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returns to
stage in
Joe Egg
Peter Nichols drama Joe Fan
directed by E. Mike Dobbins, opened
Friday at the Lincoln Community
Playhouse. Dobbins recently directed
Danny Meldon's Carouse For Freaks.
Playhouse managing director John R.
Wilson, who directs most of the
productions, is featured in a leading role
in Joe Egg. Wilson, who long has
anticipated the opportunity to return to
action, commented during an interview,
"I need the experience again of being on
stage to bring my perspective back...."
Wilson admits his role is a challenging
one and that he is a bit scared. All the
actors who Wilson has directed in the past
six years at the Playhouse will be in the
audience. A flubbed line or wrong move
could be very embarrassing, he said.
Brian (played by Wilson) and his wife
Sheila (played by Linda Goldberg) find
themselves trapped by their 10-year-old
spastic child. The child, Joe Egg, is
helpless and dependent on her parents for
everything. The husband challenges fate
with a little black humor, but in the end
he can neither laugh off the affliction,
nor live with it.
The child will be played by Janet
Lynn, Wilson's daughter. Although she is
only 7-years-old, she has appeared on
stage in California and in Nebraska at the
old Playhouse in Gypsy, at Howell
Theatre in Caucasion Chalk Circle and at
the new Playhouse in The King and I.
Consultant for Janet Lynn's role has been
Anne Coyne, a director at the Lancaster
Office of Mental Retardation.
The couple, friends of Brian and
Sheila, will be played by Gene Bunge and
Andrea Visuthipol; Brian's mother, by
Beryl Crown. Since the setting for the
play is in England, all of the actors have
had to develop an English accent. That is,
all except Crown, who is originally from
Great Britian.
The set design by Don Wanik is a
combination of Victorian scrollwork and
surrealistic features. The transparent
ovals, construction of ramps and stairs
and the thrust stage will be lit by JoAnn
Kuhr.
The play will continue to run Jan. 25
to 27 and Feb. 1 to 3. Friday and
Saturday night performances will begin at
8:30 p.m. and on Sunday the curtain goes
up at 7:30 p.m. Student tickets arc
available for $2.60 t
Special Films lacking promotion, selectivity
The discontinuation of the Special Films
Committee would be one of the worst moves the
Union Programs Council (UPC) could make, and the
reasons for its demise are just not good enough.
It has been argued that the program has been losing
money. over the years. A number of things could be
said about that. At its inception, I don't believe it was
thought that special films would be a big money
maker.
Having been on several film committees in the past
several years, I realize what films cost. And it's just
about impossible to make money on a $400
experimental film if you are charging only $1 for
admission. I don't think special films will ever make
much money, but that in itself does not constitute a
reason for its discontinuation.
There are several hundred people interested in film
and filmmaking on this campus, and the special films
program can be useful to them, as well as to those
who want to see films just for something to do. The
number of people interested in film is growing all the
time, as can be evidenced by the growing numbers in
the different film classes here.
Another reason cited for the discontinuation of
the program was competition. That argument doesn't
hold water. Nowhere else in Lincoln can paole see
avant garde or experimental films. Sheldon Film
Theatre does not offer them, nor do any of the
downtown theaters.
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Former Special Films Committee Chairman Steve
Watson has said, "Another reason for the lack of
u hood
interest in the speical films is that they are not so
special or unique anymore." That's an erroneous
statement. There is not a lack of interest in special
films; proper promotion and advertising of the films
would have drawn more people to them.
I would like to propose to the UPC that they
continue this worthwhile and educational program. If
this committee cannot get along on the profits from
the other Union committees programs, then special
films should apply for a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities or a similar
organization. The committee should choose better
films and promote them.
In the meantime, I'd like to urge all who are
interested in keeping special films alive to see 491
next Wednesday. Vilgot Sjoman, the director, also
directed Am Curious, Yellow. 491 deals with young
delinquents who v'olate the mores of a bourgeois
society. See it the life of the committee may depend
on it.
( Ensemble
to play
Friday
By Meg Greene
The Lincoln Friends of Chamber
Music will present -the-" New London
Soloists Ensemble in concert at Kimball
Recital Hall Friday at 8 p.m. The group is
a substitution for the Czech Chamber
Orchestra, whose American tour was
cancelled by the Czech government.
The program Friday night will consist
of baroque and classical pieces. Baroque
music flourished in Europe from about
1600 to 1750. It is marked by a strict
form and musical ornamentation.
Classical music has a standard, regimented
style and is the base for many musical
forms today.
The 12-member ensemble was formed
in 1970 by Ronald Thomas, one of
England's most renowned violinists and
director of the group. There are 10 string
players, a flautist and a harpsichordist. In
performance they are noted for building
the ensemble around the leading soloist
rather than a conductor. This is the
group's first tour outside the British Isles.
Soloists who will play selections are
Susan Milan, a prize-winning flautist who
will be soloist for the "Dance of the
Blessed Spirits" from Gluck's "Orfeo et
Euridice," and Thomas, with a violin solo
in Vivaldi s Four Seasons . Harold
Lester, harpsichordist will be featured
with Milan and Thomas for the
performance of Bach's "Bi andenburg
Concerto No. 5."
Other selections will include: Barber's
"Adagio for Strings," Mozart's
"Divertimento" and another piece by
Vivaldi, "Concerto for Four Violins in B
Minor."
Tickets are $4 and $2.50 for students
and may be purchased at the School of
Music Box Office, Westbrook 1 13
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