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THE WEST GEORGIAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3,1982
Actor Pete Seirsdale:AMan of Many Roles
A PROFILE
By C INDY BOOKER
Pete Seirsdale, a senior at West
Georgia College, is undertaking
something this quarter that few col
lege students would even attempt
Seirsdale is acting in three major
roles in each of the three plays the
West Georgia College Repertory
Theatre Company is presenting
Most actors involved in repertory
theatre portray a major role in one
play and a lesser role in one or more
others. Who is this Pete Seirsdale?
Why is he taking such a burden on
himself? Is he, in real life, akin to the
characters he plays?
Is he like the boastful, over
confident character Jim O’Conner in
The Glass Menagerie 1 ' Is he similar to
the irrespoasible Dr. John Buchanan
Jr. he portrays in Summer and
Smoke, or is he more like his obnox
ious, bullying character of Pozzo in
Waiting for Godot?
I,ast week, in the dimly lit living
room of his small, casually furnished
house in Carrollton, Seirsdale relaxed
in old jeaas and a tee-shirt as he
welcomed a visitor. Lighting a
cigarette, exhaling smoke with a tired
sigh, he settled further down in his
chair and talked openly of himself and
his acting career.
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“It’s my life,’’ he said of the
theatre "It’s everything to me."
Seirsdale, a senior with a theatre
major and a psychology minor, is
originally from Chicago He moved to
Covington, Ga. when he was 13 and
participated in drama throughout all
four years of high school.
Seirsdale hadn’t planned to attend
college. His original plans were to
pursue an acting career right after
high school. It was a last minute deci
sion to attend West Georgia, but he
says he is glad that he did.
“It has been an invaluable ex
perience to me. The drama depart
ment here Is excellent. Dr. lank is an
extremely competent director.” Dr
Oliver Link, the head of the speech
and theatre department, Is the person
responsible for initiating the reper
tory theatre at West Georgia.
Seirsdale concludes that his role of
Pozzo in Waiting for Godot is, by far,
the most difficult character in the
series of plays that he is doing. "This
is because he is so different from
me.” According to Seirsdale, Pozzo Is
‘ ’pompous and an ass. ”
“Sometimes I’m more pompous
than I’d like to admit,” he said.
“There are times when my ego shows
through more than I’d like." One ex
ample Seirsdale gave was an argu-
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ment between himself and the presi
dent of the college, Maurice Town
send.
According to Seirsdale, President
Townsend issued an order to "in
vade” the drama department’s
already limited space in the lower
level of the auditorium in order to
make room for the expansion of the
public relations office. "We learned of
their plaas the day construction was
to start. They had the audacity to
make the theatre people go clean out
the part of the auditorium that they
wanted for the public relations space. ”
The character of Pozzo becomes
blind in the second act of the play.
Seirsdale says that this is another
reason he finds Pozzo a difficult
character to portray "Usually the
eyes portray a lot of emotions,” he ad
ded. “The lower part of my face has to
do the expressing. ”
He considers Waiting for Godot to
be “a perfectly structured play.” He
also considers it to be extremely
"physically exerting. The play is
acrobatic and physical. We have to
take a lot of hard falLs. ”
The young actor approximates that
he spends anywhere from 45 to 50
hours a week in rehearsals. He adds
that, generally, the cast rehearses^
When Judy lafferty
preparei for a race,
lhe checks every part
of her bike
Because she checks
her body the same
way, she discovered a
lump in her breast a
few years ago
sne discovered it
early And these days.
85% of early breast
cancers con be treated
successfully
Judy has since had
reconstructive surgery,
too And she feels like
herself ogam Alive
vibrant, ready to get
on her bike and take
on the world
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against cancer
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every night. "That is,” he says,
"unless someone is sick or the theatre
has caved in." According to Seirsdale,
however, one "can’t have too much
practice.”
He considers memorizing lines to be
one of the easiest parts of being an ac
tor. "Memorizing lines is simply the
least of my worries. The more one
does it, the easier it becomes. It is dif
ficult to reach inside yourself and
make your emotions flow. The
hardest part of all is to keep the
characters from bleeding together.”
With three major characters to keep
separate, Seirsdale obviously has his
work cut out for him.
