Evansville Press from Evansville, Indiana • 18

11 Thwday April a 1993 THE EVANSVILLE PRESS Entertainment Films Music drama art Sandra Knipe explores the finer things In fife Read her reviews columns features and news stories daily in The Evuu vllle Press adapter sees real life reflected in events Nominations for arts awaids being sought The Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana is accepting nominations for the Arts Award and for the ArtEdu-cator Patron of the Arts Artist and Young Artist awards established last year The Artist and Young Artist awards for 1998 will go to a visual artist With the exception of the Arts award which is restricted to a resident of Evansville any resident of Gibson Knox Pike Posey Spencer Vanderburgh or Warrick counties iS eligible for nomination For an application or more Information call 422-2111 Deadline for nominations is May 14 If This kid was created by us by the way we act by the way we act toward him adapter Phillip Smith KMunttvaSAtwri HBMUMt "Ih MMum I FWNCETCTt Hi Mwtew PWCETUK MNCETOM MNglQNi HwimiS Surf PfrU ML IHOWFUCE Em Wn DMTft MM Ml IHOWPUCEE SHOWPUCEE hwiui SHOWPUIZE showtime emr smi or iWb tea ml SHOWTIME EMC Snr 7 I ML SHOWPUCEE SHOWTIME! 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RE DFORD HBffilMSBSlRa issssMiEiammsR sgtaafiL aSEaSafi Norths 7:10 945 i East 1:15 3:50 7:10 945 19 No Pomm or Coupons VI INIMUVE yl By Sandra Knlpa Entertainment reporter It could be the plot for one of Stephen more bisarre novels An aspiring young playwright petitions his idol a famous novelist for the non-commercial production rights to a stage adaptation of one of his books and receives it Within a year the project has captured the attention of a veteran director and the friend a successful Hollywood screenwriter and they team up to present the play in the directors hometown The plot thickens when a small group of influential citl-sens becomes incensed by the subject matter and the company is chased out of two different venues and down the road to an American Legion Hall in Santa Claus Ind Allis well until the group begins to publicise its premiere Then the troubles which plagued them in the other venues seem to be starting all over again For Phillip Smith the 22-year-old Evansville resident whose adaptation of Stephen novel still is scheduled to premiere April 16 at the American Legion Post 242 in Santa Claus Ind truth really has become stranger than Klngi fictional tale of a high school student who takes his classmates hostage hate describing the play that way the plight of the people involved but the story is so much more than Smith said yesterday after a teaser performance at the Boonville-Warrick County Library kid was created by us by the way we act by the way we act toward The good part of personal story has been the opportunity to work with Jim Birge a Jasper Ind writer and teacher and screenwriter Shane Black whose credits include Last Boy Scout" ana Last Action Hero" a new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie due out his summerTBirge whose own writing credits include from the has served as both director and dramaturge for the play Black is starring" as a psychiatrist in a cast of area high school students and adults The bad part has been seeing two attempts to produce the play in Jasper circumvented by what Birge described as a small group of people who haven't read the final script or seen a rehearsal Earlier this week a few protesters threatened nest week's premiere in Santa Claus but that threat seems to have subsided after representatives of the American Legion and the town council attended rehearsals this week lady said it as bad as things seen on said Birge who became involved in the project because he felt it was story worth telling" do substitute teaching at a bunch of middle schools and been made to feel uncomfortable by students" Birge said Smith who has a bachelor of arts degree in creative writing with minors in literature and journalism from the University of Evansville began writing his adaptation of three years ago in a creative writing seminar at UE With the encouragement of his professor he wrote to King in Hay 1991 requesting permission for a noncommercial production receiving an affirmative answer from King's secretary three months later Smith credits King's 174-page novella which King wrote when he was still a teenager and later published under the name Richard Bsritmen with transforming him from a high school student who never read anything outside class into a voracious reader and later a writer realized there was I Join us GOOD FRIDAY for All You Can Eat FISH FRY QC (fried white fish) km km FI DDLERSlN OWlAVAl CABLE Sym MZI MIDI AVL (MKm fillE) 4234050 North A South 7:20 9:50 Good Friday FRIDAY FIDDLER SPECIAL! 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