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Show Page B8 Thursday. March 25. 1982 The Newspaper IAE cast is ready for 6 Shrew' You pay $6.83 for tivo pounds of coffee and only 1 1 4 to brew it. (IK makes 32 4-cuppots of coffee.) i m Typically, customers use from 50C to h50 worth of electricity each day. When you think of the many things electricity does for us, it's still one of the best bargains around. r L m- srfiMi-'4 "The Taming of the Shrew" might become "The Taming of the Flu" for its leading lady! At this writing, Anne Burnett, who plays the tempestuous Kate in the IAE production, is feeling a bit under the weather. But she is determined to go on with the show, which plays this week, March 25-27 at the Prospector Prospec-tor Theatre Auditorium. Curtain Cur-tain is at 8 p.m. This is Park Cits introduction intro-duction to Shakespeare, but you shouldn't feel put off by the Board's awesome reputation. repu-tation. The "Shrew" is entertaining comedy, not one of his dramatic, complex tragedies, said Burnett. Not that the cast will have an easy time. Burnett said she considers comedy harder to do than drama and this comedy especially is tough. "There are so many entrances and exits, it's mind-boggling," she said. "The five-minute wooing scene is exhausting." KAC plans membership drive The Kimball Art Center is sponsoring a special contest aimed at increasing its membership list. From March 1 through April 15, any person buying or renewing renew-ing a Kimball Art Center membership will automatically automati-cally be entered in the contest. Three names will be drawn from the new and renewed memberships during this time. First prize will be a David Fernandez pot, second prize will be a signed Manuel de Arce poster and third prize will be a Roly Pearson hat. For further information, call 649-8882. , mm. mm - ' 0 'mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mum s m mm 1 't - L- II. it " ID The tamer, Petruchio, is played by Anthony Leger, who gave an excellent performance per-formance locally in "Zoo Story" at the Kimball Art Center. Rai French plays Christopher Chris-topher Sly, a character featured in a prologue to the play. Sly is a drunken fool picked up by a passing lord, who dresses him in noble clothes as a lark. Sly encounters a band of traveling travel-ing players who stage their version of the "Shrew". They also draft Christopher to play the part of Baptiste Minola, the father who will not marry off his much-sought much-sought younger daughter Bianca until the ill-tempered eldest daughter, Kate, is wed. Salt Laker Kerri Maxfield makes her Park City stage debut as Bianca, and Van Berre premieres as Lucen-tio. Lucen-tio. Richard Mitchell, fresh from his chores on "Chapter Two," plays the Pendant. Davis French portrays Tran-io, Tran-io, actor-playwright Hamill is Hortensio and Denna Wright is the widow. (Wright also worked on the costumes, along with Anne Burnett and Linda Martin. Sunn Classics also loaned some of the wardrobe.) The cast also includes Mike Draper as Biondello, Sue Griffiths as Grumio, Randy Sheya as the tailor, Ron Burnett as Gremio Vincentio, and Tim Morris as the servant. In his seventh directoral effort for IAE, Burnett said he is fulfilling his long-held desire to stage Shakespeare in Park City. "We've got the talent to pull it off and I think I can promise Park City audiences an evening of exceptional fun and entertainment," enter-tainment," he said. Burnett said the language of Shakespeare is a challenge. chal-lenge. "Much of the action is people standing around declaiming," de-claiming," he said. "I had to throw in slapstick and other things for them to do." The play opens next Thursday Thurs-day with a wine reception and runs through Saturday. It continues next week on April 1-3. Tickets will be sold at the door of the Prospector Theatre beginning at 7:30 p.m. on the evening of each performance. Prices are $4 adults, and $3.50 for stu-' dents, senior citizens, and Prospector guests. Rfqpttes ffipopimii EA(D The wood cutter spares the gnarled trees by Corke Pepper Who could resist a people whose fishermen refer to a croaker as the "yellow flower fish" because it comes into their waters at a season when chrysanthemums gild the distant landscape? Or who strive to cultivate penmanship that looks like birds darting out of a forest? My love affair with the Orient began in Hawaii long before my first trip to Asia. It was there, in a junk shop in Chinatown, that I acquired my first Chinese treasure a 19th century Yi-hsing wine warmer. The top part, decorated with an enameled design and resembling a tiny tea pot with a tube-like bottom, fits snugly into the lower vessel shaped like a teapot, but without a spout. It was years before I learned its use, and its value. It also was in Honolulu that I followed