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The Red and Black • Wednesday, May 9. 1990 • S
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‘The Miser’ a satiric portrait of greed
By MAURA CORRIGAN
Entertainment Writer
While the academic year nears
its close at Georgia, drama stu
dents have been working very hard
to successfully close out the Drama
Department's 19B9-90 theater
season.
The season’s final production,
"The Miser,” a classic French
comedy by the renowned 17th cen
tury playwright Moliere, will be
performed tonight through
Sunday.
Filled with comic scenes and
outlandish situations, ‘The Miser”
is Moliere’s satirical portrayal of a
man obsessed with money and the
outcomes of his avarice.
Moliere pokes fun at the impor
tance of money to the miser and
the traditional conventions of 17th
century France. While many of Mo
liere’s plays focus on religion and
religious hypocrisy, this particular
play focuses on the concepts of
greed and arranged marriages.
'The Miser” is the first non
modem production to be performed
this year by the Drama Depart
ment.
Directing the play is Stanley
Longman, a drama professor and a
specialist in French and Italian
theater. He said that this neo
classical play is “very open and
presentational. The actors know
that the audience is there and they
talk to the audience...the quality
and cartoonish stage pictures are
earmarks of Moliere.”
Harpogon, the central character,
is, “obsessed with money and he
treats it as the prime love of his
life. He’s totally caught up in it and
he skews his life in that direction.
He is a sort of grotesque,”
Longman said.
Beau Phillips, a graduate stu
dent in drama, is playing the role
of Harpogon.
Phillips said, “He’s a likeable
fellow. He’s not unredeemable, he’s
just very short-sighted. He’s the
guy that causes all of the prob
lems.”
The cast is finally having fun
with the play, but 'Tor the first
three and a half weeks rehearsals
were sheer hell,” he said.
This is a very hard period to do
because the language is kind of
stiff — even the translation. It
takes a long time working with the
Beau Phillips, Kathleen Timmons and Phil Simmons: The three students are starring in
"The Miser.”
material before you can accomplish
anything.
“Jokes and humor don’t always
translate...not knowing what cer
tain terms mean we have to invent
things for humor,” Phillips said.
Sophomore drama major Kath
leen Timmons, who is playing the
role of Mariane, said that period
plays are more difficult than con
temporary plays.
“In a period play you have pos
tures to uphold and jestures to act
out. In different time periods dif
ferent things were the focus, such
as shapes and dresses.
“My costume is scary to think
about because it’s so different,” she
said.
Despite the complexities of put
ting together a period play, the cast
has succeeded in a relatively short
period of time.
Julie Gillis, the assistant di
rector and a junior theater major,
said, “Everyone’s having a lot of
fun doing different things. We have
a lot of creative people involved.
I’m enjoying watching the actors
and their ideas.”
Longman is also pleased with
the outcome of four weeks of hard
work.
“When you get to the tail end of
the year there’s so much to do to
wrap up the academics that it’s
hard to get people, but we’ve got
them. We’re having a ball. We
want to go out in a blaze,” he said.
The play opens tonight in the
Fine Arts Auditorium and is being
performed through May 13. Perfor
mances will be at 8 p.m. through
Saturday. A 2:30 matinee will be
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sale at the Fine Arts Box Office.
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By CARY DICRISTINA
Contributing Writer
Little Feat and the Atlanta
Rhythm Section will perform at
7:30 tonight at Legion Field. The
interesting thing ia that the con
cert coet the University Union
practically nothing.
Shawn Wheeler, University
Union Program Advisor, said At
lanta-based Southern Concert
Promotions initiated the concert.
That’s the same company that
came up with the B-52’s show
last fall.
A band ae big as LF usually
would cost the union $40,000 and
a percentage of the profits. This
particular performance would
cost the concert division approxi
mately half its budget, and the
risk that the show might flop
would be too great.
But with SCP promoting the
concert, the union faces little
risk. SCP takes most of the risk
but will take most of the profits
as well.
For the University Union to
get the concert, SCP first con
tacted union members and asked
if they were interested in this
show. The union was interested.
Negotiation on a price began.
SCP submitted an estimate of
what it believed the concert
would cost to produce.
In this case, its estimates were
pooled from the final cost of put
ting on the B-52’8 show. The esti
mate was submitted to the union
and voted on.
The original proposal would
have cost students $8 in advance
and $10 at the door, while costing
the non-student $12.50. The
union felt this price was out of a
college student’s budget. To get
the cost more in a student’s fi
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charged students $6, while
paying $2 for each student ticket.
Wheeler said the concert
would never have been consid
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an audience.
At least 400 tickets have been
sold so far. Members of the Union
feel the audience will be made up
equally of students and non-stu
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Wheeler says getting a big
show is difficult because it's
much easier for a promoter to re
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This is a big concert deal for
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