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Brand New Facility. Theater students serve up a potpourri of plays this week E. Joseph Zurga/KANSAN Valentine frenzy Trying to deliver Valentine gifts from behind the desk at Corbin Hall, Janet Davis, Wichita senior, has her work cut out for her. Davis was the only desk assistant working yesterday during the peak of the Valentine's Day rush. Kansan staff writer The potpourri productions will certainly live up to their name from Feb. 15 to 19, when five different plays will be performed in Inge Theatre at Murphy Hall. Ghosts. American Indians. A nuclear baby. Priests. Women. "If people want to O.D. on theater, this is the time to do it," said Jeannette Bonjour, Prairie Village senior and director of one of the plays. "There is something completely different going on every night. It's great if people want to see theater." young people. Productions do not have much of a set and use costumes from the costume shop, Jenkins said, so they are like a workshop production. However, she said that no less work went into the productions than any other KU play. students or professors submit their ideas to a committee that chooses who will direct the potpourri productions. This year, Jenkins said, about eight submitted applications, and five were chosen. Jenkins said graduate students had to direct potpourri plays to be eligible to direct other KU main stage plays. five were chosen. She said the most important things considered were the scripts and the abilities of the directors. it's not unheard of to have student productions, but to have two at the same time is unusual, especially with one being a musical," said Charla Jenkins, public relations director for University Theatre. "It's the first step up for graduate students, so for many of them, it's a directing debut at KU." Jenkins said. "It's a good way to look at your directors." "Ghosts," to be performed Saturday, is a Gothic vaudeville musical. The musical centers on a group of ghosts, ranging from Abraham Lincoln to a stripper, who talk about their lives and their traumatie Two plays are original productions, written and directed by KU students. "Ghosts," a musical, is written by Darian Stelin, Topeka senator, and directed by Robert Leff, Corvallis, Ore., graduate student. "All God's Creatures," is written and directed by Owen Le Beau. Eagle Bottle, S.D., graduate student. deaths. Leff said the ghosts were trying to make sense of life and death. "It's not bad though. Actually, it's been nothing but joy." make an advantage to work with the writer. Leff said, because when a question comes up, he can turn to Stetling and ask his advice on how to fix it. The productions sell out fast because students enrolled in the Introduction to the Theatre class are required to attend, Le Beau said. Also, because Ine only sits 300 people and the plays run only one night, a sellout atmosphere is created he said. Le Beau said he wrote the first draft of the play in three hours. After that, it was just a matter of rewriting. Each of the 12 cast members are playing several people in the show, and everyone has at least one solo. The cast members play two characters in the play. "It's a really humbling experience to direct my own play." Le Beau said, "it's like your baby on paper, and I think that I should know every angle, but actually it's been a collaborative effort with the actors. They see different things and it's changed." So truthfully, it's "a "An original musical is very difficult to put together," Moore said. "There's no forerunner to look at it, has it to be a totally creative musical. It's challenging because it forces me to be creative. There's no one to copy. Hopefully in 10 years, people will look back and say, 'Oh, Mike Moore, look at how he did that character.'" "All God's Creatures" will be performed tonight. Le Beau, the writer and director, said that his play was about the changes the American Indians had gone through, specificities with Christian missionary schools. "Our culture is the most important thing for us." Le Beau said. "If we let people take that away from us, we will become extinct. We have to keep up the tradition, and that's what the play is about." Le Beau is an American Indian, ind his father and brother went to mission schools. Pamela Cook, Green junior, is in "All God's Creatures." She said that "It's really interesting to get a chance to do some theater that's a little unusual." Peters said. "The only thing that we only can perform." "The play shows that everyone is different and has different beliefs." Cook said. "It shows that you can't understand the world languages, customs and cultures." she liked the meaning of the play and also the fact that she's creating a character with a man who wrote the play. Bonjour, director of "Mass Appeal," which will be performed Sunday night, said that her play was about a Catholic priest and a man who was studying to become a priest. "Red, Black, and Ignorant," directed by Mark Jennison, Lawrence graduate student, will be performed tomorrow. Jennison said the play was written as poetry, so the performers had to speak the words well and also move their bodies to portray the images. Lawrence Peters, Denver junior, has four parts in "Red, Black, and Ignorant." He said that because the plays were projects of the student directors, they tended to be a little more experimental and unusual. "Dusa, Fish, Stars and Vi," directed by Delores Ringer, assistant professor of theater and film, will be performed Friday. The play is about four women and how they deal with their lives and the men in them. "It's almost a feminist show," said Becky Sherr, Lawrence freshman, who has a part in the play. "My character doesn't want to act like a woman anymore. 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