European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Focus the Quot coarse actors Quot in rehearsal from left Chiquita a Vest Larisa Hammond Don cuffs Mike Mcbride and Rosemary Westpheling. A amps Dave Melancon 3-in-1 show must be bad to be Goodby Dave Melancon Wurzburg Bureau t Heater goers can get a 3 for-1 Deal by attending the coarse acting show taking place at the Community theater on Ledward Barracks in Schweinfurt Germany later this month. A focal vicar is trying to raise Money for his Parish so he and members of his Community stage a murder mystery called Treuth an opera titled ii Fornica Zione and one of Shakespeare s lost plays All s Well that ends As you like it. It takes a Crew of Quot coarse actors Quot to get the Job done said David Carter the show s director and also director of the Community s entertainment Center. Coarse actors As defined in the play s Forward by its author Michael Green Are those who a know when to come on stage but not where a know everyone s line but their own a address the scenery instead of the audience. Quot the heart of this play is Good actors acting like very bad actors Quot said Patricia Poeschel who plays a police detective in the mystery and a countess in the opera. Acting incorrectly is More difficult than acting the right Way she said. Quot it takes a Good actor to be bad in this Oise Quot she said. What about the plays them Eferves Quot Treuth is a murder that must be seen to be believed said Mike Mcbride who plays two counts a Butler and the vicar during the performance. Quot that s because we will never Tell who did it. Even in the play we Don t  the opera is a tragedy a Quot very sad love affair Quot Mcbride said. You know a play with Quot Star crossed lovers Quot added Poeschel. Those who like Shakespeare s tales and characters but Don t have the time to sit through them can see ail s Well that ends As you like it which has bits and pieces of 36 of the Bard s works Mcbride said. Quot you Only need to see this one. It covers them All Quot he said. The audience should dress for hot weather Carter said. The theater does not have air conditioning and gets pretty hot with the stage lights. Show tripe is 7 30 . July 27-30, tickets Cost $5. For More information or reservations Call Dan 354-6460. London theater has american flavor by Edward Karam / staff writer three plays with american links Are in the future of the Royal National theatre in London. First up is the premiere of Arthur Miller s newest play broken class. Set in new York in 1938, Miller s play focuses on a woman who suddenly can t stand up for no apparent reason. The title refers to Kristal nacht the night in 1938 when the nazis attacked jewish shops throughout Germany and broke windows. Broken class begins previews july 29 and officially opens aug. 4 at the Lyttelton theatre in the National s South Bank Complex of three Heaters. George Bernard Shaw s 1897 play the Devil s disciple is about an american revolutionary War fighter and Black sheep who attacks the puritanism of his Mother and family when they gather in new Hampshire to hear his father s will read. When he is unexpectedly captured by the British and mistaken for a hunted minister he assumes the identity and goes to trial where he a a matches wits with general Burgoyne. The Devil s disciple will play in the National s Olivier theatre. Previews begin sept. 1, and the premiere is sept. 8. The children s hour was Lillian Heilman s first play. Perhaps Best known As the heroine of the film Julia Heilman was also a noted playwright author of watch on the Rhine and the Little foxes. Her 1934 play concerns a schoolgirl who claims her two women teachers at a Small private school Are lovers. The production will Star Harriet Walter and Clare Higgins who is currently playing the Princess Kos Monopolis in the National s production of Tennessee. Williams Sweet Bird of youth. Previews of the children s hour begin sept. T6 in the Lyttelton and the premiere is sept 22. Sweet Bird of youth continues at the Lyttelton As Well. Other highlights at the National this summer Are Pierre Corneille s 1637 play of love and revenge be Cid which opens july 28at the National s smallest theater the cot Esloe Chekhov s the Seagull starring Dame Judi Dench As the miserly actress Arnadina now playing in the Olivier and Rutherford amp son a rediscovery of a 1912 play by a woman playwright Githa Sowerby in the cot Esloe. All the plays Are in repertory which Means that they play some Days not others. For information on tickets and schedules Call the Box office at 071928-2252. If calling from outside Britain use the country s Access code add the country code 44 and drop the first Zero. Short subject lollapalooza tour off to doozy of a Star by David Herndon new Day producer Marc Geiger was standing backstage in Las vegas wringing his hands during the first Date of this Summers lollapalooza tour earlier this month. He tried to put a positive spin on the disappointing Advance Sale of 10,000 tickets for an event designed to accommodate More than twice that Many concertgoers. Quot its a Small Market its midweek and its 113 degrees a he said. Geiger  have worried. The lineup for the fourth annual incarnation of the touring festival is so deep and wide with a balance of Quality and popularity that its commercial and critical Success is virtually guaranteed. The bid stars some of the Best representatives of indie style Rock the breeder ship hop a tribe called quest the Beattie boy gothic Nick Cave and the bad seed Funk George Clinton and the a Funk All stars and hard Rock l7 and smashing pumpkin Sand also features five less Well known acts that will rotate on the smaller second stage throughout the tour. With 41 dates booked so far most of them sold out this promises to be the biggest lollapalooza yet. Lollapalooza May never meet its avowed goal of becoming a truly Radical institution a future Friendly gently educational multimedia exposition of the possibilities of youth culture a a we re getting out of elementary school and going into Junior High a says Geiger 31 a but its unquestionably an amusing adventuresome package with the potential of entertaining a million Young people with artists and ideas in a much More Active relationship than mtg offers. Although lollapalooza �?T94�?Ts supporting acts and its Midfield a a carnival style Midway of game Booths virtual reality rides refreshment stands and sales displays a offer plenty of peculiarities and curiosities it is the headliners who draw the crowds. Your Basic kid fan was present to see the Beattie boys and smashing pumpkins. The beast est meld of Punk Funk and hip hop provides the Best excuse for mass moshing Mike d. Pleads with the crowd to instead engage in the violent dancers gentler precursor Pooing but to no Avail. The message is mixed anyway. While the bands Tough Guy lampoons the Macho bully stereotype its a hard Core song that guarantees vigorous Arm and leg flailing moshing. If the Beattie boys hold the Center smashing pumpkins Are surely the festivals Loose Cannon. In Billy Corgan the Chicago quartet has a talented frontman who revealed on the Tours first Date that he s already struggling to keep a bad attitude in Check. And that Isnit the band s Only resemblance to the late Kurt Cobain and nirvana which was to have held the closing spot. Several of smashing pumpkins songs feature the song dynamics of nirvana a never mind and Corgan evinces a jaded Singer songwriters sensitivity. Mike Negrete 13, is impressed. He s never been to anything like this before he shaving an experience. Quot me and my friends want to learn instruments and Start a band a he says. Quot they re smooth Quot he says of the smashing pumpkins. Quot they take it easy. They re my favorite band of All  the on stage listing of entertainment events and club activities will resume next week. 18 the stars and stripes Friday july 15,1994