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Thursday, October 29, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Glassblower explains his art
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Glassblower Fritz Dreisbach demonstrates his finesse with molten glass for a group of KU students. Dreisbach appeared Tuesday and yesterday at the Chamney Barn on West Campus.
Lisa Jones/KANSAN
An old barn in a remote corner of West Campus was the unlikely site of a visit this week from one of the world's foremost glass blowers.
Fritz Reischach, a glassblower who has taught and had his work featured across the United States and Europe, was at the Chamney Barn, 15th Street near Crestline Drive, Tuesday and yesterday to demonstrate his work to students.
Tuesday, about 40 students lined the walls, wedged themselves into corners and even climbed into the windows as being as he demonstrated his work.
Vernon Brechla, associate professor of design, said that Dreisbach was the most distinguished student among absorbing students to meet in years.
"We've got one of the most famous in the world." Brejcha said. "He more or less has the title of being the glassblower's glassblower because of his finesse and his ability to handle the material."
Dreischau started out his demonstration by getting a feel for the molten glass he was working with.
He gathered the glass on the end of a 3-foot long metal tube by spinning it in one of the four strings. He let jet engines along a barn wall.
Breicha said that glass was constantly in a liquid state, even when it appears solid, but that the glass can take up 290 degrees to make it workable.
The bulb of glass that came out on the end of Dreischab's tube glowed a faint orange, like the oils of the furnaces behind him.
One at a time, Dreisbach took several globes of glass, which stuck to the end of the tube like thick honey, and stamped them into shape with molds for later use before actually doing any glass-
blowing.
While he was preparing to do a simple warm-up piece, Dreischadt told the students they were wel- loved to interrupt him with questions.
"I'm not here just to show off," he said. "I'm here to answer your questions."
While he took a quick break between works, Dreisbach said he
enjoyed traveling to show his work.
"I sell glass to make a living, but I enjoy teaching, so I like doing these road shows," he said. "Of course, the road shows eventually help sales, but I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy teaching."
Acting troup from France to perform at Liberty Hall
By BRIAN BARESCH Staff writer
Supertitles to help cross language barriers
Staff writer
Everyone at Liberty Hall will understand the dialogue in Marguerite Duras' psychological thriller 'L'Amante Anglaise" when it takes the stage Tuesday night, even though the actors will be speaking French
In a novel approach to international theater, the play, performed by the Theatre Populaire de Lourraine, will have English superstitions projected above the action onto the rear wall of the stage.
"So far as I can tell, it's a unique feature of any play produced," said Mary Greenwood Johnson, instructor in French, who is coordinating the troupe's visit. "It's a nice way to reach a wider audience."
Johnson said the superites would be especially helpful because the thy's tense dialogue was important and not much action took place on stage.
"L'Amante Anglaise," or "The English Lover," is based on a genuine murder, which happened in 1949 in France. Duras' version describes a woman who, with her husband's help, murders her cousin.
dismembers the body and throws
the parts onto the cars of a moving train
The play centers on the couple after the wife has confessed and when an investigator tries to discover exactly why the killing took place. Duras wrote the play so that the
We're seeing this as something of a much different stature than what we had the past few years.'
Mary Greenwood Johnson instructor in French
audience could draw its own conclusions about the motive for the murder.
Lawrence is one of 15 U.S. cities that will be host to the play. The performance here is presented by the University of Kansas department of French and Italia., the KU International Performing Arts Committee, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of
the French Embassy.
"We're seeing this as something of a much different stature than what we had the past few years," Johnson said. The department has sponsored plays in the past, most recently by the Claude Clair Company, a French touring amateur troupe.
Johnson said the Theatre Polulaire de Lorraine was now one of the finest regional trunnes in France
The sets were designed by Yannis Kokosk, one of the most well-known players of the game. The set was more than 1965. Kokosk has designed more than 80 sets for plays and operas.
Playwright Duras is best known in the United States for writing the screenplay for the movie, "Hiroshima," Mon Amour," made in 1959, about a movie producer who tells the story of his family's story set in the Japanese city where the first atom bomb was dropped at the end of World War II.
Le Monde, a large Paris newspaper, has called Duras one of the two most important playwrights in France along with Samuel Beckett.
Drug testing seminar to be at KU
By a Kansan reporter
employees and college and profes sional athletes.
The University of Kansas will be the site on Nov. 5 of a symposium on drug testing to help area businesses themselves on the drug testing issue
Twelve experts, including three KU professors, in the fields of law, labor, anthropology and medicine are visiting the University of public-sector and private-sector
The symposium, "Drug Testing:
Facts, Fears and Policy Perspectives," will begin at 8:30 a.m. at Green Hall.
Topics in the morning will include
taking reliability and the constitutionality
of a test, discussing, beginning at 1:30 p.m.
will address specific testing
instances in athletics and business and their social and legal implications.
The fee for the symposium, which is aimed at attorneys and corporations, is $155.
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