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Aggielife
Wednesday • March 6,199Wnesday • Marc
Timeless Truth
Abdication final production in series of
plays to celebrate female playwrights
By Libe Goad
The Battalion
maker'
ooked,
W hen Oliver Stone ap
peared on stage in
Rudder Auditorium
last spring, the prominent
filmmaker delivered an urgent
message about the search for
truth in history.
He gave detailed accounts
that motivated him to create
Platoon, Natural Born Killers,
JFK and others. All of the films
focused on different subject mat
ter, but each film carried the
universal theme that Stone
thrives on: people must find the
truth for themselves.
“A film must challenge the
thinking of the time,” Stone said.
Stone puts history in the
hands of the general public and
urges them to learn what the
history texts do not include. He
asks the public to take history’s
prompting and fix similar prob
lems in modern-day society.
The A&M theater arts de
partment challenges the think
ing public to do the same with
Abdication, a historical play
about Queen Christena of Swe
den who gives up her throne to
deal with the two forces tear
ing her apart inside.
Under the direction of theater
arts Professor Susan Kelly, stu
dents have spent the past four
weeks preparing Christena’s sto
ry for three admission-free per
formances this week, and opens
tonight. Other performances will
be Thursday and Friday, all at 8
p.m. in the Fallout Theater in
144 Blocker.
Abdication is the last of four
plays performed under the
Kaleidoscope project — a pro
gram put together by Kelly to
celebrate female playwrights.
Kelly said the exciting aspect
of Abdication comes from Chris
tena’s real-life history. The
queen, who took the throne at
16, grew up in an environment
different from the average
princess in the 17th century.
Christena was trained like a
prince of the court, with in-
depth training in fencing and
managing a country. As in the
play, the true Christena
dressed in men’s clothes and
went about daily affairs as a
man, characteristics highly un
usual for women of this period.
In one flashback scene, Chris
tena beats a boy in a fencing
match. She tells the Cardinal of
her proud victory of beating the
supposed stronger sex in a sword
fight, and he questions her to
discover more of Christena’s hid
den character.
“A man does not like to be beat
en by a women,” Cardinal Azolina
said. “That’s human nature.”
“Well,” Christena said, “na
ture will have to change.”
Ruth Ann Jaso, a sophomore
genetics major who plays Chris
tena, said the ex-queen wanted
her way at any expense — in
cluding most personal relation
ships. Birgito, a mute dwarf, is
her only companion.
“I’m nothing like Christena,”
Jaso said.
In the play, Christena leaves
the throne and decides to con
vert to Catholicism. She leaves
her homeland and travels to
Rome to be a permanent guest of
the Pope.
Upon her arrival, she learns
she must confess to Cardinal
Azolina, who has learned about
h, smoking.
The forgotten
American
time.
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ierican culture is
with the faint
of cigarette
[like, and yet we
eto ignore our
and mock the
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Students perform in Abdication, the fourth play in Kaleidoscope, a
program put together to celebrate female playwrights.
her wild reputation through let
ters and an anonymous biogra
phy of her life. Through her con
fession with the Cardinal, she
relives her life and discovers the
bipolar nature of her soul.
“She’s a strong woman who
can be learned from,” Jaso said.
“Not many people could go
through what she did.”
Abdication deals with issues
"It's theater on the edge."
— Todd Rennels
Cardinal Azolina / Abdication
behavior but also emphasizes
the Kaleidoscope project’s goal oi
bringing women onto the stage
The theater arts department
took a turn from the usual pro
duction with Abdication and the
Kaleidoscope project.
Aside from focusing
women, students directed
other shows and actors re
from their scripts on stage.
Abdication is
only full-fledged pro
duction of the foul
plays, quickly put to
gether in a month.
Todd Rennels, a
nior theater arts majoi
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pits j »
longer
ip to light
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the cool cats
ie on granola
iid suck on water
ottleslike prema-
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m Diego Zoo.
And whether it’s
ip or not, smoking
dangerous.
But, so is jay-
alking, and thou-
ds of people on t
|ioit every day.
Like my dad alw
ie amount of fun
ip is directly propt
mount of danger y
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having the time of i
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industry has to say
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and so is Carmex (
deck it out). But t
ad suffer from acute t
that time continually churns to
the surface.
Kelly said the play shows the
constant struggle of a woman in
power and the difficulties' any
person may face in a position that
requires unyielding strength.
“The play is very current for
today,” Kelly said.
Abdication also brings in
modern-day politics.
The anonymous biography
that tips off the Cardinal to
Christena’s sordid past sounds
similar to “Primary Colors,” a
book written about a man just
like President Clinton.
“The Pleasures and Depravi
ties of Christena Queen of Swe
den” tells about her unorthodox
who plays Cardina with 0 rch
Azolina, said the short amount c
preparation time keeps the ph
from developing slowly over tin*
“It’s theater on the edge,
Rennels said.
The Crucible, the departing is the added oppor
production last semester, r®
quired students to be there su hr young, unknowr
nights a week for three month
getting to know their characb led by not only
in depth and, as Rennels sail
“preparing for a shamanist 11
journey on stage.”
“It’s the same as a weddih
planned out for a year with
$1,000 dress, a $500 cake and 81
announcement in the paper, '
said, “as opposed to hoppinfi
plane to Las Vegas.”
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