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Wednesday. October It, 1XM
‘Crimes’ is sublime
A review of "Crimes of (he
Heart" Written by Beth
Henley. Directed by Chris
McIntyre A production of
the Town and Gown Theater
By EDEN JACKSON
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Beth Henley's Pulitzer-
prize winning drama.
"Crimes of the Heart,"
opened to an enthusiastic
crowd Friday night at The
Town and Gown Theater
Despite its favorable
reception the play will only
run again this weekend
The Town and Gown made
a good choice in doing this
relatively new play because
it is a funny. Southern drama
that almost anybody can
relate to The style of the
show echoed other Southern
writing such as Eudoro
Welly's and Flannery
O'Conner's Henley uses
their techniques to combine
tragedy and comedy, which
makes for great contrast and
stronger reaction
The play centers around
the reunion of three or
phaned sisters who are in
their twenties. Each has her
own problems, most of which
stem from an unresolved
past
The eldest, Lenny, played
by Laura Klosterman Kidd,
is a 30-year-old spinster wlio
has devoted herself to caring
for her ailing grandfather
who took in the three young
girls after their mother's
untimely demise
The middle sister. Meg,
played by Ruth Ammari, is
a 27-year-old washout She is
a victim of too many men
and too much partying, yet
has a great sense of
adventure and
rebelliousness She has
returned home from
California to help her sister.
Babe, who has shot her high-
society husband
Babe, the youngest
daughter, played by Becky
Canady, is a 24-year-old
infant She is very innocent
despite having a very
mature libido
The plot of course goes
much deeper and is full of
funny-gruesome paradoxes
Beth has received state wide
Characters from Crimes of the Heart
news coverage for shooting
her state senator husband,
who is a typical lying,
cheating, stealing politician
Beth wishes she could've
gotten national coverage like
her mother did when she
hung herself and her cat with
her Beth was very im
pressed by her mother's
coverage and put the clip
ping, complete with a photo
of the dead woman and cat.
in her scrapbook
' Henley's first play.
"Crimes of the Heart" won
her a Pulitzer prize and a
New York Drama Critics
Circle Award in 1981 though
the play was not yet on ^
Broadway
El Salvadoran war may be nearing end
Alabama antics scheduled
If Anniston. Alabama 1* loo
far In travel for Home sub
stantial entertainment, then
stay where you are. folks,
because the Alabama
Shakespeare Festlveal la
coming here to Athens.
Every year ASF, one of the
few professional classical
theater* In thi* coun
try, takes a tour of the
Southeast. thi* year with
George Bernard Shaw'*
comedy. “Arm* and the
Man.” Flrat produced in
IxMidon in IH1M. the play
*poof* Victorian heroism
and romantic bravery in the
midst of an obscure
Bulgarian war. Shaw mock*
the accepted military valour
of the day, hut not for the
sake of humour alone; wit
and intellect prevail, a*
expected. in Shaw'*
message. The tale center*
around a young man who ha*
of an affinity to
chocolate than to gun*, and
how he happen* to fall in love
with the daughter of an
enemy general. Under the
direction of ASF artistic
director Martin L. Platt, the
tour come* complete with
cast regulars Betty
l.elghton. Hubert Browning.
A. I). Cover. James Donadio,
Evelyn Carol Case, and
Kermit Brown. Previous
review* of thi* production
have been more than
favorable, and the
University Union is sure to
have unother fun evening on
it* hand* The Alabama
Shakespeare Festival will lie
in Athens with “Arms and
the Man” on Wednesday.
October |0. at N pm. in the
Fine Arts Auditorium.
