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Monday, September 11, 2000
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Carol Churchill’s ‘Top Girls’ opens University Theatre season |
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British playwright Carol Churchill has gained wide acclaim for her imaginative dramatic structure and use of double-casting in her well-known plays Vinegar Tom (1976) and Cloud Nine (1978). Churchill’s Top Girls (1982), the first production of this year’s University Theatre season, tells the story of Marlene, a successful go-getter and supporter of 1980s Thatcherism.
To celebrate her big promotion Marlene invites “top girls” from the distant past to a dinner party. As the party deteriorates into a drunken gathering of misfits, parallels are drawn between the heroines of history and the lives of the real women in Marlene’s life. What sacrifices have these women had to make in order to be successful in a man’s world? Was it worth it? Churchill’s ingenious language critiques not only feminist progress but also 1980s capitalism.
The University Theatre production will be directed by doctoral student Brian Haimbach, who also directed last season’s Before the Fire. Drama professor Sylvia Pannell will design costumes and M.F.A. design student Kate Jones will design the set. The company, composed of graduate and undergraduate actors, will employ contrasting acting styles to highlight the political overtones of the play.
Top Girls is part of University Theatre’s “Off Broad Street” series. Last season every performance of that series was completely sold out. In order to accommodate audience demand, Saturday matinee performances have been added.
Top Girls will be presented in the Cellar Theatre, located on the ground floor of the Fine Arts Building, at 8 p.m. Sept. 13-16 and at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 16-17. Tickets are $10 for regular admission and $8 for students and are available at the box office in the Fine Arts lobby. Box office hours are noon-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. During those hours, the box office can be reached at 542-2838. If tickets are still available, they may also be purchased one hour prior to showtime at the Cellar Theatre. |
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2nd Thursday Concert • Sept. 14 • 8 p.m. • Hodgson Hall |
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The first 2nd Thursday concert of the season features the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mark Cedel. The program will include Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, The Planets by Gustav Holst, and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. The orchestra will be joined by UGA’s own Steve Elliott-Gower as guest narrator for the Prokofiev.
Elliott-Gower has performed in Athens over the past decade with the Masters Hall Players, Athens Creative Theatre, Town and Gown Players and the Athena Grand Opera Company. His credits include Senex in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Max in The Sound of Music, Ko-Ko in The Mikado, Captain Hook in Peter Pan, the non-singing Second Priest in The Magic Flute, and the non-sober Frosch in Die Fledermaus. At UGA he is associate director of the Honors and Foundation Fellows programs.
Tickets for the performance are $9 ($5 students) and are available at the Performing Arts Center box office (542-4400). Group discounts are also available. Box office hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and two hours before events. Series subscriptions are also still available for $12 at the box office. |
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Visiting Scholar Lecture • Sept. 12 • 5:30 p.m. • Griffith Auditorium |
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Art critic Suzi Gablik will speak on “Paradigm-Spinning and Visionary Criticism: A Personal Profile.” She is the author of several books, including Has Modernism Failed?, The Reenchantment of Art and Conversations Before the End of Time. She lives in Blacksburg, Va., and has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of the South.
Like other participants in the lecture series, Gablik will also present workshops for students and meet with faculty during her residency in the art school.
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