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Show B-4 The Park Record Saturday, January 24, 1998 Glenn Close moderates post-performance discussion Continued from B-1 jects for development during a three-week intensive workshop at Sundance Resort. Among these works was The Gimmick, written by Dael Orlandersmith. This work-in-progress was presented by Orlandersmith at the Black Box Theatre in the Eccles Center on Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 9 p.m. Her one-woman monologue chronicles the adolescence of Alexis, an over-weight, black girl growing up in Harlem. Alexis' life is full of negativity and criticism save her best friend Jimmy and Ms. Ennis, a librarian who identifies Alexis' love and talent for writing. A turning point in the story occurs when Jimmy, a gifted painter, is given a show at a gallery 'downtown.' 'down-town.' His attitude toward Alexis changes dramatically, leaving her feeling more alone and helpless than before they met. Jimmy, temporarily high from the attention atten-tion he receives from the show, is shortly thereafter sent back to the reality of living in the ghetto, and found by Alexis succumbing to the 'gimmick' using drugs, visiting prostitutes and failing to define himself. Briefly, Alexis too, uses drugs and compromises compromis-es her own dignity through prostitution. pros-titution. But then, on the brink of suicide, remembering the words' of Ennis, realizes some thing more than herself. In a post-performance discussion, discus-sion, lead by Sundance Institute Board of Directors member, Glenn Close, Orlandersmith explained why the relatively same environment was the downfall of Jimmy and the eventual even-tual strength of Alexis. "Ms. Ennis helps Alexis to become more independent by telling her to use words and to read. The gallery owner, gave Jimmy the show, but that only made him more dependent, it didn't give him the tools to go further on his own," Orlandersmith said. Because The Gimmick is a work in progress, Orlandersmith and director Peter Askin asked the audience for honest criticism to help improve the piece. " "A lot of Dael's work is very dark. There still has to be a way to find more shadings, and not make it so dark," Askin said. Orlandersmith's delivery, as well as the script of The Gimmick, was extremely moving. mov-ing. One member of the audience audi-ence commented "I've seen several sev-eral good movies at this year's festival, but nothing has effected me as deeply as this performance." perfor-mance." Lighting changes aptly marked transitions in the piece, much like the beginning of a new chapter in a novel. Surprisingly, in spite of the impact and professionalism of The Gimmick, the lighting sequence and first rehearsal had been practiced just the night before. Askin also mentioned that the eight days it took at the Sundance Theatre Lab to create The Gimmick, may have equaled three months under normal circumstances. Both he and Orlandersmith attributed this efficient flow of creativity to the conducive atmosphere pro vided Dy me i-ao. "It is rare that when you are in the company of people who can tell you what they think without putting their own ego into it," Orlandersmith said. The Gimmick will be seen at Princeton University's McCarter Theatre at the end of February. "I hope that through events like the Sundance Theatre Lab, that we will proliferate this amazing network of people that care about communicating," Close said. CliniS TUCKED CHARLIE SHEEN NEW UNE aNEMAB-sCHHS TUCKER CHARUE SHEEN 'MONEY TUJCS" HEWHER lOCGfAR SMsm "ieii com roimcOT.iiiKso "iraim New for '98 LOWER PRICES and 4 day (5 evening) rentals on most movies Conveniently Located Next to Payless Drug Open 7 days 10 a.m. to Midnight 645-9234 (The Lab ) r) Park City Technical Questions??? Write them down, we'll do the rest. One on One Instruction Instruc-tion at