Monday. November 30. 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 7
Student-directed Pot-Pourri plays to take center stage tonight at Murphy
By Mariana Paiva
Kansan staff writer
Three University of Kansas graduate students did extra work during their last month of classes to entertain students on campus before finals.
Maggie Baldomir, Buenos Aires, Argentina, graduate student; Vincent Worthington, East Lansing, Mich., graduate student; and Janna Ziegler, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student, were the students chosen this year to direct the annual Pot-Pourri series.
Pot-Pourri productions, a series of student-directed plays at the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall, will open tonight with Eleemosynny by Lee Blessing.
Worthington, director of Eleemosynary, said that directors are recommended to choose plays with a small cast and less elaborated sets and props.
He said the goal is low-budget theater.
"The main purpose of the series is to focus on the relationship between the director and the actors," he said.
In *Eleemosynary*, three women examine the relationship among a young girl, her mother and her grandmother.
"Basically, it is a show about forgiveness," Worthington said. "It is about three women from different generations in a family struggling to understand each other and deal with each others faults."
Eleemosynary begins at 8 p.m. tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday.
General admission tickets for the three plays are on sale at the
POT-POURRI PRODUCTIONS
All three plays will be performed at 8 p.m. in the Inge Theatre.
■ Eleemosynary; tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday.
The Miss Firecracker Contest:
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Thursday, Friday Saturday
Kiss of the Spider Woman: D
Kiss of the Spider Woman: Dec. 6,7 and 8
KU box offices. Seating is limited and tickets cost $4 for students, $8 for the public and $7 for senior citizens.
Ziegler directs the second play in the series, The Miss Firecracker Contest. The play, by Beth Henley, is set in Brookhaven, Haven, and depicts the story of Carnelle Scott, who is in her last year of eligibility for the Miss Firecracker crown. She is determined to win the beauty contest and leave her small town
The play will be performed at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the Inge Theatre.
The last production of the Pot Pourri series is Kiss of the Spider Woman directed by Baldomir.
The play is set in a Latin American jail cell and shows how two prisoners with nothing in common, a political prisoner and a homosexual window dresser, manage to form a bond to help each other survive the abuse and terror of prison. It is based on the novel by Argentinean author Manuel Puig.
"The play focuses on the relationship between both characters and the political meaning behind it." Baldomir said.
Kiss of the Spider Woman will be performed at 8 p.m. Dec. 6 to 8.
Imaginations swell at Liberty Hall
Audience chuckles at workshop's 10 skits
Margi Posten, Teri Wilder and Rick Tamblyn, cast members of the Imagination Workshop, act out a comedy scene. The cast performed Saturday night at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. The show also was broadcast live on 91.5 KANU. Photo by Augustus Anthony Piazza/KANSAN
By Augustus Anthony Piazza Kansan staff writer
Live from Liberty Hall, it was the Imagination Workshop.
The show also aired live on 91.5 KANU.
A group of eight thespi-
planes performed more than
10 short comedy skirts for
an hour and 20 minutes
Saturday night at Liberty
Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
Imagination Workshop is a takeoff of the television show Saturday Night Live — except the performers read their lines from scripts for a radio audience instead of a television audience.
"It's like Saturday Night Live when it was funny, on radio," said Margi Posten, cast member and one of the writers for the production.
The subject matter for the scripts included spoofs of Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Ross Perot, Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
One of the skits was about a fictional radio show, with actor Antonio Banderas as the host, Banderas "guests" included Courtney Love and other Hollywood stars, who attempted to talk about themselves but kept getting interrupted by Banderas, who was angry for not being named People's Sexiest Man Alive.
The acting group is composed of professional actors, such as Posten, and other actors who merely perform for a hobby.
"This is a real creative outlet for us because a lot of the other stuff we do
gets boring," Posten said.
This was the 10th season Posten has worked with the workshop.
Linn Weeks, Kansas City,
Mo., resident, said she
enjoyed the comedy skits.
The audience of 500 left Liberty Hall laughing and smiling.
"I had seen it before and had also heard it on radio, but I appreciated it more in person because of the visual," Weeks said.
Although there were not a lot of KU students at the event, Posten said she thought students would enjoy the show.
"We don't get a lot of KU students, but if they like Saturday Night Live, then they would like the show." Posten said.
The Imagination Workshop began in 1983 and was performed only as a studio show. In 1985, the workshop was performed in front of a live studio audience for the first time at the Lawrence Arts Center, 200 W.9th St.
In 1992, the show moved to Liberty Hall.
There were two performances Saturday night. The first show took place at 5 p.m. and the second show followed at 8 p.m. The latter was the show that aired on the radio station and will be sold to National Public Radio stations across the country.
Darrell Brogdon, writer and producer of the show, said KANU would replay the performance at some time in mid-December.
The Imagination Workshop is scheduled to perform another comedy show at Liberty Hall on Feb. 6.
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- DAILY VARIETY
1998
Stockholm
International
Film
Festival
Official Selection
"A DARK COMEDY IN THE VEIN OF THE BEST OF JOHN WATERS, FEDERICO FELLINI, ANDY WARHOL ..." Lloyd Kaufman, Hollywood Reporter
"A DAVID LYNCH-ESQUE BLACK COMEDY ABOUT VIOLENCE IN A RURAL HIGH SCHOOL," Pleasant Gehman, BIKINI Magazine
"A FUTURE CLASSIC IN ITS GENRE." Emma Rydquist, Stockholm
"MOVES WITH A PULSATING RHYTHM." LouAnn Thomas, Topeka Capital Journal
BROOKE BALDERSON IS "RAGING." Daily Variety
"VERY CATCHY, TONGUE-IN-CHEEK SCORE BY CONCRETE BLONDE FOUNDER JOHNETTE NAPOLITANO." Daily Variety
LIBERTY HALL
THURSDAY
ADMISSION $5.00 DOORS OPEN AT 9:00 A DIKENGA FILMS SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING KANSAS PREMIERE
9:30 P.M.
DECEMBER 3
Holiday Arts and Crafts Sale
November 30 - December 4.
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Kansas Union Lobby
Featuring the work of local artists, KU
students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
Pick something up for the holidays!
In observance of World
AIDS Day, no art will
be sold at this event.
In observance of World AIDS Day, no art will be sold on December 1.
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