Okay, so I can’t pronounce her name correctly, live on the air, to save me. In fact, I freely admit I’ve NEVER gotten it right. (For the record, it’s “TELL-er-ee EHR-en-dell.”) But Dr. Telory Arendell, Missouri State University Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance, seems to take it in stride. (Or at any rate, she tolerates it amiably!) She is seeing the fruits of her labor—and that of the numerous MSU students involved in the production—on display this weekend as they perform Lanford Wilson’s 1966 play “The Rimers of Eldritch” through Sunday May 5 in Craig Hall Coger Theatre. The production only runs this one weekend, and the play contains strong language and adult themes. “It is a wonderful play,” says Dr. Arendell. “It’s a difficult play! My students had the most trouble memorizing lines—largely because none of it is sequential. It sort of skips around in time and place and character, and all the rest, right? So you’re here, you’re there, literally in a matter of minutes. So you
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