University Daily Kansan, March 26, 1982
Spare time
Paul Stephen Lim relaxes at home in his "work area" in front of posters of his plays that have been produced in Lawrence.
KU playwright's 'Woeman' opens off-off Broadway
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By LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporter
Any day now, the reviews from his first off-
road play will start launting in from New York.
Yet, Paul Stephen Lim's only concern, as he sat in his half-office in "the bowels of Wescue Hall," was that his last period English class had failed to return the energy lium, lecturer of English at the University of Kansas had tried to insure them with.
It was a hard failure to believe of the 38-year-old author-poet-instructor, for his energy radiated with the subdued diffusion of a soft-white light bulb.
In his dreams, Lim said, he always had abandoned himself somewhere between the agrees and the disagrees.
Reality reflects the dream.
"There must be something bad. The native Filipino signed. 'I'm 38 and I don't know.'"
He had just returned from New York where his latest press "Wooman" opened to a full ban, with the city reopening.
IT WAS THE PLAYS SECOND opening
playground presented by KU
Basketball students in October '17.
"It's a play about a man and the relationship he has with the five most im- possible women in his life," women in his life,
The five women in the main character Charley Wonak's life are his mother, ex-wife, 14-year-old daughter, an older mistress and a younger mistress.
Lim conceived the play's theme while spending a year in Ireland in 1975.
He said, "The Irish women are beautiful, but so unaware of themselves as human beings."
THIS OBSERVATION OF IRISH WOMEN and other women inspired Lim to translate the conflict between men and women into the two-act play.
Lim's message was strong.
"Men who they are for Women's L'abs are paying hip service," he said with quiet deterence.
"The play is also about the amount of pain a
child can feel when he is forced to or mental,
before breaking. Liam and Adam were
surprised."
Grim or not, "Woeman" received favorable reviews when the play premiered in Lawrence. Lim was careful not to speculate on whether New York critics would be as
"It all's very iffy, 'right now.' he said.
"IF THE PLAY IS SUCCESSFUL culinary or commercially, they could extend the run and move to an off-Broadway theater."
Lim explained the differences between Broadband, off-broadband and off-off- broadcast.
"What distinguishes one from the other is, number one, ticket price," he said.
He said the other two types of shows were held in the theaters that were progressively further from the famed center of theater activity in New York.
"The third difference is the size of the theater," he said. "For off-fire-Broadway you
-can't have a theater that seats more than 99 people."
"WOEMAN" OPENED TO A FULL HOUSE audience of 50 two weeks ago.
The differences between the New York production and KU production of "Woeman," moth larvae, are small.
"The women in the KU production were very cold and harsh and bitchy." Lim said. "The same women in New York are warmer and more human."
DANNY J. ANDERSON, Rusk, Texas, graduate student has received an INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP. Anderson will complete his graduate degree in Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin and conduct research at Centro de Investigaciones Linguistic-Literarias in Xalapa, Mexico.
CLUB, a New York based association for book collectors and other people interested in books. Founded in 1884, the club has about 600 members. The club owns an extensive research collection which it exhibits portions of in conjunction with its members' private collections.
ALEXANDER MASON, SPECIAL
Research Library, was elected the GROLEL
Research Library, was elected the GROLEL
USHA SURRAMANIAN, Bartlesville, Oka,
graduate student, was selected as one of 13
winners nationally to receive a scholarship from
the MEDIA INSTITUTE FOR MINORITIES.
Housed in the University of Southern California's
School of Journalism, the Institute's scholarships are funded through the Times-Mirror Company.
milestones
A NEW RECORDING of the Rachmaninov Transcriptions BY SEQUENCE COSTA, Cordella Brown Murphy Distinguished professor of piano at the University, will be released soon by Telekunen Records. Costa recorded the album *Symphony No. 2* in which he was asked to record two Brahms sonatas for piano and clarinet with Karl Leister, principal clarinetist of the Berlin Philharmonic.
