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Award-winning play performed at Valborg
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Stephanie
Marshall
Entertainment Beat |
Chris Hill | The Appalachian
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Sex, drinking, birthdays
and death are all elements consumed in one night at the Valborg
Theatre when the Appalachian State University department of theatre
and dance presents Tennessee Williams’ play “Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof.”
“This is one of the plays I teach in my
Dramatic Literature class, and we are honored to be able to present
it; this is a great work of art,” director Linda F. Welden
said Thursday.
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” is a performance
about the Pollitt family in the Deep South. The play spans the course
of one day, which happens to be Big Daddy’s birthday.
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| Dr. Didg brings ‘world music’
stylings to Boone |
Kevin Delury
Entertainment Beat |
So what do you do
after graduating from Oxford University with a Ph.D. in solid state
physics? If you’re Graham Wiggins, start up a music career
with the didgeridoo.
“I was in England trying to finish my Ph.D.
and I’d run out of money, so I started taking the didgeridoo
out on the street and playing with a hat out,” Wiggins said.
“I thought I’d try that instead of phoning my parents
for money, and it went really well. I met a guitarist and we started
playing together. We made good money and got a record deal.”
Since then, Wiggins has released three albums
under his nickname, Dr. Didg. On his band’s latest release
“Dust Devils,” Wiggins and company manage to push the
boundaries of a genre that might easily be filed away under world
music.
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