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Show 1! r.,! yi.Mgyfly jf yKr Mliy It has always been 4RFD and Josh "It's By Nancy Funk Tribune Staff Writer "I'm sorry. Its so stranye sometimes I can feel part of me pushing the other part away. Everyone else, too. One part, I guess, flies up and looks at the other going berserk. And the watcher laughs and shakes his finger and shrugs. Its always that a western play that takes place dump, but not a stinking one. Its about a young man who feels lies been caught m whirling chaos. Hes been disillusioned by modern America and is headed back to rediscover roots, in a town integrity and value. Though Nielson didnt say so, the play, particularly the character of part, however, that seems to fade Josh, parallels his life. into Steve some-tuneChildhood was spent on a farm in the into a dream I thought maybe I was rural community of Huntington. He schizophrenic but my Sew York moved to Salt Iake City where he friend. Coy, assured me I was just graduated from high school and also half-assewhere he met Elaine. Josh in "RFD. " For Gay lan Nielson, it has always "I was an extrovert then. I always been "RFD," and Josh. The three got wanted to make people laugh. I did together on paper for the first time in some writing in school, mostly poetry 1972 and have never parted and some reading, usually about baseball stuff. My dream was to RFD" is Eight years later, finished, become a pitcher. except for what Nielson describes as a No Chronology lot of honing; a reworking getting input from people so I can make more Then things changed and though specific changes." Nielson says he has no clear chronology to it all, he remembers the death of 1ong Process a great He says the writing of the play was an Robert Kennedy as having influence on his attitude about life. Also extremely long process for him, that his brother. Hes a psychologist and I sometimes he hated it, sometimes he He literally turned me love him. dearly shelved it, but the character of Josh on to thinking. I was always an intense was always there. person but I didnt read much. Then my He would take long walks "1 bet brother started talking philosophy to Vve walked a couple a thousand miles, me and telling me about a lot of writers and did most of his writing between and 1 started reading everything. 11 p.m. and 5 a m. He went to Europe, with Elaine, in There would be days when his wife, 1971 to escape law school, and gained Elaine, my best friend, would ask a new perspective on his life. My how it was going and sometimes his attitude changed from I think I can be response would be fine. Those were a promising young lawyer to I cant often the days that he had spent promise you anything. Elaine said that walking, or working in his half-acr- e didnt make any difference to her and I garden or playing with his son and realized then why I love her sc much. daughter. Returning to the states, he was hit the Vietnam Writing is so intangible. Sometimes with what he calls, I think I was the most productive when syndrome," and he suddenly felt no I hadn't put a word to a page. I would connection to anything still hear Josh talking and I would Conservative Background think, Josh can say this, and then I p in my thinking. My "I did a would move back to the visceral energy. I was hoping that eventually conservative Mormon background no the play would just say it without a lot longer fit. I became involved in the anti-wa- r movement and I grew a beard. of words. All my friends were on missions and So Personal they stopped talking to me. I can Nielson said "RFD took so long because it is so personal. I felt that every word had to be nght. 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V the llaj writing Conference at Sundance Resort. in Utah 2 WEDNESDAY , X Aaa, 12-- 5 18-3- BOYS MARLOWE Rated famous At world JUDY . ana Gaylan Nielson is one of three playwrights selected as winners aspirations." GIRLS X f OPEN SUNDAYS Sometimes when youre vulnerable, people think youve lost your pride. They dont want you to take off your mask. I know literally hundreds of people who can't stand it when you get personal. So what do you do with those people? You put a piece of theater in front of them. "One of my favorite quotes is from director Joseph Chaikes who said, with regard to presenting a play, 'All 1 want to do is to drive a wedge into their That also represents my dreams. AGES ACTORS DANCERSSINGERS Starnnf In Color jcThese Merchants Nielson says he's been writing for a long time and wants more than anything to stay alive as a writer. "If I could do something with my play, it would be to make people who see it become vulnerable. Josh is so damn vulnerable. I love that quality in people and the visceral energy that comes from it, but there's also a lot of pain. I don't think there's a time when we're not masked. We tear off one only to find another and in doing so weve discovered a new portion of ourselves. CHORUS Line 1 "SWINGING COEDS VTRQLLEY4 -- tools. StUGt& ERIC ana EDWARDS - S9UAREi Western Playwright am a we item playwright and 1 grew up in the west. 1 hate the New York patronization that goes on in this country. Its so parochial. I think it is time that people saw that the heart of America is not in New York. Im excited to see something happening in the west. I really hope it is perceived as valuable. It's just so hard to get people interested in anything, and theater is just a baby in this country." "The workshop is a wonderful concept. A novelist knows his work is going to lie read but a playwright has all these pictures in his mind. I've got to know if those pictures are going to work The conference w ill give access to all those 2nd Attraction mttrm Mvta itsut sevtt I! 7 "1 AUDITIONS FOR: . Colot Rated 11JK0 director two-wee- t 21. young writers in this area John Dennis from the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, is the conference's producing 1 HELD OVER! Cm Ctrl SHAWN HAftfttS ill "SOMETIMES SWEET SUSAN" (x) remember wanting to be a conscientious objector and realizing couldnt go talk to my bishop about that. I went to a priest instead. Nielson absorbed him..olf m classes at the University of Utah, 20 to 22 hours a quarter and he kept writing. It was the one way 1 could express my feelings. My head was so full. There was all this madness inside me and nothing made sense not my family, not my religion, my state or this country, nothing. 1 call that time, the period of my loss of innocence and it was good. I hurt for people who havent experienced it because not only are they dangerous to themselves theyre dangerous to the world. He took a variety of subjects at the university, among them theater and began writing reviews for the Daily Utah Chronicle. One review prompted theater professor (and playwright) David Kranes to invite Nielson to class to talk to his students about criticism. Brilliant Teacher "From then on. I majored in David Kranes. Hes a brilliant teacher and has been an incredible source of energy for me. He introduced me to new plays: avante garde and expressionists and 1 thought, My god, this is perfect. Ive found a way to bring poetry and drama together in my writing. RFD surfaced and the long process Finally, it was David who began. kicked me and said, Its time to finish, time to let someone have a look rt it. Nielson entered "RFD in the Utah Playwriting Conference and it was selected as one of three w inners, from a field of 42 scripts submitted by writers from across the country. Along with A1 Brown and Aden Ross, Nielson will work with directors, actors k intenand dramaturgs in a sive workshop at Sundance in July. It is the first Utah Playwriting Conference, patterned somewhat after the ONeill Playwriting Conference in Connecticut, and is designed to further the growth of Hu Siill Lake Tribune. Sunday, June Park City Resort Lodging. ..Summer Condo Special s t s. i, u vtnk enC n F ir C. I. u'l niv.lll liT.S t, , E ' c ( ' 5B2 4493 Park City Three For x i j ' ick , K i s' i , h ') or s' (! , , J t f f i, 'is.1' '(' V ' ' ' ' l : I Fur reseivdtions . ( j every 3rd night Free ' m , p All j ' ! xi ' C v - x Hi ' ' ' ' i ' V s i .md infot m.ition r.tll . 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