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University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 14, 1992
ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
HAPPENINGS
BARS
Benchwarmers Sports Bar & Grill,
1601 W. 23rd St.
Friday: Now See Here, 10 p.m. to
1:30 a.m.; cover charge: $2
Saturday: Big-screen coverage of
the KU-CU game
1:30 p.m., cover charge: $2
Bogarts of Lawrence
611 Vermont St.
Saturday: Ricky Dean Sinatra,
9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., cover
charge: $3
The Bottleneck
737 New Hampshire St.
Friday: LoveSquad, 10.p.m to 2a.m., cover charge: $3
Saturday: Baghdad Jones, 10.p.m to
2a.m., cover charge: $3
Sunday: Nova Mob, 10.p.m to
2a.m., cover charge: $3
Monday: Open mike, 9:30 p.m to
2a.m, no cover charge
Tuesday: Fungo Mungo, 10.p.m to
2a.m, cover charge: $3
Wednesday: Dwardes,
10.p.m to 2a.m.
Thursday: Monkey Meet, 10.p.m to
2a.m., cover charge: $3
Dos Hombres, 815 New Hampshire Wednesday: Karaoke night, 10 p.m. no cover charge
The Brass Apple, 3300 W. 15th St.
Tuesday: Karaoaknight, 9p.m. to
1:30 a.m. no cover charge
Flamingo Club, 501 N. Ninth St.
Friday, Saturday: toast dancers, noon-1 a.m., m. cover charge $2 or a two-drank minimum
Henry T's Bar & Grill, 3520 W. Sixth St
The Jazzhaus of Lawrence, 9261/2 Massachusetts St.
Thursday: Karaokenight,
9p.m.to 2 a.m., no cover charge
Massachusetts St.
Friday, Saturday: Guerill Theater
10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., cover charge:
¢¢
Thursday: The Picadors, 10 p.m. to
1:30 a.m., cover charge: $3
9:30 p.m to 2 a.m., cover charge: $1
Johny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St.
Friday, Saturday: The 39th Street
Blues Band.
The Power Plant, 901 Mississippi St
Friday. Sunday: alternative music
night
Riverside Bar and Grill
$20 N. Third St.
Friday: Billy Speans,
p. 9-m. l. cover charge: $2
Shiloh, 1003E. 23rd St.
Friday: Valentine Party,
Band: The Regulators,
9 p.m. to 1 a.m., cover charge: $3
Saturday: Dance lessons,
7:45 to 8:45 p.m.
Band: Rio,
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.,
cover charge: $3
The Yacht Club, 350 Wisconsin St.
Tuesday: Karaoke night, 9 p.m. to
1 a.m., no cover charge
ARTEXHIBITIONS
Spencer Museum of Art
Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
Beyond the Floating World:
Japanese Prints in the
Twentieth Century
runs through March 15
Mexican Retablo Painting:
The Art of Private Devotion
runs through March 8
Documenting the American Dream: FSA Photographs of the Great Depression runs through March 8
THEATER
The IngeTheater
Friday-Saturday: "The Blonde"
8p.m., tickets $3, students
MUSIC
Friday: Kansas City Concert KU Symphonic Band Yardley Hall, Johnson County Community College, 8 p.m., admission free
Sunday: Sigma Alpha Iota Benefit Concert, Swarthout Recital Hall, 1 p.m.
Sunday: Winter Concert KUymphonic Band, Crafton-Preyer Theater, 3:30 p.m., admission free
Lawrence Arts Center
200 w. 9th Street
Sunday: Jazz Concert
featuring Nathan Burg,
8 p.m., tickets: $5 students
Tuesday: Special Event "Treasure Island" performed by National Theater of the Deaf, 8 p.m. Haskell Junior College
Heart to Heart
"I sometimes dread Valentine's Day if I know I can't see him. So I'm, kind of excited." Wendy Fischer, St. Louis sophomore
Photo Illustration Derek Notan/KANSAN
Photo Illustration Derek Nolan/KANSAN
Valentine's Day makes long-distance love difficult
By Gayle Osterberg
Kansan staff writer
Aromatic dinner for two, complete with candles, roses and champagne, is an image some couples conjure up when they think of Valentine's Day. But some students at the University of Kansas will anticipate little more than a phone call, card or package from their Valentine.
These are the students who will anticipate the mailman's arrival today and who will wait by the phone for an expected call.
These are the students who skipped today's classes to get an early start on road trips to Missouri or Texas or farther.
These are the students on the KU end of long-distance between two cities.
Laura Bryant, Dallas senior, and her husband will be apart on Valentine's Day.
Bryant saw her husband last weekend, so being together would not work out this Valentine's Day, she said. But she's not complaining.
"It's kind of fun because I'll probably get a surprise in the mail," she said.
Bryant met her husband in their hometown of Dallas after her freshman year at KU. He graduated from Texas A&M University in December 1990 and has been working in Houston. They were married Jan. 4.
Bryant said she would join him in Houston after she graduated in May.
"It's not so bad when you're busy, but on weekends I notice the separation because I know I could be doing something with him," she said.
Bryant, who is a member of KU's tennis team, said she and her husband had spent only one Valentine's Day together.
"Last year I was in Austin for a tennis tournament, so he drove there to see me," she said. "He came to the match, then we went to dinner."
She said her plans tonight probably would consist of an evening with friends.
Allen Omoto, KU assistant professor of psychology, has spent four years at KU developing a measure for determining closeness of college couples throughout an academic year.
He found that the more interdependent partners were, the more likely they were to stay together. In most cases,
But Omoto said that intimate phone conversations, letters and occasional visits could produce the same effect because these communications often offered opportunity for self-disclosure, expression of feelings and support for one another.
