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PICK YOU UP AT EIGHT
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me: Continuing a seven-
years-long tradition of liberating one of the most
evocative words donated to our language from Latin,
Eve Ensleris highly decorated The Vagina Monologues
will yet again give new meanings to the constituent
words of V-Day with its cathartic mixture of humor,
shock and humanity. Further, all proceeds from the
performance will go to local non-profit Project Safe,
which, along with UGA's Performing Arts Department,
is staging the show. The Vagina Monologues will take
place in the UGA Chapel on North Campus, Feb. 15-17
at 8 p.m. Tickets, which cost $15, can be purchased
in advance at Frontier, the Project Safe Thrift Store
and Urban Sanctuary Day Spa.
Highwire Love: Some performers aren't satisfied to
simply spout lines from a spot on the stage. With
bungee dancing, polyrhythmic dervishes, soaring
sling dancing, spoken word, and a plethora of other
intriguing performance art concepts performed by
dancers and artists both local and nationally-known,
"UPSwihg," presented at Canopy Studio, is a
feast for several senses including sheer amazement.
"UPSwing" will be performed on Saturday, Feb. 10 at
8 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 11 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $15
for adults, with discounts for students and children,
but Canopy promises that no one will be turned away
for lack of cash. See www.canopystudio.com for more.
Town and Gown Players present Lady Windermere's Fan.
ing secrets to ward off social scorn and suspecting the worst of
one another all along. Lady Windermere's Fan set the tone for
the remarkable but brief career of the Foppish Prince of Scathing
Wit. Town and Gown Players present Lady Windermere's Fan at
the Athens Community Theatre off Prince Avenue on Feb. 16-17
and 22-24 at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinees on Feb. 18 and 25 at
2 p.m. Call 706-208-8696 for tickets, which run only $5 for the
Thursday and Sunday shows and $12-$15 on other nights.
Hello, I Love You: Before the turn of the year, new theatrical
troupes began springing up in our fair city like mushrooms after a
good rain. That rain continues and an enormous, red and mottled
fungus, in the shape of the Forest Theater of Pure Form, is
among us. Sadly, neither time nor space in sufficient quantities ex
ist in this column to give potential audience members a full arse
nal of info on this show, so, in lieu, here's a brief whetting. In the
distant recesses of prehistory, "theatre" was (probably) a commu
nal ritual with more honest-to-god reality than any modern enter
tainment. The FTPF seeks to recreate this primal performance. The
play, a morsel of Eastern European absurdity named Dainty Shapes
There's a certain age—say 14 or so—at which over-packaged,
oddly-flavored chocolates and garishly-dyed animatronic furballs
lose their mystique. Not long after, drawers of knockoff diamond
studs and pocketknives reach maximum capacity. At this juncture,
whatever pleasure there might've been in a midwinter day named
for two beheaded St. Valentinos becomes a candy-colored, heart-
shaoed nightmare sapping meager funds and wreaking relational
havoc. This time around, ignore the tired trinketry and opt instead
for an evening on the town that'll save both dough and dignity.
Y Chains of Love: Just a few weeks shy of 115 years ago, a little-
known aesthetics lecturer and struggling novelist by the name of
Oscar Wilde became an overnight celebrity in Victorian England
when his wittily satirical society comedy Lady Windermere's Fan
opened on the London stage. Over the next three years, Wilde
became first the era's most successful and well-received dramatist
extolled even by the notoriously finicky George Bernard Shaw,
then the scandalized center of a raging gossip storm, and finally
an inmate doing hard time at Reading Gaol. During that meteoric
rise and fall, he created no fewer than three of the finest comedies
in the English language. The story of a high society couple keep-
You Can't Hurry Love: The UGA Thalian-Blackfriars'
yearly circadian-themed guerilla theatre produc
tion, the "24-Hour Play Competition" is an annual
reminder of how much more inventive and energetic
we all were in college. Beginning at 9 p.m. sharp on Friday, Feb.
9, members have 24 hours in which to write, rehearse and stage a
performance the following night, Saturday, Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. The
shows, always a highlight of ingenuity, will play on the Balcony
Theatre in the Fine Arts Building. Admission, like few other
things in life, is free.
Dress You Up in My Love: Auditions for the UGA production of
the second installment of Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson's
Pittsburgh cycle, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, will be held Feb.
17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Fine Arts Building. Contact
Professor Freda Scott Giles at 705-542-2102 for further informa
tion. Town and Gown Players will be holding auditions for Woody
Allen's Play It Again Sam at the Athens Community Theatre on
Feb. 19-20 at 7 p.m. See www.townandgownplayers.org for details.
Brandon Waddell
Show your love in the form of dramatic news sent to outthere@flagpole.com,
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and Hairy Apes by Polish polymath Witkacy, is somewhat inconse
quential. Of greater importance is the interaction between FTPF's
guru/ director (as well as yoga studio owner and sometime UGA
literature professor) Cal Clements, his band of actors (required by
company rules to seek enlightenment, but not necessarily learn
their lines), and the audience members who get half-price tickets
for wearing faux-fur hats (turbans may substitute) and bringing
musical instruments. Hats may be rented. The curious are encour
aged to visit www.rubbersoulyoga.com/theatre.html. FTPF will
be waiting every Saturday night in February for the show to begin
at 8:30 p.m. at Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution in the Leathers
Building on Pulaski Street, though audience members should be
earlier and shouldn't clap. Entrance is $10 for those who choose to
ignore the previously mentioned rules and $5 for those who don't.
Love Star: February is also Black History Month and the newly-
minted Rose of Athens Theatre has chosen for its second of
ficial production a show that cobbles together one of the more
harrowing, compelling periods of that history. North Star Light:
Pathways to Freedom weaves together almost two-dozen stories
of flights to freedom with the slave songs that were often encoded
with messages to bolster and aid them in their jour
neys. Featuring two locally-based actors with recent
African roots (one from Congo and the other from
Nigeria) and a local singer-songwriter. North Star
Light tells the heartrending experiences of those who
risked their lives to escape slavery with candor and
humor. The show hits the stage at Floorspace on Feb.
15-17 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 18 at 5:30 p.m. Tickets cost
a paltry $5-$ 10 and can be reserved by calling 706-
769-9829.
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