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Tina Connolly, KU graduate, and Brent McCall, Arkansas City, Ark., senior, rehearse for their play, The Art of Conquering Aja. The play will be performed today, tomorrow and next weekend, in the ECM basement.
Play shows artist's angst
Kleptomania, art and eccentric friends define ECM play
BY AUSTIN CASTER acaster@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
Playwright Paige McLemore shows the trials of a starving artist as a burned-out, kleptomaniac art school dropout who starts stealing as a way to pay for her group therapy.
The Art of Conquering Ajapremieres at 7:30 tonight in the basement of the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 OreadAvenue.
The ECM hosts several plays throughout the semester, but the building does not require its plays to have religious significance, said Tina Connolly, the play's producer.
The play also includes Aja's obsessive compulsive best friend and she washed-up lounge singer father. Connolly said.
Connolly chose to produce the show after reading the script. "It was well-written and
"It was so well-written and funny." Connolly said.
In addition to producing, Connolly plays a character named Sheree, a ditzy kleptomaniac actress. To prepare for her role, she researched kleptomaniacs.
Alyson Schachcherer will reprise her role as Aja. The actress earned her master's degree in theatre at Kansas State University, where she met McLemore.
Schacherer performed the role for its first production for McLemore's master's thesis in 2002.
As an artist, Schacherer can identify with her character.
"How am I going to do what I love and still make ends meet?" Schacherer asked, a question she said many artists face.
Brent McCall plays Aja's obsessive compulsive friend Erroll. He said Connolly saw him in other productions at the
The Arkansas City, Ark., senior said his character was upright with things such as germs and things being dirty.
University and asked him to play the part.
Overall, McCall has enjoyed the production.
He has faith in all of the other actors, he said.
"Usually in shows I get really nervous by the end," the theatre and film major said, referring to opening night.
This marks Connolly's first time producing a play, but she has worked as an actress in professional theatres such as the Martin City Melodrama in Overland Park.
Connolly first read the script in August and started casting for the show in October. She graduated from the University of Kansas with degrees in English and French in 1998, she said, but did not participate in theatre in college.
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The Renaissance woman recently finished a romance novel, The Trophy Bride, which will be available this holiday season. she said.
Tickets cost $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors, and will be available 30 minutes before the show in the ECM basement.
"I've learned a lot about producing." Connolly said. "It was
Officials unsure of when explosives disappeared
NATION
There appear to be two periods of time when the 377 tons of high explosives missing from a military facility in Iraq could have been moved or stolen — in the weeks before the U.S. invasion began or several weeks in April after U.S. troops overran the Al-Qaqa base and moved on to Baghdad.
Iraqi officials told the International Atomic Energy Agency two weeks ago that the explosives vanished as a result of "theft and looting ... due to lack of security."
— Edited by Ashley Doyle
The ministry's letter said the explosives were stolen sometime after coalition forces took control of Baghdad on April 9, 2003. But they have not been able to explain how they know when the explosives were removed from bunkers sealed by the IAEA as part of the weapons inspection program.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — There are more people giving $1 million or more to partisan political groups now than before Congress passed a law aimed at taking seven-figure contributions out of elections, new figures show.
Partisan groups receive million-dollar donations
About five dozen people are on the list of $1 million-plus donors to partisan groups active in this year's presidential and congressional races. That compares with about three dozen during the heyday of party "soft money" in the 2002 election cycle and about two dozen in 2000, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Political Money Line campaign finance tracking service.
Some of those who wrote big checks in 2002 when national party committees and members of Congress could still accept them are giving even more now — this time to nonparty partisan groups running ads and get-out-the-vote campaigns.
- The Associated Press
Ayear's "experience" Reasons for Change
The Douglas County D.A. has asked voters to "trust her experience." Consider:
- D.A. admits her office routinely fails to respond in writing to defense motions for lighter sentences until after sentences are imposed.
- Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice questions D.A.'s delays in property charging shooter who injured 11. - L.J. World, 10/13/2004
- D. A. flip-flops on charging Baldwin teen who threatened suicide and bombing of Baldwin festival.
- L.J. Water, 10/19/2004
- D.A. waits 3 months after police investigation is complete to charge Basehor man in vehicular homicide that occurred on March 14, 2004.
- L.J. World, 8/10/2004
- After a delay of almost 2 years, D.A. charges dad with attempted murder of three children in near-fatal car crash. - L.J. World; 8/27/2004
- 3 men arrested in Pinkney neighborhood with $6,000 in cocaine, $10,000 and a handgun, are released when D.A. fails to file charges.
- Accused scam artist who is charged with stealing $1 million in 1990s, missing for 5 years, flees for 2nd time after bond reduced.
- D.A.'s office performance below average for state prosecutors, local newspaper reports. - J.L. World, 7/12/2004
* D.A. defends sub-par conviction history as being "about what I would expect." - J.L. World, 7/12/2004
* D.A. can't explain why county lags behind in enforcing law to get drug offenders substance abuse treatment. - J.L. World, 6/15/2004
* D.A. says it is more efficient if consumers go to Topeka for help with consumer fraud than if problems are handled in Douglas County.
- Jurors, critical of lack of evidence, find defendant not guilty on aggravated burglary and aggravated sexual battery charges. - L.J. World, 3/30/2004
* D.A. announces program to set suspected drug dealers free without bond after initial arrest. - L.J. World, 3/14/2004
* Republican Senator John Vratl blames prosecutors for sentencing inequities in Douglas County. - L.J. World, 12/26/2003
* D.A. dushes for 11 year sentence for drug user, opposes probation.
- D.A. pushes for 11 year sentence for drug user, opposes probation.
    - J.World, 523/2004
- Killer gets 5 years in prison after D.A. reduces charge, allows plea.
**Word:** 10823290
- Prosecutors bunge charging, shooter who injured 11 gets minimal sentence.
  - L.J. World, 12/18/2003
- D.A. agrees woman who fleeced elderly couple of $305,000 should only pay $7,000 in restitution. — J.D. World, 1/3/2004
CHARLES BRANSON BELIEVES DOUGLAS COUNTY DESERVES BETTER.
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