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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, and, as per usual, remember to include Theatre Notes in the subject line. A 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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