Tuesday, November 27, 1979
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JEFF HARRSNG/Kansan Stat
Cattle calls
Two actors audition on a bare stage for a group of judges for future University Theatre plays. Their only props for last night's sound were a chair and their own ability. Inset:
Joan Oberndorf, Des Plaines, IL., senior, fills out an audition card before trying out for the productions.
Tension plagues actors at 'cattle call' auditions
Bv KATE POUND
Staff Reporter
A woman faced a window, talking and gesturing to her reflections in the glass. No one in Murphy Hall's lobby noticed her presence. The woman gestured and gesturing to walls, chairs and friends.
Cattle call. The sound of nervous laughter echoed through the lobby as KU students waited to audition for five upcoming University Theatre productions. More than 90 would-be actors gave three-minute performances before the directors of the productions.
The productions are "Caucasian Chalk Circle" by Bertoll Brecht; "Das Rheingang" by Richard Wagner; "Step on a Crake" by Robert Wilson; and "O Santo Insergoio" by Wilson and "O Santo Insergoio" by Wilson.
Alfredo Dias. The plays will all be performed next semester.
"Hello, my dear," some one called to a friend. "How are you?"
"Nervous as hell," she replied, "How are you doing?"
"You don't want to know, believe me, you don't want to know," he answered, then returned to reading his script for the umpeth time.
Each student was ushered into the theater by the assistant. They were instructed to sit in the back rows, to wait again.
Five, 10 and perhaps 15 minutes later, they were walking home. The Village College Village junior, Vince Cabrera, Leavenworth freshman, took audition cards from them. On the cards were his picture, his name and his college.
"Come Back, Little Sheba," to Jack Kerenuca a "Vision." Some were performed as duets, others as solos; they were memorized, read or a combination of both.
Judy Kroeger, Lawrence graduate student, sat on the stage for her solo. Intense in her performance, she continued past the three time "Time!" call.
"Oh, God, don't force me to despise myself!" she cried. Then, quietly, she said, "I'm about to the time."
experience, class schedules, personal information-to be used by the directors in casting their productions.
Before each audition, the name of the performer was written on a chalkboard in front of the directors. The actors then stood, center stage, facing the jury. Each actor, the experienced and experienced alike, looked up and began their performances.
The selections varied from William Inge's
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The first play of the intermission *Union Activities Theater Series* "Wings," a play by Arthur Keopi, will open tomorrow, a production of the show other on Broadway.
"Wings" is the story of Emily, former airplane wing-walker, who is about 65-years-old and has just suffered a stroke.
The play's director, Tim Lofus, said the play followed Emily's recovery from the stroke she suffered in the opening scene. The play is presented her on her point of view.
"The audience is put in the same world as the character," she says, "confusion in the beginning—the language is confused. The play progresses from this fragmented world to a clear world as she goes."
Some members of the cast are KU students, as is Lotus, but the lead character is played by Thema Heyler, a Lawrence resident and community theater actress.
LOFTTUS SAID Heyler was selected because she would better approximate the age of the mature wing-walker.
Flight is a metaphor relied upon considerably in the production, from the title to the flowing flight of the scene changes, Leflaud said.
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Throughout the show, Emily relies on her memories as a wing-walker to provide an explanation of life, Lofus said.
Iran . . .
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He said students who refused to have photographs taken would be identified as "refusing to cooperate by refusing to have their pictures taken."
"The form of the play is significant," he said. "It is not one of these violent struggles to recover. It's light and lyrical, kind of beautiful." It is a more flowing lyrical type of flight.
He said he had received a written request from a third student requesting that a picture already taken of her be returned. He further noted, "I should."
NUTIS SAID that of the 50 Iranian students interviewed so far, only two of them have refused to have their photographs taken, he said.
Two students interviewed were found to be out-of-status, he said. These students were told to report to the INS office for deportation and other processing for deportation, Nuts said.
illegally requested, said legal actions were just beginning on the issue.
JANE FRYDMAN, a local attorney who said she was working with Iranian students on allegations that the photographs were
He said 62 interviews had been scheduled for yesterday, and that some students had rescheduled their interviews for today. Some students simply did not show up for the interview.
Frydman said she thought the order for status checks, issued by the Carter administration early this month in response to a series of reports. Embassy in Tahoe, was "double unfair."
She said that because Iranian students had until Dec. 14 to report to INS, she would be using the remaining time to do legal research on the issue.
An Iranian student who asked not to be identified, said he thought the order was "totally discriminatory against Iranian students."
"The order pertains only to Iranians," she said, "and only to Iranian post-secondary students." Iranian students respects. I think some law the laws used to justify these things may be ruled out entirely.
"Why are they asking this only of Iranian students?" I asked. "If the United States had a program for Mexico next year, then there would be Mexican students standing in Strong Hall just like we do."
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