Ticket* are on sale at the
Tale Center's Cashier
"inflow, 12.00 and $4.IN) for
student*. . nd $:t.0« and 15.00
for non-student*.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador <AP> -
After five months of secret exploratory
moves. El Salvador’s leftist rebels agreed
Tuesday to talk with the government about
ways of ending the five-year-old civil war
The guerrilla acceptance of President Jose
Napoleon Duarte's proposed Oct 15 meeting
was the most substantive move yet toward
resolving the bloody conflict that has
claimed some 59.000 lives
In a seven-point communique, the coalition
of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation
Front and the Democratic Revolutionary
Front accepted and expanded upon Duarte's
proposal, suggesting Colombian President
Belisario Betancur mediate in arranging
next week's peace talks
For nearly two years, both the Reagan
administration and the Contadora group -
Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama
— have been urging the guerrillas and two
successive U S -backed Salvadoran
governments to come to the conference
table
U.S officials in Washington said Duarte's
strengtheniHi position militarily and in
ternationally enabled him to drop conditions
that had blocked peace talks State Depart
ment spokesman Alan Rombert called
Duarte’s proposal “a clear advance in the
search for peace in Central America ’’
In a speech before the U N General
Assembly on Monday. Duarte made his
suprise proposal that peace talks with the
rebels begin next week He suggested they be
held m L.i Palma .i town <.| fi.iNM) in rrlx-l
held territory near the Honduran border
Duarte’s only conditions were that
representatives from both sides come
unarmed, and that the talks be witnessed by
the media
The president, a Christian Democrat who
took office June 1 as El Salvador's first
freely elected president in 42 years, said he
would go to La Palma without an escort,
“placing my life as a guarantee to have this
meeting to attain peace ”
Nothing that “a political and negotiated
solution is essential to the Salvadoran con
flict,” a broadcast by the guerrillas’ clan
destine Radio Venceremos declared that
both rebel fronts “publicly state their ac
ceptance to a meeting at the place and one
the date proposed
The hroadcat added “Taking into account
the intensification of the war and the wor
sening of the international situation, the
FMLN and the FDR express their intention
to discuss the Salvadoran crisis globally and
present proposals for a solution ”
The Farabundo Marti Front, or FMLN. is a
coalition of the country ’s five leftist guerrilla
organizations Its ally, the Democratic
Revolutionary Front, or FDR. includes
outlawed civilian political parties and
movements
Each organization will name two
representatives to the talks, the broadcast
said It urged that Duarte be accompanied y
members of El Salvador's traditionally
rightist dominated armed forces high
command, and that the talks be witnessed by
observers The broadcast also said all forces
should be kept outside a six-mile radius of l.a
Palma
Duarte said Monday that the armed forces
high command had agreed to his proposal for
the talks
Radio Venceremos said the guerrillas
made the original proposal for the meeting in
a secret letter that Archbishop Arturo
Rivera y Damas took to Duarte on May 18
The rebel broadcast said Duarte's an
nouncement at the United Nations was in
response to that letter
A key stumbling block to the talks had been
the guerrillas' insistence the negotiations
should include their sharing power in a
provisional government in El Salvador a
demand that Duarte's predecessor, interim
President Alvaro Magana, adamantly,
rejected
Equally problematic were a demand bv
Duarte that the guerillas lay down their
weapons prior to any talks, and a rebel
demand that negotiations should not be
preceded by any conditions
However both sides have been softening
their positions under pressure from foreign
diplomats, including those of the Contadora,
group and socialist governed Western.
European countries, and from Roman
Catholic Church leaders
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CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla
<AP) — Tropical storm
Jooephine turned into a
hurricane Tuesday and
threatened to divert space
shuttle Challenger's landing
at Kennedy Space Center
later in the week
"The storm is kind of
moving north northwest,”
said flight director Cleon
Lacefield "If you drew a
line through it. it s going
right towards the Cape '
The spaceship is scheduled
to end its eight -day flight on
Saturday with a landing on
Kennedy's three-mile long
runway Should Challenger
tie diverted to California, it
would be the third time a
planned Florida landing was
scrubbed because of weather
- each time with Robert
Cnppen in command
To date, there has been
only one landing here
The astronauts could see
the storm's progress as they
whirled around Earth on
their fifth day Paul Scully-
Power, an oceanographer,
was asked to examine the
circular cloud formation and
make pictures of it
The seven astronauts,
laughing, joking and com
fortable again in air con
ditioning. gave a glowing
report about their flight
Crippen reported that he
noticed one of two cables
leading into an antenna hung
loose The antenna, which
sends high speed data to a
communications satellite for
relay to Earth, was moving
erraticallv earlier in the
flight and its motors were*
disconnected to halt the-
movement
Mission Control’s Brian
Welch said the loose cable
may have caused the entire
problem with the antenna
Josephine. 550 miles-
southwest of Kennedy Space
Center, was officially
labeled the third hurricane
of the season by the NationaL
Weather Service The storm
was packing winds of 75-
mph, minimun strength for a
hurricane
Officials of the National-
Aeronatucis and Space
Administration are eager to 1
make Kennedy Center
landings routine because of :
the time they save in getting
the ship ready for the next
flight. Lacefield said.
Challenger would stay up an
extra day if better weather
was likely
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