducation." "he World of Jim Henson" is a bute that looks at all the mensions of this puppeteer's ork, from his Muppets?Miss ggy, Kermit the Frog and Big rd?to his other fantastic creions for film and TV on SCETV p.m. Wednesday. HEATER rayton Hall leatre USC will present lastern Standard" through Dec. rORKSHOPS na Kolpakova will lead a Clascal ballet workshop todayunday. This is the first of a jest artist series by the USC 3partment of theatre, speech id dance. ON (jERV v Your USC ID and Full Year Supply o1 sable Contacts For eye exam ana ronow i 799-2020 Hours: Monde f Designer Frames in : ? For... laley's Mill for off-campus 3. While some may think it >, Whaley's Mill offers low jpperdasspersons as well as toney, because at Whaley's space for you. ig for Spring '9 254-780 Office Hours: M-F 9:30-5:30 211 Main St M mingscx f* ADrt e Gamecock JA SB ip care ly - Friday 9-6 pm South Carolina! IK" f ,x.:WSSSm * '" -'?? wmk i 7\ ja. UNA! Friday, November 18, 1994 I QUALITY! V 'Eastern Standard' marks 1 mm mrc cmc uarcwina; tzanor Anyone who saw USC Theatre's production of "E us" last year knows that its success was due to the sup direction of graduate student Richard K Blair. Well, L ready theater goers, because this is your last chanci see Blair's direction on a USC stage. He is heading to Wisconsin to join the Milwaul B Repertory Theater as a directing intern. However, 1 not leaving us without one last treat, "Eastern Standa B which opened yesterday at Drayton Hall. "Eastern Standard" is a black comedy about five j pie whose lives change one day while eating lunch i B restaurant. Pheobe and Peter (played by Sarah Schne and R. Scott Williams) are brother and sister, and Step] and Drew (Richard Wells Abbott and Mack Amick) SB best friends from college. Pheobe is a Wall Street mc whose boyfriend was just implicated in a insider-trad B scandal, and Peter is a gay television producer who j found out he has AIDS. Stephen is a single, unha B architect, and Drew is a gay painter. A disturbance caused by a homeless won (Nanette Savard) brings all the characters gether, and two love stories begin simulta ously. Schnadig and Savard give solid j B formances, convincingly portraying their cl acters, but Elizabeth Tahen stole the sh As the actress/waitress Ellen, she takes comedic advantage of Richard Gre burg's script and Blair's direction. B I was amazed at Alan Hckarf s set B sign. The beach house scenes seer B almost realistic. At one point, I alrr [ put my shoes on the seat in front of B as if I were at the movies. B The play, written by Richard Gre burg, is chock full of intelligent, ? K castic dialogue, subtle jokes and sc profanity. The themes Greenburg expresse the play touch a variety of subjects: AI homelessness and disillusionment with socie view of success. Greenburg uses Stephen's sad history of love ("I pi myself near emotionally teetering women and wait them to fall on me"), Peter's promiscuity and Pheobe's lationship based on lies as examples of one thing: t we're all looking for love but in the wrong ways. ^ Greenburg's play also explored an important p nomenon of our age--the realization that the norm MASH RE-RUN DO1 GETAWAY FROM THE EYES AND OPE Join WUSC FM Sunday, No return to the glory days of drama series written and pr The first program, Holy Lu examines and recreates th women in relationships f< behavioi i >000000** wusc STANDARD Richard K. Blair's final USC play erb IP!1. V- *1 are I | Jt;' / ljng JOHNATHAN BOVE Special to the Gamecock just USC theater students Mack Amlck, R. Scott Williams, ppy Nanette Savard, Elizabeth Taherl, Richard W. Abbott and Sarah Schnadlg form the cast of "Eastlan ern Standard" at Drayton Hall Theater. to~ success are not necessarily what will make us happy. We ne~ are taught to deal with people and go about our lives in certain ways, making friends and careers almost as if in )er" a pattern. After a while, it restricts and makes us un iar" happy. ow- An interesting balance to the realizations of the characters who decide to change their lives and withdraw from :en" their lives and their circles is the homeless woman, May. May has eveiything Stephen, Ellen, even Peter, want. ^ She has the freedom to go anywhere, no ties to society ae^ and no responsibility, but then they commend her for adiost justing so well when she takes her medication. This dime chotomy demonstrates the conflict within all the characters, with the exception of Drew, sen- The fine acting in "Eastern Standard" is reflective of 5ar" Blair's craft. As Thome Compton, department chair, said sme before the play began, "Richard Blair has a way of making an actor believe he's 100 times better than he is and 3 *n then be a 100 times better." "Richard wouldn't cast you in the role if he didn't think 3 you were right for it," Amick said after Wednesday nights dress rehearsal, lace This reason alone is enough to go see "Eastern Stanf?r dard," but you'll be pleased at the results of many creative 5 re" minds and good actors. "Eastern Standard" is fiinny, entertaining and happily-ended. The play runs through Dec. 2 at Drayton Hall, and tickets are $10 for the public, $8 ,^ie" for USC faculty and staff, senior citizens and military and 3 $6 for students. S GETTING YOU WN?! IDIOT BOX-CLOSE YOUR IN YOUR MIND!!! vember 20,1994 at 6pm as we radio theatre with a fresh new oduced by University students. c/fer: Along. Gomes a Wist), ie traditional roles of men and ir our complex and evolving 'al patterns. j222?^Sj FM 90.S