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Show Five," directed by Troy Ketterling and Wil McKean, and "Still Love," directed by Sarah Coombs and Zachary Young, again continued from page 4 juxtaposed two different emotions in two completely different plays. On this note, audiences were quiet and bet on stage at Jay W. Lee's Courage reserved until Patrick Kibbie as Clark, Amber "Take Five is a play within a play Hamilton as Paula, and Luke Johnson as Man, Theatre, that leaves all windows of opportunity open took the stage in "Date with a Stranger," to the actors. directed by Heidi Caldwell and Greta The play opens with two stagehands Schomburg. played by John Welsh and Pete Markowski Audiences began laughing right away as setting up for what they believe is a dress Clark and Paula silently and repeatedly rehearsal but is actually opening night. glanced each other over from two separate The two realize that an audience is tables at a restaurant. awaiting the start of the play once the live The two began talking, and a relationship Lester (Markowski) placed on stage automatically bloomed in all its glory. In a half phonefor an audience member. Greg, played an hour's time, the two fought and made up at rings by Matt Morresey, takes the stage, the least six times. vanish and Greg becomes part of Hamilton portrayed a woman in all of her stagehands the play while discussing an emergency with stages of love from the giddy feeling of first his wife. meeting someone to eating binges brought on The play's characters work around Greg by anxiety. and act out their parts as normally as possible Kibbie does an excellent job portraying a considering that Lester is behind the couch sensitive man with some stereotyped grabbing food from the scene and Greg is tendencies as he expresses his arousal toward talking to his wife on stage. Paula and tells her what she wants to hear. Adding to the spontaneous nature of the After about 25 minutes, the love affair play, Mike, the second stagehand is thrown turns sour because Clark does not want as an children and the two part ways leaving Paula into a role and hopes to be discovered actor. Greg's conversation and the dialogue of to flirt with Johnson as Man who has been the play form a hilarious comedy that kept observing the entire scene. audiences laughing hysterically. Clark, feeling rejected and used, sits at the "Still Love" contrasted the humor of table and watches Paula in action with this other man using the same tactics she had used 'Take Five" with its story of a failed relationship that began one day in a park. on him. What's interesting about "Still Love" is "Date with a Stranger," is a play full of the sequence of scenes within the play. Events laughs and stereotypes of men ana women at between Don Farmer as Gary and Jodi their best. Events of this play greatly amused Barbara take place backwards as Bennett audiences and show that you don't really beginning with Gary coughing and shivering know someone until after you meet them. by a small flame in the dark while mourning After leaving the first night with mixed the loss of Barbara and ending on a park feelings about love and life, audiences bench when the two first catch each other's returned for the second night of plays. "Take One Act Gender continued from page 6 Men don't seem to notice as much; I have witnessed my dad walk through the house after work and not notice that my mother has wallpapered. We give more thought to individual situations, conflicts, and emotions than a man probably gives to any situation in his entire life span. The exception to the rule is a man';s "dreams." A lot of men dream of fast cars, Harleys, money and most other expensive toys; almost all of us women dream of families, careers, houses, and that true love. Quite often women feel that time is ticking to achieve these dreams and men feel they have all the time in the world to achieve the female dream, that is. When we look at the differences in this way, it is common to find much of it humorous because we get so caught up in the trials of daily living that we never stop to think about the uniqueness of our own gender. And I wonder how many of you stop to question why we are so different? Could it be because we fit together better? -- Women and men keep each other centered and realistic. Men should give to women and women should give to men. Neither gender should be dominant; both should realize what the other brings to the workplace, relationship, or political arena. Possibly, women teach men to slow down momentarily and take notice of details and men teach women how not to hold too much value in everyday endeavors the house cleaning will be there tomorrow. In the process of pulling a man down from his fancy dreams ana unusual priorities, maybe they pull us up a little and we even help each other out. The relationship between man and woman allows for otherwise unthinkable opportunities two very different mindspersonalities create a better plan. And it gives a man the chance to feel the tenderness we share amongst the female gender; it gives the women the chance to explore the male domain and their idea of free will. Class Size Continued from page 1 students over the section cap. This semester, there are 653 classes listed on the printout dated February 15, 2000. Eighty of these Actors Don Farmer and Jodi Bennett perform in Still Love a backwards drama directed by Sarah Coombs and Zach Young. eye. "Still Love" was creatively arranged and its many scenes of silent gestures struck a nerve in anyone who has ever ended a relationship with someone they cared about. Low lighting and lots of quiet did well to portray the loss the characters felt. Westminster's One Act Play Festival was , both entertaining and thought provoking. Each student directed play showed amazing skill and creativity. The variety of emotions conveyed by the plays put next to each other in the festival were so well done they are capable of giving students mood disorders of their own. classes are over the section cap, and 148 have more than twenty students enrolled in them. Interestingly enough, the students and printouts report these overloaded classes in many different areas and fields. The class size problem is not contained within one school or major. Some accounting, communication, humanity, English, biology, business and otehr classes as well have been reported as being too big. Senior Jaimie Van Norman said, "Class sizes separates Westminster College from other places. If you let that slide, you aren't changing for the better. When teachers have too many students, they can't help everyone, and more students will fall through the cracks and drop out. They might as well save money and go to Salt Lake Community College or the University of Utah if they aren't getting the attention that they need." Many students making the choice to come to and continue their education at Westminster do so because of the small classes and the personal attention they can receive from their professors. Class Size, continued on page 11 |