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Friday, February 14, 1975
University Daily Kansan
ENTERTAINMENT
Play sweet, sour
B. KATHLEEN PICKETT
Entertainment Editor
"Free to Be . . . You and Me"
is a play that explores sexual stereotypes through the perspective of childhood. If you are able to divorce yourself from reality and become like a child, you should thoroughly enjoy the play.
If not, you may have a few misgivings. In other words, I wouldn't recommend the play to my children and to restrict his sugar intake.
The set and staging appropriately set the atmosphere for the play. Before you come into the play, there is a skit between two babies, a boy and girl, who are discovering themselves. Inside, the theater is decorated with play equipment, including a wall with childhood colors. Children's art decorates the walls, and cast members blow bubbles or play with a hula hoop.
One fortunate aspect of the play was that some of the sketches began before all of the audience was in. But sketches of the entire play were related more by theme than by
All the members of the cast were spirited and threw their arms around the table and an unheavy feeling at times that no one could smile as much
and be as happy as they were, but then I am a natural cynic.
Especially outstanding in their varied parts were Giff Booth, Wichita senior; Rob Davis, Leenna junior; and Nancy Norris, Nevada, Mo., sophomore. They were recognized in recognizing the men, but as there were fewer of them, they stood out more.
The main difficulty with the play was that it proved its point—only too well. An example is the humour played by Nancy Norris, uttered all the sexual staterotypes possible. She
was cute, but she went on and on so long that I got annoyed.
he payes with an excellent job in emphasizing the idea that people should be able to choose what they seem almost that the "traditional" roles of woman were of necessity rejected. After all, I played with Barbie and Elsa, but not the girl, but don't feel oppressed.
The show did have its fine points. "Housework," done by Cassandra Hines, is pleaser and my favorite. It left out any saccharine overtones
and got down to the real business of common sense about so-called women's work. And the way it parodied commercials on television was hilarious.
Also excellent was "Growing Pains," performed by Giff Booth. He was sympathetically inspired and common to many of us—even a few of us who are college seniors. That is the fear of growing up. This piece also had great music in the best show in the entire show.
Most of the music was enjoyable. The singing wasn't always up to par, but the spirit made up for it.
And I could only sympathize with the girl in "Southpaw" who wanted to play baseball. She showed what many girls feel when rejected by boys in our attempts to play their sports.
In fact, the music was usually better than the spoken parts. Some of the narratives were too rhymshed because I became a little bit sticky.
In all, if you have a mind any broader than an arrow, you should go see "Free to Dance" and take it with a grain of salt, you take yourself into the spirit of it, you'll have a good time. If you know some good songs making up an enjoyable hour and a half.
Uniqueness of exhibit reason for success
The exhibition consists mainly of clay, jewelry and fiber pieces from the limestone of the river primitive to traditional.
A porcelain jar by Richard C. Luster won the first award in 1964 for his traditional piece, made on a wheel, exhibited a grace and
The word unique is often misused. It means "solitary in type or characteristics." An example of correct usage would be to say that the 21st Kansas Designer Craftsman Exhibition, in the Kansas Union Gallery, is unique.
By MIKE RIEKE
Konsan Reviewer
This uniqueness comes from the individuality of the craftsman. In this age of technology, machine-made products tend to哄 the mind to sleep with their limits of symmetry and marketability, their mass-produced goods. In this exhibition provide an escape from this stagnation of imagination.
Stephenson, who won second prize in that division, show a meticulous use of fine, colored threads. The delicacy of her works is contrasted to the thick, rough fibers and designs in pieces by Joan Prater, Jennifer Webster and Jan Solmes.
Bob Ebendorf won first prize in the jewelry and metal division with three peart-like beads. Very symmetrical in
KAREN GODEKE TURNED a plain white bib into a bizarre work of art by decorating it with a relief form of a brightly colored bird. Intricate embroidery gives texture to the feathers of the head neck and skull project three inches from the surface of the bib, giving it added depth of texture.
The widest range of materials is put to use in the jewelry in the exhibition. Some pieces are limited to the standard metals used for jewelry, but some are used of clay, fabric, feathers, plastic, bone and wood.
