Kids love it—
'Snow White'debuts
By JACKI CAMPBELL
"One down and 18 to go."
One down and to go.
This was the response of one actor after the first curtain of yesterday's opening performance of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
Filled mostly with children in this, the first performance, the audience was termed "very receptive" by Linda Showalter, Ottawa junior, who was making a study to determine when and
how much the children respond.
"WE WERE REALLY surprised," she said, "when Snow White died and they laughed."
A props crew member, Judy Soenen, Overland Park, junior also remarked about this.
"Everybody backstage was all teary-eyed," she said, "and the kids clapped and screamed. You just never know what they're going to do.
They really laughed when the
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On a simple set in a small theater, satire flows and sacrilege seeps.
'Rogues' Trial'mixes satire with sacrilege
"The Rogues' Trial" is a moralistic play translated by Adaino Suassuna. It is, he says, "a story of the crimes of John Cricket and other rogues; their trial and the intercession of Mary, our Lady of Mercy. A satire on human frailties in the form of a miracle play."
Presented in the Experimental Theatre, performances will be at 8:20 p.m. December 7 to 10 and 13 to 16.
Dillwyn F. Ratchcliff, author of the script's introduction, says Suassuna "directs his shafts at the affluent, at the well-to-do merchant and especially at the great landowners. In passing, he takes a few cheerful sideswipes at court procedure and legalistic quibbling, bureaucratic nonfeasance, Christians who are ignorant of the Bible and race prejudice."
NJNE "MURDERS" are committed in the play.
A bishop and priest are accused of "worldliness, simony, avarice, arrogance, laziness, hypocrisy and of engaging in politics."
A baker and his wife get robbed, harrassed and murdered because they have their dog buried with Christian rites—in Latin. (Well, it's an indirect reason.)
A feeble-minded friar becomes a saint and Jesus is—well, the cast does not want us to ruin the third act's surprise.
"SOME PLAYS WOULD just be killed with a large audience," Fred Litto, diector, said.
It's so intimate here; it's the proximity of the whole thing that makes the big difference.
"The main theater is an ambitious place; here we can experiment with ideas. But we're not very experimental, really."
The fact remains that the play is an unusual one, however. Some dialogues pierce the air. For example:
Satan: "Oh, here comes Mary the Compassionate. Women meddle in everything."
witch removed her hat and revealed a bald head. Then they really, really laughed when she used her hair tonic brew and came out with her piggy-wiggy wig."
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DRINKING A BREW with what she thought was Snow White's heart, the witch had hoped to grow beautiful black hair on her shiny bald head. The heart was not Snow White's, however, but a pigs, and pig's tails dangled from her still shiny head.
Parmelee Bates, New York, N.Y. junior who plays Snow White received many congratulations after the performance.
"Most felt it was the best she has done. An audience always helps. The play went very well, on the whole," one was heard to say.
SOME THINGS naturally go wrong in almost every performance, and some amusing semidisasters beefell Snow White and her troupe.
The smoke from the witches' cauldron made a puddle of water on the floor and a dwarf fell down.
Also, the witch lost her duncel-like hat when she erupted from her cauldron dwelling.
BUT ONE THING was much better for Snow White this time.
The witch had more troubles than an unsuccessful hair tonic brew, it seems.
In one sequence of events, she takes a bite of food from each of the dwarfs' plates before they return to their house. A bite of bread is one plate's contribution to an empty stomach. A lapse of time had produced mold on the bread.
"It tastes like dirt." Miss Bates told the others once.
SKI REPORTS
For this opening performance she got a fresh piece of bread— with mayonnaise.
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