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Show - I THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1997 THE ARTS AND ENTERTAIN MENT 1111\ Chilling play t o raise funds By JIM ROBINSON CAMPUS EDITOR A pair of Utah actors with professional television and film experience will present a Halloween season Victorian ghost story as a scholarship fundraiser at Southern Utah University. Charles Metten, artistic director for Promised Valley Productions in Salt Lake City and recently retired professor of theatre and film at Brigham Young University, will be a guest performer in the production which opens tomorrow night. Richard Bugg, assistant professor of theatre arts at SUU, will take the other maior role in the Stephen Mallatratt adaptation of the Susan Hill novel, "The Woman In Black." Both Metten and Bugg have taken numerous film and television roles including episodes on Touched By An Angel and several made-for-television m ovies. Each also has extensive professio nal stage experience. The Woman In Black wi ll run Oct. 23-25 and Oct. 29-Nov. l in the Randall L. Jones Theatre. Curtain time will be 7:30 p.m. each evening. A matinee performance is also scheduled at 2 p.m., Oct. 25. All seats will be $7, with proceeds from the production going toward theatre arts and dance scholarships at SUU. · Originally, Fred C. Adams, founder and executive producer of the Utah Shakespearean Festival, was scheduled to / ' VIRGIN WORKSHOP ) ~ take one of the roles, but a health problem- now corrected- forced him out of the production. " We were fortunate that we:could obtain the services of Mr. Metten, a highly respected member of the theatre arts family," Mac McIntyre, director of the play and head of the SUU department of theatre arts and dance, said. "He will help provide the chilling flavor of this turn ·Of-thecentury English horror story " The play's story starts when a middle-aged solicitor hires an actor to help him re-enact a traumatic incident from his past 10 hopes of cxorc1s111g the ghostly event from his life. The story is to be told through a play with the actor takmg the role of the solt 1tor and the solicitor playing all other roles As a young man, the solicitor had encountered the "Woman in Black " while he was settling the estate of an elderly recluse. She is seekmg vengeance for the death or her young child. After attaching herself to the solicitor, she unleashes a macabre sequence of even ts which end during a chilling twist late in the play. "This is an intense and very gripping ghost story," M cIn tyre said. "There aren't a lot of really good ghost stories that exist for the stage, and this is one of the best." The Woman In Black stands behind only Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap as the longest-running dramatic play in the history of English theatre. It has more than 4,000 performances on London's West End and is still being produced. Will you marry me? COME SEE MY HUGE SELECTION OF UNUSUAL CLOTHING FOR ALL. GORGEOUS IMPORTED FABRICS IN PANTS, SHIRTS, JACKETS, HATS, SARONGS, & DRESSES GALORE. ALL SIZES, ALL OCCASIONS. I ALSO HAVE JEWELRY, LITTLE BOXES, RUGS, BLANKETS, POTTERY, HAMMOCKS, FURNITURE. ANTIQUES, AND ALL SORTS OF GREAT GIFTS. SHOW ME YOUR l.D. AND GET AN EXTRA 15% STUDENT DISCOUNT OFF ALREADY GREAT PRICES. CLOSED TUESDAYS Now that wasn't so hard, was It? IN THE OLD MOHAWK CAFE, HIGHWAY 9•VIRGIN ONE BLOCK WEST OF KOLOB ROAD (ON THE WAY TO ZION NATIONAL PARK) (801) 635-77'30 Jewelers - Gemologists 75 N. Main St. Cedar City, UT 84720 (801) 586-2422 |