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Three professional drama critics who reviewed the opening night production of "Homerica" said yesterday that the play had production and writing problems and called the first act the play's biggest weakness.
The critics, Sylvie Drake of the Los Angeles Times, Giles Fowler of the Kansas City Star, and Henry Hewes of the Saturday Magazine magazine, expressed their criticism over the play, directed by a director, and playwright, yesterday afternoon in Woodruff Auditorium.
Drinke drakes her criticism on the use of a literary characters in the first act of the play, and then in the second.
"THE FIRST act presents the most problems in writing," she said. "It presumes we have all read the books he refers to, before he elucidates whom he's reading." In two acts were dramatically, for me, more successful. The first act went too slowly."
Fowler called the first act "muddlied,
obscure and irritatingly academic."
Hewes said that the second and third acts
The critics also found problems in the acting.
could stand on their own, but that the first was too weak to do so.
Drake acknowledged that university productions were at a disadvantage because of a lack of acting experience, and said he thought this affected the production.
"The GENERAL level of performance fell short of what I'd like to see," she said.
"Homeric is a complex play—verbally, visually, perceptually—and requires orchestration."
Fowler and Hewes both said the play
Hewes said, "The future of the play isn't in commercial theatre but, reworked, in a new version."
wasn't conventional drama and therefore shouldn't be treated as such.
Also criticized were adjustments made to turn the Union ballroom into a theater—their work was widely publicized.
KU officials optimistic for budget
The outlook for the University of Kansas budget, now awaiting consideration by the Senate Ways and Means Committee, is likely to move upward as Sen Dykes dined SenXs members yesterday.
Dykes said that if all went according to schedule in the Kansas legislature, KU's budget should be reported out of the Senate committee soon.
Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, with SenEx to discuss topics including the budget, future enrollment and student financial aid.
Despite much legislative concern about a budget recommendation made by Gov. Robert Bennett for a 7 per cent faculty salary increase at Board of Regents meetings, the committee questions that the recommendation will be approved by the legislature, Dykes said.
The task force is concerned about maintaining a large KU enrollment, be said, and financial aid to students directly influences enrollment.
DYKES ALSO discussed a bill presented by Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, in the Kansas legislature that could force KU Medical Center students to pay about $1350 in tuition if they don't agree to take Kansas for a while after graduation.
SHANKEL TOLD the committee about meetings of a task force on enrollment, which he heads, that was now examining the data and program to see whether it could be approved.
Dykes said, "Financial aid has become very important in determining who can afford to attend an institution of higher education. It's becoming more important to use the available financial aid to benefit the largest number of students."
Dykes said that although there was much support in the legislature for the bill, which is awaiting consideration by the House and its Committees, its approval isn't certain.
"There's no question as to the seriousness
Two editors will participate in a seminar on book publishing today at 4 p.m. in 4002 Bldg. 1580.
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Book publishing topic of seminar
The critics agreed that a revision of the first act and corrections in timing, lighting and the actors' voice projection would make the play much more effective.
Weth's visit and the seminar are sponsored by the KU department of English on campus as a guest in a special course, "Humanities 500: The Future."
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of the legislators," he said. "Hayden's bill had some 20 sponsors who signed the bill." Hayden's bill, if passed, could have a significant impact on the Med Center's students, he said.
"We could lose, very likely, the very best students, who could go elsewhere," he said.
EARLIER IN the meeting, SenEx postponed until next week action on a recommendation from the Organization and the University Council to make the University Council that would make the University Events Committee a chancellor's committee. The recommendation would place the Events Committee under the University Council and allow him to appoint all its members.
Fowler said, "its darkening vision of
exual America in these times is to the
past."
Recently, there has been a controversy about the membership and authority of some female candidates on the ballot.
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The compromise committee is to assist in developing new Events Committee
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A SenEx decision on the recommendation was postponed until the committee could take action.
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Hewes added. "The play is repetitive, ugly—but never boring."
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