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Sex, violence, jealously, blackmail, insanity, disguise, p
sion, hatred and murder.
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ley's dark drama from the 17th century opening this weekenc
Longstreet Theatre.
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,as- The main characters are a lady, Beatrice-Johanna (Elizabeth
Taheri), and her deformed servant, DeFlores (Jayce Tromness).
Beatrice-Johanna has been promised to a man she doesn't love,
so she asks DeFlores to murder him. Let's just say DeFlores rejw
quires more than a chaste kiss in payment.
1 at The action of the play becomes even darker as the play progresses.
rith "It's got two plots that are pretty much separate," said junior
Chris McCormick, one of the undergraduates performing in The
Changeling." The characters rarely meet each other. There's the
1 comic plot and the tragic plot. It actually starts out being comic
and leads into tragedy."
i# The comic plot mirrors the slow degradation of the tragic
plot as two gentlemen disguise themselves as mental patients
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tor. McCormick plays one of the gentlemen.
I "It seems like most of the characters Fve ever been in plays
are insane," McCormick said. "It's really nice to be able to let
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Sarah Schnadig, a second year MFA candidate at USC, plays
* the doctor's wife, Isabella.
"She is very young and beautiful," Schnadig said. "She's the
^3 most virtuous character in the whole play."
Ann Dreher, an acting professor at USC, is directing the "The
Changeling."
"She gives the actors a great deal of freedom to really come
^ up with their own stuff on stage," Schnadig said. "That's very liberating."
Since The Changeling" was written around the time of William
Shakespeare, some aspects of it may seem unusual to modern
1? viewers, particularly the language. Dreher has been involved in
the task of helping the performers with the sometimes-difficult1
17th century language.
"A lot of people have trouble with the language," McCormick
I said. "The actors have to know what everything they're saying
means before the audience can understand it."
The Changeling" opens at Longstreet on Friday and will run
I through Nov. 5. Curtain times are 8 p.m. Tues.-Sat. and 3 p.m.
Sim. Tickets cost $10 for adults; $8 for senior citizens, military
personnel, USC faculty and staff, and $6 for students. Box office
hours are noon- 5:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri. and one hour before each
performance. To reserve tickets, call 777-2551.
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