University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 24, 1989
Arts/Entertainment
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C A L E N D A R
FRIDAY
■ The Region V-South American College Theatre Festival continues in Murphy Hall all day Friday. At 8 p.m., students from Iowa State University will perform "Tierra Nova" in Cranston Preyer-Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets are $3.50 and $3 for KU students and $7 and $6 for the public.
SATURDAY
Noel Cearand's "Blithe Spirit" will begin at 8 p.m. at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. Stickets are $7 for the public and $5 for senior citizens and students. Call Liberty Hall box office for more information.
- The Dead Milkmen will perform at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. The Kelly Girls will open at 8:30 p.m. Advance tickets are recommended. Call the Bottleneck or Liberty Hall for more information
- The American College Theatre Festival continues. Students from Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa will perform "The Primary English Class" at 3:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall. At 8 p.m., the University of Nebraska-Omaha will perform "Tatutuf" in Crafton-Prey Theater. Tickets are $3.50 and $3 for KU students and $7 and $6 for the public.
■ Robert Zerwik's exhibit "Time
Pieces" will open at 7 p.m. at the
Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and
Vermont streets. The exhibit, celebrating Zerwik's 50th birthday, features his oil and acrylic paintings. Call
Noel Coard's "Blithe Spirit" will begin at 8 p.m. in Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. Tickets are $7 for the public and $5 for senior citizens and students. Call Liberty Hall box *price for more information.*
SUNDAY
The Lawrence Symphony Orchestra will perform a 'Mediterranean Crue' concert at 3:08 p.m in the Music Hall. Tickets are available at the door.
The American College Theatre Festival ends at noon.
MONDAY
The Concert and University Bands will give their winter concert at 8 p.m. in Crafton-Preyer Theatre Ron McCurdy, associate professor of band, and Jack Brookshire, band director at West Junior High School, will conduct.
TUESDAY
The Lawrence Arts Center presents
Eunice Stallworth's one-woman show,
"images" at 7:30 p.m. at the center
Ninth and Vermont Highways. Call the
office at (618) 249-5788.
University of Kansas libraries present a poetry reading by Tom Raworth of Cambridge, England, at 8 p.m. in the Hawk Room at the Kauai Union
THURSDAY
**The KU Concert Series presents**
*LA Tuition* 'performed by the New York City Opera National Company at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium. Tickets are $18 and $15 for the public; $9 and $7.50 for k-12 and K-12 students, and other students. Call Murphy Hall box office for more information.
Actress encourages students to take risks
Trying too hard can hinder learning process, Lavin says
by Kris M. Bergquist Kansan staff writer
Actress Linda Lavin wasn't the only one answering questions in Murphy Hall yesterday. The audition brought through a little inquiry of its own.
"She really questioned the people who asked her questions," said Terri McGibrila, Tulsa, Okah, freshman. She was just saying that when you make your decision, be contemptuous. You take the下载, and do it."
Lavin spoke to about 150 people in Swarthout Recital Hall. Wednesday night, she judged the final round of the frene Ryan contest, which a KU student, Jay Karnes, Stilwell senior, won. The contest was part of the American College Theatre Festival, Region V-South.
Lavin said that even though the theater business was tough and scary, the only way to learn was by taking a chance.
"I'm charging you with what you really, really want, in the face of obstacles, to take a left turn and see where it takes you," she said. "Life is a process. There's not a right or wrong way. You've just got to make the turns."
Lavin began her career at 18. She went to the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., and said that she was in every production possible there, either acting or technical work.
"Then I went to New York and worked at the handkerchief department in Bloomingdale's," Lainv said, laughing. "It took me 10 years to get my hands around the musical part. Everyone thought, 'Oh, she's a singer, not an actress.'
when you audition, you think you're going to die because nobody will ever notice you. You're too short, too fat or too Jewish or too dark. So you don't get the job and you need new songs and you still don't get the job. It was not hopeless, but it sure felt like it at the time.
"You've got to keep working and learning who you are. I learned that being active and being busy means that you're in the theater community."
Lavin said that school was the best place for students to admit that they didn't know anything.
"Wouldn't it be great if, instead of pushing yourself for the emotional moment, you stop and let something happen to you," she said. "This is so hard." She asked the director and say, "Can you help me with this? I lost."
"It's like Linda Lavin said. I bet that as soon as he (the student) discovers that he is trying too hard, he will do it and the scene will be right," Smith said. "Still, I wouldn't give you a nickel for a person who didn't try in the first place. The other person hard will find the balance in the end and he'll do better than the one who didn't care."
Delbert Smith, professor of theater at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, Iowa, said that he became a good teacher and when he stopped teaching he met the same kind of think with young student actors.
Kip Niven, Lavin's husband, a judge in the semi-final round and the encee for the final round of the Irene Ryan contest, said that the opportunities at the contest and festival were invaluable.
“It’s the opportunity to take your act or your play beyond the confines of your campus,” Niven said. “Most importantly, you can talk to other theater students behind your peers, who you hang out with to get a pizza after rehearsal. It’s a great opportunity to expand your experiences.”
Lavin said in an interview that she loved working with the Irene Ryan students in a critique that she led the morning after the finals.
"I got to talk about why I made this choice," she said. "That's what I do best: talk about the process of making a decision, acting and how they can improve."
Angela Casey, Hutchinson sophomore, who attended the speech said that Livin knew how to talk to students.
"She talked to us and wasn't patronizing." Casey said. "She is a real person who understands the life of a performer."
During an informal question-and-answer session, actress Linda Lavin shares insights on the acting profession with theater students in Swarthout Recital Hall. Lavin, who starred in the television series "Alice," is in Lawrence for the American College Theatre Festival. She spoke with students yesterday.
Ebony Company in Lawrence K-State theater group's plays will cast light on black culture
by Kris M. Bergquist
Kansan staff writer
A theater company that offers multi-ethnic experience to a community is not rare if the community is Manhattan, New York.
But when the community is Manhattan, Kan, the group could be considered a little unusual.
The Ebony Company, a K-State theater group, will be performing two plays at the American College Theatre Festival today in Swarthownd Recital Hall. The group has been in existence for 11 years.
"The ethnic group is here because it's needed wherever people go," said
ShirLyn Henry, a Kansas State University senior in theater and speech. "It needs to be shared with the community. People need to know our history (black history), just as we need to know theirs."
"Wait 'Til Morning" will be performed at 3:30 p.m. The short play written by Stacy M. Smith, a K-State alumna, might have the potential to go to the national contest in the original short play category.
Thomas McLaughlin, K State theater graduate student and director of the play, said the play was about a black mother and daughter in 1958 who had conflicting ideas about the civil rights movement.
The ethnic group is here because it's needed wherever people go. It needs to be shared with the community. People need to know our history (black history), just as we need to know theirs.'
ShirLyn Henry
— ShirLyn Henry Ebony Company member
"Theater is beautiful because it's an educator," McLaughlin said. "When people see this, they are not seeing the bread 1960s movement anymore. The characters are real and breathing, and we like them
both. We have empathy for them and
that they're dealing with pains as well as
as them."
Henry, director, and an actress,
said the production was a collage of
exhibits that showed how black society
looked at itself and how it went
through struggles and then moved on
Scenes from "The Colored Museum" by George C. Wolfe will be
performed at 4:30 p.m.
The character Misroi is one of the exhibits. He is a homosexual, and he takes on a persecution of every race and color and deals with the pain.
"The exhibits are in a museum, and they're brought to life by their own individuality and their cultural diversity. Henry said, "It is an exhibition that we are taken to be showcasing, but we are not showing it. We are sharing it."
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