your business, home or at The Lab. 435-649-5259 Call li rtilMraatrt ikiit- TTie lab Park City Lucas experiences the unexpected Sundance Film Festival Shorts offer a collage of styles, special effects and genres by Amy E. Lucas RECORD guest writer Walking into the Jim Santy Auditorium in the Park City . Library building I didnt know what to expect. I had been to one other Sundance movie, a documentary about Deadheads, about three years ago. It was excellent. But for some reason I was expecting the shorts program pro-gram to be some really abstract films shot with an 8 MM camera. I guess I forgot that although Park City is a small town, Sundance is not a small film festival. fes-tival. In fact it is huge. The Shorts Program V was a professional, impressive display e over to fari ONLY Located at the base of Park City Mountain Resort mm ' SKATING INSTRUCTIONS AVAILABLE BY APPOINTMENT Hours: 11 am - 9 pm Sunday - Thursday 11 am -10 pm Friday & Saturday All Day Ticket Includes Skata Rentals Children $6.00 - Adults $7.00 SEASON PASSES AVAILABLE For More Information 649-6448 The New York Times Crossword Puzzle PROPHECY By Ed Early and Bob Klahn Edited by Will Shortz No. 0118 ACROSS 1 Theater worker 8 Hank Aaron or ' Jesse Owens, eg- 16 "Wild Thing" group, with "the" 22 Day in Hollywood 23 Breakdown 24 Capital of Zimbabwe 25 Part 1 of a prophecy by Martin Luther King Jr. 28 Marshal Dillon portrayer 29 Cone-shaped heaters 30 Grocery area 31 Mote than suggestive sug-gestive 32 Track pick, informally 33 Sharp 34 Jalopy 36 Fr. holy woman 37 Prophecy, part 2 48 Holmes girl 49 Soup holder 50 What Moses did 51 Prophecy, part 3 58 Bob Hope's " Russia $1,200" 59 l6fl.oz. 60 Extinct New Zealanders 61 Brown of renown 62 Sludge 64 Swindle 67 Seesaw quorum 69 Prepare to surf, perhaps 71 Category 72 Joint protection 73 Unpopular slice 75 Wreck 77 " here" (store sign) 78 Time to act 79 Prophecy, part 4 83 Big name in games 85 Mer makeup 87 Riveter of song 89 Some wait for this 90 Cooperative interaction 93 Hundred smackers 95 Halfhearted 98 Charisse of "Silk Stockings" 100 Laszlo player in "Casablanca" 101 Kin's partner 102 Child's play 103 Grape brandy 105 Kind of trip 107 Pretense 108 Prophecy, part 5 114 Salad topper 115 Where suits are pressed 116 Laundry woe 117 Prophecy, part 6 126 Split 127 Memorable 1995 hurricane 128 Buffoon 129 Half and half 130 Famous redhead 132 Make sense 135 Poker challenge 138 Shade 141 End of the prophecy 145 Whip 146 Bete noire 147 Correction, of sorts 148 "Grand" hotels 149 Well-worn 150 Biased DOWN 1 Vielding 2 Enthusiastic 3 Moon shade 4 Make way? 5 Architect van der Rohe 6 Literary olios 7 " Kelly" (Jagger film) 8 Vinegar radical 9 Item of interest 10 Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock 11 Short orders 12 "Wonderful!" 13 Film rating org. 14 Spot of wine? 15 Missouri town near the George Washington Carver National Monument 16 "Lyin' Eyes" singers 1 . Wvesome!" 18 Like some votes 19 Most festive 20 Wall Street analysts' ana-lysts' concern 21 Letter getter 26 Cameo carvings 27 Red or Card, for short 33 Geared down, perhaps 35 Crusty ones 38 Had a heart but used a club? 39 Some trains 40 Brit, award 41 812" x 11" size: Abbr. 42 It's often served at home 43 Two-toned treat 44 Savage 45 Plaster of paris 46 Fotomat abbr. 47 "Love thy neighbor" neigh-bor" is one 51 Speedily 52 Admitted 53 Make up one's mind 54 Detached 55 Hole in the wall? 56 Unrivaled 57 The first Mrs. Copperfield 58 "E-w-w-w!" 63 Code breaker 65 Here and there? 66 11 -Down extra 68 Very early 70 Old car with a 389 engine 71 Senator who made the rounds 74 "i" lid 76 "For sow ..." 