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Friday. October 28, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Playwright striving to achieve balance in culture of theater
By Grace Hobson Kansan staff writer
Theater must work to abolish stereotypes and achieve a multicultural balance, a leading U.S. playwright last night.
"I'm hoping that in the '90s, single-ethnic theaters will work themselves out of business," said Stephen Greenberg, co-director of the 1988 Tony Award for best play.
Hwang said that interest-group theater, such as that specifically owes to homosexuals or toward cancer groups, prevented multicultural art.
Hwang spoke to about 400 people in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union as part of an English conference titled, "New Languages for the Stage," funded by the College Lecture Fund.
Hwang, whose play "1,000 Airplanes on the Roof" was performed at University of Kansas on Oct. 19, won the Tony Award for "M. Butterfly."
Hwang went from detailing his development as a playwright to discussing his thoughts on theater in the future.
As a student. Hwang said he felt a need to exacerbate stereotypes of Chinese Americans
After discovering his voice as a playwright as a student at Stanford.
he said he experienced a two-year period of self-doubt. He had established himself as an Asian playwright, concerned only with Asians, and not as a playwright interested in universality, he said.
"I was creating an orientalia for the intellegensia," Hwang said.
As a result, he said he primarily was offered plays involving Asian characters. When "M. Butterfly," in the lead character is Caucasian, because she suddenly offered more opportunities to write about other racial groups.
Despite the ups and downs of his career, Hwang said he was grateful for his success.
"It has saved me from being a waiter, or worse yet, going to law school," he said.
As for the future of theater, Hwang said that because of the lack of thought going into today's theater, it was becoming more visual.
"We have a lot of moving scenery in theater right now, taking the place of ideas."
Kenneth Parks, Wichita freshman,
said he most appreciated Hwang's
insight on theater in the future.
"He's so insightful about where Broadway is heading." Parks said. "There's no depth now. When we get back to the basing and come home."
back to the bashes and come together
that's where theater should be."
SUA to sponsor 'Dread' for University Halloween
By a Kansan reporter
Halloween isn't just for little kids. And Student Union Activities is trying to prove that by sponsoring seating sets for University of Kansas students, The Halloween celebration, called "Mount Dread III," includes:
■ "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
Midnight nightmare and 9 p.m. Monday
in the Ballroom at the Kansas
Union. Tickets are $2.50. A Rocky
Horror costume contest will be
judged at 8:30 p.m. Monday. A trip
to Chicago is the prize for best
costume. Other prizes will be
awarded.
knives will be supplied by SUA. One of the prizes for the best carving will be tickets to the Oingo Boingo concert on Nov. 6.
Pumpkin Carving — 10 a.m. to:
2:30 p.m. Monday in the main lobby
area at the Kansas Union. The event
is free and pumpkins and carving
- Jugging Show - 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Monday. Outside Kansas Union or in main lobby.
■ SUA Movies "Nosferatu" and "Phantom of the Opera" 7 p.m. Monday at Woodruff Auditorium. Tickets are $2.50.
■ Fortune Teller - 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Monday in the gallery at the Kansas Union.
Face Painting - 1 a.m. to 2 p.M.
Monday and will be sponsored by the Non-Traditional Students Organization. Placees include Kansas Union and Burge Union. Prices are $1.50 for adults and $1.25 for children.
Many Lawrence residents are getting ready for Halloween by carving pumpkins and making scarecrows. In a yard at Fourth and Wisconsin streets, a unique Halloween display surprises passersby.
A scary sight
Explorer says tea party site discovered
The Associated Press
BOSTON — When colonial patriots tossed 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, they thought they had rid the city of symbols of tyranny. But now an explorer says they should have and wants to salvage the chests.
Barry Clifford, who located the first pirate ship found in the New World four years ago, appeared yesterday before the state Board of Education to present ecological Resources for permission to survey the Tea Party site.
The board, however, tabled his bid for a reconnaissance permit that would have awarded Clifford and his team exclusive rights to survey a nautical square mile of the sea, and asked Clifford to return for the board's next session on Dec. 1 with more details about the site.
"Boston Harbor is an archaeological site." Clifford said in his presentation to the board. "In this day and age, when we have knowledge of what's at the bottom of the harbor, it's too bad not to plan so we don't put a tunnel through a 17th century shipwreck."
Jim Bradley, acting board director, said the explorer must provide more specific proof that he had found the location of the Tea Party chests before the board would be audited. Then, if Clifford and his team are free to electronically scan the harbor.
Clifford, president of Maritime Explorations Inc. in Chatham, surprised skeptics when he found the treasure-laden Whydah of the coast of Cape Cod in 1984 and brought up the ship's bell.
Chiffred said at the meeting that he did not include specific data about the site in his permit application. The security risk in publicizing the area.
However, experts have doubts about Clifford's latest venture.
Liberal think tank influences national policy, author says
By Jeremy Kohn Kansan staff writer
A Marxist organization masquerading as a "liberal think tank" has issued political issues in the United States that have marred, a political author said last night.
Steven Scott Powell, author of "Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies," and a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, Calif., spoke to about 15 people at Strong Hall last night. The University Geopolitical Forum sponsored the event.
He described how the Institute for Policy Studies, a group active in national politics, had misrepresented itself as a liberal research and education group while pursuing its Marxist goals. Powell said his book, published last year, supported his claims.
The group often does not identify itself on brochures, and it has never publicly said that it had Marxist aims, he said.
"What we have is a tremendous amount of evidence that supports the theory that the IPS supports the IPR." Powell said before the lecture.
IPS began in 1963 with money from the Stern Family Fund and the Samuel Rubin Foundation. Although
it has only 65 full-time workers, other organizations are funded by Rubin Foundation money and share IPS ideals. Powell said.
"The genius of its success is that it has created a vast network of organizations which support each other," he said.
Tens of millions of dollars were raised by IPS and its satellite agencies for the Nicaraguan revolution, he said. When IPS leaders traveled to Managua, they had access to Nicaragua's highest leaders.
The group also used its lesser agencies to fight against Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court and to gain congressional oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency's covert activities, he said.
The book, Powell said, was meant to draw attention to the group's subversive activities and possibly galvanize action against it. But no leaders have done so because it was a political liability, he said.
"Even the word treason entered my mind," Genet said.
Some audience members after the lecture said that Powell had made a convincing case against IPS. Peter Sorrentino, in Burbury, Conn., sophomore, said his results information was true, then IPS and its allies should be disbanded.
Campus UNICEF sponsors pumpkin decorating contest
By a Kansan reporter
today.
Seventeen smiling or scary pumpkin faces greeted many students as they walked past Wescole Beach yesterday.
For the fourth year, Jayhawks for UNICEF is sponsoring a Halloween pumpkin-decorating contest. Campus living groups and clubs have submitted their best pumpkins to be voted on by students, who voted yesterday and will vote today by depositing money in a box by their favorite pumpkin.
Curt Crossley, Overland Park senior and youth representative for the directors of UNICEF, said the green pumpkins to additional pumplins to be displayed
Jayhawks for UNICEF is also selling orange and black balloons, and pumpkins that students may take home to carve for $1 each. The group will also sell those items on Saturday at Wal-Mart, 2727 Iowa St.
Crossley said that he expected the group to raise about $1,500 from the jack-o-lanter contest and added that the Halloween event was the primary fund-raising effort made by the group each year.
"We're trying to raise peoples' awareness about UNICEF, and we found the best way to do it is through something fun." Crossley said.
He said the money would benefit the national UNICEF foundation.
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