PLAYS: Cherry pie violence
By KAREN KLINKENBERG
Kansan Staff Writer
"Something to really show the American public" is running in the Experimental Theatre in the form of a homegrown play called "Quantrill". Billy Quantrill and his raiders rode on the stage but Lawrence and American figures were riding with him. The play may center on the 1863 hero, but it smacks with violence today.
On Campus
MONDAY
"HAMLET" (KU Film Society) A magnificent rendering of Shakespeare, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. (3:30, 7 and 9, Woodruff Auditorium)
"IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG"
—A solid, sane, intelligent and powerful documentary about the Vietnam War, directed by Emile de Antonio.
"THE WAR GAME"—A stomach-churning enactment of what nuclear war would be like, directed with chilling realism by Peter Watkins. (Both films shown at 3:30, 7, and 9:30, Hoch Auditorium)
STUDENT RECITAL—Nancy Townsend, soprano. (8 p.m. Swarthout Recital Hall)
TUESDAY
"FIRES ON THE PLAIN" (KU Film Society)—A brutal and terrifying cry against the inhumanity of war. Directed by Kon Ichikawa; Japan, 1959. (7 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium)
"YOJIMBO" KU Film Society) — Japanese master Akira Kurosawa's lively parody of the American Western, starring Toshiro Mifune; 1962. (9 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium)
LITTLE SYMPHONY—A program of Beethoven, Bach, Barbar and Bartok, directed by Dean Thomas Gorton. (8 p.m. University Theatre)
STUDENT RECITAL — John Leslie Wolfe, tenor. (8 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall)
WEDNESDAY
"ARSENAL" (Classical Film)—A poetic tale of war and revolution in Russia, directed by Alexander Dovzhkenzo; 1929. (7 and 9, Woodruff Auditorium)
THURSDAY
CONTEMPORARY AND AVANT GARDE MUSIC—A concert of experimental music from all over the world. (8 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall)
ALL WEEK
"QUANTRILL"—see review this page.
May 4
1970 KANSAN 5
With the format of a patriotic musical review, the mildly conceived Quantrill played by Stephen Reed says, "I just did in Lawrence what had to be done." "Everybody loves a boy who loves his mother" says the commentor of the American hero who heeded the advice of his mother.
The show moves on with a brief scene from the courtroom of the Chicago Seven trial featuring Reed and Tim Russell. During the bloody raid of Lawrence testimonies of Lt. James Calley are heard and later a few words by Senator Shultz.
Parodies of songs and originals (by Gerald Rabkin, "with a little help from his friends") are played by a band of four rock musicians, Mssrs. Austin, Blatch-
ley, Mangan and Younger. Their sensitive background sounds and rousing hard rock set the beat of the whole show.
Betsy Ross and the Extremes, played by Misses Aviks, Balding, Brandt and Miller sing a new version of "Teen Angel" and other hits. Rock Chalk Jayhawk and a few cheers are echoed in other parts of the show.
American citizen Bones, played by John Ingle, observes what's going on in the bloody tale and just seeks "the facts," but "you've got a real part" he is told by the interlocutor of the show Richard Sarradet.
If this show stays in Lawrence it will be a wonder. It's more than funny and maddening, it's right on. See it any night this week at 8:20 p.m.
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