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John Bolton is a senior fellow at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute and the chairman of the Gatestone Institute, a right-wing "pro-Israel" activist group that has been accused of fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment. A longtime national security hawk, Bolton is a former board member of the Project for the New American Century and a past adviser to the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the Weekly Standard, and other right-wing media outlets.
Bolton has been a key Republican Party figure since he was tapped to serve in the Reagan administration in the 1980s, where he held a series of posts at USAID before joining a team of Federalist Society lawyers under Attorney General Edwin Meese.[1] He later worked in several high-level positions in the George W. Bush administration, including as the State Department's chief diplomat on arms control and as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. A major focus of his work in and out of government has been to free U.S. military power from international constraint.
Bolton has long dismissed the legitimacy of the United Nations and other international institutions. In a 1994 speech at the World Federalist Association, Bolton infamously declared, "If the UN secretary building in New York lost ten stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."[2] He has also dismissed international treaties as nonbinding "political obligations"[3] and was a leading opponent of the International Criminal Court, which he once claimed would turn the "senior civilian and military leaders responsible for our defense and foreign policy" into "potential targets of the politically unaccountable Prosecutor in Rome."[4]
Bolton's recent involvement in politics has included serving as a foreign policy surrogate for the 2012 Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan presidential campaign and floating the possibility of running for president himself. In October 2013, he launched an eponymous PAC and Super PAC, anointing them with a mission to "seek out and support candidates for nomination and election to federal office who are committed to restoring strong American national security policies." Seeking to roll back an increasing libertarian influence on the GOP's foreign policy, Bolton said in a statement that "We must be prepared to do what it takes to protect the idea of American exceptionalism and our basic Constitutional priorities—the preservation of which are essential not only to our security, but to our prosperity as well."[5]
Bolton's PACs spent $5 million in online advertisements supporting Republican Senate candidates during the 2014 midterm elections. The advertisements were described as "customized national security messages intended to sway distinct clusters of swing voters." and one ad began with a narrator saying, "President Obama is a better strategist for aiding ISIS than eliminating it."[6]
Bolton is rumored to be considering a bid for president in 2016, making visits in 2013 to early primary states as part of what journalist Robert Costa described as "an informal national tour" to "give speeches, huddle with GOP leaders, and push back against the party's libertarian shift. He'll make the case for a muscular foreign policy."[7] Bolton had previously considered running in 2012, a move he ultimately decided against even as he hinted that he viewed himself as the only "ideal conservative" in the race.[8] "I hope he runs," said MSNBC's Chris Matthews at the time, "to remind the country of what everybody voted against in 2006 and 2008, and the ideology that led us into attacking a country that never attacked us, an ideology that wants to make some sort of permanent garrison in the Middle East."[9]
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Bolton is a prolific commentator on foreign affairs. He has been among the Obama administration's most strident critics, particularly on Middle East issues, and has repeatedly accused the Obama White House of "weakness" and "fecklessness."[10]
Bolton is a particularly vocal proponent of the claim that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, despite U.S. intelligence judgments to the contrary, and has accused the Obama administration of enabling Tehran by engaging with it diplomatically. "By negotiating with Iran," Bolton wrote in April 2014, Obama "has not only allowed it a path to legitimize its nuclear-weapons program, but objectively facilitated the deadly global menace in Tehran."[11] While nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States were ongoing in late 2013, Bolton insisted that "Iran's nuclear-weapons and ballistic-missile programs will proceed unimpeded in unknown, undisclosed locations."[12] Bolton later added that "we shouldn't trust and can't verify Iranian promises not to fabricate nuclear weapons," concluding that "We have only two very unpleasant choices: either Iran gets nuclear weapons in the very near future, or pre-emptive military force, fully justified by well-established principles of self-defense, must break Iran's control over the nuclear fuel cycle and prevent (or, at least, substantially delay) weaponization."[13]
Bolton has further dismissed any notions that Iran should be permitted any uranium enrichment on its soil, despite Iran stressing it will never give up enriching to the low-levels necessary for power-generation purposes and the November 2013 interim nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 in essence accepting this position. "The right amount is zero. Iran should not be permitted to conduct any nuclear-related activity as long as the ayatollahs remain in power, given their record of dissimulation and obstructionism and their obvious intention of becoming a nuclear-weapons state," he wrote in September 2014.[14]
In late 2009, Bolton suggested to a University of Chicago audience that Israel should consider a nuclear strike against Iran and chastised the Obama administration's position that Iran could be deterred from using nuclear weapons as "a dangerously weak approach." Bolton declared "we're at a very unhappy point—a very unhappy point—where unless Israel is prepared to use nuclear weapons against Iran's program, Iran will have nuclear weapons in the very near future."[15] Commented Inter Press Service blogger Daniel Luban: "An Israeli strike, nuclear or otherwise, without U.S. permission remains unlikely. But as is often the case, I suspect that Bolton's intention is less to give an accurate description of reality than it is to stake out positions extreme enough to shift the boundaries of debate as a whole to the right."[16]
Bolton has also been critical of the Obama administration's position on Syria, writing in September 2013 that Obama had "failed in his stated objective to oust Syria's Assad regime from power; failed to impress Assad that his 'red line' against using chemical weapons was serious; failed to exact retribution when that red line was crossed; failed to rally anything but small minorities in either house of Congress to support his position; and failed to grasp that agreements with the likes of Syria and Russia prolong, rather than solve, the chemical-weapons problem."[17]Yet Bolton later said that he himself "would vote against an authorization to use force here," adding, "I don't think it is in America's interest. I don't think we should in effect take sides in the Syrian conflict."[18]
In April 2014, Bolton called the Syrian civil war a "strategic sideshow" and wrote that the United States should instead be preparing for war with Iran. "The Assad regime, loathsome as it is, couldn't survive without substantial Iranian assistance," Bolton wrote. "And it is Iran, through its pursuit of nuclear weapons and its decades-long role as international terrorism's central banker, which poses the central danger. Instead of focusing on overthrowing Assad or aiding his enemies, we should be vigorously pursuing regime change in Iran."[19] Bolton accused Iran of "relentlessly" pursuing a nuclear weapon despite evidence that Tehran had reduced its stockpile of enriched uranium in accordance with an interim agreement it had made with international negotiators earlier that year.[20]
