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FIL™ n r a "WS ■ J O 3 : BOYS îîS*!9â k IWâ S 7A FEATURE 3 A | REVIEW Actors Ricky From the Ricardo's London Logical Stage Heir The Arts and Entertainment Section of the Daily Nexus/For the Week of Oct.25-Nov.2 1989 Syllabus OF NOTE THIS WEEK MUSIC Top 5 This Week at Rockhouse Records: 1. Camper Van Beethoven Key Lime Pie 2. Erasure Wild 3. Jesus & Mary Chain Automatic 4. Kate Bush The Sensual World 5. Aerosmith Pump at The Wherehouse: 1. Rolling Stones Steel Wheels 2. Milli Vanilli Girl You Know It’s True 3. Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation 1814 4. Tears For Fears The Seeds of Love 5. Fine Young Cannibals The Raw and the Cooked FILM Tonight: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, at Campbell Hall, 8 p.m.; $3/students Saturday: 21st Tournament of Animation, at I.V. Theater, 7,9,11 p.m.; $3 Sunday: King of the Children, at Campbell Hall, 8 p.m.; $3/students □ PERFORMANCE Which, too, Tonight: about. Music/Rally Phranc, as part of Take ■By Doug Arellane Back the Night, Storke Plaza, 7 p.m. ^ ¡§ ta ff Writer Phranc also dgjeys Free She says so on tie title Friday: Music 8th Annual World Music Festi new album, I Enjoy Being A val, at the Multicultural Center, 3 ^ s c r i b e s which is a cover of ah old Ro p.m.; Until Saturday; Free your average lesbian Jewis f ^ a*M ^ Poetry Ana Castillo, at the Women’s and Hammerstein number Yo Center, 12 p.m.; Free ger,” andgpsses it o^yitl for being a lesbian Jewish folks! Saturday:Afusic Udan Asih Gamelan kind of jinchalanceas ifllhe wHS & dance concert, at Campbell Hall, 8 Phranic$8ias a sense of humg p.m.; $10/students, $15/non-students P h ra n y “just your^ average sharp a! her flattop. " is what shelf all about. See PHRANC, p.5A 2A Thursday, October 26,1989 Daily Nexus through the production (Who says mime has to be silent?), the Troupe uses every technique available in its theatrical arsenal to coax, tease, cajole and prod its audiences. In Seeing Double, the Tony J- 147a s Award-winning troupe takes two Americans, one of < & > Jewish descent, the other of Palestinian background, places them on the same plane bound for Israel and promptly revs up the farce level by employing your basic case of mistaken identities, switched briefcases, increasingly confused characters all the better to present an introduction to a myriad of points of view about the explosive situation in the Middle East, and to offer a possible solution to the seemingly endless pattern of hatred, mistrust, and bloodshed. Tickets for UCSB students are $12/$10/$8. Dancing Across the Planet One of the methods dance master Remy Charlip uses to communicate his artistic messages is the Air Mail Dance, in which he sends drawings of dancing figures to companies throughout thè world; it is then up to the dancers to the interpret the drawings and translate them into dance movements. More than 100 Air Mail Dances have been performed in Australia, Europe, and Latin America. Visiting UCSB for three weeks this quarter as a Regents’ Lecturer in Dance, the multi-talented dancer, choreographer, artist, author and teacher A World’s Worth of participates in a free multi-faceted program, “An Afternoon with a Dance Master,” on Monday, October 30, at 4:30 PM in UCSB Girvetz Hall, Room 1004. The program includes a talk by Cultural Events Charlip, an audio tape, Remy Charlip's Imaginary Dances, and a video tape presentation, Remy Charlip East Meets West in a Finely Dances. Tuned String Quartet In the coining weeks" UCSB Arts & Lectures is offering, a bounty of programs to delight and entertain, to challenge and inspire you. First on the list is the appearance of the Shanghai String Quartet. East does indeed meet West when die group The New York Times describes as “among the finest young foursomes of the day” appears for the first time at UCSB. Growing up in the People’s Republic of China, the original members of the Quartet experienced firsthand the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, yet they found the strength to Once Upon a Time in China.. continue their studies in Western music. Formed in You’ll have the chance to gain a sense of the turmoil 1983 at the Shanghai Conservatory, the Quartet was that has intermittendy shaken China over the past selected to represent their country at the 30 years when King of the Children (1987) screens South of the Border, Down Portsmouth International String Quartet Sunday, October 29 at 8 PM. Director Chen Kaige Guatemala Way Competition. Subsequently the ensemble came to (Yellow Earth) tells