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The University Daily Kansan
Fine arts calendar
Tonight:
Kwaknam Three Japanese Ghost Stories, 8 p.m. at the Lied Center, $11, $13.50, KU, Haskell students, $27, $22, public, $26, $21, senior citizens.
"Khanen, Katie Misch" by Janice Perry,
4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Inge Theatre in
Murphy Hall, Free.
Tomorrow:
**"Holy St'b!" Stories from Neaven and Nell"**
by Janice Perry, 7:30 p.m. at the Inge
Theatre in Murphy Hall. $6, KU, Haskell
students, children, senior citizens. $10,
public.
Saturday:
"Holy St*! Stories from Heaven and Hell" by Janice Perry, 7:30 p.m. at the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall, $6, KU, Haskell students, children, senior citizens. $10, public.
Monday:
All Actors Theatre of Louisville in the Labor Day Special with the English Alternative Theatre. 8 p.m. at Swarthout Recital in Murphy Hall. Free.
Festival to feature international performer
Special to the Kansan
By Amy Cummins
"Holy Sh'tt Janice Perry is coming to KU!" is the hot topic for students interested in contemporary performance artists.
The department of theater and film's Performance Resource Center and Laboratory has brought Janice Perry for a week-long residency.
Perry, an internationally acclaimed performer, is the focus of the third annual Labor Day Festival, sponsored by the organization, the Hall Center for the Humanities and the English department.
The highlight of the week will be Perry's live performances at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday at the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Perry will present "Holy Sh*t! Stories from Heaven and Hell," which she describes as a humorous journey through western spiritual life via Aphrodite, Joan of Arc, Andrew
Lloyd Weber and the Lone Ranger.
The performances of Perry, who has been touring in Europe and the United States since 1982, should both entertain and challenge the University audience. A German reviewer described Perry as "a hurricane onstage."
Her work integrates such diverse elements as American vaudeville, cabaret, stand-up comedy, opera and popular music within a framework of European-style "kabaret."
Students also have a chance to work one-on-one with Perry. A writing-to-performance workshop with Perry, "Larger Than Life: Creating Autobiographically Based Performance," will be held Saturday at the Inge Theatre. Fourteen students, half from outside the theater department, will take an originally written text to the workshop and work with Perry to create a two- to four-minute performance piece.
Sharon Sullivan, a doctoral candidate and lecturer in theater, is coordinating enrollment for the workshop. Sullivan said Perry was approachable, down-to-earth and loved teaching and talking with students.
The third event in conjunction with Perry's residency is a "Kabarett Kafe Klatch" From 4:30 to 6 p.m. tonight at the Inge Theatre. Perry will be present while Angellika Czekay of the University of Wisconsin at Madison speaks on "Janice Perry's Cabaret in the Context of Contemporary Feminist Performance." Czekay will show videos of Perry's performances, offer commentary and engage the audience in conversation about feminist performance and Perry's work.
Tickets for "Holy Sh*t!" stories from Heaven and Hell" are available at the Murphy Hall Box Office at 864-3982. Tickets are $6 for students and senior citizens; $10 for public.
— Edited by Warisa Chulindra
Contemporary performing artist Janice Perry will be at the University of Kansas to present a series of workshops and performances through next week. Contributed photo
English Alternative Theatre to kick off season with short plays
By Amy Cummins
Special to the Kansan
The English Alternative Theatre begins its season with a Labor Day Special. The free event will involve a staged reading of eight 10-minute plays from the Actors Theatre of Louisville.
The special, directed by Paul Stephen Lim, English professor, takes place at 8 p.m. on Monday at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
One of the eight plays is Making the Call, which features Jim Hartman, English department chairman, and
Megan Dillingham, Overland Park graduate student, the 1999 winner of the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship and the National Acting Champion at the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival.
The second event in EAT's season will be the production of new one-act plays by KU students, from Sept. 22 to 24, at the Lawrence Arts Center, a co-production with the Card Table Theatre.
Bunnies was written by Michael O'Brien, Winnetka III., senior.
O'Brien described his one-act play as an entirely fictional company looking
back at what Hugh Hefner might have been like as a naive young man, before he started Playboy.
The Man Play was written by Matthew Gaus, Lawrence senior, and will be directed by Will Averill, Lawrence senior.
Gaus said his comedy was about a guy named Tom, living with the manliest man in the world. The man teaches Tom lessons about manhood that affect his relationships with his best friend and with women.
These two participating entries in the American College Theatre Festival were
originally written in Professor Lim's Plawwriting II class last spring.
the production of Whiteout, a full-length play by Alan Newton, Montgomery, Ala., doctoral student, will be from Oct. 19 to 22 at the Lawrence Community Theatre, 1501 New Hampshire St.
Whiteout, which is also a participating entry in the festival, was first seen in a staged reading in April.
Newton said Whiteout involved a reunion of three people in their thirties who were high school friends at an all-white private school in Alabama. "They
get trapped in a freak southern snowstorm and revelations ensue," he said.
EAT will also be busy during the spring semester. Lim will direct the annual "Final Four" competition, with one-act plays by KU students. The "Final Four" takes place in March and allows audience members to vote for their favorite plays.
Tennessee Williams' classic play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof will be produced at the Lawrence Community Theatre in April, under the direction of Piet Knetsch.
- Edited by Gleisson Abreu
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