79 Model Cheryl 80 Cool, once 81 Violinist Paganini 82 Operative 84 Tennyson's " and Enid" 22 25 28 32 ft ft 37 38 iff1' 58 64 72 78 85 93 101 39 159 65 10 12 13 tc fas 1 Tf 67 68 rtrx 14 15 27 94 E5 mjTiT" Ti9 126 130 141 145 148 87 88 ttt- tr Fr 45 46 17 18 19 20 35n n no 54 68 Hi 70 73 4 1 15 ! fil82 ffi5 h31 1 132" 121 55 75 76 !T 56 57 I I 3 0 179 80 81 82 I 83 96 97pT98 p9 100 I I0J M04 I ItOb MObl JX 133 134 1135 143 136 137 L 1 107 112 128 p" Ft 113 92 M23 124 125 1129 139 140 85 Theologian who opposed Martin Luther 86 "Oh, right!" 88 Wishing spot 90 Excluding 91 Tomorrow's woman 92 Giant gains: Abbr. 94 Mary Tyler Moore catch phrase on "The Dick Van Dyke Abbr. Show" 111 Berlin-to- 122 96 Elaborate Cologne dir. Japanese porce- 112 Problem of the 123 lain middle ages? 124 97 Lifeboat sup- 113 " geht's?" port 117 Something to 125 99 Snuggery catch or save 131 102 Clairvoyants 118 Unrefined 133 104 Soothsay 119 "Peer Gynt" v 106 Unified whole dancer 134 109 Venus' home 120 Fake fanfare 135 110 Shavetails: 121 Dracula's moth- 136 er-in-Iaw? free extension ment for one 137 Baionnette, e.g. 138 Prowling Wolfe 139 River to the Caspian 140 "Now I see!" 142 It goes to extremes 143 Polo Grounds legend 144 " Ramsey" ('70s western) of filmmaking. The films explored the human race from a personal to a more general perspective per-spective of life, sometimes pleasant and sometimes disturbing. disturb-ing. Pete's Garden was the first of the shorts. Directed by Greg Germann who also starred in the film, Pete's Garden tells the story of a divorced father and his young daughter who did not have much in common. Their one common interest, howev-er.was howev-er.was a diseased pony that the father was 'told by authorities to put to sleep. Ironically, the father and daughter's bonding moment came while was disposing dispos-ing of the sick pony. Pete's Garden then blooms over the grave of the pony. The cinematography cine-matography in this film is wonderful won-derful and almost magical and soothing when coupled with the music. Although the story was skewed, it left one with an uplifting feeling. Boy was the second film, directed by Glenn Fraser, which I found to be disturbing. The main character is, at first glance, a "normal" boy who is infatuated infatuat-ed with women. As the film progresses he becomes more and more psychotic and demented dement-ed in his feelings and views of women and we find out he is a rapist with no "real" feelings for women at all. The third film, and one of my favorites along with Pete's Garden, was English Only or Ni Hablarf. The film is a comical comi-cal look at a futuristic America that doesn't allow people to speak Spanish. With cameras in homes of Hispanics and fines issued for speaking Spanish, this film demonstrates the absurdity of an America with only one official language. Angel Passing was a touching touch-ing short directed by David Langlitz and staring Hume Cronin. It is the story of a classical musician looking for closure with his deceased wife and finding it in his old apartment apart-ment where a woman now lives who needs a kind of closure herself. Together they find a peace with each other and we, as the audience, feel that peace as well. The last short of the program, pro-gram, What's the Deal?, directed direct-ed by Robert Mac, left me asking ask-ing just that question. The film was an assault of intense visual images which were disturbing and full of terror, except for some wedding scenes which were in some way unpleasant as well. The film seemed to climax with a rapid display of images and then an eerie calm at the end. This left me wondering "what's the deal?" These shorts were thought provoking and visually interesting. interest-ing. Some were magical and soothing to the soul like Pete's Garden and Angel Passing and some were disturbing like Boy and What's the Deal? English Only was humorous, and all are definitely worth seeing. GREAT GARB City Bred Fashions For Ski Town Living 540 Main Street Now get 500 Delta A Deita Air Lines rTC 849-6341 WMIil'MHiH. 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