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Show J The Thunderbird M onday April 28, 1986 ArUIjntgrtmmmm& p) Hedda Gabler is intense THEATRE REVIEW BY KRIS JOHNSON r. ' -- ''' The final Stage Two performance of the year, Hedda Gabler, was presented last week. And although it mav well have been the most intense play of the year, it was not the best plav of the year. Hedda Gabler is a play about behavior, said director Rick VanNoy. Hedda is a frustrated woman who manipulates the lives of others and who lives vicariously through them. Yet her behavior is never really explained, so its considered a 'problem play in that sense, said VanNoy. Its easy to agree with VanNoy about Heddas character in that her behavior never is explained. Analysis of her conniving behavior throughout the entire performance is commonplace. Connie A. Layton, a senior theatre major, plays the title role of villainess Hedda Tesman. Layton turned in a fine portrayal of Hedda a very difficult role because the character is in a continuous frenzied state of mind. Although its difficult to believe Laytons character during the first act of the play because of her characters devious personality, as the play progressed, it became quite apparent that it was Heddas innate nature to act as she did. By the end of the play, she is truly believable. A" 'A4v?,fe.i jfe.v.ifr Si Douglas H. Baker is George Tesman and Connie Layton is Hedda Tesman in the final Stage Tivo production of the season, Henrik Ibsens play Hedda Gabler. (continued on page SUSCs Jerilynn Leavitt: Shes an optimist under pressure used to be really optimistic about life, but things get difficult under pressure, says Jerilynn Leavitt. Pressure makes things less wonderful, but Im still the eternal optimist. I think that things will always work out for the I best. Leavitt is a senior at SUSC majoring in musical performance and minoring in dance and graduating in fall of 1986. She is currently second soprano in Opus IV. She also is involved in A Chorus Line, Opus, the SUSC Chorale, intramurals club soccer, and dunce and weightlifting classes. This is nothing compared to what I used to do in high school, she said. used to get to school at 7 a.m. and leave at about 5 p.m. started again for one year, then stopped Things usually get easier with time, because it never notice again. youve you To keep in practice with singing is come so far, Leavitt said. Leavitt said that one reason she different, she said. I have to practice for two hours a day, and I have to be thinks people put themselves under careful with screaming, talking and pressure is because a person can never see himself or herself objectively. laughing. This is especially difficult for She doesnt let failure bother her. She Leavitt, a former cheerleader from Duchesne High School. said that when it does, though, It can be a real blow to my confidence. Leavitt says that when she graduates, Leavitt didnt really know about what she will probably move out of state and she wanted to major in until her go to graduate school or get a good sophomore vear at SUSC. Her mother voice coach. She also plans to get started her singing when she was 10, married someday, If I can ever find a but It was only for fun, she said. man who can put up with me. When she started taking music theory I come from a long line of small classes, she had to take some over families, she said. again, even though she did well. She Leavitt is also planning a bicycle trip said she just didnt understand at first. through Europe with a friend from She is currently learning to plav the Arizona State University. She talked said studied she She that piano piano. about going to Europe for six weeks and for three or four years when she was a Granola girl. being for but then six years, younger quit but I Admittedly, she puts most of her pressure on herself. She says that she has a habit of jumping into things and tried to be an Instant expert. Braithwaite gallery to open new student exhibit May 1 West Week begins Tuesday An exhibit featuring the artistic accomplishments of students enrolled in SUSC art classes will be shown May through June 7 at the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and weekends from 1 to 5 p.m. Also scheduled at the SUSC gallery is the senior portfolio of SUSC student Jackie Rae Griffith, a specialist in design. A public reception will be held May from 7 to 9 p.m. to mark the opening of the dual exhibition. The public is invited to attend the opening, to meet the student artists and SUSC faculty instructors. Gallery Curator LaRae King Williams indicates that the student exhibit will be shown in the large gallery; Griffiths Activities for Wild West Week will 3 at SUSC. run April It starts Tuesday with the annual Prospectors Party at the Canyon Park at 4:30 p.m. The activities will include games and a Dutch oven cookout. Wednesdays events include contests to determine the best Dutch oven cooks, the best horseshoe throwers, and the best and worst beards, beginning at 12 p.m., outside the student center. The public is invited to participate. A Thursday evening concert featuring the Color Country Cloggers will be at the LDS Institute at 7 p.m. Admission is $1. A rodeo competition between 1 1 colleges and universities in the 1 1 portfolio in the small gallery. The annual student show is traditionally one of our best attended exhibits, Williams said. Juried by members of the SUSC faculty, the gallery show is a competitive event open to students who have created works of art in SUSC art classes during the school year. Drawings, paintings, prints, textiles, ceramics and sculptures will be included in the student exhibit. Many of the works will be available for purchase. Representation of the Subconscious is the title of Griffiths exhibit. Clay talks to me. I see things in the round, Griffith said. Her portfolio will include more than 20 works, all of them l. BY ROBBIE REID 29-M- National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA), Rocky Mountain Region will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, at the Iron Rangers arena. Tickets are available each evening at the gate or in advance fiom Jolleys Ranch"'ear and Sunset Sports Center in Cedar City and at The Feed Store and Spanish Rose Floral in Beaver. SUSC students with an activity card will be admitted free. A side of beef will be raffled off at both rodeos with proceeds going toward the SUSC rodeo team. On Friday, a western dance will be held after the rodeo starting at 9 p.m. in the Student Center Great Hall. Crossfire will provide the music for the dance, which is sponsored by the Pacific Islanders and the ASSUSC. Admission is $2. 9) |