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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 22. 1958
WIFE BEGS HUSBAND—Helen, wife of Menelaos, here asks for mercy from her husband. Players are Vicki Sue White, Great Bend freshman, and Paul McKee, St. Louis, Mo. graduate student. Helen was carried to Troy as a warbride and Menelaos has come to claim her.
Play Called 'Uncomfortable Instruction In Classics'
By J. FRED MILLER (Of The Summer Kansan Staff)
The KU Summer Theatre audience was exposed Thursday and Friday to an uncomfortable 80 minutes of instruction in classical drama.
Euripides' "The Trojan Women" was the text. The instructor was Lewin Goff, assistant professor of speech and drama and director of the play. The students who benefitted from the production were the members of the cast. The audience sat in on a laboratory session of play production.
The presentation of the classical tragedy in a modern setting did little to improve the production. Written for use on the Greek stage and intended for masked players, oratorical style of delivery and the use of the amphitheatre, the play could have best been presented in that manner.
KU's production was highly stylized. Back lighting, abstract scenery and the chanting chorus of captive women were evidently employed to improve the play's delivery.
Peace Officers Attend School
The twelfth annual Kansas Peace Officers Training School began Monday and will run through Friday at KU. Approximately 130 law enforcement officers are attending.
Peace officers who are attending will receive instruction in the collection and evaluation of evidence, ballistics, firearms, fingerprinting and other subjects related to law enforcement, in three courses. They are a basic peace officers' course, a basic traffic course, and police science.
Among the instructors and discussion leaders at the school will be John Anderson, attorney general of Kansas, Sol I. Lattman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, Omaha, Nebr., Ernest A. Hirsch, chief psychologist, Child Psychiatry Service of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, and law enforcement and traffic experts from over the midwest.
A highlight of the program will be a discussion of the Starkweather case in Nebraska. by James N. Reinhardt, professor of criminology, University of Nebraska.
Individual makeup was also designed for style. Classic Greek noses and lips were built and covered with wierd coloring in an attempt to create Eupides' characters. Here again, too much of a good thing detracted from the desired effect.
In its technical production, the play was inferior to previous summer Theatre offerings. Even the seasoned veterans had their bad moments. Bill Kuhlke, Denver, Colo, graduate student, who played the part of Talthybios, threw away several lines as he portrayed the Greek soldier's wrath.
Hecuba, played by Hazel Marie Clemence, Abilene graduate student, had similar bad moments on the stage. Probably one of the most tragic characters in the play, Hecuba's role is difficult and heavy. Miss Clemence as Hecuba raised little compassion from her audience.
Brighter performances came from the supporting cast, particularly Ann Runge, Higginsville, Mo. sophomore, and Paul McKee, St. Louis, Mo. graduate student. Another member of the Kubkle family made his theatrical debut as Astyanax, a small boy doomed to sacrifice at the whimsy of the Greek conquerors. Kevin, billed as a KU freshman-to-be in 1972, performed like a seasoned troupper.
Convincing performances also cane from Vicki Sue White, Great Bend freshman, as Helen, and Sara Maxwell, Columbus freshman, as Hecuba's daughter, Kassandra. The captive women, played in the main by high school campers, were adequate in their expression of their wretched state of being.
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MOTHER COMFORTS SON—Ann Runge, Higginsville, Mo. sophomore, and Kevin, son of Bill Kuhlke, Denver, Colo. graduate student, are shown as Andromache and Astyanax in "The Trojan Women" after the Greeks have announced the boy's impending death.
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