Arts
Saturday, June 19, 1982

The Michigan Daily

Stage Company
packs up and
moves to Chicago
big place in his heart for the radical
By Robert Weisberg theatre of the sixties. Although they
didn't go quite that far with the Stage
NE OF ANN ARBOR'S most suc- Company, they did present a few plays
by contemporary playwrights, par-
cessful theatrical groups, the ticularly American, dealing with
Stage Company, is no more. After two. topical subjects.
and a half years and some seventeen Meeting in a department play, they
productions at the Canterbury Loft, set about putting their ideas in motion.
Stage Company co-founders and "We spent a lot of nights in Bill's living
producers William Sharpe and James room until the wee morning hours,"
Danek have decided to start anew in says Danek, "hashing out hopes and
Chicago. dreams."
"Every once in a while you've got to Then, in the spring of 1980, Sharpe
walk on the line,"- says Sharpe of the was hired as producer, for the Canter-
decision. "Anything worth getting, bury Loft, a small theatre operated by
he continued, reciting a fundamental the Episcopal Student Foundation.'
tenet, "you've got to take a chance The Loft's Reverend Andrew Foster-
f a d Dane decided a w "wanted the Loft on the map," says
Share ad Daek ecidd afew Danek, and Sharpe rightly suggested
years ago that they needed to take a that, among other things, the sort of
chance here. Both had happened into theater company they envisioned could
the University's Theatre Department help put it there. After over a year of
- Sharpe because his family has preparation, the Stage Company was
always come here; Danek because his born.
possessions were in storage in Jackson "I don't doubt that we would have
-and both had become, to say the least, done it without the Loft", says Danek
a bit discouraged with it. with retrospective confidence, "but the
"We wanted to form a company loft was an asset." Sharpe agrees, ad-
where people would have the chance to ding that while their artistic freedom
work with each other closely, without, was not complete, it was better than
the competitive feeling there was in the anywhere else.
department," says Sharpe. They also And the Loft's risk paid off. The Stage
wanted to bypass what Danek calls the Company never lost money on a
cliquishness" of the department and production, thanks to low overhead -
gther groups that makes it difficult to No Exit, their final play, cost $200 to
get a start in theater.Py
And they were tired of focusing only- mount including publicity; the set just
on classical and popular theatre, as the See SHARPE, Page 10
department had. Danek for one has a
Jury to decide Kelly trial
after four weeks of debate
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replicant Roy Batty, played by Rutger Hauer, in Ridley Scott's 'Blad
ner.
Raider turns runner
in atmospheric film

By Richard Campbell
'49S FILM noir set in the year
A2020? That's exactly what Ridley
Scott, director of Blade Runner, is
trying to do.
Scott's earlier sci-fi epic was the
heart-stopping Alien. With smoke,
light, dynamic camerawork, and a
hideous beastie the film not only
scared audiences but brought to life the
realities of the spaceship Nostromo.
Likewise in Blade Runner, Scott's
purpose seems to be an attempt at

generating a believable atmosphere of
life in a squalid, congested city in the
not so far future, rather than-to make a
movie with intricate plotting and deep
characterizations.
The plot in Alien was exceedingly
simple; Blade Runner is not that much
more complex. In both movies, the
complexities arose from the movement
of individuals within the film's fictional
world.
The movie stars Harrison ford in
another gruff, relentless performance.
As Deckard, a Blade Runner, he kills
sophisticated genetically engineered
See BLADE, Page 10

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(Continued fromPage S)
Ross Campbell admitted as evidence a
list found in Kelly's room at the time of
his arrest containing the names of
several Bursley residents-including
Siwik, whose name was set off by a
dark ink mark made before the first let-
ter. Kelly said he made the list "to help
my memory" with the names of the
residents on his ball.
The prosecution also called a number
of students to testify, several of whom
saw Kelly the morning of the shootings.
Bursley-Douglas resident Tom Bakal
testified he was awakened by a "loud
noise," got dressed and headed toward
the fire he saw at the end of the hall. "I
saw a shell case on the floor, and bent
down to pick it up, heard two more
shots and crouched further," he said. "I
looked up and saw two people lying on
the floor."
Along with the students, prosecutors
called police fingerprint identification

and ballistics experts. They traced the
slugs found in McGreaham's body to
the gun which bore Kelly's fingerprints.
Waterman called Kelly's mother and
sister, as well as one of the defendant's
fraternity brothers, to testify. Kelly's
mother, Virginia Kelly, broke into tears
while being questioned.
Both Kelly's mother and his sister,
Patrice Kelly, said that he was "a
changed person" when he returned
from Texas in 1980.
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