| Show Thursday The Eagle - Page 4 February 15 1990 "House of Blue Leaves" cast selected by Kristie Ellason arts and entertainment editor With its mix of zany dements and bizarre plot the CEU Theater Department's "House of Blue Leaves" promises to be the revival success that it was on Broadway just two years ago The show was written by John Guare in the waning years of the Vietnam war and the feelings in the attiplay relate to that tude of the sixties Director Lee Johnsen describes the play as a "dark comedy” Filled with deep satire and hysterical lines off-the-w- of Blue Leaves" also cona veys strong message to its audience The explosive mix of characters lends to the show's craziness Dan Hall portrays Artie who works in a New York zoo but would rather be a songwriter His son Ronnie played by Gary Howe and his wife Bananas played by Trad Jeffs are both actually off the deep end Artie's mistress Buraiy played by Julie Taylor only makes matters worse for him Other characters include: Conina played by Anna McCourt Billy "House played by Todd Devenish the Head Nun played by Till Wagoner the Second Nun played by Kristie Rodgers the Little Nun played by Kristin Greenwood MP played by Jim Wilcock and the man in white played by Mike Kaminiski Wilcock is also the Stage Manager for this production The cast started rehearsals on Feb 12 for their March 3 opening The play will also run on March 9 and Reserved seats are available by calling the Theater Department at ext 228 between 8 ajn 10 637-21- 20 and 5 pm Monday through Friday Southwest artist provides exhibit and workshop by Ginn Barblero staff writer Southwest artist Dan Vigil will be displaying his work from Feb 13 until the end of the month in College of Eastern Utah's Gallery East weekdays from 8 am-- S pm The artist will be in Price to conduct a "hand on" workshop from pm on Friday Feb 14 in the art studio behind the gallery He will use the college's new lithography press in his presentation Art majors and interested students are invited to make reservations to attend the workshop Only a limited number of participants can attend it because of space and lime limitations Reservations can be made by contacting Brent Haddock or James L Young in the art department Coming from an artistic background with his n father a painter of the Southwest and his brother a printer it was inevitable that he would have artistic talent He is artist who grew up in his fathers art studio and took some classes from the Tamarand Institute in Arizona well-know- non-train- ed 1- -6 Vigil is considered a sensitive artist who employs avant garde and contemporary style in his work Young said He makes his home in Taos New Mexico and Los Angeles Calif Vigil's exhibit's next stop isin Vail Colo Readers' to host double feature A poetry writer from Price and a poetryfiction writer from Salt Lake City are the next readers in CEU’s Readers' Series on Feb 21 at 8:00 pm in the Little Theatre n Katie CEU and wilderness language program instructor and Katherine Coles Utah Arts Council Literary Arts Assistant Coordinator will each read their work in the Readers' Series first in two years Kingston-Thompso- double-- feature Kingston-Thompson- 's The Georgia Review and Quarterly West Ha fiction is to be published in The North American Review and The Alaska Quarterly She has given readings throughout the United Slates including in New York Washington DC Seattle and Houston She recently received ha doctorate degree from the University of Utah as a University Research CEU combines with Honor Band for February's newest concert poetry has been published in several magazines and other publications throughout the Western United States including High Country NewsJZllipsis Plauuong and Network She was also awarded an honorable mention in the Utah Wilderness Association Poetry Review She earned her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Wisconsin and has studied abroad at the University of Valencia Valencia Spain She is presently working towards her Master's Degree through Utah State University n has given a presentation for the League of Utah Writer Price Chapter dealing with her tra lation of Garcia Lorca's poetry as elated to Spanish culture and the bu fight Co! has received several awards for ha rork including the 1990 Indivu al Writer's Fellowship from the Ns mal Endowment for the Arts I 1987 she won first place in the Set ius Poetry and second in Poetry n a Single theme Utah Arts Council Original Writing Ha poetry publications include The New Republic Shenandoah I Photo by Lonnie Bohunin Dustin Latimer m Cordy West news editor Winter quarter's Choir and Band concert for the College of Eastern Utah will include a host of guests u by several students from regional high schools will travel to Price to participate in the 1990 Senior Honor Band The concert will be held in the Geary Theatre on Saturday Feb 17th Kingston-Thompso- Compe'ition by hand art laft to right Llaa Flltton Cindy Parla and The last reader in the scries wu Steve Orlen who has published sev-abooks of poetry He is currently the chairman of the Creative Writing Department at an Arizona college Many students and community members enjoyed hearing his talents in the Little Theater on Feb 8 which with the help of a recent grant from the Utah Arts Council wu free to the public al at 4 pm The matinee concert will feature a 100 piece band and an equal number of students will participate in the choir The band will play several marches including a selection from the "Phantom of the Opera" The choir hu prepared six numbers fa performance including a song written by Russell Wilson Students from Green Riva San Juan Monticello Union Emery Carbon and Moab will arrive on Friday Feb 16 fa extra practice with the combined CEU and high school group Students wae recommended by their high school teachers and chosen by CEU’s music directors Derral Siggard and Russe Wilton The sixties return are Education Rally and Woodstock Week's biggest hits tie-dy- es ASCElTs Woodstock Week wu ideally designed to inspire students to think on their own well gain an understanding about the wald around them And if the number of e laden hippies slinking around on campus lut week wu any measure the activities were an entertaining way of getting the point across Tuesday Feb 6 started off with a e workshop at noon in the SAC With ova 60 t's and seven colors of dye CEU students used their creativity and made their own renditions of Woodstock favorites Lata that night a Sixties Dance wu a time to show ofT those new duds dance to some old tunes and make friendship bracelets for everyone who attended Groovy records were spun by JD Conova who reluctantly played only three songs released put 1969 Wednesday took a fortunate serious turn when thirty students traveled through the snowy canyon on the Eagle bus to attend an Education Rally at the Utah Sate Capitol Sevaal cqlleges including SUSC U or U UVCC from all ova the state showed their support at the rally which wu aganized in support of the Bovd of Reagents' money fa lligha Education d budget With posters and excited chants students from the Utah colleges caught the attention of legislators who pecked out their windows to see what all the fuss wu about CEU touted the Ivgest turnout of any school attending the rally Thursday a lunch wu planned in the Ballroom whae students took their cafeteria sack meals and had a picnic while listening to music It wu something different from the original routine which is what Woodstock week seemed to be all about u u tie-dy- tie-dy- strong-minde- |
