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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday. October 21. 1968
Kaleidoscope depicts 'Dream'
KU's 16-year growth
In the fall semester of 1952, a total of 6,800 students enrolled at KU.
Pictured in a scene from Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah" are from left: Jerry Koelsted, Massapequa, N.Y. senior; Doug Wasson, Chambersburg, Pa. senior; and Bruce Levitt, Kansas City, Mo. graduate student. The excerpt is a part of "The Kaleidoscope of the American Dream."
"The American Dream?"
By CANDACE OSBORNE
Kansan Staff Writer
The past weekend KU audiences were perhaps surprised at some of the facets of American life presented by the "Kaleidoscope of the American Dream."
Salesman." They depicted hopeful and sometimes despairing Americans in search of their "dreams."
Yet it was after the intermission that another phase of the kaleidoscope was shown which shocked some and delighted others.
Directed by Fredric Littio, professor of speech and drama, exerpts were presented from six American plays. The first half was of scenes from John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing," and Arthur Miller's "Death of a
The motel scene from Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah" began with the motel owner describing the room to a couple. The three had over-sized heads of plaster and wore their clothing over what appeared to
be flesh-colored long underwear.
the owner's explanation continued throughout the scene into almost a chant to which the couple began testing the room and finally working into a frenzied destruction of it and the owner.
Acted by a man, the female had her black brassier plucked from her to reveal huge plaster breasts. The couple soon followed by drawing obscene words and a male organ on the wall.
The next scene, "Chicago" by Sam Shepard, commenced with a man in a bathtub launching a comical or horrifying oratory about fornication.
The presentation ended with a scene from Edward Albee's "The American Dream." Here again the audience laughed at the humor, but there was an evident undercurrent of solicitude about what might happen with the American's overconcern for satisfaction.
People left the theatre to the sounds of a muted "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" in the background.
This company of six actors will be touring Kansas later this month and hope to be the sixth KU group to travel behind the Iron Curtain in the spring.
However, one member of last
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