University Daily Kansan Thursday, November 9,1961
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Unusual Techniques Featured In Theatre's 'Dark of the Moon'
Unusual techniques will be used in Experimental Theatre's production of "Dark of the Moon," to be presented Monday through Friday next week.
By Richard Currie
A turntable will be used for the first time in the Experimental Theatre, and Karen Pyles, Wichita graduate and director of the play, will use dancers for several key parts.
While the use of dancers is not new, the turntable is usually reserved for major theater productions, Miss Pyles, said. Constructed by the stage crew, the turntable will allow for major scene changes and speed the play's progress.
THIS PROCEDURE is typical of
experimental theater. In the past, the Experimental Theatre utilized a church setting for background to its production of T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral."
The idea of an experimental theater came from the complacency which enveloped the state theaters in the 1840s. The big theaters scorned new approaches and methods, but new ideas, attitudes and thinking were being expressed by young playwrights and directors.
DISSATISFIED BY the complacent attitudes of the state theaters, these young playwrights sought the garrets and made-over restaurants to produce their plays. The make-shift theaters were built by aspiring
directors, disgusted at the lack of initiative in the established theaters.
"DARK OF THE MOON" belongs to this class because of its theme and stage techniques. The play, based on the folktale "Barbara Allen," deals with a witch-boy who falls in love with Barbara Allen.
A conjurer woman—a witch of sorts—transforms the boy, John, into a human being with the proviso that Barbara will be true to him for one year. She is unfaithful near the end of the play after participating in a revival.
'Sandbox' to Run Here Next Week
Death and its ogre will dominate a church next week in the Kansas premiere of Edward Albee's "The Sandbox," a one act play.
"The Sandbox," a shocking play, deals with contemporary American society and its outlook towards death and old people. Directed by Robert Phillips, Chanute senior, Westminster Center will offer it Nov. 18 and 19 at 8 p.m. with no admission charged.
Mr. Albee is a young American playwright whose work has received critical acclaim for its daring examination of modern society. "The Sandbox" is a selection from Mr. Albee's current hit "The American Dream" running at an off-Broadway theater in New York.
Columbia Professor Talks On Problems of a Biographer
Biography has never had a definite place in literature. Novelists and poets refuse to look upon it as a part of literary art, and historians don't consider it a division of history, James L. Clifford, professor of English at Columbia, told KU students and faculty members Wednesday afternoon.
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- Should the biographer attempt to use symbols, patterns and myths, such as the novelist uses? There are certain patterns and themes in actual persons' lives similar to those in the lives of fictional characters. Biographers tend to ignore these.
- The title of the lecture was, "The Problems of a Biographer." Prof. Clifford cited some major problems of the modern biographer:
- How should the biographer choose his material? Biographers often try to pick material which reinforces their own preconceived ideas about the person.
- How does the relationship of
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