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Show ELnDDncBlln Page B6 Thursday, June 4, 1987 Park Record 5 . ? i . , f ' V; I, ; M J if '" " w -; V ; 5 t if n Tom Clyde's short story won honorable mention at the Utah Arts Council Literary Competition. Clyde writes a weekly column for The Park Record. Much ado Fans of Park City's summer Shakespeare Festival can show their support for this season's productions by attending a celebrity fundraiser on June 13, which will feature Elizabethan dining, a "green show," and celebrity performances of scenes from the Bard's plays. Darin McDaniel, festival development producer, said the evening of revelry will be a chance to show off the festival's improved outdoor theatre at the Prospector Square Genesis Hotel and Spa. He said the stage, which has been used during the past six seasons, will be expanded and 300 seats will be built. He added seating on the grass will also be possible. The fundraiser kicks off with a cocktail party featuring ale ind wassail and then a feast at the Grubsteak with carved pig and beef, Yorkshire Pudding and other English foods. Novels by visiting writers receive mixed reviews AT y X WORK '87 Editor's note: These three short reviews of fiction are of works by authors who will attend WRITERS AT WORK June 22-27 in Park City. by ORESTA ESQUIBEL Park City Library Sometimes I Live in the Country by Frederick Busch, Godine, 1986. Frederick Busch's latest offering is a poignant novel told from the point of view of an adolescent boy who is undergoing a stormy period in his life. While outwardly appearing appear-ing to be a mature and otherwise stable teenager, Petey suffers quietly quiet-ly and deeply. The unpleasant termination ter-mination of his parents' marriage, his subsequent flight from Brooklyn to rural upstate New York with his "Pop", a retired New York City policeman, and his mother's apparent ap-parent rejection of him, all combine to create a crisis of identity and place in Petey's life. The boy, withdrawn and alone, begins to play a dangerous Russian roulette type of game with his father's pistol. A life and death situation affecting the people closest to Petey and which he must resolve, proves to be the catalyst which aids Petey in recon , mitf- about fundraiser During the evening green show performers, singing, playing music and juggling will mingle through the crowd. And then celebrity performers will take the stage to perform scenes from some of Shakespeare's comedies. McDaniel said the performances will be "very light" with cue cards and hopefully, a lot of laughs for everyone. y The master of ceremonies will be Park City resident Ed Ames. Other Parkites participating will be Mayor Hal Taylor, Craig Badami, Ann and Mack Mac-Quoid, Mac-Quoid, and representing Genesis, Dave Williams, Edward Bolt and Dr. Jack Sloan. Other performers will be Tom Barberi, a disc jockey for KALL Radio, Victor Ayers, Joan Woodbury of Ririe-Woodbury Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co., Christopher Wilkins of the Utah Symphony, Glade Peterson of Utah Opera Co., Clifton Jolley of the Deseret News, Fred "The ciling his internal dilemma and coming com-ing to grips with himself. Busch has delineated his principal characters very well and in doing so, has adeptly dealt with a sensitive topic that will appeal to adults and young adults alike. by KATE McCUTCHAN Park City Library The Grandmothers' Club by Alan Cheuse, Peregrine Smith, 1986. Author Alan Cheuse has chosen an unorthodox style for his second novel. Written without benefit of standard punctuation and in a "stream-of-consciousness" struc- Between the Covers ture, the text of the book is often confusing con-fusing and frequently distracting. Cheuse's story centers on a grandmother grand-mother who tells the tragic saga of her son, to two incredibly patient friends. The resultant tale is a 326-page monologue laden with death, the horrors of the holocaust, an unstable alcoholic wife, a rebellious daughter's mystical visions, vi-sions, and ultimate suicide. Cheuse, reviewer for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" Con-sidered" and author of two other books, has created a novel that may have limited public appeal. He has successfully brought forth the characters of a Jewish grandmother and her Rabbinical son; these people peo-ple unfortunately seem to be devoid of any joy or satisfaction in life, caught up in the inner turmoil of Clyde captures writing award for short story of 'Charlie' The Park Record's own columnist, Tom Clyde ("And So It Goes...") recently won honorable mention at Utah Arts Council 1987 Literary Competition in the short story category for "Charlie Fulton's Fall From Grace." Clyde, who has been writing fiction fic-tion for years, is an attorney for Prince, Yeates and Geldzahler. For five years, until last July he served as Park City's City Attorney. Now, when he's not tightening up water contracts, Clyde is banging away on his computer, writing stories. "Fall From Grace" is the story of a 12-year-old Mormon boy whose family lives in Berkeley, California in the winter and runs a farm in a small Utah town during the summer. sum-mer. Charlie wrestles with the dif- ferences between rural and city life. ?or example, for entertainment i arm kids shoot coyotes, while "Jharlie feeds them. Charlie also experiences a religious crisis, of sorts. The tone is typically Clyde's: ir Gabby Gourmet" Wix and Chef Upton Ramsey. The evening costs $150 a couple or $100 a person which entitles you to a season ticket and listing in the program as a benefactor. This summer's productions will be "Henry IV, Part 1," "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Julius Caesar." The first show will be Thursday, July 2. The festival will have plays through. Sept 4.., six nights a week, Monday through Thursday: "Henry IV" Monday and Thursday, "Much Ado" Tuesday and Friday, "Caesar" Wednesday and Saturday. Satur-day. The troup is made up of actors from around the country, including in-cluding several University of Utah and BYU students. McDaniel said they will need some local actors to fill small parts in the plays. For more information abouc June 13 fundraiser call 649-2950. those who dwell in the whirlpool of despair. Hypnotized by the demons of their minds, death seems to be the magnet which draws them through their story. For those who find some solace or comfort in these dark reaches, The Grandmothers' Club is appropriate reading. by NINA MACHEEL Park City Library State of Grace by Joy Williams, Scribner, 