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Show I11&J THE ARTS " THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1995 AND ENTERTAINMENT SU's 'Macbeth' to go on tour about struggle £or power and p litics. Armagnac is using non-traditional casting in the play. "We will be u ing more women, with a woman playing JOU R AL ARTS WRITERS Banquo." Armagnac is especially excited about the Macbeth. We've all heard of it, maybe even read it. fight scenes th y will be doing, "We'll be using big Ju t the name conjUies up images of witchcraft, daggers and lots of combat. It's sort of a cross deceit, and treachery . Juicy stuff that has been able to between Star Wars and a Van Damme movie." stand the test of time and keeps on entertaining Armagnac first became familiar with SUU throu_gh audiences everywhere. his work with the Shakespearean Festival, where he Gary Armagnac, an artist-in-residence here, i played King Richard in Richard ill last summer. He taking Macbeth to n w height . He is director of became an artist-in-residence here becau e "theatre Macbeth, tile Tour, which is being presented by the heie is world class. It's the best, it's put in the same Utah Shakespearean Festival . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , category as Stratford. There is and SUU. incredible potential." This tour i planning on Armagnac has been a traveling to high schools and professional actor and juni r college aero S the direCtOL for more than 20 we t, with booking in years. He enjoys them both equally. "Comparing them is Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Salt , like comparing apples and Lake Cite. ,1 This educational outreach Cieal'eSf DJJ.rrOr O , oranges, you ju t can't do it. I program consi ts of two part : enjoy them both equally and a SO-minute modern love them both." adaptation of Shakespeare's ence "The theatre holds a mirror Ma cbeth to be presented to IU. U tv up to life, and Shakespeare has the eleare t mirror of all," audiences of I 00-200 students said Armagnac. and th eir faculty; and 30 to edUCQtiOn. Armagnac feels that theatre 40-minut e workshop for variou cla e . Hers an alternative. "It' It' Shake pea re for P.E. exciting, it' omething real to do. If you make it classes. It' costume design for home economics cla e . It' th ea tre for En Lish accessible and affordable, people will come." This art of bands on hake pea r wiJI offer an w cla e . The entire high ch ol curri culum can inv l.ve various aspect of th e play. venue for stud nt participating. Thi program will Armagnac s tarted Ma beth, tbe Tour a a class al o be an excellent recruiting tool for the theatre project. It ha inc expanded to this touring group of department. 16 :ict r, t chni ian , and co tum r . " tuden ts will see it and ay, ' I ca n do tbat, or Armagna initiated thi project because he felt it ome part of it,"' Armagnac aid . "Thj ould be "good, live, entertainmen t. America i exp) rit rium open up new door, to th m ." tarving for it." Casting for thi program took a lot of th ought and work. " When you hire actor , make sur y u hire H igh choo l is a ml medium fo r Macbeth. "I ch c this play beca use I love it. It' really e itin , good ones- not jerks." And Am1agnac did hi b t to c p cially for high cha I tudcnt , where the do thi , hiring Brian Vaughn and Maren Ma lea n as attention spa n may not b a 1 ng." the 1 ad of Macb th and Lady Macbeth. The play deal with a dy functional family, and is Armagna and hi crew do all th lighting and By JEN DURCAN & JORDANA WELLES 'The theatre holds a mirror up to life, and h th Shakespeare as e fall , sai·d Gary Arm,:ac, an ,,......Jst-m·-rf'Si and the USF director of 0 19 L-.-~-~-a,-~Wn-. ~d: - :-,1.T11,.-~-chQ _ _oru_~_ I _z_:_ hR_m-.. -:ct-:A.M-:-.~-nc:1of lamentation is ung by the H brew wh have been en laved by the Phili tin • 2. 11 La Boheme," by Puc ini. • 3. ilda in "Rigoletto." • 4. a) Norina loses a note, or drops it on purpose, in the last act of "Don Pasquale." b) Melisande loses her wedding ring in the well in "Pelleas et Melisande." c) Mimi loses her key in the first act of "La Boheme." d) Barbarina, in the fourth act of "The Marriage of Figaro," loses the pin which the Count gives her to take to Susanna, along with a message reminding her of their meeting. • S. a) Puccini b) "Tosca," "Madame Butterfly" and " La Bohem ." • 6. al The quartette in "La _=~ Rodolfo decid to eparate and are inging a tender g d-bye while Mar cllo and Musetta continu quarreling. bl The fam us quartett from "Rigoletto"-Act IV. The Duke flirts with Maddalena inside the tavern while Gilda and Rigoletto are outside the tavern bemoaning the Duke's conduct. • 7. The trombone. • 8. aJ "The Barber of Seville"Rossini b) "Madame Butterfly"-Puccini c) "La Traviata"- Verdi • 9. al "L1taliana in Algeri"-Rossirri b) "Manon Lescaut"-Puccini cl "Emani"- Verdi • 10. "Das Rheingold." All the characters are superna tural. • 11 . a) Luci.a bl Lady Harriet Durham c) Spera ta 1 Gary Armagnac technica l j b a well. "We tri d to make it a imple a possi ble, f r a cla roo m . ft' s eve r-changing, with Live mu ic and und. The et i al o very ver atil e, and non-d cript." A culmi nation f Armagnac' va t experience as both actor and directer ha helped him t o initiate thi pr ram. "People ar t o atu rated with mediathey ne d omething live, real." Macbeth tbe Tour wLIL pieview at SUU on March , 9, 10, & IL "Thi hould be a worthwhile production for both audien c and tho e involved." R_O_G_!_!_c_!_~_E_R_T_____. 1 L..._ _ Mini-re ·ews of current fibn releases "NELL" (PG-13) "BOYS ON THE SIDE" (RJ Nell is the story of a present-day wild child (Jodie Foster} who grows up in a forest wilderness in North Carolina which gives us a character who HAS learned to speak, but not in a language anyone has ever heard before. Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson are a doctor and a psychologist who come to study her after she is discovered, and end up protecting her from a curious world. Some of the story's logic isn't convincing, but the emotional center is sound, and the movie is an affecting experience. Jodie Foster i quite successful in crea ting a woman with completely alien speech cues and body language- a per on wh o ha not grown up learning how to I t others know what she feels . RATING:*** Currently at the Fiddl r Theatre. Boys on the Side starts as a conventional female buddy movie,with Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker sharing the driving on a trip from coast to coast, but then it takes a sudden tum to Pittsburgh to pick up Drew Barrymore and becomes a movie that's original, sometimes funny, and very moving. Both Goldberg and Parker have ecrets which, as they are revealed, lead to scenes of great tenderness and emotion, and Barrymore, with high spirits and unforced wackiness, provides the catalyst that makes the three into a team and finally a family . What this movie does best is show how strangers can become friends, and friends can become like family . RATING: ***j Currently at th Campus Th eatre I |