*Anecdotally, people who have those kinds of relationships find the time they spend together is more meaningful.*
Omoto said holidays such as Valentine's Day often were harder on separated couples psychologically.
"Holidays are a time that people who are in those relationships find themselves thinking of their partners a lot more." Omoto said.
Continuing a high school relationship is a common reason for couples to have to spend time apart on romantic holidays.
Chad Boeger, Overland Park sophomore, and Lance Lemay, Kansas City freshman, both have girlfriends who are still in high school back home.
Lemay said he saw his girlfriend almost every weekend but that the day-to-day separation was difficult.
"It was really rough on both of us at first being so far apart," he said. "It caused a lot of problems. When she came here, she felt uncomfortable because she didn't know anybody."
But Lemay said they had become more used to the separation and that he planned to see his girlfriend this Valentine's Day.
Some couples are lucky that Valentine's Day is on a Friday this year.
Wendy Fisher, St. Louis sophomore, and her boyfriend, who attends the University of Missouri, will spend their first Valentine's Day in three years together today.
Fisher said she had dated her boyfriend since high school and that expensive phone bills were common. She said they saw each other every two or three weeks, in the summer and on holidays because they both were from St. Louis.
"I sometimes dread Valentine's day if I know I can't see him," she said. "So I'm kind of excited."
Once-banned play premieres at KU
Russian playwright visits Lawrence for the opening night of 'The Blonde'
By Svala Jonsdottin
Kansan staff writer
A Russian play, once banned by the former Soviet government, premiered Tuesday at the University of Kansas.
"Volodin is probably the most prominent playwright of the older generation in Russia today," Marinov said. "In the forty years of his career, his plays have been staged throughout the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, as well as Germany, France and Britain."
Alexander Volodin, a 73-year-old Russian playwright and author of the play, came to Lawrence this week to see the western premiere of his play, "The Blonde: A Story for Film With One Intermission," which is directed by Sam Marinov, Lawrence graduate student.
Marinov emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1860. He directed plays in various theaters there, but this is his first production at KU. He has also directed plays at the University of Houston and in regional theaters in Texas.
"The play is concerned with the universal themes of pursuit of happiness and finding a meaning in life," he said.
"These themes are universal to any human being, regardless of place of origin."
The KU production of the play features alternating filmed and live scenes. The film segments were produced by KU students and were shot in Lawrence and other Kansas locations last fall.
"The form was harmonious with the way the play was written, since the combination of theater and film plays a pivotal role in the play," he said. "I have never seen any production like this one. It was a complete discovery."
After seeing the production on opening night, Volodin said he was pleased with the director's decision to mix film with live theater.
Volodin said the play originally had been intended as a screenplay when he wrote it in 1979, but the Soviet government prohibited the production of a film based on the screenplay. "The Blonde" was staged once by a Russian amateur theater.
"At that time, work that explored personal relationships was not exactly in line with the ideologically correct dogma," Volodin said. "Also, the main character is unsatisfied with her life, which was another indication that something was wrong with life in the Soviet system."
This is Volodin's second visit to the United States and his first viewing of one of his plays outside the former Soviet Union, he said.
William Kuhlke, professor of the
ater, Soviet and East European studies and Slavic languages and literature, translated the play with the help of Marinov and Frank Doden, graduate teaching assistant in English. Khulke said one of the interesting aspects of Volodin's plays was that he worked in both theater and film, and his plays reflected that.
"That fits into what we are trying to do here at the University in the department of theatre and film, to find ways to explore and train people in both media," he said.
Nicole Day, Lenexa senior, plays the lead role of Irena. She said the role had been difficult to approach, since Irena's personality was so different from her own.
"She is a very impulsive person who wants to live a very exciting and unusual life," she said. "She seeks that in other people, but she does not find it. In the end, she realizes she can only find happiness within herself."
When working on the role last fall, Day sought many ways of understanding her character. At one point, she even followed one of Marinov's suggestions and bleached her hair.
The play will be shown tonight at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2:30 and 8 p.m. at the William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall.
"It was an absolute disaster, so I dyed it back," she said. "Dying my hair blonde did not make me feel any different, and in the show I wear a wig."
Professor publishes fourth novel
By Katherine Manweiler
Kansan staff writer
Carolyn Doty is perfecting her craft through the art of teaching.
Doty, who teaches fiction writing at the University of Kansas, is the author of four critically acclaimed novels. She said that her teaching and writing skills complemented each other.
Often, Doty's ideas come from her teaching methods. Sometimes she hasher students explore stories from the perspective of a secondary character rather than the perspective in novel, she said. It's the same technique she uses to develop her ideas.
The novel is about the developing relationship between a man and a woman. The man thinks the woman is his father's mistress, said Doty, associate professor of English.
Her fourth novel, "Whisper," was recently published by Charles Scribner's and Sons, a publishing company in New York City.
"Whisper," which took Doty three years to write, is a work of metafiction, a style of writing that involves weaving well-known stories into her own novel.
"It's a.kind of Scheherazade," she said. "The woman tells the man a series of stories before he falls in love with her. It was really hard, but it was delicious fun to write."
Derek Notan/KANSAN
Darolyn Doty, assistant professor of English, is surprised about how successful her new book is doing.
A reading of the novel will take place 8 p.m. Monday at 100 Smith Hall. Paul Lim, assistant professor of English, said the reading would be theatrical, with actors reading the dialogue and Doty narrating.
"Personally, I think that the book experiments with form and breaks new ground with form," Lim said. "I think she's a tremendous asset to the English department."