Monday, March 24.1975
University Daily Kansan
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Dorm theater improvises
By EVIE RAPPORT
Kansan Staff Reporter
Kansan Staff Reporter
Hashinger Hall Theatre's second spring production will open tonight with an evening of improvisation and a performance of Leonard Mellichamp's "Birdbath."
The play and the improvisations are directed by Cliff Rakerd, St. Louis sophomore. Rakerd says "Birdbath" is a bizarre love story about a poet and a young woman, both of whom have put up barriers between themselves and other people.
The improvisations preceding the play's performance help establish the atmosphere of the space.
"Birdshaw" is a poet, Frank Basta, played by Joe Hulse, Russell freshman, and about a young woman, Velma Sparrow, played by Donna Young, Dallas, Tex. They are in a cafeteria and discover that they're drawn together by mutual problems.
"Velma Sparrow is 26, but she's still a little girl," Rakerd says. "She had a very strong mother who took out her own hostilities on her children. So Velma put up a wall around herself. She's the kind of person who can sit back, but never says anything, about herself."
Frank Basta is in his mid-30s, Raked says, and has discovered that people swarm around him and want to pick his brains because he's a poet.
Rakerd says that Frank has had so many unpleasant experiences with people that he has also put up a barrier between himself and other people.
"He's pulled inside himself," Rakerd says. "He can't even write poems any more. He's in a slump, going nowhere."
As the play progresses, Rakert says, Frank and Velma begin to open up to each other. But each time they do, he says, one can help them willing to commit himself to another person.
"Something happens at the end of the play," he says, "something very drastic, that makes them see that they need each other."
The series of improvisations that precede "Birdbath" will be performed by Wendy Bliss, Overland Park freshman; Mary Butler, Montpelier, Vt.; freshman Steve Johnson, Osborne sophomore; Kevin Kinkead, Mission sophomore; Else Orr, Chesterfield, Mo., freshman Hulse; Young; and Rakert.
The purpose of the improvisations, Rakerd says, is to help establish the location of the play, the time of the year and the situations that will occur.
Also involved in the improvisational sequence is Giff Booth, Wichita senior, who
Michael Bryant, University City, Mo., freshman, and Joel Knapp, Lawrence freshman, will perform a song written for the improvisational groups during the improvisational seepage.
will perform mime routines that tie the improvisational sequences together
Hashinger Hall Theatre's first production of the spring semester was "Free to Be ... We and Me," an adaptation of a television special on a classic album. It was performed in early April.
"Birdbath" was written by Meffit in 1966 and first performed by the Cafe La Mama experimental group in 1967. Performances are 8 p.m. tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday in Hashinger Hall Theatre. Admission for nonhall residents is 50 cents.
Humanities program begins hunt for new headquarters
The Pearson Integrated Humanities Program (PHP) is looking for a man
Joseph Quinn, is looking for a new home. Dennis Quinn, Pearson College which are both housed in Joseph H. Pearson Hall, said Friday that the new program was looking for new headquarter.
"No one has made any request for us to move from JRP," Quinn said. "I have requested that we be moved from the dormitory because of space problems."
The College Assembly's Feb. 18 decision to consolidate the Colleges-Within-aCollege System into one advising system located at Nunemaker Center, will cause the
disbanding of Pearson College by May 1, Quinn said.
With Pearson College no longer in JRP, PWP will have no reason to remain in the hall.
Quain said that he had asked Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, to request approval for the humanities program to move into the North College headquarters at Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall.
North College. also part of
North College, will have
vacations its offices by May 1.
"I requested this as a temporary measure," Quinn said. The North College offices probably couldn't be converted readily into dormitory rooms, he said.
Harry Wigner, president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said that Cobbs had relayed Quinn's request for a new board to Board, which is still considering the issue.
However, Wigner said, the proposal's chance of passing wasn't good.
"If PHIP stays in the system, it will probably stay in JRP," he said.
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