a maze of halls in the upper regions of an old warehouse and discovered by accident an incense-swathed family temple rich with filt dragon carvings and ancestral scrolls. Frightened, but curious, I studied the mysterious ropes of firecrackers hanging near the altar and the ferocious papier-mache papier-mache dogs that guarded the entrance. When I finally crept out of the place I resolved that sometime in my life I would make it to the Orient. Later, during a long career as a syndicated travel columnist, I circled the globe many times. My fascination with the Chinese culture continued to. overshadow all others. Consequently, it is with excitement that I look forward to the new exhibit scheduled to open April 4 in the Kimball Art Center. While the Main Gallery showing will include work by Bill Wilson, strongly influenced by his studies in Japan, and some sumi painting executed by Alice Hendrick-son, Hendrick-son, it is the Lower Level Gallery that will house antique treasures actually from China and Japan. In the Chinese collection will be Tibetan rugs, ancient tomb pottery, proce-lain proce-lain vessels and other collectibles appraised by Arthur Chu of China's National Central University and his wife, Dr. Grace Chu who co-authored the authorative book Oriental Antiques and Collectibles. Among the Japanese collection, separate from the Chinese exhibit, will be hanging scrolls, Imari seiji cups, Koimari pottery, incense jars, tea ceremony sets, Japanese lacquer soup bowls and a selection of cushions made from ancient Kimonos. The Koimari pottery is especially revered by collectors as it dates back to 1600. In the early 1900s its techniques and designs were acquired by Arita pottery, one of the foremost manufacturers of Japanese pottery. pot-tery. Early Chinese pottery did not feature the colorful designs adopted later for export to Europe and the Middle East. That is why tomb pieces coveted by collectors usually are without decoration. Although Japan has developed a distinctive modern style, early work produced there was copied directly from the Chinese and, later the Koreans. Some copies were so perfect that it is difficult even for experts to detect their true origin. Typical of these early designs were the attributes of the Eight Immortals, sometimes some-times indirectly represented by motifs suggesting good wishes, such as a pine tree (long life), a bat (happiness), or a pomegranate (fertility). For the Taoist, old trees symbolized the survival of the individual who fulfills his obligation to live life to the end the old tree is leafless and gnarled and for that reason is spared by the wood cutter and survives. Chinese decoration never is meaningless. Their artists delight in themes of religious and historical import. An understanding of Chinese design involves a deep study of their religion, history and folklore. It is these complexities that make Oriental art so intriguing. Our upcoming exhibit promises to be an interesting one. Please come by on Sunday when it opens. Batik class to begin April 7 A batik class taught by Park City's Holly Rom is scheduled to begin Wednesday, April 7 from noon to 1:30 p.m. The course will meet every Wednesday for four weeks. Cost for the batik course is $30 for Kimball Art Center members and $36 for nonmem-bers. nonmem-bers. Students will have to purchase their own fabric, but dyes and wax will be provided. For further information, informa-tion, call 649-8882. IMvna Tesit ll iff f ft ' , 'j'm'"'& Summer Lodestar Advertising Sales Deadline is approaching quickly April 9th Summer Lodestar Rick Scott A story of determination Rick Scott proved last week that he could go the distance, if he had to, to win a free sandwich from the Main Street Deli. Scott knew that Mark Lindsay was the lead singer for Paul Revere and the Raiders, and that Bruce Savage was the new public defender for the city. But when we asked for the stage name of comedian Richard Marin, Scott was almost stumped. Our secretary figures he must have spent at least a dollar's worth of dimes Thursday morning calling with answers. ("Rich Little? Andy Kaufman? Dick Martin") until he finally said correctly that Marin was none other than "Cheech" of the team Cheech & Chong. We were almost ready to give him the sandwich sand-wich for effort alone ! You may not have to spend so much money on this week's quiz, if your Trivia I.Q. is high. If you have the answers, call The Newspaper at 649-9014 649-9014 or contact us at 419 Main St. before Tuesday noon. The questions are: 1. What running joke was famous on radio's "Fibber McGee and Molly"? (Hint: It had to do with a room in the house. ) 2. Name the John Wayne Western of the 60s which featured Ed Asner as the heavy. 3. In old Park City, what couldn't you sell to any "Indians, insane persons, or idiots"? |