14 Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 10 July '85

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Teacher Turns Slayer For Mid Atlantic Stage,

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JACK BURKE

B v I. I B B Y DUMP FORREST CAPE MAY - Jack Burke has murder on his mind. This week, he's sinking his teeth into "The Passion of Dracula". Next week, he has in mind to undo a Victorian spinster from her inheritance. The week after next, he'll have murder on his mind again as he devises a plan to do away with a wealthy wife by her villainous husband. That is all in a summer's work for Burke, producer of the MidAtlantic Stage repertory company, which i£ performing six nights a week through Labor Day on an outdoor stage at the Emlen Physick estate. "It's interesting to rehearse 'Dial M For Murder' or 'Dracula' in the basement of a church." Burke observed as he relaxed in the box office, a porch behind the summer kitchen of the Physick mansion. THE CHRISTIAN Admiral Hotel and Our Lady Star of the Sea Church have been donating rehearsal space as well as the city in the old Franklin Street School. In spite of the revolving rehearsal places, the MidAtlantic Stage is a professional company, drawing actors and technicians from New York and performers from Rutgers University's actor-training program. Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts contributes most of the nearly $50,000 to support the company with some financial help from the state Council of the Arts. "We provide theater that is a cut above Neil Simon." said Burke. "We want to be

entertaining and provide a pleasant evening for the audience. "We try to do one thing that's Victorian — this year it's The Heiress'." Now in its third year, MidAtlantic Stage utilizes two trailers behind the stage for storage and office space. "I would like this theater to grow and become more stable," admitted Burke. "MAC picked up the deficit last year - and that was about $13,000. "WERE TRYING to find new and innovative ways of supporting that. We've got a program with some restaurants. We give them a special deal for tickets and they've been giving them away for early seatings in the restaurant. That's become fairly successful." A theater and English teacher at Point Pleasant High School, Burke has just purchased a duplex in Erma so he can stay close to the fledging company. His first taste of theater was during his high school days in Jersey City when he played the king in "The King and I", even shaving his head for the role. He earned a BA at Seton Hall, graduate degrees in liberal arts. English and theater at the New School and Jersey City State, and a doctorate in theater at Michigan State. Just after college he worked in a summer street program in Rochelle, N.Y.. doing shows all over the city on a portable stage. "We did everything from jazz to street theater." Burke remembered. One show was with Cool and the Gang, a rhythm and blues group that drey* 3.000 fans to a neighborhood performance. '

A resident director of the Roger Hendricks Simon Studio in New York, Burke contrasted his double life as a wintertime teacher with his summers in Cape May. "WHEN YOU'RE doing theater in high school you 'have to do everything from the set to directing to whatever. You're also working with untrained actors so there's a certain level of expectation that you have. "What I would pick as a production for a high school would be directly proportion to the kind of dctors I was working with and what the production could teach them. "Here, I'm more concerned with entertaining the public. This is a much more professional atmosphere. I'm able to get people who do just what they do. A lighting designer

does the lights and a set designer does the set. "To do a show you have to believe that what you're doing on stage is real. An actor goes through a lot of torture and intensity to achieve that. That's what his training and craft are all about. If you don't believe what's happening on stage is real then audiences will find that out. "When you look at 'Dial M For Murder' you can believe by the middle of the second act that Tony Wendice is reJlly going to kill his wife. Yet. when you meet him on the street, you'd never think he's even swat a fly." (Editor's note: performances by the MidAtlantic Stage are held six evenings weekly, Monday-Sunday at 8:30 p.m. through Labor Day at 1048 Washington St. For ticket information call 884-5404. )

Registration Set At Wild wood High

WILDWOOD - Registration for new students entering Wildwood High School (Grades 7 through 12) will take place 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 22 through Aug. 2 at the guidance office. Anyone planning to send a child to the high school for the 1984-85 school year should stop in the Guidance Office now to pre-register

him/her. This enables the guidance office to obtain student records needed prior to the actual registration. Appointments will be made after the records have been received. EACH ENROLLEE must be accompanied by one of his/her parents or legal guardian and should bring available school records (Previous report cards, k transfer forms, or 1 transcripts) in order to I establish proper grade J placement, along with medical records showing current immunization against diphtheria, polio, and measles Residents of North Wildwood should obtain tuition letters from Margate Mace School, and Wildwood Crest residents ' should obtain tuition letters from Crest Memorial School. This tuition letter must be presented at registration. Students who live in Wildwood must also prove their residency. A copy of a lease, bill, driver's license, or other proof with the cur- • rent address designated is acceptable.

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