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The Po[emic/J!-pri[9, 1997 PHOTO BY POLEMIC STAFF Cast of "How the Other Half Loves" from left: Anna-Udell, Ben Gougeon, Becky Black, Mark Breckenridge, Jamie Frazho, and Kirstine Titus getting into character. ~ Behind the scenes at ' . . "How the Other Half.Loves" BY BECKY BLACK the play is centered around, STAFF WRITER the other being Bob and Theresa Phillips, played by l3en Friday, March 21: Gougeon and myself. We have. Rehearsals for "How the captured the essence of the Other Half Loves" have been love/hate relationship of our underway for quite some time characters along with master- now. It's hard to believe that ing some combat scenes. The exactly two months ago today, other couple in the play, Will- I was auditioning for the role iam and Mary Detweiler, that I am playing. Two played by Jamie Frazho and months .... sounds like a long Anna Udell,arethetypicalbor- time to me; I just got my lines ing, shy couple. memorized last week. In ex- Each character in the play actly 13 days, opening night has their own quirks and mo- will hit and then the the entire ments. · And there never is a cast, myself inch{ded, will be dullmoment. Theplayisset in· able to see how much hard two different apartments at work has paid off. But of the same time. Overlapping course, it always does. apartments, that is. So the en- At this stage in the game . tire cast has to learn the impor- things are getting pretty criti- tance of not running into fel- cal. Now that lines are set into low cast members. Timing is memory I'm more focused on essential, the pace is quick, keeping them there, and let- and the play is utterly ting them out at the right time. hilarious .... and I hope we will No big deal, I only have be ready in 13 days. around 300 of them. The post- Tuesday, April 1: ers have already been printed Today is the last time the and with any luck I can get the . cast and crew will be able to tickets done this weekend, too. work without an audience. The Everything is finally coming rehearsal was quite disastrous. together. Today was the first day the cast One of the most exciting worked with food and water things to happen for the cast props. This led to the many this coming week is the addi- breakingsofcharacterthrough- tion of our set. Finally we will out the run. For example, to- have real walls to work around, day was the first time that I wet instead of pieces of tape to mark a washcloth that my "husband" our boundaries. I have a feel- sits on in one of the scenes. I ing I'm going to have problems forgot to t~ll him about it. At at first though. I always the moment of discovery for manage to step on the tape him, I just happened to be yell- walls. Furniture will be added ing at him, face to face. When too. That will definitely be a he sat down, he gave me welcome sight compared to the that"why on earth am I getting folding chairs that are being a wet butt?" look. From that used now. point in time I lost my compo- )necasthasbeenverydedi- sure for the rest of the scene cated to this show. In the role anddeliveredmostofmylines of the Frank and Fiona Foster, through giggles. Not a good Mark Breckenridge and thing. , Kirstine Titus have managed .Otherwise, things have to perfect British accents. They · been going along beautifully! are one of the two couples th.at Everyone has their lines and . cues down. Costumes and props are now in place. Reser- vations are pouring in now, too. Things are getting very excit- ing, and opening night is com- ing faster than we realize it. Tomorrow is our first audi- ence. With that will come new situations to deal with. I have faith that we will be able to overcome anything that they can throw at us. But I'm hop- ing they will just clap instead. Friday, April 4: Last night was opening night and despite the small crowd everything was great. Even the crowd· was wonder- ful! ltwassmall,but the people were very responsive and ap- preciative. We havf finally ex- perienced the play after pre- paring for it over two months. I felt much better after this performance, too. After re- hearsing a play for so long it sort of ,loses its humor for the actors. I was beginning to ask myself if the audience was go- ing to find the play funny at all, because after all that time I sure wasn't finding it funny any- more. But then I got to think- ing about how the first read- through for the cast went. We were all hysterical the first time through. But last night's audi- ence response made me regain my faith in the play and the cast. It's all going to be over in just three more days. It seems like two months is a lot of work to go through for just four per- formances. But that's just part of the whole "theater experi- ence," I guess. Sunday, after the show, we will immediately strike (take down) the set, put away all of the props and cos- tumes, and completely clear the stage. Then "How the Other Half Loves" will just be a fond memory in the minds of all of the people involved with it. ■ ' P,ntertain1nent 5 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 'By 'Beefy '13facf( & 1£d!df ire Wlid tre Becky In my opinion "The En- glishPatient" was very beau- tifully done. The scenery was really beautiful, the music was captivating, and the actors were convincing. But Idothinkthatnineacad- emy awards is a littl~ exces- sive. This movie starts out with a clip of a small plane flying over the desert. Aboard the plane is the pilot who is obviously distraught about something, and a dead woman wrapped in a sheet. In the first 30 seconds of the movie, 'the plane gets shot Eddie That's right movie buffs, we're back, and we 're more opin- ionated than ever! In the spirit of Easter, my cohort and I have • decided to resurrect Black and White from the AHS archives. In the wake of The Atademy Awards, we have chosen none other than the mother of all mov- ies, "The English Patient." The highly acclaimed film was the winner of the award for best motionpicture,alongwithcount- less other Oscars. So we decided days comfortable ones. They spend these times in an isolated · castle where he starts remembering pieces of his life, and remi- nisces about his tawdry af- fair with actress Kristin Scott Thomas. Thomas is subsequently married to a successful business man, which causes her to be torn between the man that she loves, and the man that she has sworn to be loyal to. You'll have to shell out the $4.50 to fin'd 0 U t ■ ■ down. w hi Ch path she ■ chooses. The next scene is that of a young nurse tending to vic- titlis of WWII. She meets all sorts of hardships along her journey through life and is quite unhappy herself. To make a long ( over two and a half hm:irs) story short- -the scarred beyond recog- · ni tion pilot of the shot-down plane comes under the care of the nurse who's decided to stay behind her troops in an old abandoned· building until her patient dies. The patient has no recollection •ofhisnameorwherehecame from, so he is dubbed the English patient. The story is intrigu- ing, but a bit long, usingun- n e c es - s a r y scenes to fill up all of two ho ,urs, a n d thirty- five min- u t e s sinceeveryonewasmakingsuch worth of time. It has sev- a big deal out of it, we'd see what eral intensely suspenseful all the noise was about for our- moments,andisfilled with As his body deteriorates, Selves, and give you our point of passionate drama. the English patient recalls view. Although the plot is details of his lost life, and Themoviestartsoutin World a bit confusing at first, it more vividly his lost love, a War II Africa, where a pilot and all makes sense in the end. married woman. his lover are the victims of an It is well done and origi- This story is a good love untimely plane crash. The pilot, nal, but a far cry from the story. Between both the En- RalphFiennes,suffershorrid3rd best movie of the year. It glish patient and his lost degree burns over the majority did not live up to its bill- lover, and also the blooming of his body, cooking his insides,· ing or to my expectations, romance between the nurse and making his death only a and I'm not the only one andafellowsoldier. I would matter of time. He also under- that thinks so; actor recommend this movie, but takes a bad case of amnesia, Willem Dafoe gave it an it is definitely not for every- which left his life a mystery. 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