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THE RICE THRESHER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2001
11
THE THRESHER'S
RECOMMENDATIONS
EOR EVENTS AROUND
HOUSTON THROUGH
OCT. 11, 2001.
EDITORS
picks
tomorrow
THE GENIUS OF
MOZART
Da Camera honors the life
and work of Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart to open
their 2001-'02 season. Trio in
E-Flat Major for Piano, among
others, will be played.
$20-$35. 7:30 p.m.
Cullen Theater of the Wortham
Theater Center. 500 Texas St.
For more info,
call (713) 524-5050.
Wednesday
RICE MUSIC SHOW
Got a favorite Rice student
band? KTRU might play one of
its songs during a special
hour spotlighting our very
own musicians.
Free. 2 p.m. Wherever you
enjoy listening to 91.7 FM.
For more info,
call (713) 348-5878.
t h u r s d a v
RAY CHARLES
AND HOUSTON
SYMPHONY
.egendary musician Ray
with the
world-renowned orchestra.
Pepsi commercial jingles
will probably not be played.
$26-$90. 8 p.m. Jones Hall.
615 Lousiana St. For more
info, call (713) 224-7575.
Erratum
In the Don't Say a Word
review in the Sept. 28
issue ("New Douglas
thriller doesn't 'Say a
Word' about originality" i
the writer of the novel or
which the film was
based. Andrew Klavan.
was misidentified as
Patrick Smith Kelly, one
of the screenwriters. Th<
Thresher regrets the
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Wiess introduces fresh faces with One-Acts
Angelo Zanola
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF
This weekend, 18 brave fresh-
men will step on stage and be in-
ducted into the strange world that is
Rice theater. This year's Wiess
Freshmen One-Acts are (as usual)
four short comedies, and the fresh-
men do their best to make us laugh.
And while the shows may be uneven
at times, they succeed in the end.
'freshmen
one-acts'
Wiess College
Rating: *** 1/2
(out of five)
Tonight and tomorrow at 7 p.m.
$4 students, $6 general
public. For tickets,
call (713) 348-PLAY.
We all know the story of Oedi-
pus: Boy kills guy, boy meets girl
(who just happens to be the dead
guy's wife), boy marries girl, boy
becomes king, boy doesn't know that "
lie has just killed his father and mar-
ried his mother. Whoops.
To Sophocles, this would be trag-
edy. In "Oedi" (written by Rich Orloff
and directed by seniors Josh Hale
and Jessica Watkins), this classic
Greek tale is the springboard for
farce. Here we see Oedipus (David
Feil), king of Thebes, concerned
about his poll numbers during the
plague and famine brought on fol-
lowing the murder of the previous
ruler.
Having finished his investigation
into the crime, Creon (Erlend
Hansen) tries to find a way to put a
positive spin on Oedipus' murder
and incest, while the blind Tiresias
(Victoria Bass) gropes around the
stage and makes horribly inaccu-
rate prophecies. The town crier
(Coryell LaRue), updates the public
regularly with the latest gossip.
Unlike Sophocles' Oedipus Rex,
our hero realizes that he is very
attached to his eyes and that his
mother/wife Jocasta (Nicole Joy)
Oedipus
in "Oedi,
is not re
tion. T
audienc
but Rici
(David Feil, left) and his mother/wife Jocasta (Nicole Joy) embrace
" the first of four Wiess Freshmen One-Acts.
ally surprised at the situa-
lie farce relies on the
•'s knowing its mythology,
students should be famil-
iar with this stuff. While "Oedi" will
not lead to any catharsis, it will
please those who enjoy mythologi-
cal puns.
"WASP," directed by juniors
Blake Burton and Darius Roberts, is
a caustic, disjointed but often hilari-
ous play about a completely dys-
functional American family. The par-
ents' (Jeff Havard and Elisabeth
Papadopoulos) relationship has
grown cold without either of them
really noticing, and the two children
(Dustin Stephens and Carolyn Syl-
van) have given up on having mean-
ingful relationships with the rest of
their family.
The entire family has resorted to
speaking to the omniscient offstage
voice (Emily Matuzek) about love,
family and friends, or to delivering
cyclic and rambling soliloquies.
While some of the dysfunctional
humor may seem tired after a de-
cade of "Tlie Simpsons," much of
Steve Martin's script (yes, that Steve
Martin) is crisp and fresh, offering
both sharp humor and occasional
pathos.
Havard shines as the father, who
instead of actually dealing with his
family details his golf heroics, lec-
tures on the exact distance of heaven
from Earth or just speaks gibberish.
However, "WASP" lags in his ab-
sence and the pace is slowed down
by frequent set changes.
"The Actor's Nightmare" is a
nicely written (Christopher Durang)
and directed (sophomores .Allison
Crnic and Aaron Keho) tale of a
clueless man (Brian Cash) forced to
go onstage without any lines, cues
or notion of what play he's in. He
doesn't even know for sure whether
his name is really George. As he
stumbles through the play, which
shifts from Coward to Shakespeare
to Beckett and ends with .4 Man For
All Seasons. George's supporting cast
grows increasingly frustrated.
George is harried by a harpy of a
stage manager (Leslie McAhren),
who also turns out to be his sole
source for lines. Cash does a good
job of playing the flu stered. confused
and desperate George, forced into
an incredibly absurd situation.
He first finds himself onstage as
See ONE-ACTS, IVe 12
DAMN YOU, QUANTUM: PART 11
Will Rice gets elemental with "Effect of Gamma Rays'
Robert Reichle
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF
We are all atomic children. From
the most powerful dictator to the
lowliest science nerd, every human's
body is composed of the same low-
level molecules that make up every-
thing else in the universe. From our
fingertips to the split ends of the
hairs on our head, the stuff we're
made of came from the stars.
'the effect of gamma
rays on man-in-the-
moon marigolds'
Will Rice College
Rating: * * * 1/2
(out of five)
Tonight at 7:30 p.m.. tomorrow
at 3:30 p.m.. Oct. 18 & 20 at
7:30 p.m. and Oct. 19 at
9:30 p.m. Free. For tickets,
call (713) 348 PLAY.
It's this hopeful science/philoso-
phy that brings meaning into the life
illie, the downtrodden heroine
aid Zindel's Pulitzer Prize-win-
ning drama The Effect of
Gamma Kays on Man-in-
the-Moon Mangolds. In its
current incarnation at
Will Rice College, the
play starts off with a big
bang, but it lacks the criti-
cal mass needed to make
it a truly great produc-
tion.
The play opens with
Tillie (Hanszen College
sophomore H all it*
I I /.
Beatrice (Nishta Mehra, second from left) disciplines Tillie (Hallie Antweil. far right) as Ruth (Elaine Attebury. second
from right) and Nanny (Laurie Scott, far left) listen in The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.
Antweil) sharing with the audience
her pseudoscientific insight into the
nature ol life. Even though the audi-
ence has yet to see Tillie in her
home environment, it's clear from
the first powerful line of her mono-
logue that the wonders of science
give the meek schoolgirl a confi-
dence her home life has never pro-
vided.
The play then begins in earnest
as the lights go up on the squalid
scene of Tillie s home. She lives in
a pigsty of a house with her mother
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Liu, Leslie & Reichle, Robert. The Rice Thresher, Vol. 89, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 2001, newspaper, October 5, 2001; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth443147/m1/11/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.