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Semester shows
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by Maureen Carmody
Battalion Staff
The Theater Arts program at
Texas A&M will be providing
more entertainment and learn
ing opportunities for students
this year than in the past.
It will be bringing four plays
to campus this semester and will
also sponsor 12 one-act plays,
which will be directed by stu
dents.
Five student plays a year is
usually the amount produced.
Richard Sodders, a theatre
arts professor and director for
one of the plays, said the in
crease in activities is to give stu
dents all the experience they can
in working in the theater.
The first play of the semester
will be Blood Wedding, written
by Federico Garcia Lorca and di
rected by Robert Wenck, a thea
ter arts professor.
Blood Wedding is a modern
tragedy which tells the story of a
mother that loses all of her men
in a feud with another family-
She is left all alone after her last
son is killed during a fight over
his new bride.
The play will run Feb. 9
through the 12 at 7 p.m. in Rud
der Theater. Tickets are on sale
now at the MSC Box Office.
The second play will be
Buried Child, written by Sam
Shephard and directed by Mary
Ann Mitchell, a theater arts pro
fessor.
Buried Child, winner of the
1979 Pulitzer Prize, is a drama
which eventually reveals the
secret a farm family has har
bored for years. This play is not
recommended for children.
Auditions for Buried Child
will be Wednesday, Jan. 19 and
Thursday, Jan. 20 in Rudder
Forum beginning at 7 p.m.
Both meetings must be
attended. Scripts are available in
the theater arts office in the
A&A building. The play will run
from Feb. 24 through the 26 and
March 3 through the 5 in Rudder
Forum.
The third play will be Transit.
This will be the first staging of an
original musical by Sue
Dauphin, Houston theater cri
tic, and Penelope Kosztolnyik
from Bryan. It will be directed by
Richard Sodders.
Transit is a musical comedy
set on board a merchant tanker,
the S.S. Shuttlecock. The first
mate's wife disguises herself as
the captain in order to save his
job. Showings will be at 7 p.m.
in Rudder Theater on April 13
through the 16.
The final show will be The
Contrast, written by Royall Tyl
er and directed by Jill Moore, a
student of theater arts.
Moore is participating in the
University Undergraduate Fel
lows program. This will be the
first time the theater arts section
will be involved in the Fellows
program. Sodders said the prog
ram can be used by theater arts
students with a high scholastic
average as a type of thesis.
The Contrast is a comedy sa
tire on British manners. It will be
shown at 7 p.m., April 26
through the 29 in Rudder
Forum.
In addition to these plays,
there will be 12 one-act plays at
mid-semester which will be di
rected by students in the dire
cting class, Sodders said. The
plays will be chosen by the stu
dents.
For more information about
auditions call theater arts at 845-
2621.
Ticket for all shows can be
picked up at the Texas A&M stu
dent center box office. The tick
ets are $3.50 per person, $2.50
for students. The one-acts stu
dent directed plays are free.
Times and dates will be
announced later in the
semester.
by Tracey Taylor
Battalion Staff
The MSC Opera and Perform
ing Arts Society will begin this
semester's concert series with
brass with a concert bv a five-
piece group on Feb. 3 at 8 p.m.
in Rudder Auditorium.
The Canadian Brass, labeled
the "Marx Brothers of Brass" by
the New York Times, is an inter
nationally renowned quintet
which is best known for combin
ing comedy with their stage per
formance of traditional music.
The group takes this approach
because they say it's their re
sponsibility to bring the audi
ence to the music rather than the
music to the audience.
But, the group's talent ex
tends beyond comedy. Their
musical repertoire ranges from
classical works of Bach, Handel,
Purcell, Vivaldi, and Debussy to
ragtime works by Jelly Roll Mor
ton and Scott Joplin to Fats Wal
ler hits.
The Canadian Brass is Freder
ic Mills and Ronald Romm, on
trumpet, Graeme Page on
French horn, Eugene Watts on
trombone, and Charles Daellen-
bach on tuba.
Other OPAS events sche
duled for this semester are:
— The Broadway show "Evita"
on Feb. 14
— Eugene Fodor on Feb. 18
— Pianist Murray Perahia on
March 7
— The Pittsburgh Symphony,
Michael Tilson Thomas con
ducting on April 13.
For more information or for
tickets for all OPAS events con
tact the Rudder Auditorim Box
Office at 845-1234.
Town Hall looks
for spring shows
by Kelley Smith
Battalion Staff
Town Hall has scheduled
fewer programs for this
semester than last fall, but is
still working on getting other
programs and hopes to add
up to three more concerts to
its schedule to the three that
are already planned
"There are typically more
(Town Hall) programs in the
fall than in spring," said
Suzanne Becker, advisor for
Town Hall.
Town Hall currently has
scheduled the Harlem Globet
rotters on Feb. 1, Evita on Feb.
14,15,16, and Larry Gatlin on
March 3.
Spring programs are diffi
cult to plan because other acti
vities are already scheduled
on most of the weekends.
When a dance or choir concert
is already planned. Town Hall
does not like to program
against them, Becker said.
This causes a problem be
cause the artists prefer to per
form on the weekends.
Several programs made
available to Town Hall have
been turned down because
there is another school activ
ity or program already sche
duled for the dates that the
artists were available.
Town Hall also tries to stay
away from weeknight sche
duling because this type of
programming often interferes
with students' test schedules.
There may be some Thursday
night concerts, however, be
cause up until April there are
only four weekend nights that
do not have other events
already scheduled, Becker
said.
Movies brings A&M
action, adventures
OPAS spring show
brings brass quintet
by Patrice Koranek
Battalion Staff
If you and your buddies want
to see a good movie but are out
of money there is a solution to
the problem.
The MSC Aggie Cinema has
scheduled a wide variety of
movies at a price suited to most
pocketbooks. For only $1.50 you
can see most of the movies on
the cinema schedule including
recent hits like Raiders of the
Lost Ark, Fire fox, The Best Little
Whorehouse In Texas and
Bladerunner.
In addition to showing recent
box office hits, Aggie Cinema
will also show classics such as
Gone With the Wind, The
Sound of Music, Doctor Zhiva
go, Citizen Kane, The King and 1
and Bambi.
But maybe you don't want to
see good movies. In that case
"bad movies" are offered too.
On May 6, Aggie Cinema will
sponsor Piranhacon, a series of
the worst films ever made.
According to the cinema sche
dule, "total lack of taste" was a
basic requirement in selecting
the films for Piranhacon. The
film winners for Piranhacon this
year include She Gods of Shark
Reef, Muscle Beach Party and
Girls in Chains.
Films of the science fiction
genre will be shown by Cepheid
Variable, the science fiction and
fantasy committee of the MSC,
when they present Aggiecon, a
convention of sci-fi enthusiasts.
Mar. 24 through 27.
Aggiecon is the largest con
vention of its kind in the South
west and Cepheid Variable will
present several speakers and
films on science fiction and fan
tasy during the four-day event.
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