October 3, 1995 Contact: Barbara McKenna (408/459-2495)

PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNEL TO PRESENT UC SANTA CRUZ PERFORMANCE SERIES BEGINNING OCTOBER 9

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CRUZ, CA--Taking in an evening of theater will be as simple as turning on the television this fall. On October 9, an eleven-week series titled "UCSC Theater Arts Board Presents" will air on the Community Television of Santa Cruz County channel (TCI cable channel 71). The series features twenty works produced in the spring of 1995 by faculty and students at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The series features more than 100 students in twenty plays and dance pieces produced by UCSC's Theater Arts Board last spring. Nineteen of twenty pieces were presented as part of Chautauqua, an annual festival of student-produced theater. Leading off the series will be Effie and the Barbarians, adapted from Euripides' Iphigenia Among the Taurians and directed by Mary-Kay Gamel, UCSC associate professor of classics, comparative literature, and theater arts.

The series is produced by Dan Klevesahl, a fifth-year student in UCSC's Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Program. Klevesahl, who has more than six years' experience in public access television and video production, oversaw taping and edited each play for cablecast.

Shows, which run two hours unless otherwise noted, will be cablecast Mondays at 9 p.m. from October 9 through December 18 on TCI channel 71 as follows:

October 9 Effie and the Barbarians October 16 Furies and Story October 23 The Plagiarist and LuLu's Show October 30 Las Mascotas and 10,000 Light Years from Home November 6 Butterfly Jar and Depot, Depot November 13 Friends of the Family (1 hour, 30 minutes) November 20 Moles and Lebensraum November 27 Far Afield, A Rabbit Is Seen Inside It, and What the

Hell December 4 Orpheus Gets Laid December 11 The Lovers and Improv in the Park (1 hour, 30 minutes) December 18 Preparation H and 33 Minute Show (1 hour)

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