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-The West Georgian-Wednesday, November 13,1991
Madrigal Dinners
to be held in Z-6
By Tracy McCain
Staff Writer
Celebration of a good harvest is
this year’s theme for the Music
Department’s Madrigal Dinners to
be presented November 18 and 19 at
7:30 p.m. in the Food Services
Building.
The lower level of the Food Ser
vices Building will be redecorated
Renaissance style, with tapestries and
streamers to represent Windsor
Castle- home of Queen Elizabeth I.
Everyone is invited to join the
queen as she welcomes the WGC
Chamber Singers, who will represent
such guests as Sir Walter Raleigh,
composer Thomas Morley, and
writers William Shakespeare and
Edmund Spenser.
An elaborate feast of “fruyte
sallat, beef in pastrye, appil and
aprycot soup, coffye, banbury cakes”
and more will be served.
Entertainment, planned by di
rector Kevin Hibbard, will be pro
vided by the Madrigal Singers, the
Collegium Musicum (directed by Dr.
Elizabeth Phillips), the Royal Brass
Choir (directed by J. Russell Laib),
and the Royal Dancers. Instruments
suited to the time period, such as
recorders and viols, will be played
by the Collegium Musicum.
Tickets are available in the Music
Department office and may be pur
chased from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The
cost is $8.75 for students, $12.50 for
adults and $6.50 for children under
14. For more information call 836-
6516.
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Norman's Getting Out gives superb
theatrical performance at PAC
By Mike Fishman
Staff Writer
An excellent theatrical and real
istic performance was given by the
West Georgia College Theatre
Company, in Marsha Norman’s
Getting Out.
WGC senior Agnes Harty gives a
realistic and captivating performance
as Arlene Holsclaw, who has spent
most of her life in prisons and juvenile
institutions. Arlene is portrayed as
someone who wants to change her
ways but finds it difficult because of
the confinement of her past that’s
closing in on her.
By getting out, Arlene is trying to
get away from all of this confinement,
and tries to get her mother (played by
Ginger Parker) to accept her the way
she is in the present. However this
attempt fails because her mother is
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dwelling in the past.
But there is a twist to the otherwise
recently paroled Arlene. Her other
self also appears as Arlie (played by
WGC senior Laurice Adams).
Arlie’s presence in Arlene’s current
life is a constant reminder of Arlene’s
destructive ways . Adams gives an
excellent performance as Arlie, who
is portrayed as vulgar and evil, but
there is a good part of Arlie that is
fighting to get out.
An effective technique utilized is
the use of different dialogues going
on at the same time which are also
called trigger lines. These lines
trigger actions, in which certain
words said to Arlene triggers a fig
ment of her memory. The fenced-in
area containing people in Arlene’s
life represent these figments. The
realistic elements of the play repre
sent Arlene’s current life, and
thetheatrical elements represent her
past which is happening in her mind.
WGC junior Wayne Gregory
gives a great performance as Carl,
Arlene’s former pimp. Carl displays
a personality which is evil and vul
gar similar to the way Arlene was.
What's Happening...
Music
Reba McEntire will hold a con
cert November 22 at the Omni.
At the Center Stage Theatre the
Pixies with Pere Übu will hold a
November 17 performance.
Luther Vandross will perform
November 23 at the Charlotte Coli
seum and November 25 and De
cember 5 at the Omni.
Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ will hold a
concert November 28 at the Fox
Theatre.
Attractions
Lucina Wilcox Mills will hold an
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Ernest is
Scared Stupid
Ernest's new movie is sure to
be a big hit at the box office as
the campus of West Georgia
College is "scared stupid" by
finals. Ernest P. Worrell (]im
Varney) stars in his own
Halloween thriller- Ernest
Scared Stupid.
The drama reveals Arlene’s at
tempts to fight against her past and
establish a future of goodness and
freedom.
Finally, Arlene realizes that she
has to come to terms with her past
and can get away from the negative
aspects but hold onto the positive.
She also realizes that Arlie had a
strong side, and by killing her she
didn’t deal with the problem.
She also has support from Bennie,
the guard from the state prison
(played by WGC senior Clay
Whitfield) who has become her
friend.
In addition, Arlene has support
from Ruby, her new neighbor (played
by WGC senior Shelby Hofer).
Overall the play was superb. Dr
Gagnon and the cast are to be com
mended for a job well done.
Other cast members include Eric
Smith as Guard Evans, Robert Ray
as Guard Cadwell, Carol L. Mickens
as the Doctor, Christina Sherry as
the Principal, Joseph Rodney Barron
as Ronnie, Karri Allen Manuel as the
Loudspeaker Voice, and Robert
Thomason as the Warden.
art exhibit in the 2nd floor gallery of
the Humanities Building from No
vember 11-15.
Performing Arts
After The Phantom of the Opera
finishes its tour at the Fox Theatre
November 16, The Stars of the
Bolshoi Ballet will run through
November 26.
Circus fans will get an unusual
treat when the Cirque du Soleil visits
Atlanta beginning November 29 at
Eighth and Spring Street, under a
blue and yellow big top tent
Bands to appear
in Love Valley
By Mike Fishman
Staff Writer
The “Bands in the Belfry” music
festival, will take place tomorrow
afternoon from 3 to 10:30 p.m. in
Love Valley.
According to Daniel Tompkins,
festival organizer, there are seven
bands.
Bands include Silence, whose
music consists of new wave and funk;
the hard funk group, Amos Babling;
the local folk rock band, Farmer
Brown; and the industrial band, the
Tone Poets.
“Industrial has a warped sound
with heavy guitar sounds mixed to
gether. They work along with a syn
thesizer that has 60 or 70 sounds that
are mixed into a dance grove beat,”
Tompkins said.
In addition to these bands will be
two local folk groups who, accord
ing to Tompkins, perform under no
real names.
“They are similar to groups like
the Indigo Girls who play acoustic
guitar and rely on their singing,”
Tompkins said.
Transactors
to perform
By Mike Dean
Staff Writer
The Transactors Improv Cos. will
be performing in West Georgia
College’s Performing Arts Center
Monday, November 18 at 8 p.m.
The group uses everyday sug
gestions from audience members to
provide hilarious entertainment.
Improvisation is the medium the
Transactors use for their shows. The
audience gets involved by offering
suggestions of ordinary circum
stances which are transformed into
humorous situations by the group.
The Transactors rely heavily on
feedback from their audiences on
which they base their show. There
fore, the group prefers smaller ven
ues.
In addition to the performance,
the Transactors will be conducting a
workshop on improvisation for the
college’s theatre department.
Reserved seats are available for
$6 and can be purchased from the
PAC weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
WGC students are admitted free with
a valid ID.