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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 26, 1968
Photo by Bruce Afferson
"DELIVER US FROM GOOD"
In a scene from "Young Goodman Brown," a one-act play opening tonight, Goodman Brown, played by Ron Shull, Haven sophomore, and his neighbors plead with Satan, played by Bill Holm, assistant instructor of English, and experience anguish in their confrontation.
'Goodman Brown' begins tonight
"Young Goodman Brown," a one-act play adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, opens at 8:30 tonight in the Kansas Union Forum Room, and will also be presented Saturday night.
The six-member cast of KU students is part of the Playwright's Workshop, sponsored by the University Christian Movement, which gave the group $100 to produce "Young Goodman Brown," rewritten last semester by Steve Biddle, Topeka graduate student.
The play, centering around Goodman Brown, is set late on an October day in 1672 as the evening darkens, the wind howls and the night begins to be crazed in riot. Brown blindly insists that despite the burning witches and lurking savages, he will journey into the forest.
As he enters the forest, Brown, who is played by Ron Shull, Haven sophomore, finds his neighbors are at a black mass and that his wife Faith, played by Sandy Bair, Topea sophomore, is the chief convert.
In the abstractions of the play, he said he tried to depict the kind of anguish Americans are facing today.
"I think this situation is analogous to the dogmatic diplomacy which is put forth by the U.S. to justify its presence in Vietnam," he said. "The anguish experienced by Brown is the same type of anguish Americans are facing in our conflict in Vietnam."
Portraying the part of Brown, Shull said the main problem the group has had in staging the play was in trying to build to a believable climax.
"But I think we've solved that problem by toning down the religious fervor of the first scene and controlling Goodman Brown's fear of a confrontation with Satan in the second scene," Shull said.
"I wrote the play based on Hawthorne's story because, as an allegory, it is as old as Job, and as new as an America beside herself in anguish over Vietnam and the crisis in her cities," Biddle, the director, said.
As a missionary, Brown entered the forest presumably to save the Indians from savagery, Biddle said.
Musical effects in the play— plucked piano strings and harpis
chord music played by Holm, are used to heighten the tension in the play, according to technical director Rick Wrigley, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, who rigged the lights.
Author of the play, Biddle said he knows of no other play based
upon Hawthorne's short story.
He said he organized the Playwright's Workshop as a project which would continue next year. The purpose of the group, he said, is to give those who take playwriting seriously an opportunity to have their scripts staged.
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Challenged by Satan, played by Bill Holm, assistant instructor of English, Goodman Brown breaks under the strain.
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The neighbors he finds under Satan's spell are Deakon Gookin, played by Jim Rolfs, Bison freshman, Goody Corry, played by Erica Douglass, El Dorado freshman, and Goddy Cloyse, played by Dale Bower, Chicago sophomore.
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