He is considered a very talented and
experienced actor and has par-
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West Georgia including Midsummer s
Night Dream, The Crucible. Grease.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum, and The Magic Bauble
Seirsdale is planning to attend
graduate school at UCLA. When he is
through there, he wants to “try to get
into acting somehow."
Seirsdale feels that the plays in the
repertory theatre this quarter are ex
ceptionally good. “If people don’t
come see these shows woe to them.
They’re missing something that could
be very valuable to them "
In “Waiting For Godot," Pete
Seirsdale, as Pozzo, hails down on the
audience a shower of pompous
energy.
A PREVIEW
By CINDY BOOKER
Duncan Tuck. No. it’s not a duo or a
new swimming technique. It’s the
guitar playing soloist’s real name.
Tuck will be performing in the Car
rollton area this week Wednesday,
March 3 at Long Branch Saloon, and
Thursday, March 4 in Club Z-6.
”1 trv to do an equal amount of high
class music, usually album cuts from
Harry Chapin and Gordon Ijghtfoot.
and some top 40.1 mix that up with my
own stuff and some comedy, some in
strumentals, and maybe a few one
liners as introductions," Tuck stated.
A native of Denver, Colo. Tuck has
been described as a cross between
Dancing Bear and Grizzly Adams. He
is quiet, yet joyful as he clunks
onstage wearing his
Frankeasteinesque ski boots, his face
almost completely hidden behind a
bushy blonde beard
Tuck has released three albums, the
first being his solo album Malaguena
in 1974. His second album, Same Song,
Second Verse, was released in 19m
and sold over 1,000 copies. The third
album, It’s All Done With Mirrors,
was released in 1979. It was recorded
live at the Ice House in Pasadena,
Calif, and won Tuck the Blue Light
Special Award for having sold more
albums than anyone else during a
Kmart blue light special last year
Tuck also won the honor of first
place on the Gong Show . For this, he
received a Gong trophy, $516.32. and
$49.38 worth of flavored Chap Stick
< which he still has not used up i
Tuck has appeared in clubs, college
concerts, and radio and television pro
grams including several of his own
half hour shows in Texas.
His performance includes selec
tions from his three albums and songs
from artists including Tom Paxton,
Gordon Ughtfoot, Neil Diamond.
John Denver, Paul Simon, and Harry
Chapin
He also throws in touches of humor
between songs including lines such
as: “Did you ever wonder what chairs
would look like if peoples' knees bent
in the other direction?”
Tuck’s Ixmgbranch performance
begins at 9:30 p.m. with a cover
charge of $1 ■ His performance in
Club Z-6 will begin at 8:30 p.m. There
w-ill be a $2 admlsson fee without ID,
and free admission with a validated
college ID.
Orchestration
Fa ure's
'Requiem' Due
The West Georgia College Concert
Choir and Orchestra will join forces
for a major musical event of the
winter quarter on Tuesday, March 9
at the college auditorium. The 35
singers and 28 instrumentalists, con
ducted by Bruce Borton, will present
the Faure Requiem, one of the major
choral/orchestral works m the 19th
century French repertoire. The
soloists for the Requiem will be Susan
Fincher, soprano, a freshman from
Douglasville, and John Boehm,
baritone, director of choral activities
at Atlanta Junior College.
The Latin Mass for the Dead the
Requiem has been set by many com
posers throughout history. One" of the
reasons for the text's popularity is the
dramatic possibilities of the “Dies
Irae" section of the text which
describes the last judgment and the
Dantean visions of Hell. Faure,
however, chose to concentrate on the
more comforting aspects of the text,
and. in fact, dispensed with much of
the Dies Irae in his setting. In Faure’s
hands, the Requiem becomes not a
colorful depiction of eternal damna
tion. but rather, an expression of quiet
comfort for the living. His setting
calls for a large orchestra of winds,
strings, organ and harp.
Opening the evening’s concert will
be a performance of Robert
Schumann's Piano Concerto in A
minor This brilliant and dramatic
work is one of the mast famous and
well-loved of the romantic piano con
certos. Soloist for this performance
will be graduate piano major, Jan
Adams of Carrollton.
The concert is free to the public.
Performance time is 8 p.m. at the col
lege auditorium. The concert is made
possible through a grant from the
Music Performance Trust Fund of the
Atlanta Federation of Musicians.