Bolton is a steadfast supporter of the right-wing Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and, like many members of Netanyahu's cabinet, an opponent of Palestinian statehood. Claiming that it "would inevitably lead to a terrorist state on the other side of the border with Israel,"[21] Bolton has fervently criticized the Obama administration for seeking a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Instead, Bolton has echoed the arguments of some Israeli nationalists that the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza—which he called "bits and pieces of the collapsed Ottoman Empire" with "no particular history either of national identity or of economic interdependence"—should be ceded respectively to Jordan and Egypt rather than incorporated into an independent Palestinian territory. "The only logic underlying the demand for a Palestinian state," Bolton has claimed, "is the political imperative of Israel's opponents to weaken and encircle the Jewish state, thereby minimizing its potential to establish secure and defensible borders."[22]
Bolton has also been a defender of Israeli aggression against its neighbors. In late 2009, Bolton joined a chorus of neoconservative voices—including UN Watch and the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg—in attacking the UN Human Rights Council's "Goldstone Report," which detailed war crimes committed by Israel as well as Hamas during Israel's 2008-2009 invasion of the Gaza Strip. Bolton called the report's conclusion, that Israel had targeted civilians in Gaza, an attempt "to criminalize Israel's strategy of crippling Hamas."[23] Bolton's comments echoed earlier remarks he had made about Israel's 2006 invasion of Lebanon, when he claimed there was "no moral equivalence" between Lebanese civilian casualties of Israeli bombing and Israelis killed by "malicious terrorist acts."[24]
Bolton has also remained unapologetic about the U.S. war in Iraq. "Despite all the criticism of what happened after Saddam's defeat," he argued in February 2013, it is "indisputable" that the U.S.-led coalition "accomplished its military mission with low casualties and great speed, sending an unmistakable signal of power and determination throughout the Middle East and around the world." Dismissing critics who said the war was unnecessary or disproportionate, Bolton claimed that Saddam Hussein "would have immediately returned to ambitious WMD programs" in the absence of international action, adding that if anything, the United States should have toppled Hussein in 1991 and then immediately "turned its attention to the regimes in Iran and Syria." Bolton quipped that anyone who claims that Iraqis were better off under Hussein than they were in the tumultuous decade that followed his ouster must have "a propensity to admire totalitarianism," but in any case, "the issue was never about making life better for Iraqis, but about ensuring a safer world for America and its allies." Invoking World War II, Bolton added, "we didn't wage war after Pearl Harbor to do nation-building for our enemies."[25]
In the Bush Administration
In the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, Bolton worked in collaboration with his former boss James Baker to block recount efforts in Florida. According to the Wall Street Journal, after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a halt to the recount, Bolton entered a venue where the count was still taking place and declared: "I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count." This marked Bolton's entrée into the administration of George W. Bush. At the time, Vice President-elect Dick Cheney commented: "People ask what [job] John should get. My answer is, anything he wants."[26]
As undersecretary of state representing the administration in various international fora, Bolton gained a reputation as an arrogant and hawkish unilateralist willing to redefine U.S. positions in the global arena, diplomatic consequences notwithstanding. In an exemplary display of what the Wall Street Journal described as his "combative style," Bolton warned an international conference on bio-weapons that a hotly disputed verification proposal, widely supported by arms control experts, was "Dead, dead, dead, and I don't want it coming back from the dead."[27]
Among Bolton's more notable actions during this period was withdrawing the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. This bilateral treaty with the Soviet Union was the bedrock of efforts to reduce nuclear brinksmanship, but Bolton dismissed it as a relic that impeded the development of a U.S. national missile defense system. Also significant was Bolton's effort to block progress on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, viewed as a cornerstone of the global nonproliferation regime.[28] Bolton was also given the task of officially rescinding the U.S. signature on the treaty that established the International Criminal Court, which he later called "the happiest moment in my government service."[29]
Bolton was a key proponent within the Bush administration of taking military action against the so-called "Axis of Evil," or countries identified by the Bush administration as "rogue state" rivals of the United States. Two months before the Iraq invasion, Bolton met with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to discuss strategies for "preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction," focusing on the Bush administration's disarmament targets following the planned invasion of Iraq. Shortly after the visit, Bolton said once regime change in Iraq is complete, "It will be necessary to deal with threats from Syria, Iran, and North Korea."[30]
Speaking before an audience at the Heritage Foundation in May 2002, Bolton argued that Cuba should also be included among the "axis of evil" countries because of its alleged development of bio-warfare capacity. Cuba is world-renowned for its biomedical industry, but Bolton claimed that the industry was concealing a WMD project. Providing no evidence, he insisted that Cuba was involved in the sales of illicit bio-warfare technology as a way to boost its cash-short economy. Other administration officials declined to support Bolton's accusations.[31] A congressional investigation of Cuba's alleged WMD program found no evidence supporting Bolton's assertions.[32]
Bolton was also one of the administration's leading hawks on Asia policy and one if its strongest advocates of Taiwan. According to a 2001 Washington Post investigation, Bolton had been on the payroll of the Taiwanese government before joining the Bush administration.[33] Bolton also received $30,000 for "research papers on UN membership issues involving Taiwan" at the same time he was promoting diplomatic recognition of Taiwan before various congressional committees.[34] "Diplomatic recognition of Taiwan would be just the kind of demonstration of U.S. leadership that the region needs and that many of its people hope for," wrote Bolton in a 1999 Weekly Standard article. "The notion that China would actually respond with force is a fantasy."[35]
Bolton's penchant for intemperate statements often compromised his work as a diplomat. In July 2003, during the run-up to the six-party talks with North Korea, Bolton characterized North Korean President Kim Jong Il as the "tyrannical dictator" of a country where "life is a hellish nightmare." North Korea responded in kind, saying that "such human scum and bloodsucker is not entitled to take part in the talks. … We have decided not to consider him as an official of the U.S. administration any longer nor to deal with him." The State Department had to send a replacement for Bolton to the talks.[36]
After Condoleezza Rice became U.S. secretary of state at the outset of Bush's second term, Bolton expressed an interest in becoming deputy secretary of state. However, Rice selected Bolton as ambassador to the UN, "thus appointing to this unique post the U.S. official most publicly contemptuous of the world organization," wrote Brian Urquhart.[37]
Bolton served as UN ambassador from August 2005—when President Bush gave him a recess appointment after the Senate blocked his nomination—to January 2007. His resignation, announced in December 2006, came at the end of a controversial tenure marked by severe criticism from U.S. senators and international diplomats. His resignation also came less than three weeks after President Bush resubmitted Bolton's nomination for Senate confirmation—the second time in six months.
