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E NEWLONDON,CO~NN~E~O:;;K:~LJT;-----------------:M:::O~ND;::'A;::~~,O:::O:::::O:B:ER:-:25:::-::2::::01:::0-----------...:.------==--=-==- VOLUME36.ISSLE5 Very Few • TAKE IT EASY. l'Our Town Rules Mostly hits home An hour with COLIN PUTH Wayne Ong IT's Hi D to CONTRIBUTOR The Thornton Wilder classic STEPHEN DWORKIN IElAI Our Town has been commended CONTRIBUTOR • for shying away from traditional nUllIlil theatrical plays, and Connecticut I was out of breath by the time IlIIlIlf &1 "II College's production was no I arrived at the Myers Dance exception, While it is a play with Studio, ten minutes late. A little music and no props or formal woman tapped on my arm. She scenery, the haunting storyline and was carrying a baby. "No shoes," exceptional student performances she said, glaring at my shoed feet. were enough to keep the audience I held my sneakers loosely in entertained and intent throughout. , one hand as I slid in my socks Our TowlI opens with a detailed across the floor towards my explanation of Grover's Comers writing professor. She had her by our narrator and stage manager, hand on an Asian guy's shoulder. played by Liz Buxton' 13. She "This is Wayne," she said. "He's stays with us throughout the play, a good one. I'm sorry to give him introducing the town where our up." Wayne smiled pleasantly at characters mature. me, Then he fell backwards and It begins on a spring morning in became an arch, his hands and 1901, where you are introduced [0 bare feet all flat on the floor. a typical morning in the Gibbs and "Uh, hi," I said. "We can go Web households. You quickly see downstairs. But I'll wait until that they are classically modest you're done stretching." families, where the fathers go "I'm just waiting," he said to work, the mothers take care calmly. of the house, and the kids are It was at this point that I sent to school. You meet the realized I had no idea where I local milkman and postman as was or what the hell I was doing they make their rounds, listen to there. Interviewing is not an easy various small talk, and realize skill, especially when each of you are witnessing a completely your subject's motions makes average morning in Grover's you feel less and less at ease with Comers. However, while there your own physical ability. As is no immediate dilemma or Wayne lead me down a staircase noticeable goal anyone is trying into a familiar part of the student to reach, you can't help but take center, I ceased feeling stupid an interest in the residents of the long enough to wonder: how do town. Their sense of familiarity the professionals do this? Aren't with the town and each other they nervous to interview George stands out, and you find yourself Clooney or Barack Obama? wanting to know more about this I'm intimidated enough as it is, chillingly ordinary lifestyle. and I'm interviewing some guy With the exception of two named Wayne. - tables and a few chairs, there As it happens, Wayne proved Irs HARD TO are no props to be found, but the almost as soon as my flat. characters' power and emotions I. directionless interrogation began RElAX made me forget I was looking at that he isn't just "some guy." • a naked performance space. When • The theme of the interview, as PLEISE MIKE Mrs. Gibbs, played by Sarah my professor so optimistically lOUR SELF 11 KOME Rhodes '12, was out gossiping stated in the week before's class, with Mrs. Webb, played by was "flying and falling." I was Susanna Kavee 'II, I didn't need falling all right. Wayne is one of to see the peas they were stringing the most fascinating people I've in order to climb deeper into the ever met and I had no idea how FROM TOP: AMELIA SMITH! STAFF' TANAHA SIMONI PHOTO EDITOR. DUNCAN SPAULDINGI PHOTO EDITOR performance, The dialogue and to handle him. interaction between all characters On Wednesday, one popped up in the center of Tempel Green,jollowed by one on Thfrsday in front oj the Crozier We sat at a table facing one was powerful enough to keep me Williams Center and the last on Friday outside of Harris. According to Matthew Mitchell' 12, the beds were part of a another. Wayne was wearing a interested. student-initiated art experiment that came out of professor Ariana Hamidi's Film 270 class, Creative Mythmaking in tight, gray shirt with rolled up a Digital Age. It was an experiment to see how students would interact with a change in their environment. Accord- It is a production that relies sleeves. His arms were in his lap; ing to Mitchell, "On the green, the bed was so far from the path that people felt comfortable sitting on it. Generally, entirely on its actors, but OUI I could not see his hands. I asked people interacted the least with the bed infront of Harris - you felt like you were being watched by 100 many paths Camels delivered one hundred him about his origins, hoping for nearby. And at Cro, the bed was so close to the entrance that you had to interact with it - there was no choice." Gen- percent. eral/y, students found the temporary additions both confusing and refreshing. One student cuddled up under covers on CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 the green and was removed by Campus Safety early Thursday morning. CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 OPINION Shanking the Competition Bring Back My Channels! Interview with volleyball player Sarah Shankel Okay, champ,let's start witb MELANIE THIBEAULT a basic question: What does it SARAH WEISS everything else that fills up my time. STAFF WRITER mean to you to be a member of STAFF WRITER GSN was my safe haven, my guilty pleasure. Watching Regis pretend to know all the answers Ever wonder what it's like to this fine team? Late night TV is not the same without Regis while intelligent contestants became millionaires be a member of Conn's women's It's pretty B-awesome, as in Philbin. With the switch this year to the cable was a way to relax and think: about something volleyball team? (Hint: sure, beyond awesome. They're the service provider MetroCast, there has been a besides the stress in my own life. I would play you have). Well, lucky for you, coolest kids ever. We work really change in our channel lineup, The change has along with the show, testing if I knew the answers .I bribed Sarah Shankel' 14 with hard. 7 AM lift? Check. Our goal resulted in the removal of some beloved stations. when the contestants did not. There have been Fiber One bars and Special K has always been to be NESCAC For me, the removal of the Game Show Network several occasions on which I stopped what I was cereal to share some information champions, so we hope to (GSN) is a tragedy. I love Who Wants to be a doing to seriously. consider whom I would use as with me about her life on and off accomplish that this year. Millionaire, specifically the old-school Regis phone-a-friend lifelines if I ever made it on the the court. It also helped that she is my roommate. Philbin-filled episodes. Last semester I tuned into show. How did it feel to score the GSN promptly at midnight to de-stress after a Coming back to Conn this year, with the winning match point against day laden with classes, meetings, homework and CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 IN THIS ISSUE NEWS: OPINIONS: ARTS: SPORTS: ... • Head of the.Charles • Wayi\e Ong • page 3 cc PEeps • page"6 Our Town. page 10 page 12 "----_--.....-. __ _ _ ..-... __.- 2 ------------------ THE COLLEGE von EDITORIALS/LETTERS [email protected] OOOBER 25, 2010 THE COLLEGE VOICE Editorials " "The views and opinions expressed in The College Voice, as in all frag ile that it's difficult to feel student publications, are strictly those of the student authors, and not "I'm gay." and seen someone so . of Connecticut College. 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