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st chosen Tuesday for British play THE BATTALION FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1979 Page 3 g Players to present ‘Equus in April iy JAMES HAMILTON Battalion Reporter Chip Washabaugh, a freshman -med student from Dallas, is try- to fill Richard Burton’s shoes. Like Burton, Washabaugh will ay»Uan Strang, the lead role in ilquus.” Unlike Burton, Washa- igh will appear in production at exas A&M University. The Aggie Players’ version will pen April 11 in Rudder Forum. “Equus,’ by British playwright eter Shaffer, was an international it that appealed in major London id New York theaters. Burton star- id in the motion picture made from le play. _ “Equus” is about the relationship etween a psychiatrist and his new atient, a 17-year-old boy named HStrang who blinded six horses stabbing their eyes with a metal pike The play, which has never been srfonned at Texas A&M, covers the chological development of Strang 1 the climactic discovery of what ove him to blind the horses. “This is a very intense psychologi- play, ’ said Theater Arts Director ibert Wenck, “so it’s going to take a :le extra effort. It’s the kind of play t’s not worth doing poorly.” Wenck said that “Equus” will be presented mainly through flashbacks as the characters recall past events from their lives. “The play doesn’t have any partic ular set,” he said. “It takes place si multaneously in a hospital, a stable and various other locations, but the action of the play flows through both the conversations and memories of the characters. “In fact, the whole set will be fairly bare. We will try to guide the audi ence’s imagination through the vari ous locations and the events that take place.” Although the “Equus” script calls for a nude scene, Wenck said the play will not contain any nudity. “Nude scenes, to my way of think ing, are not necessary,” he said. “You can get the same dramatic ef fect without using them.” The “horses” in the play will actu ally be actors and actresses wearing sculptured wood and metal horse heads. “They won’t be costumed to look like real horses,” Wenck said. “We want to give the audience the im pression of a horse but not the reality of a horse.” The cast of “Equus” was chosen Tuesday. It includes: Battalion photo by James Hamilton A member of the cast of “Equus” studies her Peter Shaffer, will be performed by the Aggie lines before a rehearsal. “Equus,” written by Players on April 11-14 and 18-21. Sid Catlett, Martin Dysart, psy chologist; Chip Wasabaugh, Alan Strang; Victorina Martinez, Hesther Salomon; Leslie Stevens, Nurse; Carole Hargis, Dora Strang; John Schulze, Frank Strang; Leah Richardson, Jill Mason; Tom Stim- son, Harry Dalton; Pat Martine, Horseman and “Nugget,” a horse; Mary Alice Helman, John Redman, Cathy Elorriaga, Isaac Vergara and Jaimie Craig, Horses. “Equus" will be performed in two acts on April 11-14 and 18-21. Tick ets will go on sale April 2. byager 1 spacecraft dispatches tailed photos of 2 large satellites SALAD-SANDWICH-SOUP Now open for your convenience in the basement of Sbisa Dining Center. Salad priced by the ounce and sandwiches by the inch. Open 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Same entrance as the Underground Railroad. (Sbisa Basement) ‘QUALITY FIRST ✓ \ 8M«v./ \/r/Yffesf Afome \ /flMa'/YuIs / SHIPLEY’S DONUT SHOP vcorru 1 wi— AFTER STUDYING, STOP IN FOR SOME FRESH DONUTS OR A FLAMEBURGER. 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He said the idea the bright spots on Callisto and Ganymede are im pact craters penetrating a dusty sur face is speculation based on scien tists’ best guess about the makeup of the satellites discovered by Galileo in 1610. Voyager 1 was 415 million miles from Earth and 3.2 million miles from Jupiter Thursday, traveling at 28,000 miles per hour. It will pass within 172,750 miles of Jupiter whough separated by sea, pjack flippers hold race United Press International IBERAL, Kan. — Flipping a pancake while running along the cobblestone streets of Olney, England, an unemployed teacher was faster than her Kansas competitors and won the 30th annual Shrove Tuesday international pancake race, snapping a string of seven con secutive English defeats. Julie Perks, 22, flashed the distance in 1 minute, 3 seconds, Tues day in Olney. KSix hours later, 29-year-old housewife Barbara McWilliams won the Liberal segment by running the 415-yard, S-shaped course in four-tenths of a second less than the English pancake flipper, ffllhe international winner is determined by comparing the times of each race. ■However, Liberal women still retain an 18-12 edge in the 30-year competition between the two towns. IlLegend in Olney says the race began when a woman made a last- minute dash to church carrying her skillet and a pancake she was cooking as the bell tolled for the Shrove Tuesday service. ■Perks was awarded $50, and McWilliams received a color televi- Monday and then will swing within 12,752 miles of the moon lo, 71,500 miles of Ganymede, 79,359 miles of Callisto and 455,000 miles of Euro pa. Scientists are especially interested in lo and Voyager will risk Jupiter’s intense radiation to get close to the satellite. With its reddish polar caps and white and yellow equatorial re gions, lo is one of the most bizarre bodies in the solar system. It is sur rounded by a yellow glow produced by an electrified cloud of sodium. Voyager 1 has already radioed back hundreds of detailed photos of Jupiter and Smith said the mission so far has been one surprise after another. “Happily bewildered. I think that’s the best way to describe the way we feel right now, ” Smith said at a news conference Wednesday. “What we see is not- what we ex pected. ” The photos of Jupiter itself have been particularly puzzling. The red, orange and white clouds are far more turbulent than had been expected and seem to act more like swirling, immiscible colored liquids than gases. One particularly dramatic color view of Jupiter released Wednesday showed an extraordinarily complex and wavy pattern of turbulent gases around the Great Red Spot, the “eye’’ of Jupiter discovered 300 years ago. 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