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Show 'Summer and Smoke' AitS UVSC students will perform the Tennessee Williams play "Summer and Smoke" today, through Saturday, and Monday through March 29 at the Black Box Theater. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. in Room 627 of the Gun-the- r Trades Building on campus. Tickets range from $6-- $ 10 and are available by calling 7 or at the door the night of the performance. For more information, visit www. uvsc.eduarts. 863-879- i v V ( Charity ball BYU student charity organization "Students Giving Back" will host a charity ball and silent auction Friday at the Provo City Library ballroom. Proceeds from the ball and the auction will benefit United Way of Utah County. Among the prizes available this year are a Nu gift basket including four tickets to a Utah Jazz game, season tickets to the Utah Flash, a date with Bryan Kehl, a date with Miss Utah, dinner for four with Stephen R. Covey, and a Kaplan Skin-donate- d w; 7.-- y -- iv Course. ; MARK A. PHILBRICKBYU Rachel Brighton Hertford, left and James Andrew Veenstra in "Roof sliding," premiering at BYU's Pardoe Theatre. You take the high road New play at BYU transports viewers to Scotland Cody Clark DAILY directing the production of "Roof sliding," said that the school produces a new work HERALD 'Mi original was that I wanted to about some times the people who are closest to you are the ones who cause you to fail," said Morag Plaice Shepherd. In particular, she was thinking about how hard it is to get your loved ones to help you stick to your diet. That was the beginning of "Roofsliding," a new play that will have its world premiere performance at Brigham Young University's Pardoe Theatre on Friday. The premiere is a bit of a rarity since Shepherd is a BYU theatre and media arts student. Department chair Rodger Sorenson, who's also by a student or faculty member every other year or so. The title of the play, Sorenson said, refers to an actual pastime in Scotland, in which grown men slide down steep roofs and attempt to catch themselves by hooking their heels in the rain gutter. The play was originally called "Cake," and then "Playing Fields," before Shepherd settled on "Roofsliding," because of its cultural and thematic resonance. "It's a question of where are our boundaries," Sorenson said, "and when we get there, what do we learn about ourselves?" The action of the play involves characters who live in the adjoining units of a Scottish row house, similar to a condominium in the United States. The residents are all connected by their school background, and their lives weave together and veer apart in a series of comings, goings and conversations. Shepherd said she enjoys all of the characters, but is especially drawn to Alex and Rachel, two women whose friendship felt especially real to her. Rachel's relationship with her husband, James, also felt real because Shepherd borrowed a lot of her ideas for it from her own marriage. "I found myself writing situations that my husband and I had experienced together," she said. "I'd have to say, 'Hey, Mitch, I'm sorry, but this " might seem familiar.' Sorenson said that he had his cast prepare for the play by studying up on Scottish If you go Roofsliding Where: Pardoe Theatre, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University When: Friday through April 4, except on Sundays and Mondays, at 7:30 p.m.; matinee March 29 at 2 p.m. Cost: General admission is $14; $10 weekends or $9 weeknights with BYU I.D. Info: performances.byu.edu or 422-432- 2 Presale tickets are $12 and are available at the information desk of the Wilkinson Student Center at BYU or at UVSC ,. Campus Connection. At the door, tickets are $15. The event begins at 7 p.m.. at the library on 550 N. University Ave. For more information, contact 'Dance for Walt Whitman' In a collaboration between UVSC, Repertory Dance Theatre and the NEA, "Dance for Walt Whitman" will be performed Friday at 11 a.m. at the Marriott Center for Dance at the University of Utah. "Dance for Walt Whitman" reflects the American spirit, which Whitman captured in his poem "Leaves of Grass." The performance is free and open to the public. Highway 89 in pictures Utahn John Telford's photography show "People, Places will and Things Along US-8have its official gallery opening at the Rio Gallery on Friday from 9 p.m. The show will run through April 12 at the gallery, 300 S. 455 West in Salt Lake City. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 6-- culture, including music and films, and working on their accents. "We've attempted to find some way to step across the ocean," he said. p.m. |