Tuesday, February 20, 1973
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Black Theatre Reflects New Identity'
The University of Kansas Black Theatre is one manifestation of an emergence of a new black identity in white society, ask Bill R. Crawford, associate director of the Black Theatre, drama and director of the Black Theatre.
Keeler is currently directing two Black Theatre productions, "A Soul Gone Home!" by Langton Hugh, and "We Own the Night!" by Jimmy Garrett. The two productions will be presented at KU on 10 consecutive nights beginning Sunday.
Black Theatre deals with black life and society as interpreted by black writers and portrayed by black men and women. Its involvement with the civil rights movement, Kesler said.
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"Black selfhood" is one way to describe this movement, he said. In the past, the black community has been forced to adopt white roles because of their reliance on whites for economic well-being in a white society, according to Keeler, whi is white.
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Black independence from this system is the theme of "We Own the Night," Keeler said. In the play, a black woman relies on a white employer for survival. Her husband is not employed, so the wife fills the usual masculine role of provider. In this way, the black man is emasculated, Keeler explained.
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ACCORDING TO KEELER, Black Theatre started in urban centers that had large black populations and was part of a "black Renaissance" in all black art. Although it was first noted in Harlem in New York, he said, it has been most influential in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago.
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THE HERO IN the play is rebelling against this system, Keeler said. The play is set against the background of street life. Keeler explained the play's conflict as a kind of racial Armageddon or final conflict between good and evil.
Keeler had his first experience working with Black Theatre on the West Coast. In the San Francisco area, he said, he worked with a stage manager in black productions.
Keeler said that the conflict was not that of white against black, but that of an individual struggle within members of the black community. He said that each individual had to choose to reject the system to achieve "selfhood" much as such an individual had to choose from certain elements of Catholicism before he could be free of the Church.
Black Theatre deals with a wide range of perspectives from militant plays like "We Own the Night" to a more satirical play like "A Soul Gone Home." In that play, Keeler said, a young black dies and returns to haunt his mother.
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Black Theatre first came to KU three
years ago and has been a director of black productions at KU.
Six University of Kansas alumni have been nominated to fill three positions on the KU Alumnae Association Board of Directors. Board members have five-year terms.
Robert L Brock, Topeka; Dr George E Burket Jr., Kingman; Bette Jo Jones Roberts, Garden City; Leon E. Roulier, Colby; Gee S. Slim Jr., Learned; and Brendan O'Connor, Great Prairie, were nominated by an Alumni Association committee.
Other nominations may be made to the Alumni Association by submitting a petition bearing at least 100 signatures of paid members. No more than 50 members who sign a petition may be residents of the same county. A person must serve before March 9, and must include a photograph of the nominee and biographical information.
Brad graduated from KU in 1960 and from the KU School of Law in 1951. He is a Topeka businessman and attorney, and with a partner has developed 75 Holding Inns in the United States. He is president of Inn Management Inc.
BROCK was president of the International Association of Holiday Irons. He is an alumnus of WVU and the University of Wisconsin.
Burket graduated from KU in 1937, and is a family physician in Kingman. He is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He was president of the Kansas Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Burket was president of the Kangman County alumni chapter, and has written 12 books on race and racism.
artists and papers for medical journals. Roberts is a 1950 KU graduate and secretary of the Finney County alumni chapter. She was named one of the 10 outstanding women in Finney County by the Women's Chamber of Commerce there last year, and was named 1972 Woman of the Year in Garden City.
She was an alternate delegate to the 1968 Republican National Convention. Roberts is a member of the KU Development Committee and the Greater University Fund
ROUILER GRADUATED from KU in 1959, and from the Law School in 1964. He is presently serving his third term as Thomas R. Doyle, president of the founders of the first endowment association for junior colleges in Kansas at Colby Community Junior College. He was named the associate dean of the mercere, and in 1967 was voted one of three outstanding men in Kansas by the Joycees.
Health Board and the Northwest Kansas Mental Health Center and director in 15 corporations.
smith graduated from KU in 1943 and from the KU School of Law in 1947. He has been a member of the Kansas Senate for 16 years. For eight years he was President Pro Tempore of the KU Board, chairman of the Appropriations Committee for State Colleges and Universities.
Smith helped to organize the KU Greater
Development Committee.
Roulier is a member of the Kansas Mental
Voran is a 1948 KU graduate, and is vicepresident of the State Bank of Pretty Prairie. He has been a member of the Pretty Prairie school board for 14 years. He graduated from the Lima Club, Hutchinson Knife and fork Club and the Reno Bankers Association.
Keeler said he had had little difficulty working in Black Theatre. A certain rapport has been established between the cast and a primarily white technical crew, he said.
KEELEER SAID students had been very responsive and creative in theatre work. Some difficulties have arisen in interpreting the black plays, Keelar said. He has found that some members for interpretation when the play dealt with things outside his frame of reference.
because there is a growing need for artists to interpret the needs of the black community, according to Keeler. With Black Theatre, the staff can train black performers, directors and technical personnel here, he said.
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Black art should become a permanent part of America because it is a truly indigenous American art form, he said. The black art movement is moving and powerful, Keeler said.
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Black Theatre, part of KU Experimental Theatre, will present the two productions at 8 p.m. from Feb. 25 to March 6 in the Experimental Theatre.
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