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Show Wednesday Lively Arts danuary 30. 1990. THE HERALD. Provo. Utah—Page 15 The newest trends in music, drama, films and leisure fun Aik Public Invited Children’s Author to Speak at ‘Y’ Natalie Babbitt, one of the nation’s leading children's book illustrators and writers, will speak at Brigham Young University Thursday (Jan. 31) about writing children's literature and about one of her most popular books,‘Tuck Everlasting." The public is invited to the free talk at 3 p.m. in 205 Clark Law Building Her appearance on campusis being msored by the Department To lementary Education. The BYU Bookstore will sponsor an autograph party from 4 to 5 p.m. on ‘You Must Go Home rs...Babbitt will concentrate trom family whose aging stopped wher hilespingandcreated many complicat Her most recentnovelis a seashore fantasy whichis really a love story called “The Eyes of ‘Amaryllis.’” Prior to her successful ‘‘Tuck Everlasting,” she NATALIE BABBITT wrote and illustrated a book of stories College, the women's college coor about the devil called “The Devil's dinate to Hamilton College for men Storybook.” Because her husband was so busy as The Ohio native learned drawing president, she decided to become her from her mother and spent con- own author. She findsthat although she siderable timein herearlylife reading still enjoys illustrating, writing fairy tales and myths — and drawing. provides the greater challenge and the greater satisfaction When she decided to become anilShe wroteherfirst two books in verse lustrator, she specialized in art at “Dick Foote and the Shark’ and Laurel School in Cleveland and at “Phoebe's Revolt." But “The Search Smith College. She married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator, right after graduation and rio the next 10 years in Connecticut, ‘ennessee and W; D.C. They have three children. for Delicious” could only have been written in prose. She then wrote two novels — “Kneeknock Rise’ and Goody Hall,” followed by a picture book for young readers, “'T = , ‘ Something Mrs. Babbitt has illustrated four books for Valerie Worth: ‘Small Poems,’ “More Small Poems,” “Stil More Small Poems,” and “‘Curlicues."’ She and her husband decided to col- & laborate on a children’s book, ‘The Forty-ninth Magician” (Pantheon, 1966) and then the family moved to Clinton, N.Y., where Mr. Babbitt becamethefirst president of Kirkland ‘Hamlet’ Mirrors World War IlPoland The situation in Poland during World WarII is mirrored, oddly e1 Shakespeare's “Hamlet,” says Brigham Young University Theater Department rofessor ‘ad ielewski. The Emmywinning director, who fought in the Polish unlerground and was sent to a Nazi labor camp during the war, intends to capture the mood of that situation in the upcoming BYU theater presentation of that Shakespeareanclassic. “Hamlet,” directed by Danielewski and sponsored by the Theater Department, will open in the Harris Fine Arts Center Pardoe Theater at pa on Thursday. Subsequent performances will be Feb.1-2, 5-9 and 12-16, with a matinee performance at 4:30 p.m., Feb. 11. Danielewski says “Hamlet” is the most HAMLET (Peter Brunt) instructs Ophelia (Lora Lark Phillips) to “get thee to a nunnery” in a famous scene from Shakespeare's “Hamlet.” The Brigham Young Oe pretectianl of the play opens Thursday in the Pardoe Theater apa Books “Trocadero’’, (1978, Dell) by Leslie Waller, has been tagged by Associated Press as suspenseful, yet the ler may havea less emotional response to this account of the near bombing of a Paris art vault. One may be intrigued, perhaps mystified, but he'll able to put it down. Waller has a smooth, clever style thatis full of fine detail. His tone reflects a somewhat cynical, slightly amused attitude — that of a man who observes societ; over one shoulder witl his eyebrowsraised. The dialogue between the characters is good. The author makes several crude and explicit referencesto sex that are spaced far enough apart asto notseriously detract from the intent of the book but add noinsight or sensitivity to his characters and provide an unfavorable in this case unnecessary view of ‘life’ as the author perceivesit. The plot is a comment on politics, terrorism, and mafia control in our society and contains suposition that Waller peswill be accepted as more than a ibility. This type ofattitude is a lot more fun for the personreading the bookif he is already suspicious of the accuracyofhistory and the media. The bookis concise and carefully developed. The chapters jump from one situation and set of characters to another throughout, a system than can easily confuse; it demands attention and concentration from the reader and the author. ~ — By TAYVA PATCH remarkable play ever written. “The play is a mirror of human emotions,’’ he commented. ‘‘Most plays never achieve this. “The main role of the director is to discover whatthe play is about,” Danielewski explained. “It’s like unraveling a C my In the case of ‘Tami’ T’ve always felt thatthe environmentsets the mood in the play. ine body is afraid and let is more afraid Hi than anybody.” The director’s experiences as a resistance fighter in the Polish underground from 1939 to 1944 have, in his view, been invaluable in guiding his direction of the play. “Tt was not unusual for the Nazis to take a hundred hostages off the streets and threaten to kill them unless we would Sorenson's weightloss program January 21 of this year. 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