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Theatre Central comes to Lawrence
University Daily Kansan / Monday, August 29, 1988
Bv Debbie Bengtson
Kansan staff writer
John Dennis says that according to the “Paces Rated Almanac,” there is more culture for each person in Lawrence than in New York City. He thinks Lawrence is one of the people he wants to start a professional theater company here.
Dennis is a professional actor and director. He has a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and has been working to build a new company in the Kansas City area since October, 1987.
He and 12 actors, called Theatre Central, will be performing plays at the Lawrence Arts Center starting tomorrow. Dennis said the actors would come from New York, Denver and the Kansas City area. Two University of Chicago alumni, William Scott, will攀高, and Bart Petty, Bolbrook Coll., ill, junior, will act in the first production, "A Man for All Season."
Dennis said that the plays would deal with political injustice.
"It's going to be a quiet political agenda," he said. "We want to look at people faith and conviction standing up for themselves."
Dennis said the company planned to have a summer festival next year. It would consist of two plays and would run from August through September. He said the group eventually would like to have a winter festival.
His inspiration came from a French theater called Le Theatre du Soleil, meaning the Theater of the Sun. Based in a warehouse in Paris, the theater uses no sets, just backdrops. Dennis said.
He chose Lawrence for this new professional company. Dennis said, because of its proximity to Kansas City, its reputation for alternative endeavors in the arts and the presence of KU.
Kansan reporter Monica Hayde contributed information to this report.
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