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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Monday, Dec. 2, 1985
'Booth' probes killer's mind
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
The final, nightmare-filled days of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, will be dramatized this week in "Tooth," a play presented by the William Inge Memorial Theatre Series.
Performances will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday in the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Sunday night, Lincoln was "Booth," written by Jeff L. Pate, will be directed by Janet McLean, Orinoco, Minn., graduate student, and is set in the Virginia barn where Booth died, 12 days after shooting Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
The play focuses on the fever-induced images that might have flitted through Booth's mind as he lay dying. In the play, he cannot remember what has happened although he knows it is important, McLean said yesterday.
yesterday.
"John is struggling very hard to pull the events, whatever they are, to remember what he had done," she said.
"The play is a dream. Actually the play is the closest thing to a nightmare I've seen."
thing to a mghama Booth must come to an understanding of what he did and why. He also must realize and accept that he is dying. McLean said.
g. McClane said.
Booth's sense of perception is blurred to the point
that he cannot distinguish his father from Lincoln, his mother from his co-conspirator, Mary Surratt, or his sister from his mistress, McLean said.
"The play is a double-edged sword," she said. "For the actor, it will be a really tough $2_{1/2}$ hours, but, hopefully, it will move quickly for the audience."
needed. She said the actors were experienced and could stretch and take risks in their acting.
"The cast also did their homework, so it's a real credit to their open-mindedness," she said.
"No one pays attention to the fact that Booth had a lot of friends. Precaution to the act, he wasn't crazy, so hopefully this will give people the opportunity to see Booth as a human being in an objective way."
Booth as a form of Houston, wrote the drama while a graduate student at the University of South Dakota. "Booth" was an original script entry in the 1976 American College Theatre Festival and won first prize in the David Library of the American Revolution Playwriting Competition.
PlayWriting掌上版 McLean said the KU production was only the second staging of "Booth." The play has not been performed more because Pate never had the play published.
Tickets for the production are on sale at the Murphy Hall box office. Tickets are $3 for the public, $1.50 for KU students and $2 for senior citizens and other students.
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
The University of Kansas Alumni Association will interview its members to find out what type of publication they want to read, Jennifer Sanner, editor of the Alumni Association's publications, said last week.
Alumni to pick publication
The Alumni Association will conduct phone interviews this month with members across the country. Sanner said, to allow readers to assist in choosing a permanent format.
"We want to find out what members want to read and in what format they want to read it," she said.
suit. The association will experiment with formats before deciding on a permanent replacement for its magazine, which was suspended last summer.
The association had two publications, both called Kansas Alumni. One was in the tabloid format, which was published six times a year. The second format was the Kansas Alumni magazine, which was published in january and June.
The Alumni Association discontinued the magazine because of high expenses. The magazine cost about $50,000 to publish two biannual issues. Each issue of the tabloid cost about $8,500.
Some members of the association's board of directors were concerned about the magazine's content, Sanner said. She said some alumni thought the stories were long and didn't pertain to the University of Kansas.
An eight-page trial newsletter will be sent to the association's 30,000 members next month and another publication will be sent in June, but a format has not been selected yet.
The newsletter will contain short news and sports stories, a calendar of events and information on the alumni chapters, Sanner said.
Sanner said she wanted to interview association members in Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City before the end of this month.
"I think a smaller magazine could be done to preserve the spirit of the
old magazine and to satisfy those who had complaints about it."
Most of the readers of the alumnus publications want information about KU's programs, students, research and athletics, said Fred Williams, executive director of the Alumnus Association.
"We have a lot to tell about the University." Williams said. "We have a very limited source of money to produce printed material."
If the association considered another magazine format, it would need additional revenue to finance the magazine. Williams said. This could be generated by paid advertising or paid subscriptions to the magazine.
Other alumni associations in the country accept advertising to help finance publications, Williams said. Of 43 alumni programs, including KU, 29 published a magazine last year, six published a tabloid and eight published both a magazine and a tabloid, he said. Of the 43 schools, 26 accepted advertising for their publications.
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