FILMS: The Brig's Marines
By JEFF LOUGH Kansan Reviewer
Perhaps too much has been said about the military, especially by those of us who abhor it in one way or another for any one of an eternity of reasons. However, tonight at 7 and 9:30 p.m. in the U.C.C.F. building at 12th and Oread an opportunity will be presented in which a very powerful interpretation of military life and the effect of the military on the individual can be viewed.
This will be the showing of the underground film "The Brig."
"The Brig" is a play written by ex-Marine Kenneth H. Brown. It is played by the precursors of the avant-garde radical theater movement, The Living Theater, Antonin Artaud, the controversial theater-liberationist, once called for a "theater of cruelty
in which violent physical images crush and hypnotize the sensibility of the spectator seized by the theater as by a whirlwind of higher forces."
"The Brig" can do nothing but seize your sensibilities. The film-play has proven to be so powerful a piece that it moved a "New York Times." film reviewer to demand a presidential investigation if the conditions depicted were true.
Jonas Mekas, who appeared at KU last year with some of his later films made "The Brig" in such a way that the individual spectator himself feels like he is confined in the tiny bank-lined cage. And in the outside corridor one sees the wild, blank-faced prisoners bob around like frightened robots at the bidding of their torturers. The artistry of the The Living Theater group and filmmaker Jonas Mekas combine to make a thought provokingly cruel rendition of a military prison into a visual reality.
CONCERTS: The trio expounds
By TED ILIFF Kansan Staff Writer
Folk singers Peter, Paul and Mary spent nearly six hours communicating with their fans Saturday night. Three hours were spent in a concert at Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium, and the other three hours at a cocktail party in the Hotel Phillips after the concert.
Those attending the concert and cocktail party heard Peter, Paul and Mary promote the moratorium activities in Washington D.C. next Saturday.
At the party each of the entertainers sat with groups of people around them informally explaining their beliefs on religion and non-violent protest which are characteristic of their concert repertoire.
Paul led a group of about 25 persons to a lobby outside the party room to explain his philosophy on religion. He told them that religion had to be a personal feeling, not the feelings of others forced upon an individual.
"God is there, but you have to find him yourself," he said. "No matter what your parents or anyone else has taught or forced on you, you have to feel comfortable with your belief in God, or it is no good."
Mary explained to her group how violent protest would be fruitless. She said there is great danger to the New Left because the government can lock them up and shut them up.
"For me to throw a rock at a cop is dumb," she said. "In a
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demonstration, all you can control is yourself. So a small group decides to throw stuff, and a lot of non-violent people get their heads cracked."
She said victory for the left can only be obtained through nonviolence. "If you don't hit a cop back, you can come back to march again."
Peter, who appeared to be the leader and spokesman of the group, explained how the group's stage performance reflects their beliefs. He said they have taken an enlightenment point of view.
By GENELLE RICHARDS
'The Hostage' opens Thursday
Coming from France, Jacques Parrenin, violin; Marcel Charpentier, violin; Denes Marton, viola; and Pierre Penasson, cello compose the quartet.
The first in the Chamber Music series, the Parrenin Quartet performs in Swarthout Recital Hall tonight at 8 p.m.
"A comedy with tragic relief."
"The Hostage" by Brendan Be-
French quartet opens season
Tickets may be purchased at the Murphy Hall box office. Students will not be admitted free with KU ID.
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Directed by Roy Sorrels, assistant instructor of speech and drama, the play replaces "Rosecrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" originally scheduled to appear.
han, opens in the Experimental Theatre Nov. 13 and runs through Nov. 22.
An Irish play. "The Hostage" takes place in a contemporary house of prostitution in Dublin.
"There are many colorful people in the play. It is a comic play, alive and very easy to watch," said Shannon Hackett, Winnetka, Ill., sophomore, a member of the cast.
The plot centers around a soldier sought for a murder. Kept hostage in the house of prostitution, he falls in love with a young orphan girl who wanders to the house. The police eventually raid the house run by a man and his common law wife and find the hostage.
"The play is very Irish with all their humor and love of life. It's as much fun for the audience as it is for the cast," said Miss Hackett.
The major actors include: Pat, John Young, Shawnee Mission senior; Meg, Barbara Berman, Prairie Village senior; Lesley, Richard Gilland, Overland Park
Other characters are: Monsewer, Michael Rapport, Pasadena, Calif. senior; Miss Gilchrist, Patti McGill, El Dorado senior; and IRA officer, James Congdon, Wilmette, Ill. junior.
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