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  • Photo by Breanna Taylor/STAFF Student volunteers Katie Osborn (left) and Sommer Smith (middle) with Michael Red- man (right) of City Lights Bookstore. Jake Browning Staff Writer Western Carolina University recently hosted its fifteenth annual Spring Lit- erary Festival. The festival, organized by the English Depart- ment and Professor Pamela Duncan, is Cullowhees biggest event of the year for showcasing the work of authors and poets from all around the coun- try, with a particular ocus on Appalachian writers. This year was especially notable for featuring Billy Coll Madeline Moore Junior Editor From April 5 through 9, Western Carolina Uni- versitys School of Stage and Screen performed a production of Hair. Terrence Mann, profes- sor of Musical Theater at Western Carolina, directed the musical. In addition, Ashlee Was- mund, WCUs Dance Program coordinator, was the choreographer and Katya Stanislavska- ya, director of Western Carolinas Musical The- ater Program, organized musical direction. Hair, a musical that first premiered in 1967, was written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, with music by Galt McDermot. The _ writers themselves, so his was the perfect 2003. From April 3 to April 6, the University Center Theater was packed with students, rofessors and local iterature enthusiasts. Writers took hour long sessions up to three times a day to perform public readings, dis- cuss their backgrounds and inspirations, provide updates on their upcoming proj- ects and field questions from the audience. : Many of the attendees were English students _ interested in becoming > ool of Stage and production incorporated rock music and various aspects of the late 1960s hippie counterculture including drugs, sexual- ity, anti-war activism and generational differ- ences. The musical is set in New York and follows the lives of Claude and his group of friends in- cluding Berger, Sheila, Dionne, Hud, Woof, Chrissy and Jeanie. The rest of the cast was made up of an ensem- ble referred to as the Tribe, which repre- sented the other people in the hippie countercul- ture community of New York. Claude, played by se- nior Logan Marks, has been drafted into the war and the duration of Actors show off their muscles in a musical number dur- ing the show. Photo by Gabraella Witter/STAFF industry. All the events were free to attend, but the writers had books and other products for sale outside the theater before and after their presentations. In addition to events led by local high school students, teachers and Western Caro- lina students, the 2017 festival brought in over a dozen writers with diverse backgrounds, styles and subjects. Dr. Stephen Clingman, a professor at the Univer- sa ypnananynne the play saw his internal struggle of whether or not to reject the draft in effort of rebellion against the war like his friends had done. Marks portrayed Claudes inner struggle with au- thenticity and softness. Marks, along with the rest of the main cast: junior Kyle Southern as Berger, junior Mary Gipe as Sheila, junior Tayler Harris as Dionne, freshman Corey Bar- row as Hud, sophomore Caleb Warren as Woof, senior Alexandra Catlin as Chrissy, sophomore Morgan Miller as Jeanie, and senior Libby Rounds as Margaret Mead, belted out power- ful solos in many of the musical numbers that made up the perfor- mance allowing them to display their commit- ment to the characters and raw talent. There was only one set throughout the entire musical, which was mostly scaffolding with a hippie slogan ban- ner. This single set was used for every setting, including scenes in homes and at political protests. The scaffolding was used creatively to break up mini scenes, such as appearances of Claudes parents encour- bs rip him to go to war. The scaffolding was also used as a prop and as part of musical numbers for the Tribe. The costumes were fit- ar the 1960s setting with bare feet, bellbot- tom jeans, loose skirts, long hair and bandanas. Rounds character, Margaret Mead, is an older married woman, J ag her costume to be more suitable for the older generation of the 60s. Her costume and character provided a good contrast from the rest of the charac- ters and brought in the varying generational orrnenry Oprereererrt errs rte Tv * Whe 5ipapal : botched surgery when he was only two years old. Stephanie Elizondo Griest, an assistant ate at Chapel ill, has worked asa travel writer for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Latina and many more after living in Mexico, Russia, China and Cuba in search of stories. Dr. Paul Worley of Western Carolinas own English Depart- ment also participated and shared his writ- ings on Latin Ameri- can history and inter- national relations. The main event of the week, however, was Collins. As Poet Laure- ate, he was responsible _ for advising the Li- brary of Congress and raising national aware- ness and appreciation for poetry. He was one of the few Poet