During his first confirmation hearings, Bolton's record as undersecretary of state came under intense criticism, particularly regarding his contacts with Israel. According to The Forward and other news sources, Bolton had met with officials of Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, without first seeking "country clearance" from the State Department.[38]
There was enormous domestic and international opposition to Bolton's nomination. In late July 2006, the New York Times reported deep scorn for Bolton among UN ambassadors. According to the Times, "[M]any diplomats say they see Mr. Bolton as a stand-in for the arrogance of the administration itself." Rather than furthering his stated mission of UN reform, according to the Times, "envoys say he has in fact endangered that effort by alienating traditional allies. They say he combatively asserts American leadership, contests procedures at the mannerly, rules-bound United Nations, and then shrugs off the organization when it does not follow his lead." One unnamed UN ambassador "with close ties" to the administration said: "He's lost me as an ally now, and that's what many other ambassadors who consider themselves friends of the United States are saying."[39]
One of Bolton's more controversial acts as ambassador came in 2005, when he sabotaged efforts to complete a joint UN declaration in connection with the organization's 60th anniversary. According to Brian Urquhart, "UN delegations, including the United States and the Secretariat, had for the previous six months been working on this document, which originally contained a fairly ambitious mixture of global objectives and UN reform proposals. Bolton's seven hundred or so amendments, designed, he believed, to increase the influence and reflect the interests of the United States, caused considerable confusion and resentment and reopened many disagreements that had previously been resolved. Among other things, he insisted that there be no mention of the Millennium Development Goals to eradicate global poverty, which the US had supported in 2000. (Condoleezza Rice overruled Bolton on this at the last minute.) Bolton also insisted on the elimination of any mention of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the ICC, and global warming."[40]
In accepting Bolton's resignation in December 2006, Bush blamed a "handful" of senators who were determined to block a full Senate vote on the nomination.[41] Bolton himself asserted that his resignation was not about his policies or performance, but about "whether I was a nice person, thereby inviting every person in government whom I had ever defeated in a policy battle, of whom there were many, to turn the issue into one of personal disparagement."[42]
Bolton has been closely associated, both in and out of government, with a number of political and financial controversies.
As an assistant attorney general under Edwin Meese, Bolton thwarted the Kerry Commission's efforts to obtain documentation, including Bolton's personal notes, about the Iran-Contra affair and alleged Contra drug smuggling. Working with congressional Republicans, Bolton also stonewalled congressional demands to interview Meese's deputies regarding their role in the affair.[43]
In 1978, as an associate at the high-powered Covington law firm, Bolton worked with Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) and the National Congressional Club, the senator's campaign-financing organization, to help form a new campaign finance organization called Jefferson Marketing. According to the Legal Times, Jefferson Marketing was established "as a vehicle to supply candidates with such services as advertising and direct mail without having to worry about the federal laws preventing PACs, like the Congressional Club, from contributing more than $5,000 per election to any one candidate's campaign committee." After its formation, Jefferson Marketing became a holding company for three firms—Campaign Management Inc., Computer Operations & Mailing Professionals, and Discount Paper Brokers.[44]
In 1987, the National Congressional Club reported a debt of $900,000. Its major creditors were Richard Viguerie, Charles Black Jr., Covington and Burling, and the DC law office of Baker & Hostetler—all of which maintained good relations with the right-wing PAC despite its failure to pay. Jefferson Marketing was the Congressional Club's largest creditor, with more than $676,000 owed. By the end of the decade, FEC documents showed that Helms' PAC owed Covington $111,000. But this was not considered a major concern for Covington, according to firm spokesman H. Edward Dunkelberger Jr.[45]
A decade later, Bolton was again entangled in controversial schemes to support Republican candidates, this time involving money channeled from Hong Kong and Taiwan via a "think tank" linked to the Republican National Committee (RNC). In 1995-1996 Bolton served as president of the National Policy Forum (NPF), which according to a congressional investigation functioned as an intermediary organization to funnel foreign and corporate money to Republicans.[46]
The NPF had been established in 1993 in anticipation of the 1994 general election. Founded by then-RNC chair Haley Barbour, the forum was organized as a nonprofit, tax-exempt education institute, although the IRS later ruled that as a subsidiary of the RNC, NPF was not entitled to tax-exempt status. A 1996 congressional investigation brought to light the role of the NPF, which reportedly channeled $800,000 in foreign money into the 1996 election cycle—after having used similar tactics to fund congressional races in 1994.[47]
When Bolton became NPF president in 1995, the forum began organizing "megaconferences" with a fundraising hook. These events brought together Republican members of Congress, lobbyists, and corporate executives to discuss matters that were frequently the object of pending legislation. An NPF memo laid out the funding strategy: "NPF will continue to recruit new donors through conference sponsorships. … In order for the conferences to take place, they must pay for themselves or turn a profit. Industry and association leaders will be recruited to participate and sponsor those forums, starting at $25,000."Corporate representatives professed surprise at the size of the contribution requests. "It's pretty astounding," said one invitee. "If this doesn't have 'payment for access' [to top GOP lawmakers] written all over it, I don't know what does."[48]
In another NPF memo, two NPF employees told Bolton that, in return for a $200,000 donation by U.S. West, the telecommunications company should be assured its top policy issues would be incorporated into the agenda for NPF's upcoming telecommunications "megaconference."[49]
Bolton left his position at the NPF shortly before Congress launched its probe into whether the group illegally accepted foreign contributions. No charges were ever filed as a result of the congressional hearings.[50]


