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Show New play at Babcock Theatre explores language of isolation ' Idioglossia is a psychiatric term I 'that ' means "a , private form of , speech."' "' "' ":' ' " ' " " The Babcock Theatre on the campus cam-pus of the University of Utah will present a play by that name through Nov. 23. When "Idioglossia" was presented as a candidate for the Playwrights' Lab at the Sundance Institute last year, those who saw it knew they had encountered a new voice in American theater that of the play's author, Mark Handley. Handley won a Rockefeller Foun- . dation Fellowship to work further on the play at the Empty Space Theatre in his hometown of Seattle, where he is playwright in residence. Idioglossia is the term he uses to describe the special language used by a woman who has lived as a hermit her-mit for 40 years and is "discovered" by three scientists. The story of isolation versus the real world raises questions about the meaning of words and the interpretation inter-pretation of idealism and perfection. , The, play will be directed by , University, of; Utah professor Kenneth Ken-neth " Washington. Sharyn Jensen will play the woman who has developed her own language. Jackie Bromstedt, Michael Kirkland and Sandra Shotwell play the scientists. The show will run Nov. 14-16 and 21-23 at 8 p.m. A 2 p.m. matinee will be on Nov. 23 and a 7 p.m. performance perfor-mance will be on Nov. 17 and 20. For ticket information, call the box office at 581-6961. |