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fill Forum during plays
By TERRY DURAN
Battalion Staff
The Aggie Players have done
themselves proud. Again.
“Lovers and Other Stran
gers,” a series of five one-act
plays written by Renee Taylor
and Joseph Bologna, played to
an attentive, laughing audience
of about 100 Tuesday night in
Rudder Forum.
The five short comedies all
dealt with the problems en
countered by people in love
when they fail to communicate.
All were set in the New York
City of the late ’60s or early ’70s,
when (the program states) “con
cern for personal freedom was
more important than anything,
including love.”
The first segment, “Worth
the Wait?”, saw mini-skirted
Brenda invited into Jerry the
swinger’s apartment. Jerry per
suades her to come in, and, af
ter chaining the door behind
her, tries to take her up on her
what-sounds-like-sexually-
knowledgeable conversation.
Lauren Specht’s Brenda and
her overly-literate babbling
well deserved the resulting
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laughter, although things
tended to slip a little too far into
stereotype sometimes.
Steve Langsdorf, bearded
and shirt half-unbuttoned, was
believable as cool cat Jerry
trying to make a play for the
Saturday night chick he’s pick
ed up in the local hip dive.
Both managed to poke fun at
some ’60-ish pseudo-idealism.
“I don’t believe in fooling
around until the first date,”
Brenda cries at one point.
The next chapter, “Four-
Four Time,” had Cathy (Laurie
Allison) in tears over Hal’s (Rick
Salerno) 25th wedding anniver
sary — with another woman.
The two rehash their ten-year
affair, protracted by Hal’s re
luctance to get a divorce. Cathy
tries to play a trump card by
telling Hal another man has
offered to marry her.
Pretty standard stuff — but
also quite enjoyable in the
humor department. It de
served, and got, the audience’s
attention and laughter, despite
the comic bathroom setting and
some shaky stage walls.
After some intermission en-
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Bea (Miki Bone) and Frank (Scott Bishop) fret over son
iRichie’s (Dan C. Sullins, seated) marital problems in “You’ll
[Understand, Dad, When You’re My Age,” one of five one-act
plays put on by the Aggie Players in Rudder Forum Tuesday
night.
tertainment by the stage crew’s
silent prop-moving Chinese fire
drill, Mike woke Susan up at 4
a.m. to show her his “Silver
Tongue, Clay Feet.”
Mike has gotten cold feet ab
out their wedding, which is four
days away. Richard Strayer as
Mike put on a rapid-fire one-
man rationalization show;
meanwhile, Susan, played by
Beth Seibert, listened with
acting skill at least equal to that
needed for Strayer’s part,
although she said less than two
dozen words until after he was
finished.
The audience heartily
approved of the skillfully-done
ending, as evidenced by heavy,
prolonged applause and who
oping.
The first three chapters were
light, funny and 10 to 15 mi
nutes long apiece. Then the
Aggie Players unloaded the
heavy stuff with a 40-minute
masterpiece titled “You’ll
Understand, Dad, When
You’re My Age.”
Frank and Bea are railing at
son Richie because he and Joan
have decided they want to get a
divorce. Miki Bone’s masterful
portrayal of the hovering
mother — “Eat, eat. It’s good
veal.” — almost overshadowed
Scott Bishop’s fine job as the
potbellied, incompetent father
who really doesn’t know what to
say.
Technical effects — Bone’s
nasal New Yorker twang and
both parents’ salt-and-pepper
hair, along with the mother’s
maidish gray dress and white
apron — were very effective.
Dan C. Sullins as Richie gave
a powerful and convincing per
formance as the son, as did
Shawn Brown with the daugh
ter-in-law’s character.
The segment’s material lent
itself well to the actors’ skillful
performance. Although funny
and cliche-ridden, the gradual
ly developing picture of the two
parents staying together for the
wrong reasons was serious,
grim even, and thought-
provoking.
Frank and Bea and Richie
and Joan were a hard act to fol
low, but the semi-serious mood
was dissipated with the upbeat
“Size 42 Pants, We Can Both
Fit.”
Applause for the final chapter
was heavy, and turned into a
standing ovation as the entire
cast came out together for the
curtain call.
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Prehistoric skulls
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Skulls of at least 28 men,
women and children beheaded in
Mayan ceremonies more than
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