ENTERTAINMENT
The University Daily KANSAN
September 26, 1983 Page 6
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Mary Bamos, Leawood junior, and James Berner, Glenview, Ill., junior, rehearse for the play "DADADADADA," which will be presented at 8 p.m. tomorrow through Sunday in the Inge Theatre.
Dadaist play attacks wars with punk rock sensibility
By PAMELA THOMPSON Staff Renorter
Out of Dadaism, which has been called a revolutionary and destructive artistic movement, Mona Liss gained a mustache and a haircut. Her student gained an idea for an original play.
James Larson, Lawrence graduate student, wrote the play titled "DADADADADA," and it was later entered in the 1984 American Playwrighting Awards program.
The play will be performed at 8 p.m. in the Sunday through Sunday in the marquee theatre in Murphy.
Larson's contemporary Dadaist views protest the possibility of global warfare.
In the tradition of Marcel DuChamp, one of the foremost Dada artists who distorted a re-creation of the classic face of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to protest the militarism of his time, Larson's play embodies the spirit of the Dada movement.
"THE POLITICAL SPIRIT of the Dadaists in 1916 is very similar to the spirit of the young people today," he said. "It's the same fear of nuclear holocaust."
Larson said he was fascinated by the Dada movement because it was "probably the most crazy, wild and destructive artistic movement ever to emerge."
In keeping with the distorted spirit of Dadaism, he set the historically factual musical cabaret, which takes place in Zurich, a city on the edge of modern punk rock sensibility," he said.
"The social and political perceptions of the punk and post-hippe generations haven't changed a whole lot from those of the Dadaists," Larson said.
To help create a contemporary mood for the two act cabaret, Jordan Stump, Lawrence jnr, will perform his original "new wave" musical score on the synthesizer.
STUMP SAID THAT although it was hard to recognize the all-electric music, it could be scary.
Larson said that he started to write the play's script in Mexico four years ago, after the great niece of the famous Zurich Dadaist Tristan Tzara told him many stories about her great uncle and the Dada movement in Europe.
He said that he closely identified and sympathized with Tzara and young Dadaisus Hugo Ball and his wife Emmy Hennings, because they were also in their late 20s and had many of the same ideas and concerns that he had.
Although Larson's musical concentrations on the immediate state of the world and the prospects of imminent disaster, Ronald A. Willis, chairman of KU's theatre department and the play's director, said the production was "not issue-specific or anti-nuclear."
"IT'S NOT an historic essay." Willis said, "but it seems to bridge the gap to show the Dada response to the world today. It looks at historic events through a contemporary age."
The five cast members of "DAD ADADADA" together play 25 characters including the significant historical figures Hannings, Hennings, Nikolay Lenin and Carl Jung.
"We use the transformational acting law Lorenz said, 'which involves many costumes'."
The cast members include James Berner, Chicago, Ill., junior as Tristan Tzarean, Billie Dee Anderson, Wilmington, Del, sophomore, as Huge, and Mary Ramos, Lewood Awake, Emmy Award.
David McGreevy, Wichita graduate student, designed the setting and lighting for the play and collaborated with Kurt von Schiele, a waventon senior, on costumes and make-up.
Bill Green and Tracy Iwersen, both Lawrence juniors, play a host of characters ranging from Lenin and Jung to a newspaper reporter and security guard.
Assistant director Roberta Wilhelm, Lansing graduate student, worked with McGreey and von Schlemmer on choreographing the production.
Emmys prove both colorful, controversial
By United Press International
HOLLYWOOD — The gritty police drama "Hill Street Blues" and the Australian epic "The Thornbirds;" won five statuettes each, last year's controversial Emmy Awards ceremony in history.
Hundreds of viewers called NBC television stations throughout the country to complain about co-host Joan Rivers, among other others, who served as Secretary James "idiot," during the briefing.
"Hill Street Blues" won awards for writing and direction, in addition to three technical categories. "The Thorn Birds" won for best acting and actress, in addition to three technical awards.
Judd Hirsch, who plays cabbie Alex Rieger in "Taxi," and Shelley Long, who plays waitress Diane Chambers in "Cheers," won comedy at the 53th Annual Emmy Awards presentations.
