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Page 4 [continued from page 1~ "to be lonely alone" light adds to the color of the life in the Camino. Camino Real sums up Tennessee Williams' creed, "I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez and Rembrandt, in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by beauty everlasting and the message of art that has made these hands blessed. Amen." "Any hope for redemption from the world of the Camino Real lies," says Williams, "In violets breaking through the rocks. Beauty, imagination and love must tri- umph over cruelty, ugliness and fascism. The soft can win out over the fierce." . Camino Real, March 17-19 and March 22-26, Understage, Alumni Hall. Tickets on sale in the Bookstore March 13th for one dollar. "None of it will be me"-Weinfeld by julie Mullen In the production, the director, Tim Weinfeld has achieved the ultimate goal-bringing across to the viewer the importance of " ...survival of lnno- sence, honesty, and decency over brutalizing forces in the world." This theme is presented effectively through the usage of vulgar techniques, symbolic characters and events. The main purpose of this is to make the audience" ...sick to the stomach, make them laugh, shock them. and think!" Concerning difficulties encountered during rehearsals, one quite evident is the lack of space available for such a large cast of over fifty students. Held in Understage in Alumni Hall, the characters are somewhat limited to a restricted Focal characters offer something unique area to move. Cooperation, however, between everyone helps to iron o~t this problem. Throughout the interview, Tim broughf across ,by. Cathy Nelson vi vidly and constantly his emotions and devotion to Tim Weinfeld is quick to insist that no 'Although the production of "Camino Real". When asked what one character in "Camino Real" is more important stoned throughout the play. Her chief charac- he wanted the audience to capture of a charac- teristic, says Debbie, is her loneliness. teristic of himself in the play, Tim explained that than any other, there are some characters on which Jacques Casanova, as portrayed by Tom Blair, is pla~ Kilroy, are to focus. tends They the on1y Tennessee Williams' influence should be ap- Margu~f1te, Jacques Casanova and Gutman, another "romanticist who is no longer in his parent. As he said " ...if Ican help ito-none of it will prime." Like Marguerite, he also is bitter, faded -be me." played respectively by Michael Basile, Debbie characterization he Buck, Tom Blair and Bob Whitney, an insight into the an~a~~h:~~~~rith~: ~~::~~fs,?,ni2~:0:di~~fe[~ va on which the Technical effects actor Michael repressions," Kilroy maintains by a "An asexual creature," and "candy-coated Unhindered Basile. "psychologtcal simplicity that enables him to escape. He is, above cruelty," describe Gutman, Bob Whitney's character. Evil personified, he could be likened to a all, an "honest" character. character. pithy sort of Cabaret-emcee Bob's emphasize unrealities prostitute who has "given up, yet retains a description? "You get the feeling that he can't Debbie Buck describes Marguerite as a faded old romantic quality." A take-off on Camille, the perform a bodily function ...he doesn't excrete." (All ye reviewers, take the above with you, so you by Becky Williams desperateness of Marguerite shows in that she is will have a yardstick by which to judge.) The audience of Camino Real will see the action- of the play through the eyes and mind of Don Quixote, Because he never sees reality clearly, all that happens seems distorted and unreal. Nostalgia marks 100 days party The sets for Camino Real are designed to exaggerate the strangeness and grotesqueness of the dream. The rich and important people of the play live in a hotel called the Siete Mares. whic~ is by Chip Rouse placed on a higher level on the stage to emphasize Oh, ·to be a senior and to have but one hundred their social position. Street people live in dirty holes days left until graduation! crowded aside to make more room for dancing. The on the floor level, stressing their very low status. When a wish like this is finally fulfilled, there is darkness was punctuated only by the band's lights, Skid Row has a dilapidated and dirty appearance ample cause for celebration; hence the origin of the a few candles, and the dim lights behind the bar. since its inhabitants are gypsies and "loan sharks" Not surprisingly, many thoughts turned to past of a low moral character, Angles of the doorways annual One Hundred Days Party, Could one place occurrences at the Mill. Almost too many seniors for a final fling than Little be more suitable and physical deformities of the people add to the Frock's-the cache of a great many memories were heard to dredge up a "do you remember overall experience of oddness, when ...?" edged with a tiny bit of nostafgla, and collected during the four years at Western though the whole tone of the evening was far from Throughout the play different colors a\e used in Maryland? A beer bash at Frock's is as natural a sentimental, a barely perceptible aura of "Those the lighting for certain effects. Blue lights are finale to four years of frolicking as is the Pit or a were the days" misted about the place. Un- representative of Don Quixote because the col?r Gigif. derclassmen may scoff at the thought of leaving suggests nobility and distance. The people of Skid The night-Friday, February 25-began rather fond memories behind but after watching the Row are characterized by red lights and the hotel slowly, but by 10: 00over 115people had crowded in; Hundred Days celebration and almost grasping the Siete Marez by bright flashing lights. Very white, not all were graduates-to-be, for guests were feeling which four years together as a class sterile and sharp lighti!lg is used for ~he operation allowed at one dollar per head, but generally it was generates, I can readily understand the near scene, and a strobe ·light for all of Kilroy's chase an affair of, by, and for the senior class. The band nostalgia which begins to break with one hundred. scenes, was surprisingly good for the mere pittance they days to go. charged, and the beer, of course, helped with its To try in one night to sum up all the good fimes The final effect of the sets is to enhance all of the free and steady flow, four years have uncovered is an impossible feat. moods and qualities of the play, and emphasize for As the tempo of the evening increased along with But perhaps that one night at Frock's did summon- the audience the wierdness and grotesqueness of the beer consumption, the celebrating did too. An and hold, if on1y fleetingly-the memories of foul' the Camino Real. earlier cluster of chairs around the fireplace was good years together on the Hill.