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Wednesday, August 20,1975
University Daily Kansan
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Time of their lives
William Sarovan's "The Time of Your Life" opens the 1975
season Sept. 5 and 6. William Kuhke (left) stars as Joe and George Weiss portrays an oldimer.
Thespian season diverse
By EVIE RAPPORT Contribution Writer
An unusually diverse group of plays comprises the 1975-76 University Theatre season, with representatives of the Jacobbeen, morality, musical comedy and Gothic genres to be presented on the main stage. An original play, two full-length productions and two playlets are scheduled in the Inge Theatre.
OF THE 14 PRODUCTIONS billed so far, only two are immediately recognized as theatrical standby's - the musical "Amme Dance" and the musical "Slow Dance on the Killing Ground."
The other plays, which range from an operatic adaptation of a Henry James short story to a playlet by Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, are distinguished by their unfamiliarity and their decidedly critical applications to contemporary events.
An encore presentation of "The Time of Your Life," one three of plays in the summer Landmarks of the American Theatre festival, opens the 1975 season Sept. 5 and 6. David Cook, Lawrence graduate student, directed the highly polished and proficient
of 23 during the July run of William Saroyan in the 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE season begins in earnest Oct. 17, with "Annie Get Your Gun," in Irving Berlin's salute to business and irvinporthoes. Joe Watson, Kligore, Tex, graduate student, will direct. it alsoplays Oct. 18, 19, 24 and 25.
"Searcrow," a 1909 play by the American playwright Percy McKayle, will be performed Nov. 7, 8, 14, 15 and 16. Robert Smith, visiting professor of speech and drama from the University of Wisconsin, will direct.
The play, University Theatre's nod to the American Bicentennial, is set in the Colonial period and deals with a witch's revenge against a pompous, self-righteous judge with a pretty daughter. It's been described as a lightweight Gothic romance—Pinochio by way of Frankenstein and the Salem witch trials.
MARCIA GRUND, instructor of speech and drama, will direct the first spring production on the main stage, Andre Obrey's "Noah." She described the play, which
opens Feb, 25, as "a modern myth, the Ark
ark retold."
"It's particularly pimenten now," she said. "The earth is destroyed by what we do to it. The irony is that we are destroyed it all over again since the Ark. The building
A Jacobee play written in 1623 by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley is the next major production. William Keeler, will direct the play, "The Changeling."
Kaeler said, "The students felt the need for a classical piece with an definite style, something large and ambitious. This was chosen largely for the intensity of its women's roles—they're marvelous, gutsy and tangible."
"The Changeling," which, oddly, was written 40 years before women appeared on the English stage, describes the collapse of a moral and social order that thinks itself secure, according to Keeler. The women's roles were originally performed by men.
THE LAST MAJOR production of the 1975-78 season is "The Turn of the Screw." Benjamin Britten's 1964 adaptation of Henry James's classic ghost story. Tom
See VARIOUS PLAYS page 8
Bly said he met Holom the first day Bly was in Lawrence. in 1952.
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"One of the first things I noticed when I came here was the fellow in the red pickup truck who was always taking kids and playing games, 'Bly said. "He was quite a guy."
Bly said that Holcom, who died in January 1971, knew the sports complex was being planned. A dream of Holcom's was never realized and he have a good place to play ball, he said.
Holcom's baseball . . .
"He always had the boys' interest at
IBB and "He wanted to work with
them as a staff."
Before the complex was built, junior Babe Ruth League games were played at municipal stadium at 11th and 2nd floors of Park in Massachusetts and North Park streets.
A MEMORIAL PLAQUE at the new complex is dedicated to Louis Holcom. It reads, in part, "The lives of many young artists of our time" and his association of over 50 years as a par-
iciptant, coach and adviser of boys' baseball in Lawrence."
One person influenced by Holcom was John Hall, former All America KU quarterback, now a professional football player.
Hadi said, "I can never repay Loya for all
these charges, playing knowledge and
basic operational skills."
would say he was retiring but he would always manage to get himself involved "well."
Bly said of Holcom: "Every year he
The complex, now completing its second full year in operation, is made up of four fields: lighted baseball fields arranged in a triangular field, grass field suitable for football and soccer.
THREE DIAMONDS ARE IDENTICAL, with
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