Some people might find the exhibition pieces too weird for their tastes. The unexpected does dominate the works, but the craftsmanship of the craftsmans are what make the exhibit so fascinating.
Madwomen save Paris
BY ANGELA POTHETES
Years Staff Retention
On one side are the good people. The madwoman, played by Elizabeth Green, attempts to save the city from the financiers who have found oil deposits under Paris.
Destroying a city like Paris for oil might seem to be a drastic measure, but that is what the bad guys want to do.
"The Madwoman of Challion," by Jean Giraudoux, the late French playwright, is a story of the fight between good and evil, Tom Rea, director, said Wednesday.
With the help of her friends, the madwoman holds a mock trial. The unscrupulous men are condemned for their crimes and sentenced to die in the sewers of Paris, Rea said.
Their plans are thwarted, however, when the Madwoman of Challill decides to plot against them.
The rapiper, played by Steve Bernstein, and the other madwomen, played by Maureen Hawley, Lambring Helen Hedge, played by the madwoman. The president, played by Kirby Kemble, the broker, played by Jim Thompson, the prospector, played by Joe Watson and the baron, played by Tim Connors forces of evil. There are 32 members in the East Rea said.
Oxie Brown, assistant director, said the story was about a woman who decided to kill the wicked people in the world.
However, there is a comparison between the story and what was happening in France when the French wrote the play, Brown said.
As assistant director, Brown studied the play. She noted previous performances, faults in performance, and history of the story, she said.
She said Rea reviewed the French script and then made changes in the translation. He
'Centennial' for all
Contributing Writer
"Centennial" by James A. Michener, Random House Inc., 905 pages, $12.50.
By STEPHEN BUSER
Reading James A. Michelen's most recent best-seller, experience was an extrabusiness I am not likely to forget.
"Centennial") is a 965-page documentary of the great North American West from prehistoric times to the present. Regardless of what your interests may be, it is likely that they are covered in "Centennial."
were designed by Andrea Southard, were timeless.
KANSAN reviews
A ceramic box by Dick Eick and a porcelain form by Lynda Leonard are more primitive in design, primitive in the primary sense of the word—not derived from or reducible to something else. These hand-built pieces include a number of plastic qualities of clay, its adaptability to free form design.
TWO OF THE MOST unusual ceramic pieces are by Paul Prehm and Scot Schlek. Prehm decorated a traditional bottle form with a silk-screened bottle of a nude woman seated above a flower arrangement, the words "Willie's Miracle Cure."
delicacy of curve and color, of perfection in form and execution.
Fiber works by Billi R.
Schlek used clay to make a miniature model of an Airstream mobile home. The interior of the trailer is complete with large windows and television watchers drinking Coors in another room.
First prize in the fiber division was won by Vicki Haskell for her fiber ikat (an ikat is a fabric tie-dye design). The vertical threads are made by weaving light yellow threads vertically through brittle. The vertical threads are tie-dyed at intervals, forming rainbows of red, blues and orange. The fluffy threads are combed into a fluffy fringe outlining the piece.
Although this book represents Michener's contribution to America's bicentennial celebration, it should be recognized primarily for what it has to offer to readers in the field of archaeology, ranching, American Indians, French fur trader-trappers, the westward movement and a multitude of other subjects related to the growth and development of Centenium, Colo. Michener is an ecologist and coagent information in describing the fascinating history of this unique town.
design, the pin uses dull, iron-like metals to set off the brightly colored plastics. The colored texture is painstaking and precise.
Other exhibition pieces can't be classified in the three large categories—works in wood, glass, leather and batik, but they show the same freedom of imagination.
Michener begins his documentary 160 million years ago with illuminating accounts of the Rocky Mountains, the early inhabitants of the Colorado region and the general environment that suddenly become Centennial. Eventually he introduces Lame
For instance, some glass works included sculpture, a paperweight and miscellaneous forms. In wood there were such items as a small box of boxes and wall and table pieces. There also were wooden toys. Examples of interesting leather craftsmanship included a purse by David Schmidt. Batk work added some that was in purl art form.
