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The TSU Toro Team got a little extra work with the nice weather this week as they
planted flowers around campus. Photo by Marc Parks.
Heroes and heroines
Theater students praised
for performance in 'Forum'
Horse show team competes
By Julie Grider
Editor in Chief
The Tarleton State Horse Show
Team has placed in several Intercol-
legiate Horse Show Association
shows this semester.
The team traveled to Texas A&I
in Kingsville on Feb, 23.
In Novice Over Fences, Tracy
Phillips placed fifth and Kim Wilcox
placed third.
Mary Jane Card won first in
Begining English walk /trot, while
Connie Chapman won second in
Advanced Begifier English walk/trot.
Katrina Barker won first in nov-
ice English Pleasure and fifth in
Novice Western Pleasure.
Paula Leggott placed sixth in
Beginning Western pleasure walk/
trot.
In Novice Western Pleasure,
Paige Wotipka won second. Kit
Lewis won fifth and Debbie Shepard
won sixth.
The team also traveled to the
University of Texas at Austin for a
three day English show March 1,2
and 3.
Phillips won two seconds in
English Pleasure and a fourth over
fences.
Card place second, third and
fifth in Beginner walk/trot with two
seconds and a third in Advanced Be-
giner.
Barker placed first and fourth in
novice pleasure and fifth and sixth
over fences.
Wilcox won two firsts in Nov-
ice pleasure and a third over fences.
Marissa Griffin placed second
and fifth in Intermediate English
Pleasure.
Morgan Cameron and Lynn
Webster also competed with the team.
The show team will compete in
Texas Tech University on March 8,9
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Show Association is a national or-
ganization for horsemanship com-
pitition.
Texas' Region 16 is relativly
new to the organization. Members
in the region are Texas A&M Uni-
versity, Texas A&I University, the
University of Texas, Texas Tech
University and Tarleton State Uni-
versity.
Students participating in the
shows do not ride their own horses or
use their own tack. Hosting colleges
provide horses and tack for the show.
Riders draw for which horses
they will ride in competition. Riders
are not allowed to warm up or ride
their mounts anywhere before enter-
ing the arena.
Judging is based on the horse-
'riiariship of the riders, not on the
horses.
Riders are divided into different
levels according to experience, years
of lessons and prizes won.
Riders advance to Regional,
Zone and National competition on a
point bases.
A here's an old motto
among theater critics that pertains
to reviewing comedies: Sit down
and close your eyes. If the audience
laughs at the jokes, the show is a
success.
Going by this philosophy,
The TSU Department of Fine Arts
And Speech's Production of A
Funny Thing Happened On The
Way To The Forum, which ran
February 28 through March 2, was
quite obviously a tremendous
success.
Director Mark Holtorf
offered no apologies for the
comedy's hilariously outrageous-
albeit bawdy-humor. "It's the
spirit of good, clean fun," Holtorf
wrote to theatergoers in the
audience program. "And you can't
ask for more than that,"
Adding a somber
peripheral note to the otherwise
carefree production, Holtorf
ledicated the production to U.S.
roops currently stationed in the
Middle East.
Based on the original book
by Burt Shrevelove and Larry
Gelbart (music and lyrics for the
show were written by Stephen
Soldheim), Forum is a classic
comedy of errors. The plot, set in
the time of the Roman Empire,
goes something like this:
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positions Available
The Office of Student Activities is now taking
applications for the following positions:
Student Programming Association Executive Council: (President,Vice-President,
Chair Activities Committee, Special Events Committee). Responsibilities include
planning, organizing and implementing allfacets of student programming. The term
of appointmentwill begin inSeptember 91 and conclude in May '92.
Application deadline: 5.-00 p.m. March 15,1991
Summer Orientation Advisors: Responsibilities include serving as advisors
to students, parents and groups participating in the University's Summer
Orientation/Pre-Registration Conferences. Adviors provide information
regarding various aspects of the University's as well as assisting students
to oecome familiar with the Tarleton State University on a more personal basis.
The term of appointment will begin July 12,1991 and will conclude August 13,1991.
Application deadline: 5M p.m., April 5,1991
Peer Advisors: Responsibilities include small group orientations with new students,
assistance with the registration process, provide information and serve as a resource
to students new to Tarleton State University. The Peer Advisor Program will begin
on August 21,1991.
Application deadline; 5.-00 p.m., March 29-, 1991.
Applications are available in The Office of Student Activities located
on the second floor of The Tarleton Center. For more information call 968-9490.
H
ero, a lonely young
introvert, has fallen in love with
the girl next door. Unfortunately,
the girl next door, Philia, is a
courtesan (at least, we think that's
what she is).
