European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Profile Barracks As it really is a it car of is he woman Ivio ifs Jarols Lic Street ram if Bir Rinki. Byton Nauroth number Bureau Wen no la mom 105 the Barracks wiling Rufii about if problems at peacetime soldiering writ Ion by a Bamberg Germany staff sergeant. Any Soldier will recognize the scene created by Slaff sol. hey of Trues a personnel supervisor with the 1 sign 52nd inf 1st amid 6iv, it s any Soldier s room. And the Ruvi blurs for belter or worse Are his roommates. One solution in i hair problems lies in a dark Hope i hat War can Only make things better. Sims body Start ,1 ooze from it earners to Ernest s experience As a Soldier. Silling under .1 camouflage net at n Field ill Ilir i Rawl ran his thumb along the pages of a thick Bonk he was Reading. The 35-Ypaf-old West indies n.ilivc1, who to the army 13 years ago by of . Leads voraciously Nul for Elm said. Lizul for Ion it s mid. 1 k miked ibo in the at the Bamburg stable theater Back in Garrison. Me Park Inri fam ily members to Well. All anti std pm Hplu Revivi list d in it rot lilst1 this to Stikl. Outsiders Only see the . Thuy Don t Suu what goes on behind he windows behind i he loud music. I know these people. As an no i d Wake Ishuin up and Pul them to bed every this familiarity is what drove his Pun to product site by in one week. I be Bun writing for years Hes Iii. I be written a couple of 3cx a ire books and threw Vliem in the trash. But when i finally concentric led in something i knew in was easy because h s the five actors in the Puy took n Lew moments from Iho Siangc to explore thai r Lily and explain How they see their parts. Pfc Chauncy Swain is a 20-year-old Mort Man rum Odessa Texas. His Char Clef Luke is an alcoholic a Lis roommates keep a watch out for him. He s been through army counselling and is barely hanging in. Ii life ends in tragedy. Pvt Jerrold Trice also 2o, is j welder from Rock Island Iii. He describes his character a sexually motivated party animal with a temper although he s not easy to like in his own Way he is a caring person. One of Ernest s favorite devices in the play is a Puy Wright stall ski. He Rte frn St urns in the Field while his Phy is in rehearsal. N t Zirri Bijj theme when one or ,ii1 i f the mild ii is lhrnu4h Binu cubs at a window across thu san Livoni Huir Barracks. A wimp a lives there ind their inn Cipe never realized is to catch her while Shii undressing. It s a device Ilot i All ii in . Every Soldier has soil Hinr in Siy Ahi t uni St said pfc. Geoffrey Davis Alio 20, is a pc Sonni l clerk rum Detroit. He plays Ralph a quiet religious Yoi Jwj Man who is open with his feelings but who hides a Lerr Ihle secret in his past. Tin s is Ernest Layn rite i a pvt. 2 Gary Morin ,1 Cook my Berlin n.h., is the youngest actor. The 19-year-old phys a similar Char Acler in Kenny an optimistic Rock n roller. I m everybody s Friend and the Only my with no real problems he said. Ernest Calls him tie other Side of spec 4 cordon Green of Albuquerque n.m., h i oldest at 22. He s in , and his , Jose is something of a stereotype. I m a brain Joud Mouth Eung hand Macho. I want a War Togo Rory but he said that Jose is really insecure and puts up a Tough front. Because they Are so familiar Wilh their , cruel said it s easy to and lib to make up lines when they forget the script. We All have been Here by fort or know someone who s been there. I it real he said none of the characters Are stereo types but the play does help explain Why soldiers Are stereotyped is loud aggressive Rowdy and wild. It s because we re trained to be loud aggressive Rowdy Ond wild he said. The army does t train us to sit Down and be quiet in trains us to take thai Hill " Swain agreed. This play s a lot different from the recruiting commercials thai say be All you can be this says somebody Start a War " the War they say in t necessarily the Rea one that Jose so desperately wants. Although we re not it War All of us arc fighting personal Battle Davis said. Ernest is concerned about some of the language he wrote into the play. Part of the reality he knew had to include some rough language. He could not have his characters say a we and a shucks nobody would believe that for a a minute he Sall. Bul Fry helped me Lone it Down a director Jerry Beally Calls the play .1 character study that looks at the interactions among five soldiers sharing a room. The room has the same furniture bunks and pinup posters found in rooms throughout the army. And Ernest smiles when heist Lesof the number of soldiers who read the manuscript look Al him suspiciously and ask is tills me Here Ernest who holds a Bacher s Dereu in business which included j smattering of creative Vui Xinji and drama courses has had his manuscript rejected by new York publishers. He Reid Gnu to s fut the subject Matte is limited and is la us surprised even Lull has decided in Doit. I think it could no in in Llu military Ullh inter f wid. Somebody Smyrl i hw7, 1 i. Nut d or i. Hiltrun. 20 stripes a in Imine March 12, 987
