University Daily Kansan
Friday, December 2, 1977
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Local actor performs with body and soul on stage
a theater piece that emphasizes the actor will be presented in Lawrence this weekend by a local actor who has recently returned from the East coast.
Kevin Kuhke grew up in Lawrence and attended college in Prescott, Ariz. He worked with a theater company in Maine before joining the Stage I Theatre Lab in Boston, where he spent the last two-and-a-half years. Kuhke returned to Lawrence in August.
His production, a solo piece entitled "Freight," will be performed at 8:30 tonight, tomorrow and Sunday night at the Lawrence Art Center, Ninth and Vermont streets. Kuhke described the piece as "corporal theater."
"I licked around a lot of names to describe it," he said. "I thought of calling it 'The Daughter.'"
athletic. Corporal theater is a good term because it covers the total use of the body in athletic activities.
KUHLER SAID THAT corporal theater is characterized by the emphasis on the actor's role, and the audience's role.
"Everything centers on the what actor can accomplish," he said. "It's not play acting; it's not illustrative. This is theater that accomplishes something."
The type of theater Kuhle performs grew out of the early work of Jerszy Growtowski of the Polish Theatre Lab. Growtowski began to develop his method of training actors in 1959, on the actor's potential to develop a total performance.
According to Kuhike, Growtowka recognized the potential of the actor's own potential.
"The possibilities for accomplishment are
infinite and more beautiful than polished
formal and lovely ideas". Kuhke said.
"I am an American and a Kansaan."
"I can develop my own ideas
from my own culture."
GROWTOWSKI'S TRAINING methods gave Kuhike the background and inspiration to perform in the theater, but Kuhike realized that he was ready to develop his own experience and branch out on his own. He moved left Boston and returned to his hometown.
Kuhike said that the piece had a definite structure that allowed the performer and the audience to relax and enjoy the music. The ensemble was quite intimate, shaped for an audience of 30.
"We don't demand that the audience join the actor in the piece—that makes the audience too self-conscious and cuts off the opportunity for real communication."
Danny Cox, a solo acoustic guitarist who was scheduled to open the Norman Blake Show tonight in the Kansas Union Ballroom, has canceled because of illness.
Solo guitarist bows out of bluegrass show tonight
Mark Woodman, in charge of SUA special events, said last night that money would be refunded to those wishing to return tickets because of the performance change.
Kukire said that he could sense the reactions of the audience to the present-
"It is a group that small I can tell if people
amused, amused, amused or bored with what I
mean."
“‘Freight’ grew out of Kuhlhe’s experiment with inanimate objects. He took the title from a thought that objects and ideas were “freight” that one carries around. The work is drawn from a story by Robert Kuhlhe, who said the piece did not try to recreate the past, but to confront the memories of the past in the present.
Cox canceled yesterday afternoon.
A CORPORAL THEATER performance demands a great deal of the actor, Kuhlike said, and he is usually physically exhausted at the end of a show.
Woodman said he thought he had found a replacement, although he could he could not say who the performer was because his appearance had not been confirmed.
Blake and his wife, Nancy, known for
music, engross music, are still
called obedient A.
Tickets are on sale for $3 at Kiel's, 2500 wa-st, and at the SUA office in the Kansas City area.
"THIS TYPE OF theater isn't for lazy people," Kuhike said. "It demands some effort on the part of the audience to meet the actor. But it's not participatory theater."
"The work requires a great deal of training and technique," he said. "Some actors think they can work on inspiration alone, but that won't work in this type of
Bill Schutte, an assistant attorney general, said the hearing stems from an incident that occurred Nov. 5. According to Schutte, one of the owners, Mark R. Moore, Lawrence, was charged with allowing the injection of liquor after legal hours on that date.
The owners of a Lawrence private club, Bullwinkle', 808 W. 24th St., must show cause why the state should not revoke or suspend their liquor license for serving liquor after closing hours, an assistant attorney general said yesterday.
Liquor violation charges facing local club owners
Moore pleaded not guilty to the offense and is to be tried Dec. 8 in Douglas County
In another incident, Lawrence police sent a report to the Alcoholic Beverage Control
(ABC) stating that Bullwinkles other owner, Jeffery Leonard, Lawrence, had allowed the consumption of liquor after the legal 3 a.m. closing time on Nov. 22. Schutte
Schutte said Moore and Leonard either could ask for a full evidentiary hearing, in which the state has to prove that the incidents occurred, or acknowledge the charges and present mitigating circumstances.
"Do you what the piece demands of you and it will permit you to respond to what's in
No local charges were filed in that incident.
If found guilty, the owners' liquor license either would be suspended for a period of time to be determined by the ABC or revoked forever. Schute said.
Bullwinkle's opened Sept. 16.
“It’s a personal work,” he said, “but it’s not confessional or therapeutic. Something happens between us—with no strings attached.”
variations on a tree. You can the effect of
the number of branches between the tree and
the tree.
Due to the growing popularity of skiing, lodging provisions are very tight; therefore to be guaranteed a spot you must sign up by Jan. 13.
The Active Chapter of DELTA UPSILON would like to wish their pledge class an enjoyable time in VAIL!
"Something has happened—whether you like it or not."
the work. When it's over, you'll recognize that something has been revealed to you.
The work is not entertainment, Kuhlke said, but more like a piece of music. He compares the two as if they were two songs.
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