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The Matchbox Players present "Next...
An interesting look at our own lives
By Jennifer Toubourdour
The Collegian
A play without a set plot.
Could it ever be done? Could it
ever be interesting? "Next...,"
the recent play performed by
Behrend’s Matchbox Players
proved yes to both of these
questions.
"Next..." travels through all
the stages a person encounters in
their lifetime.
Stephen Daniels began the
play with a speech about the
biology of human life. He
covered topics ranging from the
universe to pornography.
Next, Terri Swanson
delivered a skit on the anxieties
of taking on her first job. She
was the typical persona of a
nervous, young-adult feeling a bit
homesick and calling her mom
for advice.
The play then moved on to
You’ve Got Class
ACROSS
1 Bridle part
S Greek ending
10 Newts
14 Sea eagle
15 Russia's
Bart’s sister
Students’ concern
European sea
Electrically charged
particle
Faßed to win
Horse operas
Weather word
Deserved
Travels
Perfect ?
Romance language
Follows fire & Morse
Wrath
Matures
Board game
Charles Lamb’s pen
name
Meadow
Viennese cake
Woody
Professor’s speech
Holler
Cum Laude & magna
cum laude
45
47
49
Elementary school text
Get up & go guy ?
At a great distance
mode
Outlaws
Egg on
Tantalize
Comedian Johnson
Ms. Trueheart
Elizabeth
ry winner
69 Ogles
DOWN
1 TV’s Philbin
2 Actor Flynn
3 Silly
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dating. It compared the styles of
dating in 1901 to that of 1990.
Terri Evans was answering the ad
in a newspaper from Stephen
Daniels, and eligible bachelor.
He begins their conversation by
asking, "I hope I'm no too macho
for you," after just declaring that
he had a gay lover named Bob.
Daniels then asks Evans to go
"Everyone experiences these events in life
you realize you don't go through it alone."
back to his apartment to have
sex. He assures her not to worry.
If they get married, Bob can
always "shack up" with them in
the apartment above their home.
"Next..." then moves on to
the topic of love. Erik Soder
delivers some poetry on the
Weekly Crossword
Actor Beatty
Resist
Barnyard sounds
Upper crust
Whitney’s claim to fame
LLB holder
Beetle
School exercise
Former Russian ruler
Ride and Rand
Singer John
Chemical endings
Sponsorship
Actress Hepburn
Recorder of points
Ontario's cousin
College administrator
Speech teacher’s con
cern
Newber-
Author/critic James
The ofConfu
cious
Bread crumbs
Sigma Chi, eg
Entertainment
subject by E.E. Cummings.
Hagenbuch then tells the audience
of how she was rejected by her
boyfriend. While doing their
laundry, she sees her lover's jock
strap spinning in the cycle and
comments on how she would like
to wrap it around his neck.
Marriage and family come
next and Swanson and Daniels arc
the new, proud parents. They
quickly get into a fight about
what nicknames to call their
child; Swanson cries and asks
Daniels for a divorce. He
responds by asking her if she is
going through post pardon
depression. Their scene typifies
By Gerry Frey
Singer Fitzgerald
Melody
Vigilant
Moves to & fro
Obliterates
Anwar
52 Milk producer
53 Exhilarate
54 Chest rattles
55 Adjoin
56 Uncommon
58 Unite
62 Teachers org.
63 Actress Charlotte
young parents starting out with
their first child.
The ending skits dealt with
women and men coping with
issues in society.
Evans is the stereotypical
"Superwoman" of today's society.
She tries to juggle being a wife,
mother, and business woman.
Evans gives an excellent speech
"Next..."
on the hardships and anxieties of
her everyday life. Swanson is flic
depressed, inferior-feeling woman
in the grocery store. She gets so
upset with a man in her way that
she finally explodes and says,
"Would you kindly move,
asshole!" After doing this she
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feels much better.
McCall is the man coping
with what I really wasn't quite
sure, but it was definitely
something major. He would get
into stages of feeling paralyzed,
blind, or deaf.
The play then ended with
none other than the topic of death
and the life after; be it in heaven,
incarnation, or whatever. The
actors ended on the line, "There's
something way down deep that is
eternal with every human being."
Everyone experiences these
events in life and "Next..." made
you realize you don't go through
it alone.
made