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American percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky has been resolute in her decision, made long ago, to let her instruments, "the instruments I chose or built or found", posit her musical direction. Not simply to "let sounds be sounds", as John Cage, a crucial influence, once formulated it, implying a passivity out of keeping with Robyn's animated character and critical mind ("I'm not a neutral person", she cautions), but to accept the consequences of the work and the responsibilities it entails. Schulkowsky's history has taken in too many diverse activities to permit a concise summary. That history has included: a period as percussionist with the New Mexico Symphony and the Santa Fe Orchestra; intense studies with Christoph Caskell in Cologne; premieres, in the early 80s, with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel and Walter Zimmermann; a still-talked-about percussion festival in Munich, where Robyn brought together 20 drummers from seven countries to celebrate Charles Ives's utopian visions; important collaborations with John Cage, Morton Feldman, Iannis Xenakis, Christian Wolff, Heinz Holliger, Robert Wilson; extensive touring in Europe, the USA, Japan, Korea and throughout the former Soviet Union... Currently, Robyn Schulkowsky based in Berlin, where in recent months she has been preparing the music for Edith Clever's production of Medea at the Schaubühne. Hastening Westward, the seven-part work that comprises three-quarters of the present recording is an imaginative "extension" of a 1991 composition for percussion ensemble entitled Hastening westward at sundown to obtain a better view of Venus (in fact very little of the ensemble piece remains). The work was named after a line from Samuel Beckett's last book of prose, Stirrings Still - "a kind of bible for me", Schulkowsky says. A New Series album with the percussionist had been in discussion for a decade, producer Manfred Eicher first approaching Robyn after the release of her debut album Black Light in 1985. Five years later she partnered Kim Kashkashian in ECM recordings of Linda Bouchard's Pourtinade and Paul Chihara's Redwood and a new round of possibilities arose. Should Schulkowsky's long-awaited New Series disc be a solo album, an ensemble recording, a record of compositions or improvisations? (In the end it was to fall somewhere between all of these options). "If there was a plan," Robyn says, "it was to remain as open as possible to whatever might happen next." Meanwhile, Eicher had Nils-Petter Molvær (whom Schulkowsky had never met) on stand-by. On paper, the Norwegian trumpeter (born in Sula on Norway's wild Northwest coast), might seem an odd partner for the percussionist. His new music "credentials" are scant, although he once worked under Vinko Globokar's direction. He is primarily an improviser best known for his work with jazz ensembles (Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen's band Masqualero, Jon Balke's Oslo 13, as well as the groups of George Russell, Gary Peacock and Elvin Jones). Quote: "I'm interested in working with the natural sound of the horn and with getting more and more space into my playing. That seems the most important thing for me." Schulkowsky began the session by recording overdubbed percussion solos (Part III of Pier And Ocean and Parts II and V of Hastening Westward). Then Molvær was brought into the project, responding freely to Schulkowsky's drumming. The percussionist drew upon pre-set material - phrases and rhythms from the aforementioned ensemble piece - but also engaged in improvised exchanges with the trumpeter. Hastening Westward is a fascinating document, almost impossible to categorize, easy to enjoy. The physicality of Schulkowsky's drumming is vividly conveyed by the production, and it is intriguing to hear these two players, of vastly different backgrounds and experience, making music together as if the process was inevitable.


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While running the bonnie++ benchmark in a univers-cli session, each of 3 bonnie tests abort with this type of error:
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And finally, last execution:Code:PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 10 in /usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts/test-resources/bonnie/parse-results.php on line 25
I don't know if I'm supposed to fill a bugreport (and where in that case).Code:PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 12 in /usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts/test-resources/bonnie/parse-results.php on line 28
Hmm it looks like Bonnie++ isn't running the test and hence the PHP problems. It's been running fine in all my tests. Is anyone else having problems?
Mmmm, I checked the test is correctly installed, and he is... (with a "force-install" no compilation error, neither during the configure step)
Error occurs even when doing a single "phoronix-test-suite run bonnie".
Additionnaly, just to mention that the bonnie test complains when running PTS as root:
Had to create a user and "reinstall" tests just for him (probably better, btw )Code:You must use the "-u" switch when running as root.
edit: running PTS as non-root user is problematic, as for example the php-build test can't find xml2-config which is not in a normal user path.
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I first had the error as a non-root user that it couldn't find ./bonnie_/sbin/bonnie++.
Then I got the error as root that you have use a -u.
Then I created that directory and copied bonnie++ to it.
Then I got the error that the file needed to be twice the size of the ram, which my ram is 2048. To fix this, I editted the file
/.phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/bonnie/bonnie and changed the -s 2048 to -s 4096.
The test is currently running.
Ok, it takes forever using a 4gb test file, so I added a -r 1024 (ram size 1024), so it uses the 2048 size test file and all is good. Maybe that should be the default setting for the bonnie++ script for everyone in a future release?
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I found a few old newspapers in my father's belongings. One being The Charlotte Observer, dated Monday, 25 Nov 1963. From this (pg 7-A), I transcribed all of the "North Carolina And South Carolina Deaths And Funerals", the Mecklenburg Obituaries, & other death/funeral information on that page.
These death notices & or obituaries concern the deaths of the following individuals:
Jack B. McCall of Belmont, NC
Mrs. Louise Brown Blanton of Gastonia, NC
Monroe Adams of Laurinburg, NC
Bobby Gene Crouse of Lincolnton, NC
Darryel Ray Hendricks of Lexington, NC
James Robert Greenlee of Marion, NC
Robert L. Tomplin of Mount Pleasant, NC
Mrs. Wilhelminia Kasa of Old Fort, NC
James Donnie Maynord of Raeford, NC
Wilmer J. Bowen of Red Springs, NC
Miss Myrtle Hancock of Rockingham, NC
Mrs. Mary Ward Buchanan of Sanford, NC
Alma Jewel Godfrey of Sanford, NC
Ralph William Hatcher of Statesville, NC
John Henry Walker of Statesville, NC
Conrad L. Brown of Troutman, NC
James Enoch Hines of Fort Mill, SC
Mrs. Judith Hannon Calvin of Mecklenburg Co., NC
George Combis of Mecklenburg Co., NC
Roland H. Hermann of Mecklenburg Co., NC
Mrs. C. W. Johnson of Mecklenburg Co., NC
H. Stanley MacClary of Mecklenburg Co., NC
Mrs. Lottie Cline Prather of Mecklenburg Co., NC
Robert Lee Simpson of Mecklenburg Co., NC
Mr. Aldous Huxley, Author, of Los Angeles, CA
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WE WANT Standard readers to help get behind the Rory the Robot campaign to secure a surgical robot for the Alexandra Hospital, revolutionising the way prostate cancer patients are treated in the county.
A total of £1.6million is needed to buy the machine for the Woodrow Drive hospital, the county's centre of excellence for urology.
Prostate cancer claims the life of one man every hour and by 2030 will be the most common cancer. In Worcestershire alone there are 2,500 men surviving prostate cancer at any one time, with about 450 to 550 new prostate cancer cases diagnosed every year.
The technology will allow surgeons to remove tumours with more precision through five cuts around the prostate gland rather than open surgery. It means less blood loss, less pain after surgery, a lower risk of complications and recovery times will fall from up to 12 weeks to between three to four weeks.
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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the Alex, is spearheading the campaign backed by the Standard and its sister titles, as well as the Save the Alex campaign.