"The Madwoman of Challoo"
will be performed at 8 p.m. Feb.
14, 15, 20 and 21 at 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 16 in University Theatre.
The show scheduled for Feb. 22
and the basketball game.
Tickets may be purchased at the
University Box Office.
Beaver, an Anapho warrior, as one of the main characters of the book. In succession he proceeds to describe in intimate detail a man named Pasquiel, a French trader-trapper; Levi Zeddit, a former Amishman moving west on the Oregon Trail; Oliver Secombe, an Englishman who establishes a ranch of over 5 million acres; and a man who key positions in the history of Centennial.
The reader is bound to become completely engrossed in the lives of these characters as Michener unfolds the story, and the reader will realize that they face daily. It is easy for the reader to uncontrollably experience the same struggles Lame Beaver had in attaining manhood, Pasquinel had in merely surviving and Levi in making the trek from Lanceau, Penn. to Colorado.
This is the type of book an avid reader might try to finish in one sitting. But the more length you require, the more all-nighters at your table are regardless of the pace at which one reads, this书 should be required reading for any person who has an interest in history of Mountain territory or the Rocky Mountain territory and especially Colorado.
The $12.50 price of the book is worthwhile. If you don't have the money or the time now, be ready to read "Centennial" sometime.
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Steve Meriwether, who designed the set and lights, said the setting depicts the concept of dream versus reality. The special effects in the show are translucent stain glass windows and the use of a trap door, he said.
and the second is in the cellar of the madwoman's home.
Rea said the costumes, which
News Adviser Susanne Shaw
made revisions so the script would flood more smoothly but made no major changes, Brown said.
Rea said there were some problems he had tried to resolve. Through the elements of live in learning, he usually and audibly the differences between illusion and reality, he said.
The two-act play will run for two hours, Rea said. The first act takes place in a French cafe
Business Adviser Mel Adams
The Madwoman of Chaillot
On television
Basketball—Kansas at Oklahoma State. (WIBW at noon.)
American Music Awards—the second annual. With Helen Reddy and Sly Stone as hosts. 8:00 p.m. Tuesday on ACR.)
Attack on Terror: The FBI Versus the Klu Klux Krush—Drama of the 1964 FBI investigation of the murder of three young civil rights workers in Mississippi.
(8-10 p.m. Thursday on CBS. Part II same time Friday.)
At the gallery
Spencer Library—'Art of the Snanish Book,' "Petrarch," "Allers in America," Kansas in the Experiences of Liberty, G. Lihgert Family."
rana& I-Clare Tucker Bell, pottery; Lori Malot, paintings; Pam Carvahelo, quilts; Ann Schiager, weaving; and Tom Swearingen, prints and stained glass.
Watson Library—"Spanish Art of the 17th Century."
Kansas Union Gallery-
Kansas Designer-Craftsman
Show. (Through March 2.)
7E7- "New Imagery",
paintings and seigraphs by
Gerald Lubensky. (Open 12:38,
m., Tuesday through
Sunday.)
water good. A Medical Arts Building—Dollie McCauley, oil paintings and watercolors.
Natural History Museum contemporary Indian arts, Pueblo pottery.
Lawrence Public Library—
Mike Ott, paintings; James
Holmes, mixed media conference;
David Graves,
watercolors.
On screen
Last Tango in Paris—Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Controversial film in which Marion Cotillard plays Martine, who would do everything could ever possibly want to watch them do.
This Week's
(At 7 and 9:30 tonight and Saturday night and at 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Woodcuff Auditorium.)
ENTERTAINMENT
Brebeca of Sunnybrook Farm—Fairly good 1938 production with Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Bill Hingley "Robinson and Jace Haley" (tin man in Wizard of Oz.)
It doesn't follow the book—Rebecca is a young radio performer who runs off to do a show, but she also works for Miranda thinks she's in bed. There is a romance on the side and some good song and dance numbers by "the greatest cooper of them all" 80 minutes.
(At 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Woodruff Auditorium.)
