Glendale Community College - El Ano Yearbook (Glendale, AZ)

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Polished acting combined With elegant staging mark Production of Wilde farce .le Audiences were highly enter- tained by the excellent acting, lavish costuming and striking sets which highlighted the GCC Drama Department's production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in early December. In a play which was extremely well cast, all performances could be termed as outstanding. John ApiceIIa's role of Algernon Mon- Crieff and Carol May's portrayal of Lady Bracknell were particularly successful. Timing, delivery, and character development were praise-worthy in both perform- ances. Larger than life characters, a completely outlandish plot, some of the finest lines of the 0scar Wilde repertoire were all combined to produce a delightful romp. It was hard to tell if the audience or the actors themselves were more de- lighted with the stage doings. To state it simply: memorable theater was the result of the GCC Drama Department's interpretation of the Wilde farce.

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0laeta Basque Festival Group opens series An overflow audience of nearly 2,000 cheered on the Olaeta Basque Festival of Bilbao on No- vember 29, I967 in the gymnasium. Continuing Education's Artists Series was opened in an enthusias- tic fashion by the high bounding, extremely colorful Basques. Rare instrumentation was of particular interest. The txistu, a three-holed flute found in Stone Age caves, and the alboka, made from a cow's horn and similar to the oboe in sound provided some unusual music. But the dancers were the focal point of a program of choral songs, traditional war and courting dances and solo performances. The stick dance and the partido de pelota Cjai alaib gave the men the opportunity to show off some of their talents. 221

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