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Sixth Annual
Texas Film Festival
February 24-28, 1999
Version 6.0 Upgrade Your Independence
Night of Shorts
7:00 p.m.
Rudder Auditorium
Friday, Fet>. 26
Dancer, TX Pop. 81 Your Friends and Neighbors
Midnight
9:30 p.m.
Rudder Auditorium
A series of short indepen
dent films will be shown.
Check our website for
more information.
Rudder Auditorium
From writer/director Neil
LaBute, whose first film In the
Company of Men was the most
controversial film of the 1997
Sundance Film Festival, comes
a new film... and this time, it's
Featuring Guest Speaker:
Tim McCanlies, Director
Film on Film, by Dr. Terence Hoagwood,
Rudder Tower Rm 701, 2:00 p.m.
personal. LaBute moves from
theboardroom to the bedroom
for this incendiary cocktail of
modern mores set in suburbia.
The intimacy between hus
bands and wives, between
friends and neighbors, is
Saturday, Feb. 27
The Dry Season, 7:00p.m., Rudder Theater
Spencer Keating, a twenty-four-year-
old florist, hasn’t been with a woman
for 350 days, if approaching that
ego-smashing year mark isn’t bad
enough, he has to deal with his
overbearing, oversexed best friend, a
business deal headed down the getter,
and the all-too familiar problems of living the single life. This straight
ahead comedy is set in beautiful Rockland County, New York; 20 miles
north of New York City and will strike a chord with anyone who has
experienced their own “dry season.”
Origin of the Species
9:30 p.m.
Rudder Theater
Six friends play the game of life.
Film Making Workshop, by Gary Ellenburg, Library Annex, Rm 417B, 12:00 p.m.
Screenwriters Workshop, by Tim McCanlies. Rudder Tower. Rm. 701, 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 28
An Afternoon of Shorts & Ted. 2:00 p.m., Rudder Theater
Ted is an outrageous comedy about the Unabomber and his friends. Told
through a “mockumentary” narrative, a la Spinal Tap, family members and
acquaintances recount the life and times of Ted. Questions, such as how and
why a genius with no social skills can seek revenge on society by sending mail
bombs, are probed as the film spans four decades and numerous changes in
America’s social landscape. Ted is a black comedy about a human being who
failed as a son, a brother, a lover, and a teacher.
Tickets: $3.00 Each, $15.00 Festival Pass (Purchase all tickets at the MSC Box Office- 845-1234).
For More Info. Call 847-8478 or Check out our Website www.texasfilmfestival.org.
The Sixth Annual Texas Film Festival is a presentation of the MSC Film Society of Texas A&M.
Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs.
BY SUSAN OVERCASH
The Battalion
I n a tiny underground hospital, 13
nurses huddle together amid
bomb blasts, blood and death.
They are trying to remain sane de
spite the realities of World War II.
The horror and struggle of WWII,
recently showcased in the movies
Saving Private Ryan and The Thin
Red Line, was punctuated by the ter
ror and tension of death in under
ground tunnels and hospitals.
“Cry Havoc,” the latest production
from the Theater Arts Program, illus
trates the anguish of war through the
eyes of 13 volunteer nurses working
in a hospital on the Bataan peninsu
la.
Each nurse has a different back
ground and different experiences.
Throughout the play they must come
together to save lives and save each
other.
Julie Penkava, plays Stephanie
Polden and a junior journalism ma
jor, said the play is about the hard
ships the nurses endure and the
changes in each character.
“It’s about a group of nurse corps
volunteers, their view of the war and
the changes they go through as the
war progresses,” Penkava said. “It’s a
very intense show.”
Leah Graves, “Cry Havoc” stage
manager and a sophomore theater
arts major, said the message of the
play concerns the human side of the
war. “Cry Havoc” is a comment on
the anguish of World War II and the
volunteers who not only saved the
country, but also the lives of soldiers.
“We’re trying to bring across this
combat situation,” Graves said. “I
mean, there’s death crumbling in
from the ceiling and these nurses start
to come together in a very tense situ
ation.”
Penkava said the different back
grounds of each of the nurses add to
each character’s evolution and allow
students a different perspective on a
horrific situation.
“This isn’t a side that gets told a
lot,” Penkava said. “These are the hid
den faces each character has some
thing behind her. ”
Penkava said she plays one of the
more misunderstood nurses who
likes to take care of others and can
sometimes be mistaken as a bit too
masculine.
“This has been a very challenging
role,” Penkava said. “Not only be
cause of what we’re having to
deal with, but also because,
physically, she and I are not
alike. ”
TYicia Hale, plays a South
erner learning the truth of war
and a junior theater arts ma
jor, said the volunteers are
simply doing their duty.
“We’re here to fulfill
our duty,” Hale said.
“We’re very dedicat
ed and very proud.”
Penkava said the
nurses all realize
their purpose is to
help the wounded
and dying soldiers.
“Although we
may be at each other,
at the end, the nurses re
alize we need to put aside
our differences,” Penkava
said, “We’re here for the boys. ”
Graves said the audience
may relate to the movie be
cause of stories they have heard
from family members about
World War II.
“It will make them think about
themselves and the things that their
friends and family members had to
deal with,” Graves said.
Hale said the audience will get a
fresh perspective on World War II.
“I think it gives them another look
at what went on back then,” Hale
said. “Students get an open insight
on how things really were and can
really relate. It’s amazing, all the
dedicated work that took place.”
As the play progresses it becomes
apparent a member of the group is
not what she seems.
“They’re also dealing with the
fact that there’s a spy which makes
things more suspenseful for the au
dience,” Graves said. “It’s a bit of a
whodunit trying to figure out who
the bad guy is. ”
Graves said “Cry Havoc” is also
a bit of a history lesson.
“It was originally written to get
Americans to enlist and it’s an inter
esting piece of history,” Graves said.
“Cry Havoc” is playing at Rudder
Forum Feb. 27 through 28 and
March 3 through 6.
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