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Show Page 8 The Thunderbird Monday Aprif 8, 1985 Veteran stuntman Bob Miles teaches a stunt class at SUSC Stuntman Bob Miles, a resident of Parowan, will teach the fine art of credibility in theatrical action to students in an upper division theatre class thats held each Tuesday evening throughout spring quarter. Im not teaching anyone to be a stuntman, theres no way, he said. All Im doing is adding to the actress or actors bag of tricks. Miles job as an instructor will focus on the very fine line between credibility and the credibility gap, or establishing the fact that the action whatever it is is actually happening to the actress or actor in the scene. Since his own experience has been primarily in television and movies, Miles will focus on those areas, but what hell teach will apply to the stage as well. The class is for actors, actresses, producers, technical crews, writers anyone who wants to know about action, he said. Ive seen wonderful writers who foggiest idea how to set up an action havent the scene. Miles, a professional stunt performer as were his mother and father before him, started his career at a very young age, but it was in 1959 when he landed the s job as head stunt coordinator for the and the television series Bonanza, Cartwright family that his career really took off. During the eight years he stayed on the Ponderosa, Miles did triple duty doing most of the stunts and doubling for Michael Landon and many of the unsavory characters of the show. Ive reached the age where I kind of pick my spots now, he said. Most recently, he worked with Michael Landon in Landons show Highway to Heaven. world-famou- Miles moved to Parowan in 1978, then back to California in 1981. I taught this class before at SUSC, and thought it would be fun to do it again now that Im back in the area. Fights and falls, horse work and car work and a little bit of sword work are on the agenda for Miles SUSC students. Again, just enough to set the scene for the action and the stuntman to come in and finish, he said. Theres an element of timing and positioning thats scene. especially important in a Dukes of Hazard-typ- e The actors must stop their car on a precisely marked spot, climb out of the vehicle and position themselves to deliver their lines into the right cameras. Thats especially hard if you have a big arc light in your face, Miles said. SUSC THEATRE ARTS PRESENTS Rick Van No y is a student who returned to college because he loves the theatre. It evidently paid off, because hes been cast as the lead in this weeks SUSC production of The Importance of Being Earnest. al Van Noy to play lead in Earnest by Kris SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH SAMUEL FRENCH INC Johnson The desk in which Rick Van Noy sits is cluttered with a typewriter, computer, and a . phone thats constantly ringing. Loose papers and forms are scattered everywhere. He has a casual appearance about him. He wears blue jeans and a loose fitting beige shirt, unbuttoned, with a simple blue shirt beneath. His lean body is seated straight forward. In a calm, polite voice he asks Should I talk about me, my background, or the play? I guess Im what you would call a student. I returned to school after several years. I was working in the business field and I wasnt happy with that so I came back to school to get m degree, Van Noy says. Van Noy, a theatre education major, plays Jack Worthing in the upcoming theatre department production of The Importance of Being Earnest, which will run April He was most recently seen as Elwood P. Dowd in the theatre department production of Harvey. I really enjoy the play; its always been one of my favorites. Its a classic comedy and its very much a good satirical piece of the matters of the Victorian English times, Van Noy said. According to Van Noy, he plays a character who is really two characters. Jack, who lives in the country, tells people he has a brother in the city named Earnest. Earnest falls in love with a city girl who just happens to love earnest (sincere) people. Earnest the character is afraid the city girl will find out that he lied about his identity and then shell find out that hes really not an earnest person too. "The Importance of Being Earnest is actually a play on words, Van Noy commented about the title of the play. I think its important for people to be honest in their dealings with others and thats what Oscar Wilde is saying: its important to be earnest. The challenge of the play is to make the satirical characters realistic and believable, he added. When Van Noy is not busy preparing for the upcoming theatre production, hes usually working in the library. He is also currently working with the Shakespearean Festival for the third year in a row in, which he serves as the casting secretary, company manager, and house manager. In the little spare time that he does have he says he likes to go to movies, bowl, play racquetball, travel and cook. I love to cook most because I love to eat, which is why I need to play racquetball, he laughed. In the future Van Noy said he would like to go on to directing and producing. He says he likes all the aspects of theater. Hes applied for a job in New York with the University Residence Theatre Association. |
