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CALENDAR
Wednesday
March 20
“THE CIRCLE”: Banned
in Iran, “The Circle”
provides a revealing
social and political
commentary on Iran’s
“woman problem.”
Rated R. 3,7 and 9 p.m.
Nickelodeon Theatre,
937 Main St. $6.50 for th
general public, $5 for
seniors and students,
and $4 for Columbia
Film Society members.
“FOSTERING
COMPASSION, JUSTICE
AND ACADEMIC RIGOR:
AN EVENING OF WORLD
MUSIC AND DANCE |
POSSIBILITIES”: Louise |
Jennings of the
Educational Philosophy
Department will speak. 3:30
p.m. Gambrell Hall room 250.
NON-STOP HIP-HOP LIVE: The
Spring Break Ya Neck Tour
featuring Poison Pen, iCon the
Mic King and more. New
Brookland Tavern, 122 State St.
“OCEAN’S 11”: 8 p.m. Russell
House Theater. Free.
Thursday
March 21
“WOMEN’S WORK: THE FIRST
20,000 YEARS”: 3:30 p.m.
| The USC West African Drumming and Dance Ensemble will
perform a joint concert with the Palmetto Pans. Also featured will
be the children’s West African ensemble from Conway
Elementary, the Barnes Learning Center, Lemira Elementary and
St. Peter’s Catholic School. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Roger Center.
Tickets are $5 for students and $8 for adults, and are available at
the Coliseum box office or by calling 251-2222.
McKissick Museum
Auditorium.
EARLY SHOW - REFLUX WITH
FSU
LATE SHOW - THE OVERTONES
WITH THE POSSIBILITIES: The
early show is at 6 p.m., and the
late show-is at 10 p.m. New
Brookland Tavern.
“WHERE DID YOU GET THAT
HAT, MY DEAR?: HOW WE
CAME TO DRESS THE WAY WE
DO”: Elizabeth Barber,
linguistics and archaeology
professor and co-chairwoman
of the classics program at
Occidental College, will speak.
7 p.m. Gambrell Hall room 250.
“THE CIRCLE”: 7 and 9 p.m.
Nickelodeon Theatre.
THEATER REVIEW
Neverfear, Shakespeare’s here
“THE COMPLEAT WORKS OF
WLLM SHKSPR (ABRIDGED)”
Presented by Workshop Theatre
★★★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆
BY CARRIE PHILLIPS
THE GAMECOCK
This weekend, Workshop
Theatre brought the three-man
play “The Compleat Works of
Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)” to
Columbia for the first time, and
it has been long overdue. For
those of you whose eyes are even
now instinctively rolling back
into your head at the mere
mention of the Bard of the
English Language, stop that.
This witty, loving send-up is a
97-minute raucous revue of all
the works (minus “Coriolanus”
and the poetry) of our dear Bard,
all performed as Shakespeare
never intended them.
Under the skillful direction of
Ann Dreher, our three admirable
actors are gleefully played by
Stephen Cone, Hunter Boyle and
Christopher Cook. Boyle, who has
been accused of being a one
character actor, displays
remarkable versatility, as do
Cone and Cook. All three are well
matched and work together
beautifully, whether following
the script or improvising. Special
recognition must go to Cone, who,
after performing some of the most
hilarious and ambulatory death
scenes of any Shakespearean
heroine, manages to switch veins
totally and deliver a soliloquy
from “Hamlet” that left the
theater in dead silence. All of this
is complemented by a cheerfully
disheveled set and a truly over
the-top wardrobe selection,
thanks to Walter O’Rourke and
Ruth Ann Ingham.
The play has its faults. This
treatment of Shakespeare’s
comedies is, by comparison with
traditional productions, weak
and difficult to understand
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She Festival makes its debut
BY ERIC SUTTON
THE GAMECOCK
In honor of women’s history
month, female artists, poets, mu
sicians and filmmakers are com
ing together in the Vista to cele
brate womanhood. The first-ever
She Festival will gather
Columbia’s finest female per
formers and artists to show off
their talents while raising money
for SisterCare, a nonprofit orga
nization that serves battered
women in the Midlands.
Singer Pamela Dale, voted
best female vocalist by Free
Times readers for two consecu
tive years, will perform origi
nal work from her CD “Better
Things” and from her upcom
ing release. She says her songs
are “folk mixed with acoustic
rock.”
“This a great opportunity to do
some original music for a good
cause,” she said. “It is a way to pro
mote the women artists of
Columbia.”
Poet Tory Wilson, an art edu
cation graduate student, will do a
reading of her poetry during the
festival.
“Everything I write is to in
spire you. We, as women, really
need to learn what true sister
hood is all about,” she said. “If
other women are hurting, then I
am hurting, too.”
Four USC media arts stu
dents, Kate Karbowniczbk,
Nichole Semones, Chantelle
Janelle and Brooke Connolly
will show their .short film, “A
Song of Ascents.”
Connolly described the film as
“an experimental mindscape
portraying the duality of self
manifested through the use of
light and dark characters.
“Female light and dark enti
ties travel though their respec
tive worlds on a journey to
merge, leaving one entity seem
ingly victorious. Though, the
struggle of polarity will never
end.”
“A Song of Ascents” has been
named a finalist for a chance to
appear at the Rochester
International Film Festival.
Poet Ryan will do tarot read
ings and read poetry.
“I have always been psychic
since I was age 3,” said Ryan,
who also does dream work and
astral projection. “Since then, I
have known about reincarnation
and time travel.”
Singer Kia Johnson will per
form songs from her CD, “It’s
Over.” Her skills come from her
mother, who sang backup for
Luther Vandross and Mariah
Carey. Describing the festival
and.her connection to it she said:
“It is about women. And I went
through domestic violence earli
er when I was married.”
Sister Care offers emergency
shelters for women and their
children for up to 90 days, and
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