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London theater to perform N pro cessor s play
The Rose Theatre
will host The
Eternal Romeo and
Juliet" for fund raiser
By Christi Hang
Staff Writer
Andrew Harris of the dance
and theater faculty will have the
distinction of being the only live
playwright on Feb. 7 at The Rose
Evening in London.
The Rose Evening is an event
that presents a number of plays
in order to raise funds to restore
The Rose Theatre. The theater
was built in 1587 and is the fifth
oldest purpose-built theater
in London, according to www.
rosetheatre.org.uk.
Harris said the theater's
foundation was uncovered in
1989 when a construction team
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Andrew Harris
was building an office building
on the site. Since then, there has
been an ongoing effort to restore
the theater.
"I feel great to be in the same
company with Shakespeare and
Marlowe," Harris said.
He said scenes from his
play, "The Eternal Romeo and
Juliet," were discovered by event
organizers on the Yahoo! search
engine when they were looking
for modern plays having to do
with Shakespeare's ill-fated
lovers.
"The Eternal Romeo and
Juliet" takes place in heaven
with Luigi de Porto, author
of "Giulietta e Romeo," the
original story of Romeo and
Juliet. De Porto is arguing his
case in front of a muse. De Porto
claims that Shakespeare and
playwright Lope de Vega, who
wrote "Castelvines y Monteses,"
stole his work, Llarris said.
During the trial, scenes
from "Romeo and Juliet" and
"Castelvine y Monteses" are
shown as evidence.
"It was a good excuse to see
scenes from the plays," Harris
said.
Hector Amaya, Houston
senior, translated de Vega's
play from its original Spanish
to English and will be joining
Harris in London.
Harris said the play took nine
months to write, with a lot of
time dedicated to the translation
of "Castelvine y Monteses"
because it was written 400 years
ago in a poetic language.
"To try to get the sense of
the play in English is difficult,"
Harris said.
Amaya said de Vega's play
is important because it was
written during the golden age
of Spanish literature and is also
a "history lesson."
Amaya said presenting
scenes from "Romeo and Juliet"
with de Vega's play is a good
way to contrast the two plays
and highlight the cultural
differences in "Castelvine y
Monteses."
Amaya said de Vega twisted
the basic story to the Spanish
culture at the time and made
it a comedy.
"Spanish culture forbade a
double suicide to be shown on
the stage at that time," Amaya
said.
When Amaya found out that
Harris was working on "The
Eternal Romeo and Juliet" and
would need a translator, he said
he was very eager to work on
the play.
"This was an opportunity of
a lifetime," Amaya said. "I have
to throw myself into this."
Amaya said that after learning
that scenes from Harris' play
would be part of The Rose
Evening, he spent a week at
Harris' house working on the
scenes.
Harris said The Rose Evening
will be first time the play has
been performed outside of
NT.
"I'm hoping someone takes
interest and wants to see more,"
Harris said.
"The Eternal Romeo and
Juliet" was first performed at
NT in spring 2005 with a cast
of 25 actors. The scenes for The
Rose Evening will have a cast of
four, Harris said.
"The reception at NT was
favorable," Harris said. "People
were amused and learned about
Shakespeare and de Vega's
time."
Author speaks to N about book Body Language
Kelly Magee
discusses her
collection of short
stories based on
Southern life
By Rachel Slade
Contributing Writer
Kelly Magee, a winner of NT's
Katherine Anne Porter Prize, will
be reading selections of her most
recent work tonight as part of the
English department's 2006-2007
"Visiting Writers Series."
The reading and book signing
will begin at 8 p.m. today in
Golden Eagle Suite A on the third
level of the University Union.
The event will be followed by a
reception open to the public.
Magee will hold a question
and answer session before
the reading at 4 p.m. today in
Auditorium Building room 212.
Magee, who is currently a visiting
assistant professor at Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio,
won the Katherine Anne Porter
Prize for short fiction in 2006
for her first collection of short
stories titled "Body Language."
Sponsored by NT, this annual
competition awards $1,000 and
publication of the work by the
NT Press to its winners.
"'Body Language' is exciting
because it holds together as
a coherent book," said Karen
DeVinney, managing editor
of the NT Press. "It's not just a
collection of disparate stories.
Kelly explores the ways the body
communicates, has its own
language. This body language
in some ways trumps verbal
language."
"Body Language" is a
collection of 11 stories set mostly
in the South. They relate the
life struggles of characters often
ignored by society including
those of a drag queen, a bus
driver and an ex-paratrooper.
"I do like to write the
outsider character, and in 'Body
Language' that often takes the
form of characters who want to
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Kelly Magee's book "Body
Language" won the Katherine
Anne Porter Prize for short
fiction from NT in 2006. Magee
will read selections from the
book today in the Union.
make themselves understood
and can't," Magee said. "The
crisis of most of the stories comes
from a character's failure to
communicate."
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Magee's works have appeared
in numerous publications
including the "Crab Orchard
Review," "The Indiana Review,"
"Quarterly West" and "The Cream
City Review."
She has won awards from both
the Associated Writing Programs
and Money for Women/Barbara
Deming Memorial Fund, which
grants money to female artists
whose work focuses on women.
Also in 2006, Magee's story "Go"
was published after winning the
magazine Hotel Amerika's fiction
contest.
"Getting published certainly
gives me confidence in the
classroom, but it's important
for me to keep publishing for
the confidence it gives me in
my own writing, too," Magee
said. "And more importantly,
I think, publishing gives
me somewhat of an insider
knowledge about the industry that
I can bring to the classroom."
Magee is currently working on
a novel set in both Florida and
the Mexican border. The novel
is about a housewife who finds
herself caught up in the human
smuggling trade. She is also
working on a chapbook— a small
book or pamphlet — of short-
short stories in which settings
take on the roles of characters
with their own point of view.
After growing up in Orlando,
Fla., Magee
received her
Bachelor of
Arts degree
from Auburn
University
and went
on to obtain
her master's
degree from
Ohio State
University
in 2003. She
then taught
writing and
composition courses at OSU
before moving on to her current
position at Miami University.
"Like many writers, I went
through lots of rejection
before getting my first string of
publications," Magee said. "And
how to cope with rejection—and
continue writing confidently in
the face of it — is something
I think my students can learn
from."
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