'Missing' lacks subtlety but boasts clever reality
By MIKE GEBERT Contributing Reviewer
MISSING
Starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacke, Melindle
Marynon Joel Shea. Written by Coca-Gavras
Parker. Directed by Dennis Lehman.
Costa-Gavras is a great comic-strip director.
Costa-Gavras is a great comic-strip director. Subtlety is a foreign concept to him, and shades of character would only get in the way. But he has a tremendous knack for working in the big, broad strokes that often work the best in movies. Instead, he works in earlier films, puts its political point across with a force that a subtler and more perceptive film might have lacked.
“Missing” is the story of Charles Horman, a minor leftist journalist who, like thousands of others, disappeared during the bloody coup that won the Allieq government in Chile in 1973.
What was exceptional about Horman's disappearance was that the coup was almost certainly accomplished with a great deal of secret help from the U.S. military.
What really happened may never be known. The State Department has issued denials of the allegations in the film, and Horman's case was dismissed when the government refused to release documents pertaining to it. What probably happened is what Costa-Gavras details, and the strong feeling of reality in it makes most conspiracy thrillers seem tame.
Horman's father, Ed, travels to Chile to find his son. At first he is contemptuous of his daughter-in-law and her friends, refusing to accept their anti-establishment paranoia. He believes the embassy's theory that his son is in danger of being tortured by insurers that the officials are doing everything they find him. Only when the evidence becomes overwhelming does his faith begin to crack.
"Missing" is the most reminiscent of "Z. Costa-Gavras" most famous and best film. That 1970 film told of the assassination in 1962 of a Greek professor who was leading a political reform movement in Greece, and who did not realize that he was supposed to provide a whitewash—with the result that he
recommended indictments for most of the military leaders, who promptly overthetried the enemy.
The investigation in "Missing" is similar—wet stumble along with the Hormans, from clue to clue. Although the outcome is predictable, the dice are not predictable, "12", "12", Costa-Gavran knows how to load the dice.
In "Z" the stars were Yves Montan and Jean-Louis Trintignant. As the professor, Montan had his patented blend of wearl worldiness and unshakeable integrity. And Trintignant likewise carried, as the prosecutor, his image of the quiet, intelligent and determined man into the role. What was for others typecasting, Costa-Gavras turned into instant-rule identification.
The same technique works in "Missing." "Sissy Spacee, or Hormans's wife, Beth, is a perfect choice. She gives the political temper a sort of Frank Capra air," Mrs. Horman Goes to Santiago." As American and as trustworthy as Mary Pickford, Spacek wouldn't have turned lefty unless the righties were up to no good. She has integrity built in; underneath her
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vulnerable, girlish exterior she projects non-onsense strength.
Jack Lekmon is the same way. In his case, however, the device seems more manipulative, partly because his Ed Horman is so slow to pick up on the evil all around him, partly because he's his usual self—the American middle-class Eweyman, identical to the one in "Tribute" or "Bad Guy," who has been a victim. Even though he's good, here one wishes Costa-Gavras had been more innovative in his casting.
One could guess, then, that the characters of the bureaucrats in the film are not exactly three-dimensional, but they do have a sort of efficient, servile civility and fortunately lack the paranoid omnipotence that they would have had in fiction film.
Costa-Gavras is clever, and his film is wei- made. What distinguishes it most is the strong sense of reality in the atmosphere, derived from the Mexican locations passing for Chile–and, one suspects, a good understanding of the half-clumsy, half-efficient way in which Chile's military government, and quite a few others, unfortunately, behave.
