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University Daily Kansan, January 24, 1985
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Arts coordinator discovers hall's unique environment
By SHELLE LEWIS Staff Reporter
Jan Franzyk had no idea that anything like
their lives still existed before she moved to Kansas in 1895.
Frayers, who became the program coordinator for Hashing Hall in August, says she thinks Hashing provides a fantastic working atmosphere.
Hashinger is the only residence hall with an arts program coordinator, although four other halls have academic coordinators, she said.
"I think it's wonderful," she said. "This hall is unique because no other hall is put together with people who share a common interest."
AT HASHINGER, FRAYSER directs a variety of events ranging from theatre productions and field trips to bringing in guest performers and lecturers.
Lisa Greenfield, Hashinger Hall director, says, "This semester we're having programs of lifestyles and showing some literary films. It tries to tie in academics, which is kind of odd."
Frayer directed the play "Bus Stop" last fall and coordinated a trip to the Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs she said. Also, she added two jazz band and choir to perform at Hashinger.
Frayer brings experience in a number of areas to her job as program coordinator. She taught English, debate, speech and theatre for eight years in Kansas and Nebraska.
SHE EARNED BACHELOR'S degrees in speech, debate and theatre. She received her master's degree in speech education, and is
working at the University of Kansas toward a master's in counseling.
In addition, Frayer has directed theatre productions on the community, high school and college levels and has worked with children in the area of theatre dramatics.
In the past, program coordinators at Hashinger have been younger than Frayer. But Frayer, 31, provides a youthful balance with his student and figure figure, Greenfield said.
She said, "Jan gets along with everyone really well.
"She has good rapport with the students and is respected. She's always up, she's安静."
WORKING WITH STUDENTS who like to get involved makes her job an enjoyable one, Frayer said. And that makes commuting easy from Topeka much less of a painful task.
"It is a very close, very affectionate group of students that lives here," she said. "Their creative ability never ceases to amaze me. Anytime there is anything to do, whether it is making a poster or building a set, these students are right there to do it."
Greenfield says that even Frayer's husband, Steve, has gotten into the act.
"They are both really nice people," she said. "You've not invited the whole staff over to their house."
Frayers says she's looking forward to the hall's spring musical, "The Apple Tree," which she will be coordinating.
"Normally, I would be directing, but I'll be bringing my baby at about that time. "Fraser says
She expects to give birth to her first child in late February, she said.
Jan Frayser, arts program coordinator at Hashinger Hall, takes a breather. Besides handling plays and other cultural events at the arts hall, Frayser, who is expecting her first child, is working toward a master's degree in counseling.
Museum buys Belgian piece made in 1500s
The Spencer Museum of Art last month purchased a 16th-century Belgian altarpiece that represents a prime acquisition, the museum's director said recently.
The museum bought the altarpiece in December at an auction in Paris, said Jay Gates, the director. He would not disclose the amount paid for the piece.
The wooden altarpiece, known as a triptych, is a painting on three hinged panels. The center panel is twice the size of the outer panels, which can be opened or closed. Triptychs were paintings displayed behind altars in churches.
"The triptych is in exceptionally fine condition but will require the basic attentions of a conservator," Gates said. The piece is still in France, where it will be restored by the artist. In the United States, Gates said he expected the piece to arrive at the museum in May.
"I's impossible to say exactly when it will
come." In the 1930s, with a piece of lumber that's 480 years old,
it
It will be displayed at the museum with other pieces of Renaissance art, he said.
A painting of Christ traveling on the road to his crucifixion at Calvary appears on the inside of the panels, Gates said. Another painting of Christ standing before Pontius Pilate, who sentenced Christ to death, appears on the outside of the panels.
The altarpiece, which measures 117 centimeters high by 141.5 centimeters across, is thought to have been painted in 1515 in the workshop of the Master of Frankfurt, he said.
Lawrence Community Theatre opens play, new building
By RICK ZAPOROWSKI Staff Reporter
If there is one thing an acting company owns its own theater, a plays it can call home.
Or it could be the opportunity to be the first group to perform a new plav.
The Lawrence Community Theatre will have a chance to fulfill both wishes at 8 tonight. The group opens its new facility with the premiere performance of John Clifford's *The Merry Wizard*.
THE PLAY WILL be performed at 8
night, Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m.
sunday; 8 p.m. Feb. 1 and 2; 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 3; Ticket costs $8 for the general public.
The Lawrence playwright's show will be presented in a building that local thepians finally can call their own. The new theater, at
1501 New Hampshire St., is a renovated church that will serve as the permanent location for Lawrence Community Theatre productions.
Clifford's play, like the church, has been renovated, as well.
He began working on "I Was Right Here a Moment Ago" after four years ago. He said he wasn't completely satisfied with the play, so he set it aside for a while. He rewrote it about two years ago, producing a finished version that will have its premiere tonight.
CLIFFORD SAID HE wasn't particularly nervous about tonight's opening.
"I feel somewhat responsible for it, being the opening of the new theater," he said, "but I'm getting used to this sort of thing. I write films for a living."
Clifford writes industrial and educational movies for Centron, a Lawrence film company. He describes himself as "semi-retired" from the company. He also does
free-lance writing of feature films and plays
"I Was Right Here a Moment Ago" is Clifford's first full-length play since "The Wabash Winning Streak," a comic melodrama presented in Lawrence three years
Clifford tagged his newest play as a
humeroid that combines humorous and
serious elements.
"IT'S ABOUT THE dynamics of the office," he said. "It's six people who work together in an office who are trying to overcome the impersonality of the office."
The six people form an encounter group to help get to know each other and to lower some of the facades built up during office hours.
The group members, however, expose more of their personalities than they originally had intended, causing some conflicts.
The last scene of the play takes place at the
office the morning after the group meets, and the six cases must in all the problems be treated the proper way.
Clifford said he worked well with Herk Harvey, the show's director, because they were close friends and had been film-writing colleagues for 20 years.
"I WAS THERE every night," Clifford said, "but I let him do the directing. I'm there to help with lines or anything they don't understand."
For the most part, Clifford said, the production rests in the hands of the director.
"Sometimes the director has his own interpretation about certain things," he said. "We may discuss them or debate them, but ultimately I tell the director have his input."
Clifford said he could visualize the staging of the show as he wrote it, but the Lawrence production had resulted in a few interpretive changes in the script.
"The characters change when the actors take over the roles," he said.
"It's mainly a case of ensemble acting," he said. "It's very important they act and with each other. It makes the audience work too."
HARVEY SAID THE success of the show depended largely on the ability of the six cast members to perform.
Harvey says the play takes the audience on highs and lows and gives them a chance to laugh one minute and be completely serious the next.
Much of Clifford's work has leaned toward comedy, but his films show for him a wide range of written comic films.
But he said he preferred not to be contacted with other contemporary comedy writers.
"I hate to say it," he said. "Some people call me Lawrence the Nell Simon. Please don't call me."
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