KANSAN REVIEWS
PLAYS: delightful experience
By MARILYN MCMULLEN
Kansan Staff Writer
Kyogen is a delightful experience. Fine acting and three very amusing plays provide highly rewarding, if unusual, entertainment.
Credit goes to the actors who played in "Busu" and "Dondaro." Both plays were performed in English but retained the stylized movements and exaggerated speech inflections of the traditional Japanese genre. Vowel sounds are drawn out in Kyogen, so that an exclamation of suprise is rendered, "Whaaaaaat did youuuu saaaaaay." A little is lost in the translation. The effect of such exaggerations in Japanese is much more effective. Nevertheless, John Myers and Mark Yates made successful use in comical facial expressions in their portrayal of scheming servants, which brought deserved laughs from the audience.
Steve Anderson as Dondaro captured the genuine flair of the stylized movements and incorporated them well in his performance. Janet Svoboda and Janet Ruppenthal, as Dondaro's mistress and wife, were properly restrained with their characterizations.
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1970 KANSAN 5
SENIORS LAST CHANCE Jayhawker Senior Picture
Sunday April 5
3-5 p.m.
Jayhawker Office
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"Kamabara," the story of a henpecked but lazy woodcutter who decides to commit suicide, was performed in Japanese. Director Andrew Tsubaki assumed the lead role and was supported by Yoichi Ohtake as his wife and Nobu Obia as the arbitrator of their argument. All three men turned in fine performances which gave the viewer an appreciation for traditional Kyogen. Tsubaki's graceful movements and telling facial expressions made his monologue exciting, and, in places hilarious. A synopsis of the play was included in the program.
"Kamabara" was the funniest of the three plays, and derw the most laughs. Its success was due to the ease with which one can relate the stylized humor of Kyogen to the Japanese language. The simplicity of the scenery left the success of the performance solely to the ability of the actors. The entire cast was more than capable of the task of making a success of a most difficult and unusual style of drama.
Barbara Rose to appear
Barbara Rose was unable to appear at the Festival of Arts Thursday night due to the nationwide air traffic tie-up. She is rescheduled for 7 p.m. April 12 in Woodruff Auditorium.
Elizabeth Miller Watkins, KU benefactress, was born in 1861 and died in 1839.
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Two nights remain in the 1970 Festival of Arts and the two programs of promising entertainment are on the bill for Festival-goers.
Festival previews - two more nights
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Eve. 7:30 & 9:25
Mat. Sat. 2:20
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Saturday night the weeks festivities will be climaxed by the appearance of Bucy Sainte-Marie, one of the most sought after young concert artists in America. Reviews say she is blessed with a rare artistic ability of communication.
"Cactus Flower"-A glossy Hollywood product that is sometimes genuinely funny. It performs the service of proving that Goldie Hawn's tremendous talent is wasted on "Laugh-In."
"The Looking Glass War"—A brutal, despairing spy story, with Christopher Jones as a combination James Bond—James Dean. A very cold-blooded and humorless movie, with a few gripping moments.
Lucas Hoving and his dance company will perform at 8 p.m. tonight. Hoving has toured with his company both in this country and in Europe in the last few years.
He began his career as a dancer when joined the Jooss Ballet. Later he became a member of the Jose Limon Dance Company for which he achieved fame for his portrayal of Lago in "The Moor's Pavane, and the White Man in "Emperor Jones." With this company he made four overseas tours under
The Weekend Scene
"Generation"—The "gap" again, with David Janssen as a distraught father and Kim Darby as his pregnant, unmarried daughter.
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MAT. DAILY 2:30
EVE. 7:15 - 9:30
"Alice's Restaurant"—Arthur Penn's uneven but sympathetic look at life among the nations outcasts.
"What's New, Pussycat?"—A funny script by Woody Allen is ruined by Clive Donner's sloppy, uncontrolled direction. Peter Sellers and Peter O'Toole manage to look good, then. 1965.
"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"
—A very funny, very biting look at American attitudes toward the new morality. Excellently written, with superbly natural
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TOPAZ
Eve. 7:00 - 9:15
Mat. Sat. - Sun. 2:00
Hillcrest
performances by Elliot Gould and Dyan Cannon as the last two title characters.
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Eve. 7:30 & 9:30
Mat. Sat., Sun. 2:30
DAVID JANSSEN - KIM DARBY
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THE Hillcrest
University of Kansas Theatre
presents
KYOGEN: Comic Theatre of Japan
EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE
Murphy Hall
8:20 p.m.
April 2 thru 11
Tickets $1.50
Students $.75