TODAY
Weekend Arts
THE KU SYMPHONIC BAND, under the direction of Robert E. Foster, will perform a concert at 8 p.m. at the Music Hall in Kansas City, Mo. The concert by the 73-piece band is free and open to the public. The program will include a John Philip Sousa march, selections from "Porgy and Bess" and the Navy Hymn. Stan Felix will perform a SENIOR VOICE
Stan Felix will perform a SENIOR VOICE
RECITAL at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
TOMORROW
A BANGKOK BICENTENIAL CLEARBREATH will take place at the Kansas
SUNDAY
Union. An arts and crafts exhibit, featuring authentic Thai work, will open at 2 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. A dinner of authentic Thai foods will be served at 5 p.m. in the Union cafeteria, followed by a dance at 7 p.m. in the Ballroom. All rooms are free and open to the public except the dinner.
The KU Chamber Music Series will sponsor a concert by the DORIAN WIND QUINTET at 13:30 p.m. in Swarthout call the University Theatre Box Office.
TODAY
on campus
THE UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY CLUB
at 8 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the
Kansas University
Dorian Wind Quintet; playing together and staying together
TOMORROW
THE RECREATION SERVICES DAM RUN
By DEBBIE DOUGLAS
THE SIMULATIONS GAMING GROUP will meet from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Cork II of the
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will begin at 10 a.m. at the Holcom Park Shelter Participants can register until 9:30 a.m.
It takes five good players to make a great team and that's how many the Dorian Wind Quintet
The Dorian Wind Quintet will be performing at
3 a.m. Sunday and at 8 p.m. Monday in
Santa Monica.
Jacqueline Davis, director of the KU Chamber Music Series, said the University had not invited any wind groups in the last couple of years and any chamber groups to add variety to the 1982-83 Chamber Music Series.
THE MEMBERS OF THE QUINTET are Karl Kraber, fute; Gerard Reuter, ooje; Berry Kirkbride, clarinet; Jane Taylor, bassoon; and Dav Jolley, French horn. The ensemble is based at the Mannes College of Music and the Brooklyn College both in New York, N.Y.
"The Dorian Quintet is one of the best wind groups in the country and we were fortunate enough to find a date on which they were available." Davis said.
She said the quintet was its Carnegie Hall debut last November and received critical acclaim.
Taylor, who has been with the group since it started 20 years ago, said the wind quintet was named after a Greek musical scale called the Dorian.
"We wanted a name with classical overtones." she said.
"When we were starting out we wanted to set some kind of standard for wind quintets and I think we certainly have contributed to setting such a standard."
Taylor said that all of the group's members had always had great aspirations to be chamber music players, because then they could control their music presentations.
She said she was glad to be a part of the quintet.
"IN AN ORCHESTRA THE CONDUCTOR has more control over the presentation where as we are free to use our own interpretations," she said.
"This is the most musically rewarding combination I've every played with," she said. "I'm happy with the people I'm playing with now and I never want to change.
Taylor said the quintet members this year would average 30 to 40 performances. She said the members also free-lanced by playing for opera, opera companies and occasional solo recitals.
"Our biggest problem is to keep rehearsing and stop enjoying one another."
Sunday's concert will include Concerto No. 2, after Vivaldi, S. 593 by Bach; Buchi in E-flat major for Piano and Winds, op. 16 by Beethoven; and Quartet L(787) by Taffannel.
But, she said, rehearsing also was enjoyable and it was a wonderful exploring experience.
Monday's concert will include Four Organ Works by Bach; Opus number Zoo: Children's Piano Works by Berio; Berio: Sextour for Piano and Winds by Poolec; Quintet in Eflat major, op. 4 by Beethoven.
IN ADDITION TO THE two concert performances, Davis said, the Dorian Quintet will conduct master classes for KU students from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on March 27 in Murphy classrooms. The classes will be open to the public for observation free of charge.
Tickets for the concerts are on sale for $7 at Murphy Hall Box Office. All seats are general admission and reservations may be made by calling 1-800-562-2941 or visiting senior citizen and student discounts are available.
Members of the Dorian Wind Quintet from left to right are Jerry Kirkbride, clarinet; Jane Taylor, bassoon; David Jolley, French horn; Karl Kraber, flute; and Gerard Reuter, oboe.