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City Union
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Merideth Morgans, as Charolette, yells at the gay character Bob, played by Don
Cook, in a rehearsal for “Beyond Therapy” Tuesday night.
Couple is “Beyond Therapy”
in fall Theatrix season opener
theater C
preview^
By Anne Steyer
Senior Reporter
“Beyond Therapy,” a wacky
comedy complete with wild thera
py sessions, opens the fall season
for UNL’s Theatrix.
Tbeatrix is an organization that
provides University of Nebraska
Lincoln theater students an oppor
tunity to direct productions—pro
ductions that are often times not as
mainstream as other UNL theater
offerings.
Written by Christopher Durang,
and directed by UNL senior Jeanne
Long, “Beyond Therapy” looks at
the lives of a young couple gra|>
pling with life and love in therapy.
It was a hit off Broadway and went
on to success on Broadway.
Julie Hagemeier, a UNL theater
arts graduate student and publicist
for the Theatrix board, said the
therapy session were “very hyster
ical” because the couple’s thera
pists needed therapy more than the
patients.
“Being from Christopher
Durang means that it’s a little dif
ferent in its approach,” Hagemeier
said.
The story revolves around Bruce
(Chris Williford) and Prudence
(Lisa Mercer), a couple who meet
through the personals. Their al
ready strange relationship is affect
ed even more by their personal
insanities, as well as those of their
therapists.
Prudence’s macho man thera
pist wants her to become more
assertive. Bruce’s wacky therapist
encouraged him to try the personal
ads. Of course, she was completely
unaware of his male lover Bob
(Don Cook) who was not happy
with Bruce’s decision to date wom
en.
How Bruce and Prudence deal
with each other — and how they
sort it all out — makes up the bulk
of the comedy.
Otter cast members include:
Meredith Morgans, David Koch
and Colby Coash.
Performances for “Beyond Ther
apy” are in Temple Studio 301 at 8
p.m.,Oct. 14-16, with an addition
al performance at 2 p.m. Oct. 16.
Hagcmeier said five shows
would be produced by Theatrix this
semester, beginning with “Beyond
Therapy.”
Others will be “Accidental
Death of an Anarchist,’’“Both Your
Houses,” “Antigone” and “Play
Strindberg.”
Four will be directed by gradu
ate students and the fifth by an
undergraduate theater student.
While some of Theatrix’s fund
ing comes from the theater depart
ment, most of the funding comes
from admission charges, Hagemeier
said. Theatrix is basically self-sup
porting.
Tickets for all performances are
$2. *
Lautrec’s artwork featured at Joslyn
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s vi
sions of Paris’ “gay 1890s” are on
display at Jostyn Art Museum in
Omaha.
The exhibit, from the Baldwin M.
Baldwin Collection, is comprised
mostly of figurative lithographs de
picting the social high life of tum-of
the-century Parisians.
Some of the famous works on dis
play are 1899*s “Jane Avril,” a flow
ing representation of a dancer from
the infamous Paris club the Moulin
Rouge, and “Ambassadeurs: Aristide
Bruant,” 1892, a forceful portrait of a
popular singer-comedian.
Also included in the exhibit, orga
nized and circulated by the San Diego
Museum of Art, arc several pieces
from Toulouse-Lautrec’s “Elies” se
ries. The lithographs give candid
glimpses of women from Paris broth
els in their daily routines.
Apart from the artist’s colorful
statements of his era’s gaiety, “The
Hanged Man,” 1893, and “At the Foot
of the Gallows,” 1893, show his dark
side, edging into the realm of
sociopolitical statement.
Joslyn, 2200 Dodge St., also will
?resent a lecture series on the art of
oulous-Lautrec, figurative^painting
es by The Omaha Symphony. .
The exhibitor 109 paintings,draw
ings, prints, posters and book illustra
tions runs through Nov. 28. Admis
sion is $3 for adults and $1 .SO for
children and senior citizens.
— Glenn Antonuca
ViraVax promises much, delivers little
“ViraVax”
By Bill Ransom
Ace Science Fiction
After co-author inc three books with
the late Frank Herbert, “The Jesus
Incident,” ‘The Lazarus Effect,” and
“The Ascension Factor,” and writing
one novel of his own, “Jaguar,” Bill
Ransom presents his second solo ef
fort.
“ViraVax” — unfortunately —
reflects the fact that Ransom’s collab
orations with master writer Herbert
haven't fully taken hold.
The premise is meaty enough.
Stuck away in a Central American
jungle, ViraVax carries on genetic
and biological research that is too
risky—not to mention illegal—to do
in the United States. Run by a Chris
tian evangelical concern called the
Children of Eden, ViraVax is quietly
and gradually breeding a race of
mongoloids, for cheap labor and test
subjects.
The psychotic in charge of security
kills a scientist who learns too much
about the inner workings of the lab
and then ships ofT another security
operative under a cloud of domestic
abuse and mental instability.
However, the exiled Col. Rico
Toledo is not so easily beaten and is
lured back to ViraVax to be killed
because he knows too much.
The problem with the book is not
the concept, but rather the way that
Ransom seems to underplay the hor
ror of it. A firm carrying out experi
ments seemingly copied from Josef
Mengele deserves more than the treat
ment given it.
Furthermore, the characters just
don’t ring true. Actions so half-ex
plained, or are sketchily filled in after
the fact. And the climax, the inevita
ble destruction of the labs, is unsatis
fying.
“ViraVax” promises much, but in
the end, fails to deliver.
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-HSamKepfietd
