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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 Review magazine, expressed their concern over playmaking, the cast, director, and playwright, yesterday afternoon in Woordruff Auditorium.
Drake focused her criticism on the use of six literary characters in the first act of the play by Paul Stephen Lim, the playwright.
"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, and then two acts were dramatically, for me, more successful. The first act went too slowly."
Fowler called the first act "muddled, 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 orchestra."
Fowler and Hewes both said the play
wasn't conventional drama and therefore shouldn't be treated as such.
Hewes said, "The future of the play isn't in commercial theater but, reworked, in digital."
Also criticized were adjustments made to the turnion ballroom into a theater—they did not.
The outlook for the University of Kansas budget, now awaiting consideration by the Senate Ways and Means Committee, is in line with its committee Dykes told SenEkx members yesterday.
KU officials optimistic for budget
Dykes and Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor, met with SenEx to discuss topics including the budget, future enrollment and student financial aid.
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.
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 board announced that the recommendation will be approved by the legislature, Dykes said.
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.
SHAKNEI TOLD the committee about meetings of a task force on enrollment, which he heads, that was now examining whether a program to program to see whether it could be approved.
The task force is concerned about maintaining a large KU enrollment, he said, and financial aid to students directly influences enrollment.
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 the Senate Committee, its approval isn't certain.
DYKES ALSO discussed a bill presented by Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Attwood, in the Kansas legislature that could force KU Medical Center students to pay about $13,600 in tuition if they don't agree to the Kansas for a while after graduation.
"There's no question as to the seriousness
Two editors will participate in a seminar book publishing at 4 p.m. in 4002 Eagle Rock Drive, Palm Beach, FL.
Book publishing topic of seminar
M. S. Wyebjr, Jr., vice president and editor-in-chief of Harper & Row Publishing Co., and Frederick Pohl, science fiction editor of *The New York Times*, and answer questions about book publishing
Weth's visit and the seminar are sponsored by the KU department of English. He on campus as a guest in a special course, "Humanities 500: The Fultus."
Fowler said, "its darkening vision of America in these times is to the
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of the legislators," he said. "Hayden's bill had some 20 people who signed the bill."
Hayden's bill, if passed, could have a great impact on the quality of the Med
Consider the large selection of Lenox, Oxford, Royal Doulton, Fostoria, Pickard and Minton.
"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 that would make the University Events Committee a chancellor's committee. The recommendation would place the Events Committee under the jurisdiction and allow him to appoint all its members.
Recently, there has been a controversy about the membership and authority of the committee, compromising
SUA FILMS Films of Busby Berkeley: ROMAN SCANDALS (1933)
Dir. Frank Tuttle with Eddie Cantor, Gloria Stuart, Musical sequences directed by Berkeley.
Hewes added. "The play is repetitive, ugly—but never boring."
FOOTLIGHT PARADE (1933)
Diren, Lloyd Bacon with James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Dick Pewson, Musical sequences directed by Berkeley, Film Society.
The compromise committee is to assist in developing new Events Committee
committee formed in January by Shankel was created to trv. to solve the overflows.
The OA recommendation is to give the Events Committee a more definite structure, Don Green, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, said.
THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI (1974)
Dir. Lina Wertmüll with Giancori Gliannini, Italy, Popular Films.
Fri, Mar. 4, 3:30 Sat., Mar. 5, 7:00
A SenEx decision on the recommendation was postponed until the committee could talk.
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Dir. Lina Wertmüller with Luigi Diberti, Italy, Popular Films.
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