his autobiographical story of a The term “illegal aliens” can be quite misleading, the United States, debuted in a critically young man sent to the countryside for ‘rustication’ acclaimed New York Town Hall performance, and implying that those who secretly enter the United (reindoctrination of university students by peasant States are somehow less human, less deserving of has been giving stirring performances to laborers). Tickets are $3 for UCSB students. appreciative audiences around the country ever freedom than those of us fortunate enough to haVe since. The Shanghai Quartet plays Beethoven’s been bom in this country. In El Norte —the odyssey String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1, Brahms’ On to the Middle East of two young people struggling to make their way String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 52, No. 1, and a new Get ready for the rambunctious, the broadly funny, from the jungles of Guatemala to what they \ work by contemporary Chinese composer Zhou the intentionally rebellious San Francisco Mime imagine is a better life (with electric lights, flush Long entitled “Song of the Ch’in” on Friday, Troupe, which is bringing to town the most toilets, and big cars) in “el norte,” the promised land of the United States — filmmakers Gregory November 3 at 8 PM in UCSB Campbell Hall. challenging production of their 29-year history, Tickets for UCSB students are $10/$8/$6. During Seeing Double, on Monday, November 6 at 8 PM Nava and Anna Thomas achieve a humanized their visit to UCSB, the Quartet will give a free in UCSB Campbell Hall. Their mission: to tackle portrayal of the forgotten, the ignored, the lost. The bilingual (Mandarin'English) lecture- one of the most complicated issues in modem husband/wife team will make a special demonstration that includes a performance of politics — the entrenched conflict between the appearance with the screening of their film, which selected musical pieces for the Chinese Students’ Israelis and the Palestinians — and induce their received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Association in UCSB Music Room 1145 on audiences to laugh and drink at the same time. Original Screenplay, on Monday, October 30 at 8 Thursday, November 2 from 7 PM to 8:30 PM. PM in UCSB Campbell Hall. Tickets are $3 for Students, professors and staff are invited to attend. Talking, singing, dancing and rapping their way UCSB students. For tickets or information Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday call: 961-3535 26 27 28 29 M r. Sm ith G oes King o f the to Washington C hildren UCSB 8 P M 8 P M Campbell Hall Campbell Hall 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 R em y Charlip Stagecoach Shanghai D escendant o f the 4 :3 0 PM 8 PM 1 Campbell Hall String Q uartet Snow Leopard G äv ei* 1004 Bobbie AnnM ason 8 P M 8 P M "E l N o rte" 8 PM Campbell Hall Campbell Hall 8 PM Lotte Lehmann Campbell Hall Concert Hall ARTS & LECTURES Daily Nexus Thursday, October 26,1989 3A The Londoner sat Indian- most of the audience was style on a square chair in a ^ still around after interims- small reception room in sion to see the finish. Of South Hall. In a subtle, course, since the five actors * P n P P a . proper accent, she told her PERFORMANCE creatively managed the name. play’s twenty characters be “Annie. I like Annie. My tween them, it would have T-SHIRTS 11 name is Ann, but A-double- been a crime not to. Espe Will be given out to N-I-E,” she said. cially when Simpson per the first 75 people The personable, India- formed a dance written for born “Annie” Firbank was twelve all by himself. who volunteer to relaxing with her cohorts, Despite the occasional help clean up on members of the troupe Ac confusion of deciphering tors from the London Stage, who was who, The Winter’s The Day »IJter.. who tour various American Tale worked. The success of universities with the mis Actors the performance was un Halloween sion of popularizing FROM THE LONDON STAGE mistakably due to the ac Meet at the I.V: Shakespearean theatre. Be tors’ capabilities. The Ac tween her visits to English tors From the London Parks District and Drama classes, she had H i by ChadfeDeany, Reporter Stage, without benefit of Office at 961 Emb. the time to let her act down, costumes or makeup, man Del Mar at 10:00 but her powerful presence aged to convey numerous was still evident. characters with only a hat or a.m. on Nov. 1st. While the troupe was in Visiting Thespians Use Finely Tuned a scarf. Sign up today in the town to perform two plays The distinguishing trait of C.A.B.