8 Thursday, March 5, 1987 / University Daily Kansan Lawrence theater patrons to eat fish and see 'Tuna' Hannes Zacharias, left, and Kevin Crawford in a scene from "Greater Tuna" opening tonight at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. By JERRI NIEBAUM Staff writer Two actors will change clothes more than 50 times and play bigoted, stereotypical townspeople from Tuna, Texas, in "Greater Tuna," opening tonight at the Liberty Hall dinner theater. 642 Massachusetts St. "It's kind of a slice-of-life piece," said Ric Averill, director and Lawrence resident. "It's definitely a force." After feasting on quiche lorraine — filled with white fish, not tuna, — roast beef, twice-baked potatoes and other goodies, the audience will ask for desserts and women and children from Tuna, the third smallest town in west Texas. Radio station O.K.K.K. plays in the homes of lost rural people throughout Tuna. It is "a rather bigoted name in a radio station," according to Ayres. "You sit and laugh at them, but you see a little bit of yourself in all of them," said Kevin Crawford, Lawrence senior. One of the characters Crawford plays is Vera Carp, a stooped, southern woman with a sweet smile and an sharp tongue. "She just smiles through everything," Crawford said in Carp's slow, high-pitched drawl. "She and Reverend Spikes has along very well." Crawford said. They get along so well that they become friends, but not even the audience knows about it. "They all have these secrets that we know about." Crawford said. Hannes Zacharias, Lawrence resident, plays The Rev. Spikes, who prides himself on an eloquent eulogy he gives for a dead judge. "It's a real-word salad," Zacharias said. Averill said Spike's speech was the longest list of cliches he had ever heard. "Greater Tuna" brings both big and little laughs because it satiizes both blatantly and subtly the steak of west Texas, Zacharias said. Zacharias' hairy legs stick out of the bottom of his polyester stretch dress as he plays Bertha Bumiller, mother of three and queen of Tuna's various organizations. She's a member of the subcommittee of the "smut-snatchers," a group that pulls the "smut" from the school library shelves. She's former head of the Better Baptist Bureau, better known as the B.B.B., a member of Women for a Better Tuna and a leader in Citizens for Fewer Blacks in Literature, pronounced "litrature" in haughty southern. "The characters are bigoted." Zacharias said. But Averill said some characters were warm and lovable. In the time it would take to walk from one side of the stage to the other, Crawford leaves stage as a crabby old woman and returns as Pete Fisk, a little duck of a man from the Tuna humane society. Howard directed Jaston Williams and Joe Sears from the back of the cruiser that took the three men to Broadway about four years ago. The show opened and closed the same year, but Averill said it was popular. "The dialogue has all the comedy in it already," Crawford said. The play first was performed by two modern-day traveling minstrels who toured west Texas and acted from the back of a station wagon. Averill directed "The Odd Couple." a dinner theater production at Liberty Hall in November, and has directed the Ric Averill Players in productions at the Apple Valley Farm Theatre on Lake Perry for 10 years. Warhol a pioneer of pop art For most people, Brillo pads are for cleaning and not for making social statements about commercial vulgarity. By PATRICIA FEENV Arts editor Arts editor Most people throw away Campbell's soup cans and return their empty Coke bottles for a deposit. But Andy Warhol, the prince of pop art, thought everyday items were good art. Warhol had a reason for doing everthing he did. Before he drew his first soup can, he lunched on soup for 20 years. Warhol was a shy man whose pale skin was exaggerated by a white wig and large glasses. He was a jet setter and frequented the late-night party scene in New York. Warhol's creativity was not limited to Brillo pads and soup cans. His later work, using silk screening techniques and photography, included portraits of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. During his 58-year life, Warboh managed a band, made movies, was the host on two television programs, worked at magazine and was shot by an aprter. In 1968, Valerie Solanos shot Warhol at his office with a .32-caliber revolver. The bullet punctured his lungs, spleen, liver and stomach. He made a movie called "Eat." The movie featured a man eating a mushroom. The critics offered mixed reviews of Warhol's films and art. Some said his work was unoriginal, while others found it first to admit something was boring. He made the movie "13 Most Beautiful Girls," which really featured 14 girls. But he said the