The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 14, 1981, Image 3

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    THE BATTALION Page 3
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1981
heater arts group takes a stab at ‘Dracula’
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Dracula’ applies his makeup prior to the opening performance of the production •
By GARY BARKER
Battalion Staff
Dracula, that fanged favorite,
made his unearthly presence
known once again last night in the
theater arts’ presentation of “Dra
cula: A Vampire Play” in Rudder
Forum.
The play, which is being pre
sented mainly by theater arts
seniors as a senior showcase, will
play nightly through Saturday.
Showtime is 8 p.m., except on Fri
day when it will begin at mid
night.
According to the play’s prog
ram, the cast said they wanted to
overcome the melodramatic na
ture of the script and make the
play as believable and shocking as
possible. Well, they tried very
hard, but the presentation was
still several bites away from fright
ening.
The story is of course familiar.
The daughter of a doctor who runs
a sanatorium in England becomes
mysteriously ill. The father, Dr.
Seward, calls a friend, the Dutch
Dr. Van Helsing, to help him find
the cause of his daughter’s illness.
Van Helsing figures out that the
Sewards’ new rteighbor, Count
Dracula, is the cause. The two
doctors, with the help of the
daughter’s fiance, plot to kill the
vampire.
The cast did its best to make the
play enjoyable despite the script’s
lack of surprises; however, they
added to it by noticeably dimming
the lights each time before Dracu
la appeared on stage, removing
any possibility of him making a
startling entrance.
Despite the melodramatic
script, the actors made the play.
Senior Pat Martine, tall and
equipped with piercing blue eyes,
played Dracula with a hurried pas
sion that added excitement to the
show. And David Troxell was con
vincing in his role as the older,
sophisticated Dr. Van Helsing
who figures out the identity of
Dracula. The scene in which Van
Helsing confronts the Count with
this knowledge is probably the
most engrossing and frightening
scene in the play.
The fog which came rolling out
of Dracula’s tomb and his dis
appearance through a trap door
were also impressive.
Melissa Bradley was also capti
vating in her appearance and per
formance as the doctor’s daughter,
Lucy Seward. The other actors in
cluding Bryan McKenzie as Dr.
Seward, John Redman as Lucy’s
fiance, and Chip Washabaugh as
the crazy man Renfield were com- i
petent in their roles, but like the
play they brought few surprises. '
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By BARBIE WOELFEL
Battalion Staff
Sounds of horses, pigs, chick-
is, cows, sheep and goats. Is it
Id MacDonald’s farm? No, it’s
|i' annual Children’s Barnyard
nsored by the Saddle and Sir-
lin Club at Texas A&M Univer-
atv.
The event begins today and
1 ms through Friday, and 2,400
ndergarten and first-grade chil-
en from surrounding schools
ill tour all the livestock centers
i campus.
“We sent out invitations to 24
|chools in surrounding towns in-
iuding Bryan-College Station,
laldwell, Centerville, Navasota,
orth Zulch, Franklin, Madison-
ille, Heame, Normangee and
Ida,” said Viola Berzinski, chair-
inan of the Children’s Barnyard
Committee and an animal science
najor from Normangee.
The Club also has invited chil-
Iren from local child care centers
nd church schools.
“We will give these young chil-
Iren a tour of the beef, horse,
heep and goat, swine, poultry
md dairy centers and try to make
hem aware of agriculture, what it
sand hopefully stir some interest
n agriculture from some of these
ihildren,” she said.
Berzinski said that during the
flour, 120 Saddle and Sirloin mem-
ers will provide several demon-
trations including how to saddle a
orse, how to shear sheep and
[oatsand show the different types
if animals with their young.
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