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The butterfly meets a variety of creatures in its quest. There's the grasshopper who also has lost its way, the pompous and learned fly who performs magic tricks and juggles invisible balls, and the fearsome, hungry spider, who threatens to eat the butterfly but lets it go when the butterfly promises to bring back something to eat.
This was the setting of the University of Kansas Theatre for Young People production, "The Butterfly." The play was presented by assistant instructor in speech and drama, and was performed Sept. 29-Oct. 2 in the University Theatre.
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THERE WAS another setting in the audience, where about 200 children and their parents were sitting. The kids' squirms, giggles and murmurs combined to create a buzz like the insect sounds coming from a country pond on a moonlit night.
"It is a whole different kind of audience," Bruce Schentes, Clairmont, Calif., sophomore, said the final panel at the Butterfly. "Schentes played the part of Professor Fly."
"I's very strong. You have the feeling of a vacuum as the kids' concentration goes in on you when it becomes very still. Then they start shaking, and your body is in chain reaction. One kid starts shifting and all the other kids start shifting. One starts to laugh and they all start笑.
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that. The whole idea is for the kids to enjoy
And enjoy it they did. Professor Fly's magic antics were met with squeals of delight. The entrance of the seemingly mean spider, played by Steve Mofkowsky, Overland Park junior, or the beautiful butterfly, played by Joy Guffey, Futton, mo. senior, brought a chorus of muffled aids from the impressed audience.
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did, six, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis
Brown, seven, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Dennis Brown.
Katherine's comments on the play weren't totally favorable. She did spot one flair in her performance.
"There's one thing they did wrong," she said. "Whoever heard of tallow inserts?"
KATHELEN'S COMPLIANT that the fly didn't look much like a飞 seemed reasonable, because not many flies wear tuxedos and tophats.
Kathleen's brother, Julian, 9, at first said he liked everything about the play. But after
"The ending was kind of a blank." he said. "But it was still a reverty good ending."
a little more thought, he expressed mild criticism.
Julian was alluding to the final scene, in which the butterfly finally found the sun by moving a box and standing in the warm, yellow rays streaming in through the hole. The sun was also lost in the barn, couldn't find the sun and was left behind with the spider.
"I THOUGHT the sun effect was pretty good," Julian said. "I'd like to have the part of the scene where I play it."
Leane Anderson, 7, daughter of Mr. and
Anderson, St. Joseph, Mo., had a
different marriage.
"I wasn't too crazy about him," she said.
"I'm just not too crazy about sniders."
Maybe this was because the spider was portrayed so realistically by Mokdsky. Leanne sniff all the insects on stage seemed to insect to her. The butterfly was her favorite.
Bedard, the director, said the butterfly was the character kids naturally felt close to.
"SHE'S TRAPPED in the barn, and in order to get out she has to make a deal with
The play is unique, Bedard said, because of the unusual treatment it gives to the animal. The result is a dislike for the character.
"The struggle isn't over overt bad guy trying to get the good guy, and the good guy trying to get the bad guy."
The evil character in the play, if there is one, he said, is the lightning bug, played by Dave Cox, Clearwater, Fla., junior. The lightning bug tries to tempt the butterfly away from its search for the sun with his beautiful, but artificial, light box.
"Most of the children I have talked to haven't seen the evil in the lightning bug, but they also haven't the spider to be evil." Beard said. "In this play, I don't hate it. But he doesn't hate him; he's just hungry. He finds the butterfly is a good person and he lets he go."
Bedard said children in the audience were different from the adults because they were older.
"That's just fine," Bedard said. "It's great. It's different for those who haven't played to that type of audience. There's that buzz of energy that they've just not used to."
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