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RAISES SERIOUS QUESTIONS
Udayke’s show a chilling, disturbing work
Wednesday, May 6, IP8I
The Ked and Black
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By KEVIN BICKNELL
Rrd and Black Huff Writer
Louise Udayke’s "One
Man Show: The History of
Killing Part III," performed
Friday night at the Georgian
Hotel, is a disturbing work.
It raises serious questions
about what is behind man's
romantic heroes, and as a
piece of performance art it is
chilling.
That is, if performance art
can nave any meaning. For
the most part, this term has
been used to describe a
combination of dance and
theatre usually unequaled in
its self-indulgence Although
some great work has been
done in this area, the usual
message has been nothing
more than "I" shouted with
voice and body
Which is nothing at all like
what Udayke does What she
does is lose herseu totally in
the three roles she plays. In
fact, that is the main point of
the work: Udayke details the
private hell of people who
have been devoured by the
roles they play in life.
The three protagonists are
all men who represent
certain symbols that
exemplify what we might
call machismo. Udayke
plays a gangster, a world-
weary soldier and a
superhero. In all of these
roles she shows the
desperation that undercuts
these representatives of
confidence and mastery.
In the role of the gangster,
Udayke comes in slow,
almost slithering onto the
stage. After a few minutes, it
becomes apparent she is
representing the motions of
coolness, of street-style, only
these motions are slowed
down to a crawl. A tape
recorder on the stage takes a
line from "West Side Story,"
(we always walk tall, we’re
Jets!") but the segment is
about the consequences of
into the character, revealing
the only thing that ever
meant anything to him was
war He misses the charred
flesh, the hands "clawing
like animals." Without war,
people are meaningless.
"They don't die and they
don’t laugh either ” His
version of life is a longing for
catastrophe
The third man is a
superhero with no one to
fight. Self-conscious about
his grand leap onto the
scene, waving a paper light
saber, screaming out for
“Darth” to come out and
fight, he is a comic figure
Until he cries "beam me
up!" with total desperation
and then, when nothing
happens, withering pitifully
and crawling away During
the first part of this sequence
the audience laughed At the
end you could have heard a
pin drop
The total work is distur
bing not only for what it says
about the characters, but
also for what it says about
the audience itself, who,
after all, is the creator of the
hero-figures Udayke sub
verts. And what it says is
this: deep down, removing
all of the glamour from the
masculine image of the
traditional hero, one finds
nothing more glamourous
than a desire for death.
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walking tall — that you will
cut yourself off from
everything. After all, like
James Dean and Marlon
Brando told us, your
coolness is determined by
the extent of your alienation.
The gangster takes out a
doll and undresses it ten
derly and emotionally while
his own voice on the tape
recorder tells him of the
uselessness of his action.
“You think you're going to
find something but there's
nothing, nothing, nothing.”
For him, sex has no meaning
because he has nothing to
give. Finally he shoots the
doll.
Udayke presents the
second man as a soldier of
fortune, the "man of the
world” in romantic novels.
But this is the other side of
his romanticism. Udayke
plays him as a man whose
very existence has become
personified by the song from
“Gigi" that is playing on the
tape, "It's a Bore," Even
sex, represented by erotic
thrusts in time to the Rolling
Stones' "She's So Cold" has
become meaningless.
Udayke goes even deeper
Congressmen invited to speak at rally
By WILLIAM COTTERELL
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ATLANTA — State Rep. Tyrone Brooks, D-Atlanta,
Tuesday invited all Georgia congressmen to a meeting next
weekend to speak to welfare recipients and others threatened
by President Reagan’s proposed budget cuts.
Brooks, a freshman state lawmaker representing a largely
black Atlanta district, told a news conference a mass rally
would be held on the steps of Atlanta's City Hall form 1 p m
to 5 p.m. to protest the proposed reductions in social service
spending
He estimated the GOP proposals would cost "over $17
billion" nationwide, with most of the money being shifted to
increased defense spending rather than being trimmed from
the tax burden of the middle class
The former Southern Christian Leadership Conference
activist said the demonstrators would also urge renewal of
the Voting Rights Act, which some Republican Senators have
vowed to abolish.
"We see this country moving farther and farther to the
right, talking about cutting the budget back here and there.”
He said offices of all Georgia congressmen were contacted
with invitations to speak at the rally, but that only Rep
Wyche Fowler, D-Ga.. had indicated he might attend Fowler
represents urban Atlanta.
Brooks said the Atlanta demonstration was part of a
nationwide series of protests against the Reagan budget by-
groups such as SCLC. the American Civil Liberties Union,
the National Welfare Rights Organization and some feminist
organizations.
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