The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 02, 1980, Image 20

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By SCOT K. MEYER
Battalion Staff
The man is sweating heavily. Heat will do that to
you. He has just dragged his friend (passed out?
tired? dead?) across the floor. It is hot in here; the
lights are bright and shine down like a desert sun.
The man seems to age several decades. He still
looks young, but he has an air of advanced age,
and he speaks in a high, cracked voice.
“By jingo, looky there. We’re really in trouble,
Mel. Them birds. See them birds, Mel? See what
they’re doing? I seen them things in Utah. Vultures.
Condors or somethin’. Mean, nasty birds. They eat
cows, Mel. I seen 'em eat a whole goddam cow like
it weren’t nothin’."
The man goes on talking, oblivious to the fact
that his friend, who apparently wasn’t unconscious,
dead or sleeping after all, has gotten up and is
leaving.
Finally he notices, stops talking and turns
around.
“You can go ahead and keep talking,” his friend
says, “you’re doing fine. But I’ve got to get going
now...”
It is quickly agreed that Tom Stimson can leave,
because all he does for the rest of the play is get
dragged around anyway. Besides, Stimson, a
senior theater arts major at Texas A&M University,
has another rehearsal to go to, with the Aggie
Players.
Which puts an end to the rehearsal of the Sam
Shepard play, “Cowboys #2.” But there are still the
other two plays, “Chicago” and “Rock Garden”; so
the troupe rehearses some more.
The troupe is known as the Texas Actor’s Thea
ter, and it will be performing the three short Shepard
plays at Backstage this Friday and Saturday night.
William Weldon, the actor who kept his eyes
pealed for buzzards in “Cowboys #2,” describes
himself as the “autistic director” of the company.
Weldon had started an acting company in Albu
querque, N.M., when he lived there.
“I like to act,” Weldon said, “and I like to make
the choices about which plays get done.”
Weldon’s wife is Ellen Dowling, who teaches in
the Texas A&M English department. He said he
"tagged along with her” when she moved here, and
formed a company here to continue acting.
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