Monday, April 29, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
9
'The Blacks' shows racial hatred complexities
BLACK VERSUS WHITE
Village (Adrian Clark, Kansas City junior) is interrupted in a re-enactment of his murder of a white girl (George Kuria, Nakuru, Kenya, senior) by the taunts of Trollop (Candace Caruthers, Kansas City sophomore, lying in background) in this scene from Jean Genet's "The Blacks," opening today in the Experimental Theatre.
The complexities of racial hatred will be the subject of "The Blacks," opening tonight in Murphy Hall's Experimental Theatre.
Written in 1958 by Jean Genet, a leading French playwright of the theatre of the absurd, "The Blacks" depicts the murder trial of the Negro race by whites, a trial which ends with the revolt of the Negroes and the annihilation of all white men.
"In some respects Genet's play is almost prophetic," Kay Habenstein, Columbia, Mo., graduate student and director of "The Blacks," said. "Over ten years ago Genet predicted the causes and effects of a Negro revolution which is just now taking shape."
For Miss Habenstein, the five weeks of rehearsal for the production have been hectic. Since "The Blacks" required an all-Negro cast, and since there are few Negro students in the speech and drama department, she had to choose her cast from a group of students with little or no previous acting experience.
"We had to start from scratch on voice control, diction, movement, character development — just about everything," she said. "I can't begin to count all the things I've learned with rehearsals."
Miss Habenstein explained that Genet wrote the play to be presented to white audiences. Genet wants to bridge the gap in understanding between the two races.
Some of the language used in "The Blacks" may be shocking to KU theatre-goers. In fact, Miss Habenstein refused to take the cast to Kansas City for a performance when the sponsor of the trip insisted that certain lines be cut.
"Perhaps one of the most fascinating things about this show is that the players are really involved in the actions that go on in the show," she said. "They are able to identify with their characters because they have gone through what the characters have gone through. And the Experimental Theatre provides a closeness between actors and audience which is essential to the play."
"The Blacks" will be performed from April 29-May 2, and on May 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10.
All performances begin at 8:20 p.m.
Any student organization desiring allocations from the All-Student Council for next year's budget must have an itemized budget proposal and a list of this year's expenses turned into the ASC office by May 3. If there are any questions, Please call:
Clif Conrad VI 2-7162
Kyle Craig VI 2-8171
Poet to read his writings Wednesday
KU's visiting poet-in-residence, Ed Dorn, will read from his work Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the picnic area west of Potter Lake.
In case of bad weather, the reading will be in 426 Lindley Hall.
Dorn, 39, is a native of Illinois and teaches at the University of Essex, Colchester, England.
Included in his works are a novel, "The Rites of Passage;" a volume on American Indians, "The Shoshoneans;" and six volumes of poetry: "The Newly Fallen," "Hands Up"; "From Glouchester Out," "Geography," "Idaho Out" and "North Atlantic Terminus."
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