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Experimental Theatre Plans Moliere Comedy for Tonight
By Karen Lambert
A case of mistaken identity and its consequences, one of the classic ingredients of theatrical farce, is the core of the second Experimental Theatre production.
Experimental Theatre players will revive Jean Baptiste Moliere "The Doctor in Spite of Himself" tonight.
The 17th century playwright preceded Mack Sennett by 300 years, but Dennis Dalen, director, compares Moliere's play to a Sennett comedy.
"The play is definitely slapstick," he said. "It's effectiveness is in farcical elements—echo dialogue, repetition, double takes, even pie in the eye."
"GAG ELEMENTS are much more important than plot, props or costumes," he continued.
"In his day, Molliere was a mighty laugh getter," Dalen said.
The comedy revolves around a simple woodcutter, Sganarelle, (Jim Daniels, Leawood freshman) and his shrewish wife Martine (Ann Glaze, Higginsville, Mo., graduate student). Their marriage is one unending, knock-down-drag-out relationship. Martine decides to take revenge on her husband by having him beaten.
SHE TELLS two men that her husband is actually a famous doctor, possessed with marvelous power to cure unknown diseases, but that he will only admit his true profession under severe beating. So the men abduct and beat Sganarelle, he admits that he is a doctor, and the comedy unfolds as he gets into hot, and then hotter, water, trying to cure several patients.
Scholarship Halls To Entertain Guests
About 80 high school senior men from Kansas will be weekend guests of the University for the annual scholarship hall weekend.
The high school seniors have been invited to the campus for a firsthand look at KU's scholarship hall system, John A. Myers, assistant to the dean of men, said yesterday.
Divided into groups of 15 to 20 each the visitors will be hosted by the five men's scholarship halls — Battenfeld, Foster, Jolliffe, Pearson, and Stephenson—Myers said.
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, the office of the dean of men sent out letters requesting high school principals and counselors to submit names of prospective good college students and scholarship hall residents. Using these recommendations, the 80 seniors were then invited to activities on the campus this weekend.
After arriving on campus Saturday afternoon, the guests will be given tours of the campus and a 6 p.m. banquet in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Saturday evening the seniors will be University guests at the Sunflower basketball double-header in Allen Field House. KU will meet Loyola University of Chicago and Kansas State University will play Penn State.
After spending the night in the scholarship halls, the men will at-
end church services Sunday morning with hall residents.
THE SENIORS will have Sunday dinner in the various scholarship halls. Each scholarship hall will have as additional guests, members of the KU faculty and administrative staff. Following dinner, the seniors will have an opportunity to discuss the University and their future educational plans with the faculty and administrators. Myrs said.
The discussion sessions will end the official scholarship hall weekend. Last year 74 high school senior men attended the weekend, Myers said. Of this total, 55 per cent are now KU students, and 45 per cent are residents of scholarship halls, he said.
Dalen calls the comedy an action plav.
"It moves very fast, with no intermission." he said.
The cast has been in rehearsal since Nov. 2. Getting the play in shape for tright's opening has been a continuing process of improvising and analyzing what will make the audience laugh, Dalen said.
"THE PLAY IS a problem in style as far as actors are concerned," Dalen said. "Farce is a style of acting that an actor is not generally exposed to."
"But our main problem has been to maintain freshness and spontaneity," he said. "It is hard work to rehearse a comedy for a month and keep it funny."
Costumes are styled in the 17th century period and will provide most of the color in the production.
DALEN DESCRIBED the set as a "configuration of arches." A wisp of green theater gauze simulates a forest, and the arches are used to represent any setting in the play, depending on how the actors move about them. At one point they represent trees in a forest, and in another scene the arches represent a kitchen.
Lights and background music are also combined to provide the proper atmosphere for the production.
"The Doctor In Spite of Himself" will run through Saturday night this week and will reopen on Dec. 15 for four nights.
Tickets are on sale at Murphy Hall Box office for 75 cents with certificate of registration.
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