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M M I. M M { ? t • «. . > x M M.M.-M -* Z'-l'-' a 1^1 1 / I 1^1 | 111 CT1^_|_ j^r^a- .- v • ^ stage manager Jeanie Parrent. Parrent sa\'s Doigg ^ as mem orized 90 percent of the lines in four days. Theater students also spent a lot of time in the library. Elliot savs it takes a lot of digging to come up with an audition piece a director hasn't heard a thou sand times before. Theater students seem to think they are different from the rest of campus, but proba- blv not for the reasons people think. Aggie Players president Jeff Danish savs the difference is that theater people have noth ing to hide from one another. rtnn JL heater arts majors have a real tendency to be... bit- chy,” he says. “We have no manners when we're around each other. But we do know how to act in public and we’ll accept anyone if they’ll accept us.” English major Emma Read ing savs it's this bond between the people in a production which attracts her to theater. “It's like a family,” she says. “They’re complete strangers and you have to trust them.” Freshman Steve McCauley savs that when a rehearsal goes badly for one actor, the other actors step in and keep the dia logue going so only a spectator with script in hand would real ize the lines had been jumbled. Consequently, theater stu dents tend to be very close. Close enough to moan through a warm up session together (it gets their voices going, Parrent says), hug whoevers sitting in the next seat, or do a boisterous rendition of the “hokev pokey” before rehearsal. "You can tell the majors from the ones who aren't,” she says, pointing to the self-conscious figure of a physics major. “It’s tough being a theater arts ma jor at A&M, because it's new. They're not your Uqtical Ag gies.” Out in fact, theater ma jors don't look or act appre ciably different from other A&M students. “I was real shv last semes ter,” says McCauley, a burly member of the “Twelfth Night’’ crew, who is later told to watch the volume in his scenes. Theater has had its place in Aggieland since the 1893, when the College Drama Society was formed. In 1946, the Aggie Players were started, and Afi^M approved the theater major in 1977. At the end of a two-hour re hearsal, Greenwald gathers ev eryone on the stage for a cri tique. “Sometimes I enw Jackie Sherrill enormously,” he tells the cast. “He can call time-out and regroup. You don’t have that luxury in the theater. “It wasn’t so good that we can relax and sav we’ve got it in the bag. You're just about where you ought to be.” The cast goes on rehearsing. Sonya Merriam, a freshman theater arts major, plays Vi ola in “Twelfth Night,” which is scheduled to run April 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26 in the Rudder Forum. Tickets are available at the Rudder box office. Diploma Frames Let us help you display that long-awaited diploma in a beautifully handcrafted frame, made right here at A&M. If you order your frame, now we can have your di ploma ready for display within days after graduation! University Plus offers you quality craftmanship, affordable prices and a two-day turn around. For $40, you have your choice of walnut or padouk frames, plate or nong lare glass and any of the combination-of mat colors listed below: Cream, Cream/Maroon, Grey, Grey/Maroon. Frames are on display in the MSC University Plus Craft Center, located in the basement of the Memorial Student Center. For order placement, a $20 nonrefundable down payment is required. For further information, call 845-1631. PLUS Spark Some Interest! Use the Battalion Classifieds. Call 845-2611 WAKE UP! wake up service now available $15 00 month for more information call Bryan 800 Communications 3100 Leonard Rd. Bryan, TX 775-4800 :((i»n):