KU STUDENTS STAR IN STARLIGHT PRODUCTION
Dick Caskey, Sikeston, Mo., senior and Richard Roberts, Tulsa sophomore, check the score of "West Side Story" which opened Monday at the Starlight Theater in Kansas City. The duo will be featured in the singing ensemble all summer at the outdoor theater. Other KU students in the ensemble are Harlan Jennings, Topeka graduate student; Jim Asbury, Overland Park sophomore; Paul Hough, Newton senior; Pat Royce, Stilwell senior; John Wolfe, Roswell, N.M., sophomore; Mike Murray, Prairie Village junior; and Carol Wilcox, Kansas City, Kan., senior.
Theatre slate set
The KU Summer Theater will turn international this summer, presenting four productions all from Europe.
It will be the national premiere performances for two dramas and a musical. The dramas are the French "Naive Swallows" and the Czechoslovakian "The Owners of the Keys." The musical will be the German "Fireworks." Also to be presented will be the British "The Kitchen" which has been produced in New York, off Broadway.
"Naive Swallows," by Roland Dubillard, is scheduled for 8:20 p.m. July 5, 7, 19 and 21 in University Theatre. The play is described as "a gentle mixture of Chekhov and the absorb with a dash of farce."
The German musical, "Fireworks," will be presented July 6, 8, 22, 26 and 28 in the Experimental Theatre. The musical score features "Oh, My Papa" and other songs which once led the German hit parade. "Fireworks" was written by Erik Charell, Jurg Amstein and Robert Gilbert, with music by Paul Burkhard. The plot is built around the life of a traveling circus.
Next in the summer theater schedule will be "The Kitchen" by Arnold Wesker. The play, first
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produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1961, utilizes the kitchen of an expensive restaurant as a microcosm of modern life. It will be presented July 12, 14, 18 and 24 in University Theatre.
Directors are Brooking, "Naive Swallows"; Horst Claus, Oldenburg, Germany, graduate student, "Fireworks"; David Morgan, Detroit, Mich., graduate student, "The Kitchen"; and Al Srna, Kirksville, Mo., graduate student, "The Owners of the Keys."
"The Owners of the Keys" is scheduled for July 13,14,20,27 and 29 in Experimental Theatre. The play by Milan Kundera deals with political and social problems in today's world.
All shows begin at 8:20 p.m. in Murphy Hall. Those in University Theatre will be presented in arena style, with the audience seated on the stage.
Top journalists slated for White's centennial
Three leaders in mass communications including Bill D. Moyers, former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson, have accepted invitations to speak at the William Allen White Foundation's Seminar on Mass Media in a Free Society next year.
Moyers, Russell J. Lynes, managing editor of Harper's Magazine; and Ben Badikian, one of the foremost critics of the press, will appear.
The April 28-30 seminar in Lawrence will feature these and other leaders in the fields of communication to be anounced later. Each will project his views about the mass media, its present condition and its future directions.
THE EVENT will be one of several planned in conjunction with the Foundation's 1968 centennial celebration of the birth of William Allen White, famed Emporia editor.
Moyers, a major figure in "Great Society" programs, is now publisher of Newsday, a Long Island, N.Y., daily newspaper. Before moving to his present assignment, he was deputy director of the Peace Corps and later the President's special assistant.
Lynes, managing editor of Harper's since 1947, was on the KU campus in 1961 to speak on the Humanities lectures series. He is author of several books, including the "Tastemakers," "Cadwal-
International theatre fete set for Oread
"Contemporary and Future Trends in Theater Throughout the World" will be the theme for an international theatre seminar, the first of its kind ever held at KU, Wednesday through Friday.
The seminar, directed by Tom Rea, assistant head of the University Theatre, is the first event in a series entitled "International Theatre Expo 67/68." Summer and fall KU theater productions will have an international theme.
lader” and "The Domesticated Americans."
Six foreign artists are included in the seminar schedule. They are Milan Lukes, Prague, Czechoslovakia, a leading critic of contemporary theater and editor of the Czech theater magazine "Divaldo;" B. Alkazi, New Delhi, India, director of the National School of Drama and Asian Theater Institute; Hans Michael Richter, Leipzig, East Germany, director of dramatic arts and deputy manager of five Leipzig theaters; Roman Szydlowski, Warsaw, Poland, theater critic, teacher, director and author; Okot p'Bitek, Uganda, South Africa, director of the Uganda National Theater; and Mladja Veselinovic, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, actor and secretary of the Yugoslavian Center of the International Theater Institute. He and his wife, Branka, were guests of the University Theatre in 1964.
All seminar events are open to the public and will be held in Murphy Hall. The schedule is as follows:
WEDNESDAY
9:10 a.m. "The Theater in Yugoslavia—Today and Tomorrow," Veselnovic.
10:20 a.m. "The Contemporary Theater of India," Alkazi. 2:00 p.m. "Training the Theater Professional," panel discussion.
THURSDAY
9:10 a.m. "The Five Theaters of Leipzig, East Germany," Richter
Bagdikian, a prolific writer and an outspoken critic of the press and its problems, now lives in Washington, D.C. Recently he wrote articles for the Columbia Journalism Review and Esquire Magazine and a book "In the Midst of Plenty" a comprehensive report on poverty in America.
10:20 a.m. "A New Theater—Uganda, South Africa," Okot p'- Bitek.
2:00 p.m. "The Role of the Contemporary Playwright," panel discussion.
FRIDAY
9:10 a.m. "The Czeck Theater—A Critic's View," Lukes.
10:20 a.m. "Polish Theater in the 20th Century," Szydlowski.
2:00 p.m. "World Trends in Political Theater," panel discussion.
In their prepared papers, the seminar leaders will address themselves to the mass media and its relationship to a mass culture, the world community, the realization of human potentials, and higher education.
All seminar leaders will be on campus for three days to participate in a series of critiques and discussions similar to the University's Centennial seminar in 1966.
Starlight trip set Thursday
The first of five trips sponsored by KU for students and faculty will be held this Thursday to the Starlight Theater in Kansas City.
Reservations must be placed immediately in the office of Larry Heeb, in New Robinson Gymnasium. Tickets are $3 and $4.50 with $1.50 going to transportation costs and the remaining amount for reserved seat tickets.
The trips will be made by airconditioned bus which will leave new Robinson at 6:45 p.m. and will return immediately following the final curtain.
The featured production will be "West Side Story."
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