Adel Makar, urology consultant and lead cancer clinician for the Trust, said prostate cancer survival rates were already among the best in Europe but with other hospitals in Birmingham or Gloucestershire either having already bought a machine or fund-raising for one, there was a danger the county could get left behind.
He said the surgery was already becoming available elsewhere in the country and the trust wanted to make it available for patients across Worcestershire.
"If everyone in Worcestershire donated just £5 each we would be able to buy the robot straight away.
"Please support us and help us save lives," he added.
Residents and businesses are being urged to help raise the funds by donating or holding events such as a bake sale, a sponsored run, cycle or swim or even getting paid to stay silent for the day.
Standard editor Tristan Harris said: "Some people may feel this should come from general taxation but with the funding squeeze on the public sector set to continue for some years to come, if we don't do this for ourselves we will never get one and it will be us that suffer."
Neal Stote, chairman of the Save the Alex campaign, added: "This is a real boost for our hospital and patients across the county.
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Faramir paced along the battlements of the White Tower, looking out over the city. He had never thought he would follow in his father's footsteps, had never wanted to, yet here he was, ruling as Steward of Gondor. He would have much preferred to be back in Ithilien, hunting with his own nearly grown sons. He'd never cared much for city life, had always longed for the woods and wild places. He was a Ranger at heart, and always would be.
Though he'd never been particularly interested in politics or statecraft, he was a scholar and he knew enough about Gondor's history to recognize the terrible crisis which now threatened his country. King Elessar's absence left his realm in a precarious position, and any misstep now could result in disaster. Faramir was not naïve enough to believe that the peace which Gondor had enjoyed since the defeat of her Nameless Foe was unshakeable. There were still evil men in distant lands who would rise against them if they saw the opportunity, and there were still evil things lurking here and there in the dark places of Middle Earth who would readily join forces with Gondor's enemies. But what Faramir feared more than this was the threat of civil war.
He remembered that dynastic strife and civil war had helped to extinguish the line of Anarion, leaving Mardil, and his descendents after him, to hold the office of Ruling Steward. If he could be certain that Aragorn was coming back, his responsibility would be clear. He would need only to manage the kingdom until the King's return and then surrender his authority.
But what if the King did not return? What if he were dead, or had decided to abdicate the throne? In that case, he, Faramir, could easily be taken for a usurper unless he made a move to establish a clear line of succession from Elessar to Eldarion. If Elessar wasn't going to return, Faramir had to crown Eldarion King of Gondor. His people needed a King. They had been subjected to the custody of Stewards for generations, and then for a brief season, their dearest hopes had been fulfilled. There was again a King in Gondor. To have that hope dashed away would be a crushing blow to the spirit of his people. He had to assure them that the days of the King were here to stay, that the scepter would pass from father to son, as it ought to do.
Eldarion was a mere boy, nearly three years younger than even Faramir's youngest son. He could not rule the country alone, but if he were the anointed king, Faramir's role would be clear. He would be a Steward-Regent, an advisor and aid to the young King, and not a Ruling Steward. He would not be a power hungry usurper, who was unwilling to bow the knee to his true lord. He would not be like his father.
Faramir's musings were interrupted by the arrival of Bergil, son of Beregond, the young man whom he had dispatched as leader of the search for King Elessar. Beregond, his father, was Faramir's most faithful vassal, the captain of his White Guard, and one who had risked everything to save Faramir's life. He had entrusted to Beregond the management of his own estates and the supervision of his sons while he and Eowyn were in Minas Tirith. Beregond's son, Bergil, had already proved himself to be equally loyal, a young man of intelligence and ability. He expected to entrust him with increasing responsibilities in days to come.
"My Lord Steward," the young man said, bowing.
"Bergil, I'm glad to see you've returned. What news?"
"Alas, there is little to report, my Lord. We searched all the lands between the Ered Nimrais and the Great River Anduin. We found no trace of the King."
Faramir's face fell.
"I'm sorry I have no better news to report, my Lord."
"Yes, so am I," said Faramir, "finding the King would make my job far easier, but he seems to have disappeared without a trace."
"It is most strange."
"Very well, Bergil, you may go." The young man bowed deeply and departed.
Faramir sighed to himself. If only there were a way to know the King's mind. He wished he could see him and know for certain whether he were dead, or being held captive, whether he intended to abdicate the throne or to return.
Suddenly he realized there might just be a way, though his heart quailed at the thought of it. He could attempt to use the Anor stone, Denethor's palantir. He knew he might be taking a terrible risk. It was by means of this stone that the Nameless One had ensnared his father, deceiving him and dragging him down to madness and despair. Faramir did not believe there were any more dark powers lurking in Middle Earth who would seek to manipulate the minds of men through the seeing stones. But he couldn't be absolutely certain. Not all seven of the palantiri had been accounted for.
He was aware of only two that remained. The Orthanc stone which had once belonged to Sauruman was now the property of the King since he had wrested control of it away from the Nameless One. Faramir shuddered at the thought of that ordeal. The King had returned that stone to its original place at the tower of Orthanc.* The other was the palantir of Denethor.
The thought of trying to use it put Faramir's stomach in knots. Apart from the threat of an evil mind which might seek to seduce him, there was a more personal reason behind Faramir's reticence. He could never forget the time years ago when he had tried to look into Denethor's palantir. The horror of that vision made his blood run cold. Though he had exerted every ounce of his strength, he could not make the stone show him anything but flames. His father's aged hands devoured by the flames Denethor himself had ignited. The seared skin, the blackened flesh, and then finally the ash grey bones withering in flames. He shivered. He knew he had very narrowly escaped immolation on that same pyre. Yet it was not for himself but for Denethor that he had grieved when he looked into that stone. His father was immortalized forever in unquenchable fire.
That had been many years ago. Since that time, he had grown in both maturity and wisdom. He had tried to let go of the bitterness he had once harbored toward his father. He was a much stronger man now. Must he be haunted forever by the ghosts of the past? Could he summon the courage to try again, to bend the palantir to his will and then search the stone for the answers he needed? He could be taking a great risk. Yet, he was the Steward of Gondor. The fate of his country rested on his shoulders. He must at least try to find the King and to discern his will. His mind made up, he strode off quickly to find the stone.
Faramir's search had yielded what he sought. The palantir was exactly where he had expected it would be, where he had left it years ago, in the treasury along with the Crown of Gondor in its black cask, the scepter of Annuminas, and Anduril, the sword that was broken and now reforged.
