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University Daily Kansan Monday, Nov. 12, 1962
Kafka's The Trial' Well Done By KU's Experimental Theatre
By Rose Elen Osborne Franz Kafka's "The Trial" is a good portrait of a bad dream.
The University Experimental Theatre production which opened Sunday guided its fascinated audience through a maze of bizarre people and places in a nightmare search for justice.
KARL DOERRY, German graduate student, was compelling as Joseph K., the man who finds himself wriggling his hands and racking his brain to determine his crime.
In Kafka's pseudo world Doerry awakes one morning to find himself under arrest by the courts. He looks to others for guidance and comfort, but he is hampered by his own inability to communicate with society.
Bill Evans, Clarkedale, Miss. graduate student and director, doesn't miss an opportunity to inject anerie atmosphere into the play. Sombre music and effective lighting transport the audience from a lonely boarding house to a busy bank, the sickroom of a lawyer, and a depressing waiting room filled with bent, broken people who have been pleading their cases for years.
SIX SKELETON frames of walls are shuffled here and there on the stage forming the various settings and allowing the audience to follow two or three actions occurring simultaneously.
When the scene shifts to a cathedral, perhaps to symbolize this modern Job's search for and desperate need of God, all the walls are moved off stage. A single shaft of
light from above creates a churchlike atmosphere.
Paul Broderick, Overland Park freshman, is the grave priest who attempts to explain man's search for justice to the lonely bank clerk.
BUT JUSTICE is a fleeting thing as portrayed by Rick Friessen, Kansas City sophomore and court artist.
Friessen, a somewhat eccentric painter, makes his appearance in a full-length paint-splotched night-shirt. As the humorous element in the play, he is pestered by two unbelievably devilish streeturchins, Marilyn Belton, Lost Springs junior, and Jane Hess, Rogersville, Mo., graduate student.
While the painter explains how he can use his influence to help the accused, he is scouring the room on all fours searching for pants and tattered sneakers. The effect is so comical and absurd that it serves as a point of relief in the series of tense happenings.
DOERRY PORTRAYS Joseph K. as always alone and always searching. His only close contact, another human being in his world is with Leni, the sad-eyed servant girl who finds all the accused men beautiful. But Joseph K. cannot stop his pursuit long enough to form a real bond with the doleful girl played by Karen Duffy, Albanv. N. Y., senior.
One of the most effective scenes in the play comes shortly before Joseph K.'s execution. He has been tried by "the court that controls everything" and sentenced.
The entire cast, dressed for a masquerade ball, rushes on the stage and throws confetti at Joseph K. and exits. He is quickly stabbed and left sprawled on the ground where the dancers in their grotesque masks find him later.
Laird Points Out Ways To Promote Civil Rights
A professor of political science said Friday that students should take measures to insure that the Negro is not made to live "like a lesser being."
Roy D. Laird said at the Current Events Forum that "civil rights are only as good as the convictions of citizens and leaders and the game must be played according to the rules."
TERMING CIVIL rights the "backbone of a civilized society," Professor Laird suggested three ways in which students should promote civil rights They are:
- Speak up regarding whatever they feel, remembering that it is most important to abide by Constitutional rules of procedure.
- Refuse to belong to a club that practices discrimination and make their reasons known openly and publicly at every opportunity.
- Believe that human dignity is more important than anything else.
  "Many, if not most people feel frustrated because they can't do anything about the South," he said.
"WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I thought that I would like to get a machine gun and sneak up on a Klu Klux Klan meeting."
"My distaste is still as great, but fortunately it was tempered by the recognition that, unfortunately, many of these people believe just as strongly that the Negro is . . . not deserving of human dignity."
To bring new members into unions, Reuther said, the labor movement must give them "a sense of consciously participating and shaping the great issues that will determine the kind of society in which we are all going to be living."
Reuther Tells Labor to Work Harder On Social Problems
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Organized labor will have to devote more attention to general social problems than wages in the years ahead, AFL-CIO Vice-President Walter Reuther said yesterday.
The AFL-CIO leader proposed creation of a "technological clearing house," in which labor, industry and government would work together to determine the future impact of automation.
REUTHER'S comments were made in an interview conducted by Donald McDonald, dean of the College of Journalism at Marquette University, and published by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.
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REUTHER SAID in the past decade the average rate of union victories in bargaining elections declined from 75 per cent to 55 per cent, partly because of actions by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration.
"ITS AN AFFAIR of the law; it doesn't concern us," the artist says, and the dancers freeze in their positions.
Under Eisenhower, Reuther charged, the NLRB made it "more difficult for unions seeking bargaining recognition. The board permitted delays in elections," he said, "so that by the time one was held the company had already carried out a program of brainwashing and intimidation."
What does it all mean? What is Joseph K. really searching for? Don't be logical. Just ride the wave of emotion and apply its meaning to yourself as an individual is the thought of Evans.
"It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen." commented one theatre-goer.
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A Fulbright scholar-violinist will perform in a Faculty Recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Theodore Johnson, assistant professor of music theory, will play songs of Corelli, Martinu and Brahms at the recital.
Prof. Johnson has been a Fulbright scholar in Germany and has received the University of Michigan Stanley Award for music.
Fulbright Violinist Will Give Recital
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Classical music enthusiasts can mark two dates on their calendar this week.
Two Faculty Members Plan Musical Performances
No Robbery, Just Lunch
Finding no signs of life, they banged on a window wherein appeared the surprised face of the driver who was eating his lunch.
He is also a member of the KU String Quartet.
Soprano Miriam Stewart Hamilton, assistant professor of voice, will perform at the Faculty Recital at 8 tonight at Swarthout Recital Hall.
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Prof. Hamilton will be accompanied by Richard Angeletti, piano instructor.
Prof. Hamilton has included a variety of classical numbers on the program.
She has chosen "Aria de La Demoiselle Elue," "La Voix de La Vierge Erigone," "Vox Coelestis,"
She will sing "Cécilie" "Traum Durch Durch Dämmung" "Die Nacht," "Morgen," "Befreit," "All Meine Gedanken," "Allerseleen," and "Ruhe Meine Seele" from composer Richard Strauss.
and "Ariette Oubilee" from the works of Claude Debussy.
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