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local THE BATTALION t>age 3 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1981 A&M-shared Pei will not, at least yided any further, rsity faculty sail m pared to increase in tuitioii Is toward higher dy ignores theseji rives for knee-jerl Indents to rejecttkj ;e out of hand, re prepared ration can we nr — but to do msible questions, k> with the moner. ud to not point out 1 ieing considered iil eir right to prei tes any results ijeatre arts majors Vickye Boone, Mary Hawvcr and Sharon Glenninding rehearse a dance scene in “Cave Cat,” a play about youth and individuality. “Cave Cat” opens tonight at 8 p.m. in Rudder Forum. Performances are set for Friday and Saturday, too. &ssjrheater student rekindles |j spirit of '60s in ‘Cave Cat' Please try to understand I want to be me "" |[ need to be free to believe in everything I — Pat Martine uses By KATHLEEN McELROY Battalion Stall' Straddling the borderline be- JUsen youth and adulthood, some pride to jump off. In the 60s the gn was “doing your own thing. ” Texas playwright Ford Ains- ivorth examined this search for Bdom in his 1968 play “Cave Cat, ’ in which the main characters ire animals — all except the hero, ivhc can’t decide whether he wants to be a lion like his parents ir a leopard like his demonstrator pids. So he decides to be a cat. Even in the ’80s Texas A&M University student Pat Martine > thinks Ainsworth’s play and its themes are still relevant. That’s ivhy he’s presenting “Cave Cat” .y, Friday and Saturday in der Forum. r Martine, a senior in theater B, composed the opening Bne, “I Need to Believe,” for Be Texas A&M production to set the play’s mood. But he’s more an arranger of “Cave Cat” — he’s ffied special lighting techniques, ffidern dance, slides of actual de- Istrations and modern music to sworth’s basic play. BJlut Ainsworth apparently pbesn’t mind these additions — he and Martine met a few year’s ago planted soyieaf^ 61 ' Martine had seen a produc- o control buWf on of “Cave Cat” in Georgetown, g over a soybean fir' 3 hometown. And the play- rarden is hein!W ght ’ who ,s the lan S ua S e arts g P , -adviser for Round Rock High can es nsb; School, is coming to College Sta ter of the garden ti on Saturday night to see the new spth of the watef’Yersion of his tragicomedy, which )f the splash. If ‘ has been produced across the na- lepthofnineinch tion. ood bet the gardfl He was pleased with it,” Mar- er. Either turn of® 6 sai d- “He’s helped — he e soybeans to# 11 ’ 1 , 30411311 / offerec | any advice or told us what we should do in this show.” //w/reu DOT io#he special effects, Martine says, accent the era in which the jj ffiy was written without changing larsnip and thun'its basic theme — youth fighting x finger. Ifitmai to stay individual, md, the parsnips : makes a tinny in the ground in all working on the production. The Aggie Players, the theater arts organization on campus, sponsored the $350 production. Martine said the budget is low be cause he has had help from friends who have done some free work for him. Working on “Cave Cat” since December, Martine hasn’t had time for the other theater arts pro ductions. “I haven’t been involved in any thing else since I’ve been concen trating on this,” he said. Because Martine has spent so much of his time to “Cave Cat,” theater arts professor Richard Sodders is giv ing him credit for the production in his advanced theater directing class. “I’ve always thought “Cave Cat” would be a great musical and I’ve talked to Ainsworth about it,” he said. “And maybe one day — who knows?” Tickets are $2 for students and $3 for non-students. All three shows start at 8 p.m., and tickets are on sale at the door. ib “It takes a look at the frustra tions of youth,” he said, “and peo ple can still relate to that today. ” He says his effects are geared to ward his college audience. He uses music from the rock-jazz group Chicago for the modern dance sequence. He’s proud of the song he wrote for the production, but said, “The real talent in it is Alan Croley’s singing and Scott Zesch’s piano playing. ” Zesch also composed the music for the piece. Until this production, most of the theater work Martine had done had bejen acting, but after all the work he’s done on “Cave Cat” he said, “In my situation as a student-director, acting is defi nitely easier than directing.” The future? “T m not going to say,” he replied with a smile (the smile of someone who really doesn’t know). Chip Washabaugh plays the troubled youth, the Cave Cat. Mary-Alice Helman and David Troxell portray his parents, Mom ma and Poppa Lion. 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