1986. Kate's story is told dreamily, in a loosely-structured stream of random ran-dom reminiscenses. She is a young woman "cutely expecting a baby" with her lover, Grady. He is boyish, golden, ebullient, the counterpart to Kate's darkness. Kate was a glum, detached child in a home eclipsed by death; sister was accidentally killed by mother; mother went mad and died; newborn baby died with mother. Only On-ly Kate and Daddy survived and now Kate clings to Daddy as much now as she did in childhood. He reads her the Bible, and it promises retribution, retribu-tion, vengeance and suffering which becomes twisted into her expectations. expecta-tions. When Grady perishes as a result of a car crash, widowed Kate takes her baby home to Daddy's cheerless solace. The state of grace to which she listlessly aspires seems to be more of her Bibilical cant, as elusive in the end as it was at the start. Kate has no fidelities, and has aroused no reverent, understated, pointing out the foibles and absurdities people live with. "My father had left the livestock business to become a college history professor. I guess he preferred his cowboys in print," Clyde writes. Clyde went through 10-12 rewrites on this story, which came to him while "shooting the breeze with some friends one night." Clyde compteted with several hundred hun-dred other writers, both amateur and professional. He hopes to get the story published somewhere. In addition addi-tion to his column and short stories, Clyde has a novel he wrote several years ago sitting around. "It's long but not very good," Clyde said. Ideally, he would like to have more time to devote to writing, according to Clyde. Clyde said he will participate at the WRITERS AT WORK in Park City Ci-ty the third week in June. He might try to get some editor or publisher to take a look at his award-winning story at that time, Clyde said. V s i V r David Whitten combines his love of outdoors with photography. Local photographer has gallery show David Whitten has recently returned from a month-long photography tour in Yellowstone and southern Utah. Whitten, who has lived in Park City for seven years, is showing a dozen works of his scenic photography at Valline Gallery Framing through June. Many of Whitten's snowscapes, wildflowers and wilderness are photographed in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains, where he says he spends as much time as he can backpacking. sympathy from this reader. Her nascent nas-cent madness is a grim landscape over which the reader must make his way. Only a mild curiosity, ironically mirroring Kate's approach ap-proach to life, kept me turning the pages. The surfeit of nightmarish imagery warred with my desire to see in Kate some growth, or redeeming redeem-ing warmth. But in this book, as in Kate's life, "nothing ever seems to come to a conclusion". yWRITERSv C AT WORK '87 y7 Tom Clyde's short story "Charlie Fulton's Fall From Grace" won honorable mention at the Utah Arts Council 1987 Literary Competition. The following is an excerpt from that story. For a twelve year old, just beginning to get a sense of what all those organs and glands were about, there was nothing as morbid, repulsive, or frightening as watching Lee dock sheep. 1 couldn't tear myself away. Lee Fitz-patrick Fitz-patrick added to it by pointing his bloddy knife at me and winking, or spitting an oyster in my direction, almost hitting hit-ting me with it, then grinning with those huge, blood covered teeth to let me know if he had wanted to, he could have hit me in the eye with it. For some reason Mother liked him. pill I IH, ' 1 1 -o If Whitten became interested in outdoor photography after taking classes at the University of Utah. He said he looks for design and composition when he is out photographing and for anything that catches his eye. Whitten shoots both color and black and white. Last summer Whitten participated par-ticipated in the Park City Art Festival. He works at the Stew Pot and Valline's when he's not out taking photos. Reading is a 'bear' mer reading program for kids. The program was begun in 1983 to keep kjda reading throughout the summer. - p ,;Zafl btable 8ummer" beins Jn 15 and runs through August 13 for kids jnkmdergarten through 7th grade. To join, all a child has to do is stop by the library to sipn-im unrf - receive a packet of materials, which includes activity sheets as well as sheets to keep track of what was read. , After reading a specified number of books, a kid receives a prize A7wr5E ParUCipated SUmmCr reading Wm, ac This year a reading program is offered for preschool children to encourage en-courage them and their parents to read toone another Park City Library has Jots and lots of bear books. Wright said. A few .tales they have are: "Blackboard Bear," "Paddington Bear " and rf course. "Winnie The Pooh." 'WBear, and. of For more information call the Park City Library at 649-dns. Kimball shows photos There will be an exhibit of photography by nine Utah photographers at the Kimball Art Center June 7 through June 29, 1987. This exhibit will cover the broad spectrum of contemporary photography. The photographers have used a wide variety of materials and processes pro-cesses including: cibachrome, black and white silver prints, hand-applied color and Polaroid prints. Though each photographer works in his or her own distinctive and stylized manner, the unifying element of this show is image size, with all exhibited ex-hibited work being 20 inches by 24 inches in-ches or larger. The photographers participating in this unique show are: Kim Granger, Susan Makov, Joseph Marotta, Robert Pennington, Scott Peterson, John Schaefer, John Telford, Erica Wangsgard and Fred Wright. Watercolors by Kent Ethington will be displayed in the Lower Gallery. Ethington paints impressionistic impres-sionistic and representative pieces dealing with Western subjects in and around Utah, and also enjoys painting pain-ting buildings, flowers, water and colorful scenes from decades past. The artist states, "I am constantly on the lookout for interesting new subject matter to expand my artistic vision, technique and knowledge of the medium." Both shows will open Sunday, June 7 and run through Monday, June 29, 1987. A reception in honor of the artists ar-tists will be held Sunday, June 7 from 3 to 5 p.m. This reception is free and open to the public. Center hours are Monday through Saturday, Satur-day, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sundays Noon-6 p.m. at the Kimball Art Center, P.O. Box 1478, Park City, Utah 84060. |