'THE PHYSICISTS' TO OPEN
An evening of intrigue
By Kathy Vaughan
Undercover agents in a Swiss sanitarium who try to capture an important scientist give the Experimental Theatre production, "The Physicists," a James Bond flavor.
Pat McDonough, instructor of speech and drama, directs the play which will be presented tomorrow night through Saturday and next Tuesday and Wednesday. The weekend performances are sold out, but students may obtain tickets for the remaining nights by presenting student identification cards and 75 cents.
"THE STORY IS exciting, but more than that the playwright, Friedrich Durrenmatt, believes that in this age of technology abilities outdistance man's maturity." McDonough said.
Eerie music, directed by Ted Larson, Glyndon, Minn., graduate student, prepares the audience for the first scene—a strangled nurse.
She is one of three killed by three physicists, who are patients in a mental institution.
The nurses are killed because they threaten to reveal the identity of two agents from Russia and the United States. The actual physicist kills to remain in the sanitarium where he believes he can keep his scientific findings secret.
SEAN GRIFFIN, South Bend, Ind., graduate student, plays Mobius, who fakes visions of Solomon. Bob Bettcher, Chicago junior, and Jim Daniels, Leawood sophomore, pretend they believe themselves to be famous scientists. Their psychiatrist, Dr. Von Zahndtt, who runs the asylum, is played by Teddi Weddingfield, Norfolk, Neb., senior.
Durrenmatt wrote the play in 1962 believing that man is not evil but has the best intentions.
"Man is limited by being short sighted, selfish, and stupid," McDonough said.
McDONOUGH worked from the literal story, but parts of the dialogue are given a more eerie quality than the original text. McDonough calls the technique "fantastic realism."
A strangulation on stage is one of the most difficult and dangerous performances of the play, McDonough said. Jeri Walker, Overland Park freshman, plays the part of the strangled nurse. "Actors have died during performances because they did not execute this act properly," McDonough said.
Since the play was translated in 1964, it has been given in London and has been performed by regional repertory companies across the United States.
Publisher joins board of White Foundation
Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher of newspapers in Phoenix, Ariz., and Indianapolis, Ind., has accepted election as a trustee of the William Allen White Foundation at KU.
"William Allen White was my boyhood newspaper hero," Pulliam wrote to Warren K. Agee, dean of the School of Journalism and director of the foundation.
Pulliam, one of the seven men who founded Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society, at DePauw University in 1909, met White on numerous occasions while Pulliam was a member of the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star.
Later, when Pulliam was publishing the Indianapolis Star and News, he frequently stopped to visit with White in Emporia during the latter days of his life. White died in 1944.
Pulliam's Phoenix papers are the Republic and Gazette. As a new trustee he joins 75 other outstanding newspapermen and other citizens throughout the country who support the foundation's program of awards, lectures, and publications designed to advance the William Allen White School of Journalism here and the journalism profession in general.
To budget post
L. Martin Jones, assistant dean of the School of Business, is now budget officer for the chancellor's office. H. K. L'Eucuyer, associate professor of business administration, has taken Jones' place as assistant dean in charge of undergraduate affairs.
Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 22, 1966
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