PH OTOS BY DANIEL LI PPITT eIN Entertainment TRAPPED DUBBER IN THE , j ric the librarian isn't real- ly a librarian; he just thinks he is. Basically, he spends his day ignoring people who need to check out books and makes Xeroxes of his face on the copy machine. His parole offi- cer got him the job. As pathetically true-to-life as that sounds, it's fiction. Eric is the cre- ation of Timothy Campos, the ac- tor/writer whose one-man show Trapped In the Rubber Room runs through this weekend at the The- ater Guild in Redford . The work is a compilation of monologues by off-the-wall characters like Eric, Campos says, whose foibles reflect the oddities deep (or, in some cas- es, not so deep) within all of us. "(They're the kind of people you'd meet) hanging out at Mei- jer's at 2 a.m.," Campos says of his multiple stage personalities. He introduces 13 of them during the course of the evening, including Larry, the companion-starved neighbor who "catches you in front of the house and never lets you go," Fl and the "home boy" who raps about a bad haircut he got. Then there's the twisted take on Poe's "Tell Tale Heart" — "I really can't talk about that," Campos apol- ogizes. "It's sort of a surprise." A Wayne State University stu- dent and Dearborn resident, Cam- pos began writing the show a couple years back, presenting bits of the monologues at Livonia's Trinity House Theatre on open-mike night. The venue agreed to rent him the space for his first evening-length performance in September 1994; three of four shows sold out. Since then, Rubber Room has played again at Trinity House and at Genitti's in Northville — a pretty impressive debut for any writer, let alone one who's 24 years old. Campos' acting career includes numerous appearances with the Vil- lage Players at Greenfield Village (he had the lead in last season's The First Year) and in Genitti's dinner- theater productions. Upon gradua- tion in a couple years, he plans to try his fate in New York City. But until then, he's plugging away on another one-man show. This one will have a stronger narrative line, as in "one theme all the way through," he says. "It's so hard to keep focused on one thing," says Campos, who con- tinues to reinvent Rubber Room for each new production (this run will feature characters not in the previ- ous shows). "The nice thing about this show," he adds, "is the growing process. It's nice to have the free- dom to keep it fresh." —Liz Stevens 13 Timothy Campos' Trapped In the Rubber Room runs 8 p.m. Fri- day-Saturday, March 1-2, and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 3, at the The- ater Guild, 15138 Beech Daly (east side of Beech Daly, just south of Five Mile Road, across from Red- ford Township Hall). Tickets are $8. Call (810) 380-3217. Timothy Campos is a one-man comedy show with.multiple personalities. ns on the ary: Woman's Reader omen writers perform. theirWorkS in:honior of Women'-s History Month at Border.Books and Music,- Novi. (810) 347-0780: Purimshpiel The American-Russian Theatre presents a PuppetArt show at Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield. (810) 737-8700. Mon., I p.m. Dreaming With Your Eyes Open Re Chili Peppers Expldre the psychological aspects of the Barbra Streisand film The Prince of Tides with Dr. Bernard Green. Film and discussion. Borders Books and Music, Novi. (810) 347-0780. Having rescheduled; its original Nov. 25 date, the band hits the Palace for a Isetter-lath-than-never performance. Tickets are $22.50. (810) 645-6666. Thurs., 7 p.m.