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University Daily Kansan, January 29, 1981
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On Campus
TODAY
THE LIFE-ISSUE SEMINAR ON SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES will discuss "The Inward Discipline of Meditation" at 7 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
THE GERMAN CLUB will meet at 8:30 p.m. to discuss plans for the upcoming Fashion Week.
THE ACADAMIC COMPUTER CENTER (ACC) will present a seminar, "Introduction to Computer Data Analysis," at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Academic Computer Center.
THERE WILL BE A PRISSA MEETING at 7:30 p.m. m.p.
This meeting is impolite for all members. This
THE CAMPUS CHRISTIAN HOUSE will offer two classes every Thursday, "The Apologetics" and "introduction to the Old Testament," at 7 p.m. at 1116 Indiana.
THE ISRAELI STUDENT ORGANIZATION presents Rob Hatley on "Travel and Study Programs in Israel" from 11 a.m. until 1:15 p.m. in Alcove B of the Union.
HILLEL SPOONSOR DR. EMANUEL LOT-
TEM on "Israel and the Middle East—Present
Realities" at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the
Union.
CHRISTIAN UNITY WEEK, sponsored by
Campus Christian Groups will be Jan. 25-30.
Drop-in luncheons will be from 11:30 a.m. until 1
p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
TOMORROW
THE CHILDREN'S THEATER PRESENTS "ANDROCLE AND THE LION" by Aurand Harris at 1 p.m. at the University Theater. Performances will begin until Jan. 31 for Lawrence school children only.
THE MUSLIM STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION will present "The Palestinian Problem: Political Analysis and Prospects and Future Solutions" at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Room of the University.
THE BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union.
ARTLECTURE BY LINDA STONE on "Views of Hariem: Ruisdal and Rembrandt Reconsidered" at 2:30 p.m. in Room 211 of the Spencer Museum of Art.
SUA ALL CAMPUS GAMES TOURNAMENT
in Big Eight Room of the Union from 2 to 9 on Wednesdays.
THE SIEERRA CLUB will present the
THE SIEERRA CLUB will present the
7:30 p.m. in, the
Jayhawk Room of the Union.
MASTER'S RECITAL BY ORGANIST IVAN BATTLE at $ p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
BROLD MARKYSRAI
By PAUL STEPHEN LIM
Fable brings out the child in all ages
Contributing Reviewer
“Andriacies and the Lion,” by Anurand Harris. Presented by the University of Kannas Theatre for Young People. Directed by Jed H. Davis, and lights by Delbert Uhrin, costumes by Chez Haehl, choreography by Paula Bastemeyer, original music by David Lee Hoek.
"The tia pity youth is wasted on the young." George Bernard Shaw remarked at one time, and then went on to take all the fun and frolc out of his pedantic adaptation of Aesop's "Androcles and the Lion." Not surprisingly, Shaw's version of the famous fable is hardly ever produced. One by Aurand Harris, on the other hand, is the most often produced children's play in the world.
While essentially re-telling the story of how a runaway slave befriends a lion in the forest by pulling a thorn out of its paw, and how the same lion later saves the slave's life in the arena by refusing to eat him, Harris in his adaptation utilizes the theater style of commedia d'art.,
The reason for this, of course, is that Aurand Harris not only puts all the fun and frolc back into the original material, but he also adds barrelsful of comic inventions of his own by way of adding an additional layer of depth. A deep understanding of what it means to be young or, at the very least, youthful.
complete with painted clowns, stock characters,
promotional posters, stock action, to say nothing of
pride and glory.
After the lion (Bart Ewing) making his roaring entrance, he pauses, looks at the audience, then asks, "Have you roared today?" When the little heads in the audience shake negatively, he commands them to roar, and the sounds that emerge are loudest in every seat in the house is truly unwrokuous.
A few minutes later, when the runaway slave Androcles (David Murray) is looking for his friends (Mark Torchia and Skacey MacFarlane) and ends up being chased by two men (Dennis J. Licktiegh and Steve Hodes) who mean to put him in captivity, he turns similarly to the audience and wails, "Oh, where can I hide?" The instantaneous response from everyone, including the few adults in the house: "The cave! The cave!"
But there are moments of hushed silences, too. When the lion is yowling with pain because of the thorn in his paw, and Androcles is wondering whether or not to help him, we first see man and animal together, but then distrustful of one another, and then we see them inching toward one another, one full of hurt and the entire full of compassion. Jed H. Davis' staging of this scene is nothing short of magical.
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You have 12 chances to get involved in SUA. Applications are now available for 1981-1982 officer and board member positions. Sign up today for a position in one or more of the following areas:
1. President
5. Films
2. Vice President
9. Outdoor Recreation
6. Fine Arts
3. Secretary
7. Forums
10. Public Relations
11. Special Events
8. Indoor Recreation
4. Treasurer
Sign up for interview times now in the SUA Office located on the main floor of the Union. Interviews will be held Saturday, February 28. Sign up deadline for applications is Tuesday, February 17, 5:00 p.m.
