Director highlights theatre's coming year
Four repertory plays to be presented this summer in the experimental theatre will be carried over for the fall season. Highlighting the summer presentations will be "The Rehearsal." July 25 and 26.
Guest director for the play, which will also open the fall season, is John Paro from Yugoslavia, said Lewin Goff, professor of speech and drama and director of the University Theatre. Experimental theatre productions will include "Stop the World I Want to Get Off" and "Romanoff and Juliet."
THE THEATER division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp will be discontinued. However, 10 freshmen will make up the cast of 20 actors who will present experimental theatre plays this summer.
"This has been a most exciting year for the department with the premier of 'Carry Nation,' Centennial seminars and guests in the field of drama," Goff said.
Plans are now under consideration for an opera next fall. Also scheduled are 12 plays, including "What a Lovely War," a Brazilian play entitled "The Rogue's Trail" and "The Marquis de Sade" which recently played on Broadway, and the musical,
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Two Kansas University students have been selected to attend the National Defense Education Act Institute for Undergraduates Preparing to Teach French which will be held at the University of Missouri June 20 to Aug. 5. They are Donna Jean Proffitt, Glendale, Mo., junior, and Barbara Ann Williams, North Kansas City, Mo., junior.
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Goff recently added Madame Roepke from Santiago, Chile, to the faculty for next year. She will teach theater history and the history of Chile.
MADAME ROEPKE'S interests also extend to American absurdist drama. She may conduct a graduate course in this area. Goff hopes that someday there will be exchange programs offered for those interested in set and costume design as well as acting.
Evaluating the department, Goff considers the "young age of our faculty" as an asset for new ideas. The role of the department, he feels, is to find better means of training. With the addition of a course in stage movement, Goff is looking for a teacher for a stage-speaking voice course.
Recently the department gave awards for the year's work, excluding that by the Resident Company. Of the major awards given were: best actress, Kathy Melcher, Newton sophomore, in "Two for the Seesaw"; best actor, Richard Kelton, Miami, Okla., senior, in the summer presentation of "The Night of the Iguana"; and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"; best director, Pat McDonough, assistant instructor of speech and drama, for "The' Physicists"; set design, Kenny Baker, Freehold, N.J., graduate student, for "The Night of the Iguana"; and lighting design, Jerry Davis, Lawrence graduate student, for "The Bed Bug."
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