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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 24, 2000
Play wrangles with racy plot
Sarah Matthews, Olathe senior, acts out a scene with Jason Blazer, Parkville, M., freshman, last night at a dress rehearsal for the play. Roack Stock. The play opens today at the Lawrence Arts Center, 200 W. Ninth St. Photo by Lucas W. Krump/KANSAN.
By Sara Shepherd writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
An off-stage sex scene, swearing, spirits and a few folks walking in their skivies are only a few of the elements that bring a racy twist to Rough Stock, a play produced by a local independent theater.
Rough Stock takes place during a weekend at a Kansas rodeo. The plot revolves around Wally, a heavy-drinking bullrider. His 16-year-old son, Ray, comes to live and travel with him on the rodeo circuit. Throughout the weekend, Ray sees the extent of his father's problems and realizes he must take more responsibility. Eventually, a rodeo clown and friend of Wally's tries to convince Wally to clean up his act and tries to convince Ray to get his father some help. While dealing with his father, Ray meets a girl named Louise and experiences his first romance.
University of Kansas students and community actors will take the Lawrence Arts Center stage tonight in the Card Table Theater's first of four productions of the three-act play.
Julie Dougherty, Overland Park park senior, plays one of Rough Stock's most scandalous personalities.
"My character's name is Jessica Wolf," Dougherty said. "And she's what they call a buckle bunny — which, I guess, in layman's terms is a rodeo slut."
"Some of the lines are a little pushing the envelope," she said.
Dougherty said there were a lot of crude comments in the script.
Jason Blazer, Parkville, Mo., freshman, plays the role of Ray. Blazer said he thought the play's drinking, womanizing, sexual innuendoes and colloquial language helped break the stereotype that theater was old fashioned.
"This play is so lightearted and so fun," he said. "It's really contemporary."
Blazer said there were sever implied 'sex scenes, and he wasn't sure how the audience would respond to them. One occurs when Wally wakes up in his briefs and his current mistress (or buckle bunny, enters the room with her shirt wide open.
"I'm kind of scared about that because I don't know how people are going to react," Blazer said.
Blazer said the overall theme of the play was serious, but pithy banter between characters kept it entertaining, even funny for some.
"It kind of depends on your sense of humor," Blazer said. Christina Schafer, Leawood freshman, acts as Ray's sweetheart, Louise. Schafer said the cast gathered at one member's house to watch videos of rodeos for some
background on the play's subject. In addition to seeing different rodeo events, they studied the participants speak, clothing, and actions.
Watching the rodeos was especially eye-opening for Schafer, who said she recently moved to the Midwest from Boston.
Equally as eye-opening were the line dances — including the tush push and the boot scootin' boogie that the cast learned for the show.
"That was awesome," Schafer said. "Learning the line dances was a lot of fun."
Schafer said the eight-member cast had been rehearsing several hours a day, six days a week, for the past month.
"It was pretty intense, but it's all fun." she said.
The Card Table Theater, formed in the spring of 1998, is a not-for-profit independent theater, whose repertoire differs from other local theaters, said Jeremy Auman, cofounder, actor and former KU theater student.
It was designed to fill a gray area between the University Theater and the Lawrence Community Theater, he said.
“It’s a fun show — a fun full-length play,” Averill said. “A good evening in the theater.”
Another former KU theater student, Will Averill, director and co-founder of Card Table Theater, said the group performed original works and productions. Rough Stock is its 12th production.
In addition to three 8 p.m. showings of Rough Stock, there also will be an encore
ROUGH STOCK
What: Rough Stock, a Card Table Theater production
Where: The Lawrence Arts Center, 200 W. Ninth St.
Performance times: 8 p.m. today, tomorrow Saturday, and 11 p.m. tomorrow
- Tickets $7 for adults, $6 with KUID, may be purchased from LAC or at door.
performance of the play at 11 p.m. Friday.
Length: about 1 hour and 45 minutes
"We like to do late-night theater as opposed to matines," Aumun said. "More people show up."
Phillip Hunsinger, associate professor of health, sport and exercise science, has taught Health and Human Sexuality for 26 years. Hunsinger is able to keep his students relaxed, even during discussions that involve sensitive topics.
Photo by Brad Dreier/KANSAN
Dailey's sex class not only one offered
By Mike Hoffman
writer@kansan.com
Kanson staff writer
Dennis Dailey's course, Human Sexuality in Everyday Life, is not the only class about sex offered at the University of Kansas. Phillip Huntsinger, associate professor of health, sport and exercise science, is in his 26th year of teaching HSES 489: Health and Human Sexuality.
"We cover basically the same things." Huntsinger said of his class and Dailey's, professor of social welfare. "People say his class is X-rated and mine is R-rated."
Huntsinger said the question of his class being in the shadow of Daliev's was irrelevant.
"I'm not out for publicity," he said. "Dennis and I are friends."
Huntsinger said that Dailey even came to speak to his class once and it was a great time.
A crowd of 119 students, freshmen through seniors, are enrolled in the class. Some take it to fulfill a major requirement, others take it out of their own interest.
The class covers topics including sexually transmitted diseases, anatomy, human sexual response, psycho-dynamic of sexual behavior.
ior and sexual aberrations such as pedophilia and beasteality. The class also studies sexual theories of historical figures such as Sigmund Freud.
Barry Clark, Topeka sophomore,
he said he took the class just for fun.
"I knew people who took it before, and they said there were no boundaries to what we could talk about," he said.
Clark said that one day Huntsinger told the students to imagine the doors of the classroom as the entrance into a vagina and the classroom as the inside of the womb. Clark said Huntinger's point was that everything could be looked at in a sexual way.
Zachary Kolich, Lenexa Junior, said Huntsinger was an awesome teacher.
"He's extremely mature to be able to handle that kind of material the way he does," Kolich said. "He keeps everyone loose; no one in class is really uptight."
Both Kolich and Clark agreed that nothing discussed in the class made them feel uncomfortable.
Hunters said it was not one of his goals to shock people.
"I liken the way I teach the class to a father talking to his children about sex," he said.
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