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OUR HITLER:
PRESENTS
A FILM FROM GERMANY
The film tries to suggest the idea that Hitler was not an isolated event in German history, but the continuation of German culture, and that, therefore, a Hitler could arise in any country. It is a film of imagery—Hitler cast himself as Wagner's Siegfried, and the director casts him as Frankenstein; the Nazis talk of the job they did and we are reminded of how their work is carried on today in a hundred corners of the world. It is a horribly funny film, as when the "hannity of evil" is brought home to us by Hitler's valet, who tells us what a kind man was. And it is shattering, when Hitler tells us to remember that he was a normal man—"If you prick me, do not I bleed!" he cries.
OUR HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY is a seven-hour "film cycle" about the phenomenon of Nazism. Neither a documentary nor a fiction film, it is a created true film—an artistic speculation on Hitler's rise to power and his regime's persecution of Jewish communities, conversations and even pumples to approach the nature of Nazism.
Directed by Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, perhaps the most innovative of all the new German directors to achieve fame in the last few years, the film won many awards in Britain and Europe, despite being ignored completely by a Germany which has repudiated its entire catalogue. It is a monumental ornament; an audacious merging of Brecht and Wagner, something more in some ways than either of them, it is a unique work of art.
And why seven hours? The director explains "50 million people killed. Hitchcock needs 90 minutes for only one murder, and so I am a witness."
FRANCES FORD COPPOLY
Saturday,January31
Parts I and II 7.30 p.m. (with intermission)
Parts I and II 2:00 p.m. (with intermission)
Sunday, February 1
—Dinner Break, 6:00 p.m.—
Parts II and IV 7:30 p.m. (with intermission)
Admission to all four parts—$4.00/$3.00 w/KUID
Hoch Auditorium
SUPPORT GROUPS
WOMEN'S
Meet with women to form support.
Thursday, Jan. 29th
7:30 p.m.
Regional Room,
Kansas Union
The Emily Taylor Women's Center
Use Kansan Classified
SUA FILMS
Thursday. Jan. 29
Dersu Hzala (1975)
The Jerk
Friday, Jan. 30
A recent film by the brilliant Japanese master akira Kurosaus (Seven Samurai, Kagemusha). A party of Russian soldiers charting Shibata are guided by a recount of their splendid adventure, a story of man against and yet with nature. Oscar Award winner Hiroshi Sakuraju must not be missed by anyone who wants to see what film can do that not even Homer or Shakespeare could imagine it in color. Color, Russian subtitles, 7:30.
No, it isn't art, but Steve Martin's starring debut, perhaps the most apt named film of all time, is awfully funny. The movie has a plethora of riches to rags. With Benedict Peters, Bill Macy, directed by Carl Reiner. Plus. "A Brief History" (936) mk. 3:30, 7:00, 9:30.
The Pink Floyd Movie
(1974)
A captive concert film, painstakingly produced by the band, that gives a comedy feel. The same creative experimentation that channels their music is seen in the unique music film experience, with its cinematic style and sound. Ae, Eugeen, "One of these days" and others. Plus: Jimmy Murakami (86m) color. 12:00 Midnight. (B86)
Saturday, Jan. 31
The Jerk
3:30, 7:00, 8:30
The Pink Floyd Movie
12:00 Midnight
Lawrence-Kansas City
Area Premiere!
Francis Ford Coppola
Presents
Our Hitter: A Film from
Germany
A special presentation of a flabbergasting, amazing meditation on history. Seven hours long, in four parts, this book presents the glorious recreation, but an artistic examination of the most evil period in modern history. Tracing Hitler through the Germanic nation, he shows how left the world, writer-director Hans-Juergen Syberger and a gifted group of actors using imponements, readings from the play, and others to give him the trial he never had. The winner of many international awards including the British Film Institute award for best picture, the work of powerful originality and awesome intentions . . . seven hours long, and I'm impatient to see it again"—J. J. Sullivan, "German subtilities: A 13/453/1958 unit."
Part I ("The Grail") and Part II ("A German Dream")
Saturday, January 31, 7:30 P.M. (with intermission), Hoch Auditorium
Parking Lot
Sunday, February 1, 2:00 P.M. Hoch Auditorium
— Dinner Break, 6:00 P.M.—
Part III ("The End of a Winter's Tale") and
Part III ("The End of a Winter's Tale") and Part IV ("We Children of Hell")
Sunday, February 1; 7:30 P.M. (with inter-
mission). Hool Auditorium
Admission to all four parts: $4.00/$3.00
with KU.I.D.
Unless otherwise noted: all firm will be on campus. Kansas Union, Westfield, Morgantown $1,000; Friday, Saturday, Populus and Sunday, Monday. Tickets available at the SUA office, Kansas Union, 4th level. Information 864-239-7850. No smoking or refreshments allowed.