It only takes one person to break down the barrier between a stage and an audience. “Solo Takes On: 2,” a festival of three one-actor performances running through this weekend, shows the genre’s power to connect a crowd to a performer — a power which other dramatic works often lack.
Celina Chapin knows Rome wasn’t built in a day. But as director of “The Trojan Women,” a tragic Euripides play that expresses female suffering during war, she proves it only takes about two weeks to recreate ancient Greece on stage.
Veronique King dances slowly in a circle to a French pop song playing on the radio in her shop, Crêpes Véronique. A sugary smell wafts through the small café after the lunchtime rush. “I’m not just dancing, you know,” King says, in a thick French accent. She wears steel-framed glasses, a hat to keep her hair back as she cooks and an apron dotted with the flour she uses in her crepe batter. “I do this to relax my neck, after a long day of making crepes.”
Jeff Nieman might look comfortable in his suit and tie as he works in a courtroom, but on Friday nights he has no problem ditching them for a set of headphones and a turntable.
Judy Swasey, a nurse practitioner in UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, is known as “Coach Judy” outside the walls of her workplace.Swasey earned this title 10 years ago when she created the Sole Sisters, a beginners’ exercise group that prepares participants for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Raleigh each June.The group now has about 100 people and encourages breast cancer survivors and other women to develop good diet and fitness habits while raising money for breast cancer research.
As a Duke law student, infamous partier and self-proclaimed jerk, Tucker Max spent most of his time in Chapel Hill.He went out on Franklin Street five nights a week, drawing affection from dozens of women.“We went to bars, and I eventually got in with a sorority,” Max said. “And you know how sororities are — if you hook up with one, all the rest get jealous. It’s a gift that keeps on giving.”Max gained fame for his New York Times bestselling book, which chronicles those outrageous sexual escapades, drunken nights and tangles with law enforcement.
For $60, students can purchase and wear the scent of the Old Well. They can have a musk that simply emits all that is UNC. Masik Collegiate Fragrances, the producer of UNC’s signature scent sold in Student Stores and other locations, said it has managed to capture the essence of UNC, drawing inspiration from the iconic campus landmark and the color Carolina blue.
If history has taught UNC and Duke students anything since the conception of the duo’s infamous rivalry, it might be to hate thy neighboring university.But some have proven that love can exist even in a general atmosphere of hatred. Many inter-school friends, couples and siblings work through the bitter rivalry to salvage some sort of relationship.
Ultraviolet rays produced by tanning beds have been added to the list of top carcinogens, officially ranking the quick and popular method for developing a tan alongside smoking cigarettes as a cause of cancer.Since a report linking tanning salons to skin cancer and other skin diseases was published in the July edition of The Lancet Oncology medical journal, several UNC students said they are worried about their health.
