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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 9, 1998
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Director not afraid of play
By Tamara Miller
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Kansas staff writer
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" opened last night at the Lawrence Community Theatre, 1501 New Hampshire St., to a sold-out crowd.
The play, which Edward Albee wrote in 1962, began when a middle-age woman walked on stage with a cigarette in hand and yelled, "Ah, Jesus!"
Paul Lim, play director and associate professor of English, said the play was last performed in Lawrence in 1976. He wanted to bring the play back because the story addressed issues that are relevant today, he said.
"The vision of the humanist vs. the scientist is appropriate today," Lim said. "In the late 1990s, interestingly enough, we are grappling with the issues of cloning."
have invited another couple to their house. The characters get drunk and spend most of the night trying to impress one another. Phil Schroeder, a Kansas City, Kan., actor who plays George, said his character felt trapped by life.
The story is set in the living room of a married couple who
"He's pretty much a middle-age man who is discovering that he doesn't have anywhere to go," Schroerd said.
Although the topics still are relevant, Lim adjusted the production to highlight the story. For example, his production uses a chess set to highlight the games the characters play with one another.
"I have introduced a lot of physical games and props," he said. "I have also added a fifth actor to the play to represent the young man in some of the character's stories." Colum Morgan, Austin, Texas, freshman, is the fifth actor. He said the hardest part of the production was the physical transformation.
"My hair is naturally curly and brown," he said. "Now, it's
straight and bond. Also had to start working out and going to a tanning salon."
Lim said that before he decided to bring the play to Lawrence, he asked other English instructors if they were interested in teaching the play in their classrooms.
"In the last 10 years, it had been dropped," he said. "We had to get teachers who were willing to teach the play."
This semester, English 102 and 211 instructors teach the olay.
"I thought it was an easy play to read," she said. "It didn't feel like you were reading something ancient."
Amanda Loewe, Blair, Neb., freshman, said she enhance the play last night to enhance her understanding of the story, which she is reading in class.
Lim said the production enhanced the message of the play.
"Although we teach plays as literature, frequently we forget that they are supposed to be performed," he said.
Campus groups sway Senate
By Melissa Ngo and Marc Shefrogen mngo@kansan.com mshelfrogen@kansan.com Kansan staff writers
Much of the debate at last night's Student Senate meeting centered on money.
Some wanted to take money out of
the Senate reserve account to pay for financing requests from student organizations. Others wanted to spend
only the $376 remaining in the Senate unallocated account, which is the account used to finance these requests.
Jordan Edwards, Senate Finance Committee chairman, said he was against taking money out of the Senate reserve account.
The debate began with a bill to allocate $1,655 to the University of Kansas' Korean Student Association for the Korean Culture Night. The bill passed.
"That money should be used for emergencies," Edwards said. "This is not an emergency."
Aaron Profitt, Nunemaker senator and a bill sponsor, said the group should receive the money.
"That's the student money in the accounts, and if they need it, then we should give it to them," Profiff said. "It's our fault that we ran out of money in the unallocated account, not the Korean Association's fault."
Senate also voted to give the KU Veterans Association $1,478 for a new computer.
Michelle Dennard, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said that although she respected the KU Veterans Association, she did not favor giving the group a computer because it had been established as a campus organization for only a
SENATE LEGISLATION
passed a bill to change the Student Communications board
passed a bill to finance the KU Korean Student Association's Korean Culture Night
passed the 1999 budget bill
- passed a bill to finance the Environmental Studies Student Association
passed a bill to finance the KU Book Exchange
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passed a bill to finance the KU Veterans Association
passed a bill to finance Queers and Allies 1998 Pride Week
passed a bill calling for the caucus people of Senate committees to enforce attendance policies
month and a half. Dennard said all groups needed to become established on campus before asking for significant funding.
"Other groups need to go through those first steps, and I think this group should also," she said.
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