Monday, March 8, 1965 University Daily Kansan
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THE SCENE WAS A WESTERN SALOON, where "a portion of your refund has been pledged to support N.D.E.A. Student Loans." The sheriff was killed by a mysterious "Pi Phi" arrow in the saloon just before Fat, Fierce Fred escaped from prison and came back to Wakarusa Gulch.
The town needed a new sheriff and anemic Percy "Galore". Kent was the right man for the job. After a fierce brawl and some lively songs from Scarlet Ribbons, "the flower of the West." Fred was "dumped on" by Percy, who turned out to be "superstud."
The cast included Richard Danielson, Sioux City, Ia., junior, as the sheriff; Joanie Danielson, Leawood junior, Scarlet Ribbons; John Erickson, North Kansas City, Mo., percy, Percy Kent; Mike Ferrari, Prairie Village sophomore, Indian Side Kick; Mark Condon, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, Fat, Fierce Fred; Cheri Olsen, Hinsdale, Ill., sophomore, Lil (Fred's Gal).
WINNING HONORS for their choreography and ensemble singing were the Sigma Chis and Delta Gammas in their skit, "Oedipus and Electra, or Grecian Kid Stuff." Kristine Bergman, St. Louis, Mo., junior, was named top female performer in her role as Electra.
Erickson was co-director of the skit with Diane Olsen, Topeka sophomore.
The action unfolded at an ancient "friendly, neighborhood psychiatrist's clinic" in Athens. Dr. Sigmund Chi, quack and magician, tricked his star patient, King Oedipus, into signing a contract to stay at the "funny farm." Oedipus' problem? He loved his mother. But Dr. Chi's daughter, Electra, "grubbed" her father. Now you see the plot! Oedipus and Electra fall in love, Dr. Chi gets outfoxed, the patients revolt, and all ends well in a shower of pure corn.
Dr. Chi was played by Jack Powell, University City, Mo., senior; Oedipus was David Nesbitt, Overland Park senior; the Assistant was Russell Calkins, Wichita iumier.
Co-directors were Lyle A. "Mike" Robe, Jr., Arkansas City junior; and Chris Wolf, Wichita senior.
"SAMSON AND DELILAH, OR SURFIN' SAMSON" was presented by Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Sigma.
Cruel King Herod had been chaining his Dead Sea beachcombers to the pursuit of puritanism. An aged prophet brought Samson to their rescue in a pillar-pushing contest. The cruel king realized the error of his ways, Samson was the hero of the hour and, presumably, the curfews were lifted.
Cecily Pitts, Merriam sophomore, played a tempestuous Delilah; Craig Stanccliffe, Topeka junior, was Samson; Fred Young, Wichita senior, was the Prophet; Dan Baker, Topeka sophomore, was King Herod.
Directors were Elizabeth Berns, Peabody junior; Leatrice Hirschberg, Topeka junior; Edward Bachofer, Salina senior, and Ernest Yarnevich, Kansas City junior.
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Theatre Curtain Rises This Week On Pirandello's "Six Characters"
A theatre within a theatre and a play within a play characterize the University Theatre's fourth major production, opening this week.
Luigi Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" will play Friday and Saturday, and the weekend of March 18 and 19, in Murphy Theatre. Curtain time is 8:20 pm.
The play's setting is a theatre in which a director and his actors are preparing for a rehearsal, when suddenly six people enter. The six unexpected characters, offspring of the imagination of a playwright, are looking for an author to finish their story, because the original playwright had left the script unfinished with their problem unsolved.
BECAUSE THE WHOLE play is set in a theatre, KU's production will be staged without decor against the bare walls of the Murphy stage. Costumes will be contemporary, although the play was written in 1921.
Asked why the University Theatre had chosen this play for their next major production, Gordon Beck, instructor in speech and drama and director of the play, answered simply, "Because it's good".
Pirandello, an Italian, lived from 1867 to 1936. He was a novelist as well as a playwright. In 1934 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
Originally the University Theatre had hoped to have six Yugoslava-
vian drama students participating in the play as stagehands, Beck said. Their date of arrival, however, will not coincide with the opening date of the play.
BECK ALSO SAID certain scenes of the play would be performed on the University Theatre's Eastern European tour, which begins April 5.
The cast is headed by William Kuhlke, KU's second actor-in-residence, who plays Father. Other main characters are the mother, Sharon Scoville, Kansas City, Mo. graduate; the stepdaughter, Gigi Gibson, Independence senior; the son, Edward North, Keokuk, Iowa, freshman; and the director, Richard Kelton, Miami, Okla. junior.
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