AT THE OPENING of the show, Rivers referred to the current controversy surrounding Interior Secretary James Watt's remarks about a fire that broke out in the bandcause, and said of Watt, "Is he an idiot!"
More than 100 viewers called NBC to complain about the comments Rivers made in New York and about 90 angry people called in Chicago and about 60 angry people called in Temu, Omma, Neb, and Huntington, Ws, Wx.
HOLLYWOOD — Joan Rivers and co-host Eddie Murphy talk on stage at the opening of the 35th Annual Emmy Awards presentation. Rivers last night referred to Interior Secretary James Watt's controversial remark about Jews, blacks and handicapped people by asking Watt, "It is he an idiot?"
Chris Lloyd and Carol Kane of "Taxi," the comedy-series built around employees of the Sunshine Cab Company, won earlier for their "The Twelve" in the twice-cancelled series, now in syndication.
"Cheers" was nominated for 13 awards and won the comedy series writing, directing and graphic design trophies. The awards could be a big boost to the struggling ratings-poor series, which has been extended for seven more episodes.
"HILL STREET BLUES," the hard-boiled look at life in a police precinct, which received the most Emmy nominations, captured awards for writing in a drama-series, direction, film-sound mixing for a series, film and sound editing.
"Special Bulletin." NBC's horrifying view of nuclear disaster through the prism of TV news, was honored for writing in a limited series or a special, video tape editing and technical direction-electronic camwerk.
Leontyne Price, who won a Grammy this year,
received the Emmy for individual performance
in a variety or music program for "Live From
Lincoln Center" on PBS.
The cancelled "SCTV Network" won for writing in a variety or music program.
winner for lighting direction and sound mixing in a special.
JEAN SIMMONS AND Richard Kiley of the mini-series "Thorn Birds," based on Colleen McCulloch, epic novel on Australia, captured acting honors for a special or limited series.
Simmons portrayed the matriarch in the Australian sheep-farming family and Kiley played her husband "Thorn Birds" also won for a direction for a limited series or special.
Doris Roberts and James Coco of television's "St. Elsewhere," the medical drama styled after Nia St. Alshamblete "Hill Street Blues," captured acting acting Emms in a drama series.
Roberts won for her role as a bag lady who chose to die rather than have her leg amputated, and Coco for his role as her companion. Both won great appearances on the gritty medical drama
MOVIE REVIEWS
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The Golden Seal
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The "boy befriends beast!" movies seem to be slowly disappearing from the movie screens around the country. They just don't seem to draw the crowds they used to.
The story is about a young boy living alone on an Aleutian island with his parents. While out fishing in his boat one day, he thinks he sees a narwhal later tells an old Aleutian native about his vision.
The old man then tells the boy a tale about how his ancestors, who crossed the Bering Strait land mass to Alaska, had found the golden seal there in 1680. It is the nature and how to appreciate their surroundings.
"The Golden Seal!" may reverse this trend. I actually had to stand in line to get in.
The old man explains that after awhile men started to hunt the golden seal and that the beast was a symbol of good fortune.
He tells the boy that legend says the seal will return when it finds someone good and pure in heart.
A storm hits the island and the boy gets lost. He finds a storm shelter his father built for just such instances and in there he finds the golden shell of a boy's delight the seal gives birth in the shelter.
The next morning, the boy and the seal play together in the frigid waters of the Pacific
But when word gets out that the golden seal truly exists up to that time it was thought to be a myth) hunters begin to search for the animal to obtain its valuable golden hide.
Ocean. Somehow the boy doesn't feel cold. Even he can't explain why. That scene was very beautifully done.
The last half hour of the movie is pretty exciting as the boy tries to stop his father and the hunters from killing the golden seal and her baby.
The movie was filmed in the Aleutians and in British Columbia. Secenes of majestic snow-capped mountains towering over the valley untouched by snow are beautifully captured on camera.
The only thing I didn't like about the film was the profanity. The boy threw around four letter words like they were going out of style. It was unnecessary, not to mention all the little kids who were watching the film and are going to joyfully repeat them at home and at school.
Victor Goodpasture
First Nighters are KU theatre fans
By the Kansan Staff
For most of the actors involved in a University Theatre production, nothing quite matches the anxiety and excitement of opening night.
