University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 19. 1971
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Kansas Staff Photo by DAVID HENRY
Pat Relph, Fredonia junior, in Role of Lysistrata
...surrounded by women of the cast
Japanese Theater Is Lecture Subject
"Japanese Traditional Theater" was the topic of a lecture given by Andrew Tsubaki Thursday evening in the Kansas Union. Tsubaki is acting director of the international theater and assistant professor of Oriental studies at the University of Kansas.
Tsunaki compared the Eastern theater with the Western theater and said the Japanese theater was the almost unchanged for 600 years.
"But the Eastern people, by retaining tradition, go to the plays," Tsukhaki said.
Tsubaki described two types of theaters in Japan. The theater represents a form of the "no" theater is simple and symple, slow-moving and elegant. The "koyoen" theater is larger and sometimes full of mischief and sometimes full of mischief.
"Riy finding their own meanings in the theater, Western people make the plays come to them.
Tsubaki showed film segments
of 'no' theater productions and slides of the Japanese stage, costumes, masks and fans that are part of every performance
"Movement is a very important part of the Japanese theater," Tsubaki said.
"It is the visual beauty created by the fabric of the costumes, often brocade or silk, rather than movement of the body."
Pine trees are seen on every stage. They are part of tradition, and are painted on the back wall and around the front form actors use to enter the stage.
Symbolic gestures are also important. For example, raising one or both hands toward the eyes symbolizes crying.
Musical instruments like lutes and drums are used with nearly every performance, but few stage properties are used.
The platform, which all actors must cross, sometimes symmetrically the road of life. It also represents the body of the spirit after the body dies.
Lysistrata' On Tonight
"Ilyssatrist," the classic Greek play by Aristophanes, will be presented at the University of Kansas Theatre this Friday and Saturday and on March 26 and 27. This year's matinee performance on the
The play centers around the action created when the women from Athens and Sparta band together and stage a sex strike that husbands in order to end the war between the two countries.
Ron Williams, associate professor of speech and drama and director of the play, said. "The story of the play is based on its basicly a number of spin-off events that grow out of one woman's plot to bring about an end to the war by depriving the enemy from money and sex."
Darrell Keister, Shawnee senior, designed the set for *The Great Gatsby*, whose were done by Chez J. Hault, associate professor of speech and drama. The cast of 57 is headed by Fredonia junior, in the lead role.
Theater Group to Open Festival
"We have chosen to emphasize one characteristic of the original production that we think must have beer and an important one," said "That is the spirit of commercial good will or,粘合ly."
An avant-garde troupe of eight actors who call themselves Blackbird Theater will kick off the Festival of Arts on Monday.
They are noted for their modern interpretations of old theatrical productions. At the theater, they play "Kinky Baby," Auditorium, the troupe will perform "Ivan the Fool," "Crawl Little" ("Punch and Jumble") or a more classic show.
"Ivan the Fool" is a free adaptation of Tolstoy's fairy tale about the devil and a fool. Chicken Little" is a contented tale of children's life. It will be performed on a cranky movie, a series of drawings rolled through a simple box. "Punch and Judy" is an interactive audience in Trafaiger Square in BlackBird Theater claims to do a traditional production of this puppet play, but freely admits that the characters adapt their performances to their audiences' reactions.
THE THEATER performs a variety of plays that comment on current social problems and issues. "Poisons" is an unusual mimed study of man's place in his environment. "Tenements," a musical, explores the hazards of renting living space.
According to R. L. Puf' Bailey, Atchison graduate student,
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appealing rather than intellectually dramatic, much the same as medicine shows in days past.
Blackbird Theater is an example of the current changes being made in traditional theatre. They rely on conventional or conventional rather than
"The their style is loose, open, and predicable. 'Bailey said, 'We were seen in the Midwest. It is slowly spreading here from the east and north.'"
Blackbird Theater is also a nonconformist group in the music company their acting. They pride themselves in being one of the world's finest jug orchestra, a jug orchestra being a band but not a symphony.
IF THE THEATER is a relatively unknown group, it is for one reason. Its members have little interest in advertising and promotion. They are less confident than the quality of their material.
THE COSTUMES Blackbird
Theater members wear
simple and props are held to a
minimum. They try to make the
costumes convincing.
Plays, all written by the actors
themselves, are emotionally
Lawrence in October. He instills upon involving his audiences with his plays. The cast often passes them to other members as they enter the theater.
The actors consider their art a life style instead of a profession. The plays they produce are a method of communication with the public. According to Jane Burke, *Express* writer. Black Theater's form of acting is the ultimate in community theater.
Blackbird Theater is led by Andy and Amy Trompeter. Trompeter was formerly with the group that performed in the group that performed in
This Sunday, March 21,the Jayhawk Sports Car Club in cooperation with AURH presents its 7th annual
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Lewis Hall. Open to any and all automobiles.
"Love Story." Oh, go ahead and see it. (Hillcrest 1)
Cinema Scene
"My Fair Lady," Lerner and Leavis's version of "Pygmalion" may be the most exciting film, is still enchanting and the production as a whole quite delightful. Harrison is an Englishman in *Enery* by Audrey Heepm makes a most fetching Liza. Winner of the 1964 Oscar for what that's worth. (Granada)
"The Owl and the Pussycat." Her name is Barbra. (Hillcrest 2)
benthic shrimp (Hustrelle a
on) on Hommel? Richard
takes lakes on the Desert Fox.
Maybe he wrong man won
(Varsity)
"Women in Love." The D. H Lawrence novel set to the screen
Singer Varies Lighting To Sustain Many Moods
Unusual lighting and interpretive musical arrangements highlighted a recital Thursday by Miriam Stewart, Green in Swarthard Recital Hall. Mrs. Swarthard sang songs accompanied in different instruments, a harpichord, guitar, oboe, piano. English horn and celeste.
Mrs. Green's "Reitalt of Environmental Light" enchanted an audience of 150 people by light and total darkness to complement the mood she with her rich soprano voice.
Toneka junior.
The high point of the recital came when she performed Armageddon, an original number composed by Richard Averill.
Deeply impressionistic and performed in complete darkness, the number created a somber and ostere mood. Singing and she led her audience through an atmosphere of heavy darkness.
In an interview after the rehearsal of Green, an associate professor of women and girls at a cultural idea behind her unusual reuse was to create through the use of non-litning techniques and instruc-tion the ability to press or pression or mood which her selection of songs called for. Mrs. Green recorded one recital per year. Mrs. Green indicated that she has many ideas for future projects so she plans to use in future years.
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