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Monday, October 5. 1970
University Daily Kansan
'The Ark For All' Brings Aboard the Audience
Peter Shumann
Can You Help Me?
BY STEVE SHERMAN Keenan Staff Writer
A yellow school bus piled high with trunks and with a large rear finnle figure on its roof pulled into the lot north of Allen Field House.
Bread and Puppet Players: A 'Religious Experience'
Peter Schumann, the group's leader, director and author of its plays, composer of its music and choreographer of its movements, has helped make suggestions and helping out where he was needed.
Inside the bus was a group inside the Bread and Puppet Theatre, one of the most in-
publicized dramatic groups today.
The group, named Bread and Puppet (B&P) because they distribute freshly baked bread at
The women of the group sat in the morning sun mending tears in costumes and repairing the giant puppets of their lifelike puppets.
The group unloaded crates and began to spread the large canvas, covering the roof. Soon, bright red, blue and green costumes littered the ground
Three Sparkling round diamonds . . .
echo the magnificent oval center diamond in saying
I love you . . .
Looking Both Ways Gives Many Sights
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their performances, spent most of the summer performing in a donated theater on Coney Island, N.Y.
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Although there are only eightteen members in the group visiting UK, there are nearly one hundred other members providing other parts of the country.
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The openness of everyone with RAI makes it easy to understand its importance for the persons who have seen the group perform have become so involved that they have decided to join it. In this case, a member of the group during a recent trip to France and others joined while in the group was playing on Coney Island.
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Serving Students for 58 Years Repairs
At Sunday afternoon's performance, a group of about 300 students, faculty members and children gathered in a circle to watch the first of the four performances scheduled through
Alterations Reweaving
Trumpets sounded the beginning of the play, much as did traveling shows of medieval times.
"Domestic Resurrection Circus," the presentation, was also medieval, in that it was a response to the subject war. In a very simple way, it stressed the theme, leaving behind the usual rigid characterizations and connection on the impact of the message.
The band, consisting of a small toy piano, an electric cello, drums and a kazoo began to play.
Although the group did not arrive in time to bake bread for the performance (bread for the audience), they were baked at the Westminster Center), no one seemed to mind. Afterward, the audience talked with the actors and Schumann. Then, using the troup and its origins,
Schumm, who was originally sculptor, started in the theater with his large head and face masks. From that beginning he made large heads and face masks.
The play received warm applause from the crowd. It called for audience participation, with a band and choreographer circle that represented an ark.
theater using costumed and masked persons as the puppets.
BAP, which is now ten years old, follows most of the same techniques and patterns of organic chemistry beginning. All of the material is written especially for the group and innovations evolve as the technology progresses.
The message of BPK has changed over the years, however. Originally it had a politically-oriented theme, but now the changes have become more of a religious type. He says that believers are a form of religion. He says it gives a message or a sermon and it allows the actors to reach for the things in which they participate in things in which they participate.
Schumann says that bread is given out along with the puppet show because bread and theatre are more comfortable to remind people of the importance we want people to think of bread like a commercial, in which they pay to get something. We need to teach that it is like bread, a necessity.
Another performance of "Domestic Ressurection" is scheduled for 5 p.m. Monday
at 5 p.m. Tuesday, the grow-
will perform "Mississippi," a
lamentation for Phillip Green
and James Glbs, inside the tent.
The show will last 30 minu-
tes until there are no more
persons who wish to see it.
In addition to their scheduled performances, the group plans to perform some of their short skirts on Monday and Tuesday.
SINGAPORE (UPI)—From 1960 to the end of 1968 the government of the Board completed a total of 106,418 units of flats and shops while another 17,438 units of shops were under various conditions.
About 650,000 persons or a third of the nation's population, were living in the 120 units managed by the board at the end of 1969.
Kentucky covers 40,395 square miles.
Women's Library Organized
A "Literacy on Women" has been set up in Strong Hall to help women students at KU informed about issues concerning them.
The library is housed in the Dean of Women's office. 220 Strom. It was begun by Casey Esley, member of the University of Kansas
reports on women's movements. Included in the collection are individual works dealing with employment, birth control, discrimination, women's liberal newspapers, national organizations and various other publications.
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