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Thursday, December 5. 1974D-1Playwright's work to premiere at OTSBy PATRICIA GINS Tribune SuffWrit*.sssxe: ■ '■**«*That's exactly the situation in winch Mark Ummer »£l ™ Joh,niFA,lcic,jn Santa Fe. finds himself.^ S0'; k ^ and Mrs’ Fred l*ngner cf Albu--M play. August lias Cone Again,'’ two ycurs ago while still n student at Valley High School.^vniSS-SJRUCKJby 3 n,’0od 3nd SUrtc‘{ writing. he e iu I 5 ar,c f,1 * T. then I switched to a novel and finally hack to a play.”This r.rst experience had a lot of frustrates andfils or existential dupair, for Mark as he struggled to Jay the groundwork and try and fit tr. everything he wanted to say. Rut it't p3id off.rlAni^t H-d' vlt;me wlJI * Policed at OldTown Studio ir. a special performance toopen [Jcc 12. It'sr)p^'?a,K^\,yK?nLhL‘ normaI season rv.id will only run Du. 12 throug.i 15 unless special interest is shnu r. in it 5enrcrs lor°u,ld a middle-aged couple and their honKViexvial so:: It features Richard Brooks. Wanda “Vf1 Barbara Willmore, .N'orina Lupcr.Debra Hughes a.id Joan Tejeda.PUYWRIGHT LANG.VER has been pleased with I he interpretation given the pluy by director Ray Greer.way ^52*in “ ’■f'determinded amount of ambiguity - he says, tticrc are five or six different ways ••August Has Come Again •could be done consistently all U* way through and 1 .ike the view Ray has taken. He uses a lot of paiilixnme ■Mark’s first play explores his interest in the way thatif-,ry * n fail ,0 rinrt sa,»sfaction in love rela tionshipsWHEN I WAS in junior high school a teacher told me that beauty is clusive-m holding something beautiful close to your heart, you often destroy it. he says. ' Seeing that much beauty is found through people, the question why doesn t everyone see the same world I do' is on people s mmd-especially in reRard to love.His current role as playwright happened to be an acni-dent, but Mark wouldn’t mind if it were Playwriting is the form of familiar to ton.permanent, cotnmumaticn mostHES HEEN ;n theater since he started will: Hayden's j-hsldrens Theatre right through Valley productions Albuquerque Civic Light Opera and Old Town Studio' HO s directed once and done some crew work, bur has most often acted.1 get more cut of seeing n play ihsn readme a book.-Mfrk says. 1 feel tlwt dialogue is the most natural way to express yourself.Mark is already toying with several new ideas to ex-pJore in future plays His liberal arts education at St. John’s has given him an interest irt many new areasTM CONSIDERING something that puis Darwin's aleas of natural selection along with Sr Augustine's con-fesswiis he explains. I'm interested in researching Darwin’s ideas reRard to Social interaction.'In the meantime, the premiere run of August Has Come A gam wiJJ be 8 pm. Dec. 12 through 15. Tickets are available at the OTS box office.Director and playwrightMoik longner. (right) corners with Old Town Studio director Roy Greenway obout his first ploy August Has Come Agoin.
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Albuquerque Tribune
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Thu, Dec 05, 1974
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