Stormy Weather—1943
Routine backstage musical plot is saved by a top-notch all black cast in good musical numbers.
With Lena Horne, Bill "Bolanges" Robinson, Cab Calloway and Fats Waller. 77 minutes.
(At 7:30 p.m. Monday in Woodruff Auditorium.)
Le Millon - 1832. Directed by Rene Cline. One of the classic French movies, about the little man subordinated to theology. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Woodriff Auditorium.
Superman Films—To be announced. (At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Forum Room.)
Child Under a Leaf—Not too good flick about a woman (Dyan Cannon), her bristlish hair and sexy makeup, Patsy, Faded R.
The Crazy World of Julius Vroeder—people hiding from the crazer world out here. Rated PG.
(At 7:25 and 9:20 p.m. daily with matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday end Sunday at Hillcrest IL.)
That'll Be the Day-A film that explores the world English rock stars were born into, and why they left David Essex is good as a hopeful and Ringo Starr is fine as a carnival worker who makes friends with the boy.
A really good film in the disaster genre, but very weak in script, especially characterizations. It's full of charmingly bad one-liners such as "She's not the only lamenta a mother. She doesn't even know where we keep the key to the safe-deposit box."
The Towering Inferno -Based on two novels financed by two Hollywood studios, with two directors- Iwain Allen for the movie, and Mia Korsak with the role-with two cinematographers and two editors.
Island at the Top of the World—one of the most inventive Disney live features in some time. About four explore trips, each in a magnificentugla in the Arctic. Exciting, adventurous.
Not a rock musical but a strong drama. Directed by Claude Whatham, Rated PG. (At 7:30 and 9:15 daily with 9:10 Saturday and until IT.)
(At 8 p.m. daily with matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Granada.)
At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. daily with matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Varsity.
Other performers are Dan McALEXander, Judith Walter, Janet Bucher, Patrick New, Steve Kessler, Rebecca Keen, Steven Shumway, Susan Shields, Gary McCarty, Danny Dishon, Kristin Manley, Josh Manley, Bob Peck and Curtis Sykes.
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In concert
James Needles, composition—A senior recital of original compositions. The senior, will perform "Elfinik Elygon" on the guitar. Four other compositions will be performed for the first time.
(At 8 tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.)
Oratorio Workshop—Maribeth Kirchhoff, director. With Carla Edwards, organist, and David Spear, harp-arpenter. Works by Heinrich Schuetz, J.S. Bach and Pergolesi.
(At 3 p.m. Sunday in St. John's Catholic Church.)
Kansas University Symphonic Band—opening performance of the spring tour, including the soloist is Antonio H. Perez.
(At 3 p.m. Sunday in Battenfeld Auditorium at the Med Center.)
Concord String Quartet-
Chamber Music Series. Made up of fairly young performers, the group is quartet-in-residence at Dartmouth College.
The program: Beethoven's "Sring Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2"; Alban Berg's "Lyric Suite for Violin and Viola" or Sring Quartet in F Major, Op. 36, also known as the "American Quartet."
(At 8 p.m. Monday in Swarthout Recital Hall.)
Howard Boyajian, violin with Robert Ward, pianist and composer of Stanley Shumway's "Spells for Solo Violin" with electronic accompaniment. Also sonatas by Mozart or Strauss and a cello solosolemma.
(At 8 p.m. Wednesday in Swarthout Recital Hall.)
On stage
Madwoman of Challot — 1945
fantasy play by Jean Giraudoux. It tells of a mad countess whose machinations sends all the agents of witch with a toil to escape her fate (at 8 p.m. tonight, Saturday and Thursday and at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday in University Theatre.) Free to Be . . . You and Me—Play that explores the roles of people within sexual oppression, through the eyes of children.
(At 8 p.m. tonight, Saturday and Sunday and at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday in Hashinger Theat*
family in fashion Anne's,
Antigone - Anouilh Anouilh's
adaptation of the Sophoches
story. A beautiful, moving story
performed with Greek
costumes and setting, although
the original script called for
modern evening dress
(At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in the Lawrence High School auditorium.)