movie was so dull that he didn't think anyone would notice his error. Warhol pioneered a cultural movement. He extended society's view of what it would accept as art. He attracted audiences to emotionless commercial products and mundane activities. No one will look at a Campbell's soup can in quite the same way anymore. HUMAN RELATIONS WEEK Together We're Better Celebrate Human Relations Week by renting one or more of these films and inviting your friends and family to watch it with you. Each is entertaining and should stimulate conversation about human relations. $1.00 per day sale A Chorus Line A Sunday in the Country Amadeus Annie Hall An Unmarried Woman Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Big Chill Blue Collar Breakfast Club Brian's Song Chariots of Fire Charly Citizen Kane Cocoon Conrack Crossroads Deliverance Diary of Anne Frank Diner Dinner with Andre Educating Rita Elephant Man Falcon and the Snowman Flamingo Kid Footloose Four Seasons French Lieutenant's Woman Gandhi Gorky Park Harold and Maude Heart Like a Wheel Iceman Interiors Julia Karate Kid Killing Fields King of Hearts Kiss of the Spider Woman La Cage Aux Folles Local Hero Lucas Macaroni Manhattan Midnight Cowboy Missing Moscow on the Hudson Mr. Mom My Bodyguard 9 to 5 Norma Rae Oh God! On Golden Pond On the Waterfront The videotape stores listed below will Funtime Movie Rentals, 2000 W. 23rd Miracle Video, 910 N. 2nd Popingo Video, Inc., 600 Lawrence Ave. Servi-Tronics TV-Video, 23rd & La. Adventureland Video, 925 Iowa One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ordinary People Passage to India Plenty Pretty in Pink Ragtime Running Brave Salvador Silkwood Sophie's Choice Streetwise Sylvia Teachers Terms of Endearment Terry Fox Story That Was Then. This Is Now The Candidate The Dresser The Great Santini The Turning Point Thief of Hearts Tootsie Trip to Bountiful Twice in a Lifetime Witness Whose Life is it Anyway Yentl rent these films for just $1.00 per day. Video Biz, 832 Iowa Fast Eddie's Video, 846 Illinois Liberty Hall Video, 646 Massachusetts Dillon Stores, 3000 W. 6th Rusty's Food Center, 909 Iowa $1 Kasold Dr. Video USA, 601 Kasold Dr. HUMAN RELATIONS WEEK "Together We're Better" Human Relations Week activities are designed to provoke thought and discussion about human relations issues on campus. WE NEED YOUR PARTICIPATION! Come to our free films each afternoon, and stay to talk about the issues they raise. In the evenings, we will hold an open forum where we can come together to discuss human relations problems and what to do about them. This is a chance to let the University community know what you think about such issues as racism, sexism, sexual harassment, religious and ethnic tolerance, free speech on campus, problems faced by non-traditional students or by foreign students, and many more. Monday, March 2 "Together We're Better...at Play" 1:00 p.m. Tale of "O" –Kansas Union Movie: Running Brave –Burge Union 3:15 p.m. Movie: Running Brave–Kansas Union Tale of "O" –Burge Union 7:00 p.m. Open Forum, Alderson Auditorium Moderator: Robert Shelton, Ombudsman Wednesday, March 4 "Together We're Better...at Work" 1:00 p.m. Movie: Norma Rae -Kansas Union Tale of "O" -Burge Union 3:15 p.m. Tale of "O" -Kansas Union Movie: Norma Rae, Burge Union 7:00 p.m. Open Forum, Alderson Auditorium Moderator: Professor Barbara Ballard, Director Women's Resource Center Together We're Better... at School 1:00 p.m. Movie: To Kill a Mockingbird –Burge Union Tale of “O” –Burge Union 3:15 p.m. Movie: to "O" –Kansas Union Movie: To Kill a Mockingbird –Burge Union 7:00 p.m. Open Forum, Alderson Auditorium Moderator: Professor Alan Sica, Sociology "Together We're Better...at School" Tuesday, March 3 Thursday, March 5 "Together We're Better...in the Community" 1:00 p.m. Tale of "O" -Kansas Union--Movie: Moscow on the Hudson -Burge Union 3:00 p.m. Movie: Moscow on the Hudson -Kansas Union Tale of "O" -Burge Union 7:00 p.m. Open Forum, Alderson Auditorium Moderator: To be announced Films will be shown in the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union, and in the Conference Room at the Burge Union. All members of the University Community are invited. Sponsored by: University Senate Human Relations Committee Black Student Union Hispanic American Leadership Organization Inter-Fraternity Council Native American Student Association Student Senate Thanks to the following organizations and individuals for their assistance with the planning: Office of Affirmative Action Robert Bearse, Office of Research and Graduate Studies Paul Friedman, Communication Studies Office of Minority Affairs Robert Senecal, Academic Affairs and Continuing Education For further information call: Office of Minority Affairs 864-4351 /