University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, December 2.1975
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Farce about morality final play
A farce that laughs at both good and bad characters as they attempt to deal with morality will be the final University of theater production of the fall semester.
The play, "Jest, Satire, Irony and Deeper Significance," will be performed at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday in the William Inge Memorial Theatre.
Written in 1822 by German playwright Cristian Grabie, the play was translated by director Rufus Cadigan, assistant inventor and writer of the play. By Kirk Conden, Overland Park junior.
"The aim in the translation and adaptation was to give the play a sense of timelessness," Cadigan said yesterday. "A lot of the references were dated and made fun of contemporary 19th century German poets and writers."
Cadigan eliminated all of these obscure references, sometimes substituting with other words.
The play is about the devil, acted by Garry
Techentien, Leawood sophomore, who is
kicked out of hell by his grandmother when she does her spring cleaning. He comes to earth, where he freezes, but he is found and thawed out by two scientists.
From there on, the devil is in control,
bringing chaos and have to those he comes
in contact with and perpetuating schemes of
seduction, kidnapping and murder.
The 20 scenes in the play shift rapidly in time—back to the middle ages, forward to the future and to the present. Cadigan said his aim was to jolt the audience into not knowing exactly what place and time they would go to next.
Cadigan said that according to the playwright, morality wasn't determinable, and poor mortals were laughably pathetic as they wandered in the maze of life.
There is a central theme of confusion in time and space, he said. There is also a confusion about good, evil and morality in general.
"We're working with an image of
clowns," Cadiagn said, "because all of the
Foreign news broadcasts available in language labs
Foreign language news broadcasts available by telephone, can be used later in the language laboratories, according to his duties as director of the language laboratories.
"At the moment we're primarily record newscasts that are programmed on the telephone," Garinger said. "But we are also having a debate who want recordings for class use."
He said the Language Laboratories were able to receive and record international broadcasts through short wave antennas on top of Wescoe. Three remain in a fixed position while a fourth rotates. The three fixed antennas are beamed towards the way of Alaska, toward Europe by way of Canada and toward Latin America directly.
Garringer said last week that any student could hear an old broadcast by coming into the language laboratories and requesting it by the date and language. Other people, in northwestern Kansas, school teachers in northern Kansas, said they request copies of old broadcasts, he said.
"The purpose of the rotating beam antenna is to fill in the blanks if one of the other three fails to pick up a broadcast," Garinger said. "It's 28 feet wide, rotates about 360 degrees and looks like a huge television antenna."
John Harkensman, Philadelphia graduate student, receives and records the daily
He said the receiving equipment for international broadcasts cost $1,600, including installation, a five-year guarantee and free maintenance.
"In selecting a newscast, I look for clarity and readability." Harkanson said.
He said the strongest newsheet that he had received was from Deutsche Welle. the
Each of the 17 characters presents a different aspect of Grabbie's own perseverance. In this includes the drunk, child beating school and the ugly muskulli, the hero of the play.
the tortured life of a drunk, syphilic, and extremely ugly man who died at the age of 40.
On Campus
Yet Grabbe knew how to make fun of himself and the world around him, Cedigan sai.
TODAY: The film "BUDDISM IN CHINA" will be shown at 4:15 p.m. in the lecture room of Spooner Art Museum. The REV. JOHN S. GRAEL, a Methodist minister who has participated in the Zionist movement, will speak at 7 p.m. in the Forum. Mr. Grael will lecture about "THE HUMAN VOICE: A COMMUNICATING INSTRUMENT AND ITS USE" at 8 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium of the Union.
characters end up clowning in a grotesque,
distorted way."
official voice of the Federal Republic of Germany. If a foreign government's official broadcast is unclear, Harkanson said he used the Voice of America as a substitute. The Voice of America, which broadcasts international newscasts in numerous languages, is sponsored by the United States Government.
According to Harkanson, a Chinese broadcast from Radio Peking has never been broadcast on television because broadcasts from the People's Republic of China are difficult to receive. As substitutes, broadcasts in Chinese from Police of America and Radio Moscow are used.
Events . . .
The play isn't realistic, nor is it handled realistically in the way people move, he said. It has been cited by German scholars as an anticipation of the expressions and absurd movements. The play was ahead of questioning moral values, Cadian said.
Harkerson, a graduate student in East Asian Studies, knows Chinese and is able to help the oriental languages and literatures of Chinese students for students from the Chinese broadcasts.
Harkarson said he didn't have to guess when a foreign broadcast was strongest because he had the time of a station's best transmitting conditions in a log. In order to know what the foreign stations are broadcasting at which times, the language laboratories subscribe to their program guides.
"The play's title was written, I think, as a parody of some critics of the time who were fond of categorizing things and putting them into pigeon holes." Cadigan said. "The title must be taken tongue in cheek, as the whole play must be."
One character, the sign bearer, was added to the original script by Cadigan and Candon to introduce the scenes. The sign bearer also announces the time and place of the scene.
A University of Kansas professor is one o
American designers invite to display
their designs.
Gary Nemchom, assistant professor of design, said yesterday he would submit both functional and nonfunctional jewelry and hollow ware, made from gold and silver, to
Prof's jewelry in Frisco show
Although he won't be sending any electronic jewelry to the San Francisco exhibit, he said he wanted to have a one-man display of his electronic jewelry in the future.
The exhibit is entitled "Sculpture to
the Alma Galler." It will be on display until Dec. 13 in
The Alma Galler.
Nernochk also designs electronic jewelry, which lights up in reaction to its temperature.
Other designers' will include pieces in sculpture, ceramics, jewelry and fiber, bead.
"The end of the play symbolizes the miserable existence we lead," he said, "but it is saying that if we can laugh at ourselves and run, then we can make life more bearable."
Grabbe had a pessimistic point of view, on nobilism on hilihion. Cadidan said. He led
Nemochck has participated in exhibitions in such major cities as Washington, Boston, St. Louis and New York.
The properties and the set are all suggestive rather than realistic, Cadigan said. He has included the use of a harpsichordist, flutist and two singers, whose music is interspersed throughout the production.
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Myriad moods shown in fiction selections
Six KU students will have the chance this week to see their fiction writing in print for the first time.
Lichter said yesterday his students spent many hours outside of class preparing "Rendervous" for publication. He said they elected an editorial board to select stories for publication from the class' manuscripts. Other students in the class were in charge of
Lichter read the two of the stories, "Illusions of Reality," by Nancy Long, Norton, junior, and "Step on a Crack" by Peggy Brown, Bayanum, Puerto Rico, senior, on his weekly program, "Rendezvous," last Sunday night on KJHK.
According to Lichter, a variety of moods and feelings, ranging from light to heavy emotion, are expressed.
"Rendervous" is a class project of students in Fiction Writing II, taught by Alan Lichter, assistant professor of English.
Their works will appear in the second edition of "Rendezvous," which will be sold today, tomorrow and Thursday at the north and east entrances of Wesco Hall and at Wesco Tower Cafeteria. One thousand copies were printed. The price is ten cents.
The tabloid features six short stories dealing with mature themes, he said.
Other stories appearing in the tabloid are "Well, Well, Well, Another Day" by Robert Gavin, Kansas City, Mo, senior; "Ghosts" by Judy Hulse, Lawrence senior; "Early Days" by Judy Hulse, Lawrence junior; "Sacrifice homophone" and "Missing Persons" by Robyn Dunkum, Lawrence junior.
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