But when the curtain goes up Oct. 13 on "The Tavern," the second University Theatre production this year, the cast can look to at least one segment of the audience for support.
The First Nighters, about 100 members of the
KU faculty and the Lawrence community, have supported the theatre series by their regular attendance for more than 25 years.
Members of the group say that First Nighters is KU's own version of a dinner theater and that the group was formed to encourage people to attend the University Theatre productions. MEMBERS OF THE GROUP attend all of the KU Mainstage Theatre Series productions.
THE HISE group attend all of the KU Mainstage Theatre Series productions.
Jane Rutledge, co-chairman of the group, said that the First Nights reserved a special section
of the theater on the first night of productions so
order to get the best theater experience
"I think it's probably encouraging to the cast to have a nice big crowd on the first night," she said.
Rutledge said that she looked forward to the performances of the American National Theatre Academy in "The Tavern" and "The History of the American Film" because they would be the first non-student productions included in the group's schedule.
Reggae and jazz-funk bands will perform in Lawrence
By the Kansan Staff
The Third World will bring its music to Lawrence next week.
Third World, a Jamaican band dedicated to spreading the slow, melancholy beat of reggae music.
world, will play at 8 p.m. Oct. 7 in KU's Hoch Auditorium.
Hiroshima, a jazz-funk group, will open the show.
Third World began performing 10 years ago and has produced seven albums featuring songs such as "66 Degrees in the Shade" and "Now that We've Found Love."
The group has collaborated in productions and toured with singer Stevie Wonder, and with groups such as The Jacksons and Bob Marley and the Wailers.
Ticket prices are $9 and $10 for the general
passenger and $8 for students with a KU
identification card.
SPARE TIME
ON CAMPUS
KJHK WILL broadcast Alternative Conversations Phone-In Talk Show with guests Chris Edmonds and Scott Swenson, representatives of the Associated Students of Kansas, at 6 p.m.
LARRY MAXEY and Linda Maxey will give a clarinet and marimba performance at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall.
THE LIFE ISSUES Seminar title "The Committed Marriage: A Christian Perspective" will meet at 4:30 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Center to center to discuss "To Not In Merry."
THE STUDENT Creative Anchorson will meet at p.m. today in the Kansas Union.
THE HELEN FORESMAN Spencer Museum of Art is now showing "Eldred and Nevelson Sculpture: Another Dimension," "Influences;
Antique Quilts and Contemporary Quilters" and "Modern Art from the Guggenheim,
ON DISPLAY AT THE Museum of Natural History is "Using Medieval Plants Today." "The Great Horned Owl, newest addition to the Birds Museum, and a new display at the Steamer" , and other displays at Dyche Hall.
THE THEOLOGICAL. Seminar title "The Life and Thought of Thomas Merton" will meet at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Ecumenical church ministries Center to discuss "Conquering Solitude."
A FREE FILM titled "Making Dances," sponsored by the Tau Sigma dance club and the University of Kansas, will be at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. tomorrow in Room 421 of the Art and Design Building and 2 p.m. Wednesday in 156 Robinson Center.
BY BERKE BREATHED
CHERLY HINGER will give a piano recital at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Swarthout Reception Hall.
CAMPUS CHRISTIAN Fellowship will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Campus Christian Halls.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR Christ will meet at 7
o.m. tomorrow in the Big Room of the
Church
KU SWORD and Shield will meet at 7:30 p.m.
tomorrow in the Walmart Room of the U. m.
THE TAU SIGMA Club will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Studio 242, Robinson Center.
THE KU GUN CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Conference Room of the Frank R. Minkenberg
A DANCE MAJORS and Minors meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in 156 Robinson Center.
BLOOM COUNTY
CHAMPIONS WILL meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Trail Room of the Union.
REGION
THE LYRIC OPERA of Kansas City, Mo. will present Frank Loesser's "Most Happy Fella" at 8 p.m. today at the Lyric Opera, 11th and Central.
JOEL FORTHIUN WILL give a percussion recital at 7:30 p.m. today in the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. Admission is free.
FLORESA PENN will give a piano recital at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the UMRC Conservatory
THE THEATRE FOR Young America in Kansas City, Mo., will present "Little Red Riding Hood" at 10 a.m. tomorrow and Wednesday.
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