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.
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PASADENA, Calif. — Increas-
gly detailed pictures from the ap-
iroaching Voyager 1 spacecraft of
big Jupiter moons Ganymede
l^allisto show bright spots that
lentists say might be ice craters
ntncliing through a veneer of dust.
The two satellites, both larger
Hnhe planet Mercury, resemble
larth's moon when viewed by Voy-
ger from a distance of more than 3
lillion miles. But both are less
lensc and scientists believe they
a mixture of water and rock
vitlm ice crust blanketed by dust,
expect they will become less
and less familiar looking as we ap
proach,” said Dr. Bradford Smith,
head of the 22 scientists analyzing
television pictures being radioed
back by the 1,800-pound space
robot.
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on Callisto and Ganymede are im
pact craters penetrating a dusty sur
face is speculation based on scien
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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,
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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.
South of the red spot are large oval
features which had been considered
the Jovian equivalent of thun-
derheads. Smith said that this idea
fails to explain the erratic behavior
pic-
displayed by the new Voyager
tures.
“I think for the most part the exist
ing atmospheric models all have
been shot to hell by Voyager, ” Smith
said.
Other instruments aboard the big
nuclear-powered spacecraft have
discovered a glowing, donut-shaped
cloud of electrically charged parti
cles around the moon lo and pre
viously unknown very low frequency
natural radio transmissions from Jup
iter.
Voyager 1 encountered Jupiter’s
“bow shock” Wednesday, two days
later than expected. The bow shock
is the region where Jupiter’s im
mense magnetic field begins to de
flect the solar wind, a stream of elec
trically charged particles from the
sun, like the bow of a ship pushing
water aside.
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