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WM By LEIGH-ELLEN CLARK Co-Editor Bevond Therapy is Christo pher Durang’s satiric look at courtship and psychoanalysis in America today. “This is a play about relationships, a dreaded word,” Peck Phillips, the stu dent director, says. “It deals with how the characters choose to act and react.” Du rang’s characters are exagger ated studies of people we know, people that we walk around with every day, Phillips says. The play revolves around Prudence and Bruce, both are “into” therapy and look to their respective therapists for advice on commitment and relationships. This is a comedy, but the subject is real and ev eryone should identify with it. Prudence, in her late twen- Jennifer Beny plays Charlotte, an eccentric psy chiatrist in the Studio Production Beyond The rapy. The play is directed by Peck Phillips, ju nior, and through satire, explores relationships and the “therapy” generation. ties and looking for love is guided by her “macho” thera pist, Stewart. He has doubts about his own masculinity and tends to overdo every male trait that he can think of to reassure himself. His advice to Prudence is to be more aggressive — ac tually, he wants her. Bruce, in his early thirties and also looking for love, has a whacky woman for his thera pist. Charlotte, the therapist with a tendency to follow her impulses — however off the wall they may be — can be a sexual temptress one second and then suddenly childlike. Her advice to Bob is to place a classified ad in the paper to meet a nice girl. She doesn’t know about Bob, Bruce’s lover who isn’t too thrilled that he’s looking to date a woman. It’s confusing, but then relationships usually are. “The play is about trian gles,” Phillips says. “Up until the very last scene there are only two people on the stage at a time — but a third person is always very present. When Prudence and Bruce get to gether, the third person that you feel is Bob. Between Bob and Bruce, it’s Prudence.” During preparation for the play, the Aggie Players were taken through a lot of improvi sation. In rehearsal, Phillips asked the third “invisible” character in a scene to be pre sent. The actors could experi ment with how they would in terpret the scene if they were talking to the third instead of behind his back. “We could explore the ten sions that way,” Phillips says. Before the play ends every PLANNING A WEDDING? Call our professional wedding consultants who can assist you with everything. • Bridesmaid’s luncheons, rehearsal dinner, and receptions. • Floral arrangements, wedding cakes and photographers. • Decorated ballroom for receptions. • Special room rates for wedding party and complimentary honeymoon suite. Get our free Wedding Planner when you visit for a guided tour of our facilities. Brookhollow HILTON INN 2504 North Loop West Houston, Texas 77092 713/688-7711 character becomes a therapist to the other characters. “Finally they move beyond talking and into action,” Phil lips says. The last scene is ac tion packed and the characters’ relationships resolve into logi cal couples. “The play maintains intelli gence but still has a schmaltzy ending — Durang wanted it that way,” Phillips says. “There’s nothing wrong with that — it works. “The characters are outra geous, yet very human,” he savs. “They just take the nor mal impulses to an extreme.” The play will be presented by the Aggie Players in the Rudder Forum, 8 p.m., on March 5 and 6. Admission is $3 for the general public and $2 for students. Aggie Players sea son subscribers are admitted for $1.^ Series to give student talent at student nrices In an attempt to develop student audiences at local cultural events, MSG OPAS has announced the J. Wayne Stark Concert Series. 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