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m m ........ i" 07482008850004 2A Thursday. April 25,1985 Daily Nexus tension throughout the play, keeping the audience on the OFFERS YOU A edge of its seat anticipating Dracula’s next sudden ap HOLLISTER pearance. HOMEAWAY Stage Fright At ETP the home of Lucy, a beautiful woman who attracts him, and FROM HOME a madhouse, operated by Dr. Steward. The good doctor INN ★ We’re less than happens to know a German collegue, Dr. Abraham Van 2 miles Helsing, who specializes in unknown diseases (ie. vampire from campus disorders). In the beginning of the play, the house lights dim and heavy organ music begins. Jonathon sits down in the middle of the stage, bathed in an erie blue-light spotlight as ★ Reduced rates for Students he scribbles in a diary about his journey to Transylvania. Marc Cardiff is visibly nervous and reluctant as his & their Fam ilies! ★ character travels to Dracula’s castle and is forced to ' Friendly Staff 967-5591 remain as the count’s “ guest.” Jonathon makes up his mind 1 Free Color TV to leave the castle after his host turns into a bat. ’ Solar heated Swimming Dracula’s arrival in England is predicted by Renfield Pool (Bobby Komhandler), a madman who lives at the assylum. 1 Free Local Calls Because of his bizzare behavior, Dr. Stewart has been 1 Complimentary Morning Coffee studying this lunatic, who is really a vampire but does not realize it. Beginning with flies and. spiders, Renfield develops a taste for live animals. “ I used to fancy that I could prolong my life by eating dozens of little lives,” he says as he brushes feathers from his last meal away from his mouth. As Dracula approaches, Renfield becomes visible agitated, and begs Dr. Stewart to free him so he can join the “ master.” Komhandler’s performance as the deranged vampire was very funny. During his spider craze, I hate horror films. I can remember watching television he crawls around on the stage searching for “ a big fat one” with my sister and dad on Saturday nights when they until he finds it and plops it in his mouth. stayed up late to watch Creature Features. I never un His keeper, Dr. Stewart does nothing to prevent this derstood how they could enjoy watching monsters and because he is busy treating Lucy, who suffers from an in deranged killers chop up people and suck their blood. Those jured neck and mysterious loss of blood. Unfamiliar with kind of movies always give me nightmares. They scare me these symptoms, he contacts Dr. Van Helsing, a vampire so much that I ’ve learned to cover my eyes until they’ve specialist, who accurately diagnoses the problem. To ended. portray Van Helsing, Robert Weiss affects a thick German Few people will suffer from nightmares after seeing the accent and misuses words and expressions hilariously. Ensemble Theater Project’s version of Dracula — The “ Bight now, this family have a vampire problem,” he Pursuit of the Undead. This play, adapted by local announces after he examines Lucy. In his black doctor s playwright Marlene Walker from the original Bram Stoker bag, Van Helsing carries instruments to use against novel, offers more humor than horror. Although it has all vampires like garlic, holy wafers and a wooden stake. the requisite features of a conventional horror tale — He seems quite serious as he uses these weapons to fight vampires, coffins, heavy organ music, and an erie castle — Dracula, but the overall effect of the play is anything but this production seeks to entertain rather than terrify its serious. Instead, it is a truly innovative and entertaining r A MMSTERDAM audience. Using special effects with sound and lighting, treatment of the Dracula legend. Even people who don’t Director Joseph Hanreddy maintains a high degree of like scary movies will enjoy this play — Debbie Nestor & LONDONL Celebrate LONDON ......*649 NON-STOP 747 Life! Multiple Listings, Multiple Meanings AMSTERDAM. ..*675* D I R E C T DC-10 lives it is also a financial center to others. They are being Into LONDON, ' used as objects of speculation to be talked about as cocktail Out of AMSTERDAM . .*700 parties. They’re just being co-opted by the wealthy. It’s Into AMSTERDAM. emotions versus economics. Out of LONDON ____ *700 * A* tillable with purchase of EuratlPasi Is this a similar theme in pieces such as Hold Out/- at the time of hooking Help the Holding On with the huge black monoliths on either side of EURAILPASS WScw bU* issued over the counter\ •UP small houses? ' BRITRAIL PASSI Ft« <3j> Holding Out/Holding On is the idea of an elderly couple issued over the counter \ Ho»“ *5' ” Unu-U. e c ._ that have lived there all their lives. Developers offer them a March of Dimes millon dollars for the property but it has no meaning. Their t300 d ov e §T # 2 0 0 Newport Beach Fight pride and the feelings of what real values are keeps them C A 92660 Birth Defects there. They’e-going to hold out, and not sell their concept of 714-851-1787 what a home is. They just pull the blinds down a bit and say 213-590-8200 ‘to hell with it.’ r ▼ ▼ ▼ ^ ■y ur A lot of the pieces are divided as two separate buildings while others stand alone; what is the contrast? GOING THROUGH CUSTOMS: In many ways the pieces are candy-coated daggers. There’s a certain irony going on between that which is She Took The House/He Got The Business attractive and draws you in and then that which is the ON Gifford Myers’ Real Estart is an exhibition of ceramic turning of the knife. There are at least two conditions going WOMEN miniature pieces that explore the duality of the house as on at the same time in every one. In the double building both a profit-making investment to be marketed, and as an pieces I call duplex-diptych are two physical objects are THE emotional shelter of sentiment, memory and security. juxtaposed to one another, presenting two different points SAFELY While the works are often charming in their gift-shop or of view at the same time. In Imminent/Eminent Domain ROAD namentation, the element of conflict is consistent and takes one building is boarded up while the other reflects in the disguised and unexpected forms. Sometimes our window what it is going to become — it’s going to be tom A discussion about voyeuristic nature seeks out clues as to the inside stories of down and be made into luxury condos. In the single houses the two conditions exist in the object dealing with verbal and these domains, while other times we are subjected to reflections that bounces back into our viewer space. Some and the viewer’s space. The windows become a mirror physical harrassment of the houses are simple statements while others hint at image and the viewer is reflected back across the street...it when travelling narrative. is often a projection of what the viewer’s space may or on holiday. Multiple Listings is currently on view at the University become. Art Museum. Here Myers has created an eclectic neigh AT THE borhood, a witty, subtle yet provoking panorama that I Your windows in many cases block off any inside view defines the difference between the architecture of material with these reflections; while looking in one feels the pushing out at the same time. Women’s Center status and the proud values of the home as a fortress. Yes, you have this push-pull sense of being the voyeur. How do your pieces interpret the house as an object and Often times the single-point perspective of the pieces draws THURSDAY you in and then you’re thrown back across the street by the A P R IL 25 the house as a home? While some of the houses are presented as isolated, reflection...You find yourself in an introspective point of humble, maybe even lonely, they also stand as very proud view — what you thought was a passive activity is now 12: 0 0 * 1:00 and defiant statements that they are castles to certain thrown back at you. people. And while the house is an emotional center to some — Shirley Tatum 2>N Fraternity ROADSHOW Presents ■ - . - : f E A T u R I N G A Volleyball IN ASSOCIATION WITH KTYD» mano the WEEKLY P k N T Weekend Blowout I "j~ ’~~E $ SANTA BA R B A R A .FREE PARTY FREE BEEI FOR Q with AFRICA 1 THE STINGRAYS 3 SUNDAY, APRIL 28 • 7:30-1:00 AM & And THE TROPICS 3t * TICKETS AT THE DOOR —ANO- £ 8:00 P.M. 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