In the hope of winning his
freedom, Pseudolus, Hero's slave,
tricks the pimp next door, Marcus
Lycus, into allowing the girl-who
turns out to be a virgin waiting to
be sold-to stay in Hero's household
until Miles Gloriosus, "Military
Captain supreme," can come and
claim her (Gloriosus has purchased
Philia as his via'cofirtier,
from Lycus). What Pseudolus
hopes to do is stall Gloriosus long
enough for Hero and Philia to
escape to a better tomorrow.
Gloriosus hits town, he wants his
woman. Pseudolus has to pose as
Lycus in order to stall the over-
arrogant, upstart commander long
enough for Hero and Philia to
escape, thus freeing Pseudolus.
From this point on,
nothing goes as planned, and the
audience is treated to magical,
delightful chaos as the characters
stumble and trip over each other in
a madcap rush to understand what
the heck is going on.
This very condensed,
contrived and sketchy plot summary
does not even begin to do the
comedic masterpiece justice. But,
suffice to say, by this point the
audience should understand the
complexities at work here.
Kudos to the cast.
Denning chose his people well.
J eff Meek, a freshman
theatre major from Bridgeport,
comes across well as the would-be-
free slave Pseudolus. Sophomore
Theatre major Gary Cooper, a
native from Telephone, plays the
hormone-ridden Hero. Moira
Girard, a junior music major
from Belton, functions well as
Philia, the love of Hero's life.
Stacy D. Smith, a
senior theatre major from DeLeon,
was a revelation. His portrayal of
Hysterium, the "slave-in-chief of
Hero's household, brought the
house down on more than one
occasion. Smith managed to
squeeze every drop out of every
possible joke, incorporating a good
blend of lines and body language.
Tom Jerrett, a TSU
graduate student from Stephenville,
was another "audience's choice."
Jerrett played the quite-entertaining
Senex (Hero's father), and was
delightful in his rendition of the
classic musical number,
"Everybody Ought To Have A
Maid." ("A Maid? A Maid? A
Maid? Everybody Ought To Have a
Maid.,.)
Melinda Driver, a
speech/communication major from
Palestine, played the aptly-named
and quite-shrewish Domina (Hero's
mother). She was marvelously
Hero's parents, Senex and maIicioUS.
Domina, go away to see the mother
of Domina (an aptly-named
woman), leaving the stage open for
Pseudolus to trick everyone into
believing one thing and doing
another. The first on Pseudolus's
"hit list" is the "slave-in-chief"
Hysterium, who doesn't know how
to react to Pseudolus' antics.
By the time Miles
TSU Fine Arts and
Speech Assistant Professor
Richard Denning, is hysterical
in his role as the old man Erronius-
-whose children were stolen by
pirates (Pirates? Ptuii!!). Denning
shows a mastery of physical
comedy that might not have been
present in a younger actor's
rendition of the character. Tricked
by Hysterium and Pseudolus into
"running around the mountain
seven times" so the two can have
more time to sort though their
rapidly-increasing chaotic problems
(the old man makes three laps),
Denning's character becomes the
quintessential "running joke" that
kept the audience's chuckles alive.
Denning demonstrated a versatility
and subtlety in this role that failed
to escape even the most remote of
viewers.
The arrogant Miles
Gloriosus must have been the
"actor's choice" of potential roles in
the production. Handled well by
sophomore Theater major L.H.
Harris, the persona of the
overbearing military captain was
well-executed, especially when
played against the Daffy Duck-ish
antics of Pseudolus. Harris hails
from El Paso.
Newcomer David
0"Keefe, a freshman theatre
major from Clyde, plays the pimp
Lycus. Utilizing his role well,
O'Keefe is a definite promise for the
TSU stage. Watch the skies.
(Congratulations are also
in store for Allison Lawson,
Tonya Reese, Leslie P.
Collins, Terri Lynn Neeley,
Stacy Hawes, Amy Jo Munn,
Ashley Cadenhead, Megan
Pricer and Kimbraiy Toten,
all of whom performed admirably in
their roles as courtesans in the
production. A hundred pages more
of space could not do justice to the
energy, diversity and versatility
they brought to stage.
Brian Burcli and Brian
Cooke were quite effective in their
roles as the Hari-Krishna-ish
Eunuches ("You're never going to
be anything more than a Eunuch,"
said Lycus.)
The orchestra worked well
with the singers and the costumes
were top-notch. The set design was <
simple, but quite-effective.
There are a hundred
million other contributors who put
their hearts and souls into this play.
The only tragedy here is that there
isn't enough room to list them all.
Ben Tinsley is a
senior English major who
contributes critical reviews
to the J-TAC.
His experience in
drama includes two years of
study in drama theory at
Tarrant County Junior
College's South Campus,
where he wrote stage reviews
for that campus' newspaper.
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