"Odd that he didn't take his sword with him," Faramir mused.
The palantir was carefully wrapped in a covering of black cloth. He lifted a corner of the cloth to confirm that this was indeed what he sought, but he wouldn't try to use it here. Considering his past experience, he wanted to ensure that he would be undisturbed before attempting to look into the seeing stone.
Carefully, he rewrapped the stone, and left the treasury, locking the door behind him. He had carried the palantir to his private study, telling no one of what he planned to do.
Now he sat hunched over the desk where he'd spent so many hours as a young man studying the lore of wizards. He gazed intently into the ball, focusing his mind on it until it filled his field of vision.
At first the shapes and patterns were blurred and indistinct. Gradually the images came into sharper focus. Angry flames danced before his eyes. Tensing his jaw, Faramir pushed against the image.
With his thought, he reached out for something else, something familiar. Beads of sweat began to form on his brow as he commanded the stone with his mind. Ithilien. His sons. No sooner had he thought it than their figures appeared before him; three young men riding through the woods with falcons on their wrists. They were going hawking without him, he realized with a touch of envy.
His body relaxed and he took a deep breath. He had done it. He had bent the palantir to his will. Just as he began to feel confident in his ability to control the ball, he saw the image within it begin to change. A tongue of fire sprouted from a tree above his middle son's head, then another, and another. At first, he thought the woods of Ithilien were bursting into flame! As the fire roared up, engulfing his sons, and hiding them from his view he realized that he was no longer seeing Ithilien. Now he could see the shadow of his father's hands on either side of the ball. Denethor had risen up to haunt him again.
Faramir closed his eyes to shut out the horrible vision. He did not want to see that. He did not have to see that. For an instant, he had made the orb obey him. He was determined to make it obey him again.
The Steward took a deep, slow breath. With his eyes still closed, he tried to picture in his mind's eye the one for whom he sought. He envisioned King Elessar as he had first appeared to him, when he lay dying and delirious, overcome by the Black Breath of the Nazgul. He had appeared then as a great lord, clad in glittering mail and wrapped in a snow white cloak. A brilliant star shone on his brow, and a green elf-stone gleamed upon his breast. The fresh, reviving scent of Athelas hung about him. In one hand he wielded a sword of flame, brandishing it in defiance of the encroaching darkness. With the other hand he had reached out to him, calling his name again and again, "Faramir! Faramir, tolo dan nan galad."** Faramir had taken his extended hand, and the mighty lord had led him out of the blackness, out of the delusion. Though he had never before met him in waking life, Faramir had known him at once. He was the heir of Elendil. The King had returned.
Anchoring his mind on this image of his lord, Faramir summoned all his strength and opening his eyes, he commanded the palantir once more. Show me King Elessar. Instantly a vision appeared in the depths of the seeing stone.
He saw a tall man with his back turned to him. He was splitting wood with a small hatchet. The place where he was working was obviously high in the mountains, a small clearing surrounded by many tall trees. Faramir did not recognize the place.
Again and again, the man set a large piece of wood on a smooth rock in the midst of the clearing, raised his axe and drove it down, cleaving the wood into smaller, more portable pieces. He had laid aside his tunic, and sweat glistened on the muscles of his bare back. Could this be King Elessar?
No sooner had the doubt arisen in his mind, than flames began to encroach on the image. No. Not again. He would not allow this thing to overmaster him. Closing his eyes he again envisioned his rescuer as he had first appeared to him. "Show me King Elessar," he commanded.
The Steward opened his eyes to a restored vision of the man in the glade chopping wood. Faramir could not be certain of the man's identity. He was accustomed to seeing his King fully clothed, in regal attire befitting his rank. The man's height, build and coloring certainly matched the King's. Faramir studied the figure more closely.
He noticed a tracery of white lines, which marked the man's arms and torso. Battle scars. Whoever he was, the man had seen his share of action. Now he laid aside his axe, and began stacking his firewood. Wiping the sweat from his brow, he sat down and drank deeply from a water skin. Now Faramir had no doubt. This was indeed Elessar the King. This was his lord.
Here was a side of the King which Faramir had not seen before. He realized that he had always thought of his lord as a kind of almighty hero, immune to weariness, sorrow or pain. Now he saw that his King was an ordinary Man, like himself. A great Man, to be sure, but a Man, nonetheless.
The King looked about him contentedly. It was obvious from the expression on his face that he was intoxicated by the wilderness. He breathed in the mountain air like a rare perfume.
For the first time Faramir felt a deep kinship with Aragorn. The Steward had known his lord as a great warrior, a mighty and regal leader of men. Somehow he had nearly forgotten that Aragorn had spent long years as a Ranger, living alone in the wilds. His lord was a Ranger at heart, just as he was. They might have taken the King out of the wilderness but they could never take the wilderness out of the King.
Faramir was moved with sympathy for the plight of his sovereign. After having led his people to victory in the most horrific war they had ever known, he had worked tirelessly to rebuild, to ensure his country's continued security, to establish a lasting peace. But the war of the Ring had surely taken a toll on him. The scars on his body bore testimony that he had not escaped unscathed. Who could guess what scars he might bear on his soul? Many of the others who had led the fight against the Nameless One had already sought peace beyond the Western Sea. Not only the Elves, but the stout-hearted perian, Frodo Nine Fingers, who had carried the ring to Orodruin, and even the mighty wizard, Mithrandir had taken ship and found rest from their labors. But the King could not follow them. That way was barred to him.
Others might criticize the King for abandoning his responsibilities, but Faramir could empathize with his desire to seek rest in the wilds. What's more, it was not Faramir's place to judge his lord's conduct, but to carry out his will. The King's domestic problems were regrettable, but they were hardly Faramir's business. If the King's bed had grown cold and his home was no longer a refuge, could he be blamed for seeking rest in the solitude of the wilderness? After all he had endured, after all he had accomplished, why shouldn't he be allowed to retire from public life in peace?
Faramir owed King Elessar not only his fealty, but his very life. The King had called him forth from the torments of the shadow world as he lay dying. He would not repay that kindness by forcibly dragging his lord back from paradise.
As the King's Steward, it was Faramir's responsibility to act in the King's interest, to obey his orders and carry out his bidding. And now he knew without a doubt what his lord would want of him.
The King yawned and stretched his arms. Gathering his clothing into a bundle, he laid his head upon it, folded his hands on his chest, and closed his eyes. Faramir could not begrudge his lord the repose he sought. The king had stood watch over him and his people through their darkest hour, his Steward could surely stand guard awhile so that his lord might at last find rest. Eldarion was young, but in twenty years or less he would have achieved his full manhood and would be able to rule on his own.