Laure- ates to have a poem commissioned by the Library of Congress The Names, which he wrote in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was performed twice in public and he vowed for it to never be published for public consumption out of respect for the severity of the incident. A widely recognized holder of one of the most prestigious titles Rain in Portugal, was released in 2016. One of his more well-known books, The Best Ciga- rette, was a best seller in 1997 and its success prompted a legend- ary deal from Random House, an offshoot of Penguin Publishing. In 1999, the company of- fered Collins a six-fig- ure advance for three original books, making Collins one of the best paid poets in history. On the last night of the festival, Collins held his reading at the Coulter Recital Hall; a change in venue meant to accommodate the hundreds of fans in attendance. After a lovely introduction by Western Carolinas Dr. Catherine Carter, the 76-year-old poet took the stage ina sport coat and worn- out tennis shoes and vas welcomed with thunderous bk beh He spoke softly, even with a bit of a stutter, but his focus never wavered. He knew each of his poems and their deeper meanings well, and he told their sto- ries like he would tell an anecdote about time spent with old friends. ne might not expect comedy from a veteran posts but he was ef- fortlessly funny in his delivery and earned laugh afterlaughfrom his spectators, | A wealth of thought and ex) rs ice is ap- Closing scene to Act | of Hair. views of the time, which in this specific instance was the length of the hippies hair. With minimal indi- vidual dialogue between the characters, the mu- sical numbers carried the plot of the play, prov- ing that the ensemble, or the Tribe, were just as important as the main leads. A combination of typi- cal Broadway musical theater and 60s rock would describe the music of Hair. Live musicians provided the instrumentals, includ- ing Western Carolina guitar professor, Ste- phen Wohlrab, on elec- tric guitar. During musical numbers, the members of the Tribe would run through the audi- ence, singing and giving things to individuals. The production was creatively interactive between the actors and the audience, and the characters broke the fourth wall, or directly spoke to the audience, making them aware that they were in a musical. While this is not a for- eign idea and is done by many other playwrights and filmmakers, it provides for a differ- ent theater experience than when attending a conventional play. With Hair, it created a feel- ing of being at a concert, which is fitting for the topic and themes of the musical. These interactions between the performers and the audience also made audience mem- bers feel involved, like they were a part of the production. Everyone seemed to love the awk- wardness and excite- ment of being chosen b an actor to dance or hold a prop. t was interesting to see a play dealing with the culture and social issues of the 1960s in the contemporary year of 2017. Hair was written during the time that it portrays, indicating the Ne his evolving feelings for the younger sister he never had, the sci- ence through which a cat chooses a place to sit, the dubious sig- nificance of modern teenagers to their com- munities, the thoughts of a dog who couldnt care less about his owner and everything in between. Even in his slow, melodic delivery, the meticulous word choice and structure of the poems was hard to detect with an un- trained ear. However, it was clear that he poured his heart into everything he shared, much to the appre- ciation of the attentive listeners, Public attention isnt the focus of Collins poetry, however. To im, poetry is a close and emotive endeavor, more like an artistic conversation than a written story. T think that if your poems have a lot of people in them, you should be writing fic- tion, Collins said in an interview with James Watts of Tulsa World. I think of poetry as a private, intimate com- munication between . the writer anda single | reader. The maximum _ ites 2 ae ofapoem | should be twothe mu WB 4 i Photo by Gabraella Witter/STAFF truth and authenticity of the play at its core. However, with aspects of the 60s oped counter- culture a thing of rather popular interest in todays society, one cant help but wonder how dif- ferently the production would have been per- ceived. It brings about an awareness of how our society has moved from the traditional, more or less conservative views of the 1960s to the more open and liberal 2000s. Hair was the School of Stage and Screens last production for the 2016-2017 academic year and they have not yet released a schedule for the Fall Semester. For more information about the department or their production of Hair, contact the School of Stage and Screen at sas@wcu.edu or 828-227- 7491. For more informa- tion about upcoming events at the Bardo Arts Center, contact them at 828-227-2479.
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