"Sleep awhile, my lord," he thought to himself, "I will take the second watch."
The king's breathing slowed and his chest rose and fell in an even rhythm. Almost as if in response to his Steward's reassurance, the King had fallen asleep.
"Faramir!" a voice called to him from what seemed a great distance away. "Faramir, what are you doing?"
Disoriented, Faramir looked about him. He had been so captivated by the vision in the palantir that he hadn't heard Eowyn let herself in to the room. Her eyes were wide with alarm as she glanced from his face to the palantir in his hand. The fear reflected there told him that she had not forgotten his previous attempt to use Denethor's seeing stone, nor the weeks of black depression which had seized him afterward.
"It is all right. It did not overwhelm me. This time, I was able to beat back the flames," he said to reassure her.
"What in the world could possess you to look into that thing again?" asked Eowyn, her voice quavering.
Faramir reached out his hand and gently drew her to his side. Looking into her eyes he said, "I'm all right, Eowyn. Do not be troubled. I was using it to look for the King."
"Have you seen him?"
"Yes, I have. But, I wouldn't tell the Queen."
"Why not? She's been worried sick about him."
"Because I don't think he'll be coming back."
"O, my poor lady. That could very well kill her," said Eowyn.
"But she's an Elf. I thought they could only be slain by the sword."
"No, indeed. Though I have never seen such a case myself, it is well established in ancient lore that an Elf may be slain by grief."
"And you really think the Queen may be in such danger?" asked Faramir incredulously.
"All I know is this: despair preys upon abandoned women," she paused for a moment, weighing her words. "When he left me behind, I laid aside every vestige of my womanhood, and in the guise of a man, I rode out looking for death!"
"And instead, you found the Steward of Gondor," said Faramir, tenderly stroking her hair.
"Yes, and you made me glad to be alive, again," Eowyn said earnestly, "And for the first time in my life, glad to be a woman."
"How blessed I am to be the man who tamed the wild shield-maiden of Rohan!" Faramir exclaimed. Eowyn pulled away from him, a mischievous gleam in her eye.
"Who says I'm tame?"
Smiling, Faramir lunged for her, grasping her by the wrist. She gave a gleeful shriek as he pulled her into his lap, kissing her again and again with an intensity that took her breath away. A gentle knock abruptly banished the intimate mood. In an instant, Eowyn was on her feet, shaking her skirts into place, and smoothing her hair. Faramir had quickly hidden the palantir in the drawer of his desk.
"Come in," he said, shooting a nervous glance at Eowyn.
It was Queen Undomiel. Considering her appearance, Faramir found Eowyn's concerns for her health far more believable. She did not look well. Not well at all.
"I heard that Bergil and the search party had returned. I wondered if there was any news."
"Unfortunately not, my lady. They were unable to find any trace of the King." Arwen's face fell. Eowyn thought she might break into tears.
As she turned to leave, the Queen said, "You will inform me as soon as you hear any news of him, won't you?"
"Yes, of course, my lady. As soon as we hear any news," said Faramir. In his mind he was weighing whether or not he should tell the Queen of what he'd seen in the stone. He hastily decided that he shouldn't. It would only make matters worse.
As the door closed he turned to Eowyn. "I think perhaps you should encourage Queen Undomiel to make that trip to Rivendell, after all," he said.
"Nana, is Ada ever coming home?" Arwen's three year old daughter had voiced the fear which all of the older children had lacked the courage to speak aloud.
"I hope so, Idril." Though she knew this wasn't very comforting, Arwen didn't want to give her daughters false hope. It had been more than a month since Aragorn's disappearance, and still they had heard nothing.
"He doesn't love us anymore, does he?" asked Celbrian, who was eight.
"Your father will always love you."
"But what if he never comes back?" now that they were speaking openly about it, her quiet twin sister, Gilraen, wanted reassurance as well.
"Fathers never stop loving their daughters. Even when they are far away, even if they never see one another again," Arwen declared with firm conviction. This was not empty reassurance, this she knew from her own experience, and believed with all her heart.
Her daughters seemed to find comfort in this, at least for the moment. For Arwen herself, though, there was no such assurance. Though fathers might never stop loving their daughters, husbands did stop loving their wives.
Their father's absence had affected each of her children, but in different ways. Gilraen and Celebrian, who had been outgoing and vivacious, had become pensive and irritable. Idril cried at night and refused to be comforted. Though she knew she might regret it later, Arwen often took the child to bed with her, just to quiet her down.
While the girls had become more emotionally dependant on her, Eldarion had become withdrawn. This would have caused her greater concern if it hadn't been for Faramir. The Steward seemed to intuitively understand the boy's plight and had taken him under his wing, involving him in the day to day business of the kingdom as much as was possible. In place of his father, at least he had a compassionate and capable mentor. But Faramir's investment in Eldarion was motivated by more than sympathy, as she would soon learn.
The Steward requested an audience with her to discuss the current state of affairs. Eldarion escorted her to a seat beside the Steward's chair in the throne room, and then to her surprise, sat down along with them.
"My lady," Faramir began, "I know that these past weeks have placed a great strain upon you, and it is not my intention to add to your distress. However, I feel we must discuss the future of Gondor. I have a responsibility, not only to you, but to the people of this country, to ensure that the Heir of Elendil is restored to the throne."
Arwen nodded her agreement. This seemed obvious enough.
"In the month since the King's disappearance, we have had search parties scouring the countryside. We have sent messages to every conceivable habitation where the King might have gone. They have turned up nothing.
I don't need to tell you that the King is an excellent woodsman, a Ranger of vast experience who could likely live off the land indefinitely. The point being that if King Elessar doesn't want to be found, then we will never find him.
It is my belief that the King left deliberately and has deliberately continued to remain in hiding. This coupled with the fact that he left behind all symbols of his office, including Anduril, the sword of his forefathers, and the ring of Barahir, leads me to conclude that he has abdicated the throne."
Arwen couldn't argue with his reasoning. She had certainly thought the same when Aragorn first disappeared.
"The people of Gondor spent too many generations waiting for the return of Elendil's heir to be permanently subjected once more to the care of a Steward. Therefore I feel it is my responsibility to crown the heir of Elendil as the new King of Gondor."
It took Arwen a moment to grasp what Faramir meant. When she did, it came as a crushing blow. If he crowned Eldarion king, it would be an admission that her husband was never coming back. It would be like giving him up for dead.
"No. I won't allow it!"
"My lady, please try to understand, I need to do what's best for the good of this country. While your personal loss is grievous, I need to look toward the future."
"You must give me more time to find him."
"Very well, but I will not put this off indefinitely. I will give you six weeks, after which point, if King Elessar has not returned, I will crown Eldarion king of Gondor."
Arwen had no choice but to agree. Yet finding Aragorn in the vast wildernesses of Middle Earth within six weeks seemed an impossible task. She knew of only one person who could help her now.
*see Unfinished Tales, "The Sources of the Legend of Isildur's Death"
**Come back to the light.
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Welcome to the 2011-2012! If you are new to us, we say welcome. If you are not new to us, we say welcome back.
We have several new things happening this year. One of the most exciting is the new ticketing system which will allow us to sell tickets over the internet. If you are a credit card holder, you can get online and get your tickets to most of our shows. the web address for the site is www.murraystatetickets.com.
Mark Borum and Kristina Whitehair are currently performing and cruising in the Caribbean
and in Greece. Chrishell Stause currently portrays the role of "Amanda Dillon" on the daytime drama
All My Children as well as other roles in TV productions. W. Earl Brown has been seen in There's Something About Mary and the HBO smash hit Deadwood. Jilon VanOver was recently in an episode of CSI: Los Angles. Charles Edward Hall has the great recurring role of "Santa Claus" at Radio City Music
Hall each year. Courtney Cunningham was filmed in the reality show Bridal Boot Camp and has performed on cruise ships for the last three years.
Daryl Phillipy has come on board as our new acting teacher. Daryl's MFA in Acting is from Southern Mississippi University. His BS is from Middle Tennessee State University. He is teaching acting courses, an intro to theatre course, and voice. His acting approach is Meisner based. We welcome Daryl to the Department.
Our productions this year can be found on our ticketing page, but here is some information about the season as well.
By Lee Blessing
Sensitive and probing, this masterful play examines the subtle and often perilous relationship between three remarkable women: a young girl, her mother, and her grandmother. "…a play and a production of a caliber rarely seen on the stage…the language is elegant, witty and carefully wrought." —Philadelphia City Paper. "…an engrossing 95-minute entry—alternately funny and poignant…" —Variety. "It is a wonderful job of playwriting." —Minneapolis Star and Tribune. "…a funny, perceptive and eloquently written play…" —St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch.
THE STORY: Staged with utmost simplicity, the play probes into the delicate relationship of three singular women: the grandmother, Dorothea, her brilliant daughter, Artie, and Artie's daughter, Echo. As the play begins, Dorothea has suffered a stroke, and Echo has reestablished contact with her mother. But, in the end, both Artie and Echo come to accept their mutual need and summon the courage to try, at last, to build a life together.
September 22-27 @ 7:30pm
Actor's Studio Theatre, Wilson Hall 310B
Orpheus in the Underworld
Book and Lyrics by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy. Music by Jacques Offenbach.
The first of Offenbach's outrageously funny 'send-ups' of Greek mythology, this is an unashamed version of the classic legend of Orpheus's pursuit of his wife Eurydice, who is carried off to Hades by Pluto - much to the annoyance of Jupiter. A highly disrespectful romp, it involves nymphs, shepherds, gods and goddesses, with the fun reaching its climax in the riotous revels of the celebrated "Can-Can". A lively and highly enjoyable show for both performers and audience, with many world-famous tunes.
November 17-19 @ 7:30pm
November 20 @ 2:30pm
Robert E. Johnson Theatre
This show is produced jointly by the Department of Music and the Department of Theatre.
Suddenly Last Summer
By Tennessee Williams
"Startling proof of what a man can do with words…this brief, withering play is a superb achievement." —The New York Times
This dark and gritty play introduces us to Catharine Holly, a young woman who seems to go insane after her cousin Sebastian dies on a trip to Europe under mysterious circumstances. Sebastian's mother, Violet Venable, trying to cloud the truth surrounding her son's death, threatens to lobotomize Catharine as a cure for her incoherent utterances, but the gruesome truth does come out.
February 23-28 @ 7:30pm
Actor's Studio Theatre Wilson Hall 310B
The Betsy Reid and Jerry Shroat Production, so named because of their generous gifts and contributions to the Department of Theatre.
The Mousetrap
By Agatha Christie
In this classic melodramatic theatre piece, the author comes forth with another hit about a group of strangers stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple that run the house, and the suspicions that are in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives, than the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time.
April 25-28 @ 7:30pm
April 29 @ 2:30pm
Robert E. Johnson Theatre
Special Productions offered by the Department free to Season Ticket Holders:
Sanjie: A Chinese Shadow Puppet Play
By Lissa Graham
Join us as we celebrate the ancient art of Chinese Puppet theatre. The show follows a plot that is a combined series of stories and is presented to the audience by actors working in shadow play. This is like nothing you have seen before.
September 16 and 17 @ 7:30pm
September 18 @ 2:30pm
Robert E. Johnson Theatre
This show is presented during Fall Family Weekend and is open to everyone on the campus and in the community. The show will be moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee in March of 2012 to be presented at the Southeastern Theatre Conference Convention.
Robin Hood
By Tim Kelly
Robin Hood, the outlaw of Sherwood Forest, leads a merry life with his followers. Anyone who is hungry or who has no place to live is welcome in the greenwood. The citizens of the forest oppose wicked Prince John. He's taken the place of King Richard the Lion-Hearted, who has gone to the Holy Land on a crusade. One day a caravan cuts through the wood. In the convoy is Robin's childhood sweetheart, Maid Marian, ward of King Richard. Alas, the evil Lady Merle of Cornwall plans to force Marian to marry the Prince in an effort to make John more acceptable to the people of England. To arms! It's up to Robin to stop the marriage, defeat a nasty sheriff, and secure Nottingham for the King's return. It's all done in rousing fashion!
October 17 @ 7:30pm
October 18 @ 9:30am and Noon
October 19 and 20 @ 10am
Lovett AuditoriumThis production is offered to regional elementary school children at a reduced rate during the daytime performances. All audiences are welcome during those performances, but please plan to sit in the rear of the auditorium or in the balcony of Lovett Auditorium if you are not attending with a school
Thanks for reading. Keep coming back for new information regarding shows, alumni, and other important items.
David Balthrop, Chairman