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Volume LXIII, No. 2 Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C. September 12, 1978
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Guilford College will see the Academy Theatre of Atlanta's production of
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill when it comes to Sternberger
Auditorium at Guilford College on Thursday, Sept. 14. Portraying the Tyrone
family are professional actors (left to right) Edward Lee, Gay Griggs,
larson and Chris Curran.
"In Every Respect Brilliant"
The Guilford College Arts
Series will present the
Academy Theatre of Atlanta in
a performance of Eugene
O'Neill's stunning master
piece, Long Day's Journey
Into Night, atß:ls p.m. Thurs
day, Sept. 14, in Dana Audi
torium.
Individual tickets will be
available at the door, costing
$3 for adults and $2 for senior
citizens and non-Guilford
College students. Guilford
students are admitted free.
The searing drama, whose
subject is O'Neill's own family
when he was a young man,
has been acclaimed universally
as one of his finest works.
Drama critics have hailed it
as the greatest of American
plays, an overwhelming
masterpiece of modern drama
and a landmark play of stunn
ing theatrical experience.
Because of its frankly auto
biographical nature, Nobel
Prize winner O'Neill instructed
that Journey not be performed
until well after his death.
When finally produced, the
play was an immediate success,
winning for its writer a fourth
Pulitzer Prize, awarded
posthumously, as well as the
London Drama Critics Award
for the best foreign work. It
swept the field for all American
awards in 1956.
Constructing the play from
his memories, intimate under
standings and love, O'Neill
produced a family portrait that
reveals far more than simply
the lives of the Tyrone
(O'Neill) family.
The profound compassion
of his writing and the use of
precise rich human speech
give the characters in Journey
immediacy and universality.
As one critic wrote of his
moving experience, "We go
expecting to hear a playwright,
and we meet a man."
Veteran performers for the
Academy Theatre, which a
Chicago critic pronounced
" in every respect bril
liant," will be Edward Lee as
James Tyrone, Gay Griggs as
Mary Tyrone, Chris Curran as
James Tyrone Jr., Larry
Larson as Edmund Tyrone and
Yvonne Tenney as Cathleen.
The production is under the
direction of Frank Wittow,
who founded the nationally
acclaimed Academy Theatre
in 1956. Over the course of
the past 22 years, he has
developed a resident company
of professional actors of a
calibre that meets the highest
national and internaitonal
standards of excellence.
Holiday Magazine said of it:
"This troupe's work is as inter
esting as anything going on in
the country today."
New Faculty Provide
Interesting Outlook
By CAROLINE COLES
Ridden wild horses in the
West, born on a farm, visited
Russia extensively, gone to
school at Cornell, Princeton,
University of Chicago and
Stanford. What two people
do you know of at Guilford
that have done all this? A
husband and wife team made
up of Robert Williams,
Economics professor and
Charlotte Rosenthal, Russian
professor fill all these bills.
While Russian has not been
taught at Guilford for about
ten years, Mr. Williams is
adding courses to the econ
omics department that it has
not previously been able to
offer. So both partners are
adding brand new perspectives
to the academic program. But
each is doing so in his/her
own manner. Mr. Williams
says in a slow quiet way that
while specializing in inter
national, developmental and
comparative economics he
would like to change education
"from a process of repeating
experts to instilling faith in
one's own thinking."
He does not see economics
taking place in any sort of
vacuum, therefore the inter
twining of government,
politics and economic situa
tions must all be considered.
After that, again do not be
afraid to disbelieve authorities.
Finally Princeton and
Stanford may have had their
stereos but the ones over in
Frazier are the loudest almost
anywhere!
Academy Theatre Cast to
Participate in Colloquium
During a two-day residency
at Guilford College, five
professional performers
from the Academy Theatre of
Atlanta will participate in
three events to which the
public is invited on Wednes
day, September 13, in Founders
Hall.
From 10 a.m. until 12 noon,
the cast of Long Day's Journey
Into Night (to be presented
by the Arts Series on Thurs
day, September 14) will
conduct workshops in acting,
Ms. Rosenthal comes here
teaching "a very difficult
language" with the extra
books in the inactive circu
lation department of the
library. But if her enthusiasm
for both Russia and its
language catches on those
books will become pretty
active. She has already taught
for two years at the University
of Utah.
She warns students that
the Russian vocabulary is tre
mendous and like gooblie
gosh so that they should not
expect to read plays and write
letters in Russian for quite
a few years. The rewards of
learning the language are
slow to come but they may
very well be worth it. Students
can now get to Russia to study
as undergraduates and the
Russian people she says, "have
a great sense of humor, are
very generous, especially with
time, and the favors of friend
ship demanded and taken are
never too much."
Ms. Rosenthal has spent
over a year in Moscow all
together and this reporter
could have spent the entire
afternoon listening to just the
adventures of her baggage
and the people that offered
to carry it there - grand
mothers!
Lefs welcome to Guilford
two people that I believe will
expand not only our Liberal
Arts education, but our circle
of friends in more than two
directions.
directing and improvisation
in the Rehearsal Studio and
the Gallery of Founders.
At 3:30 p.m. in the Gallery
they will discuss "Conflict in
Drama" as guests of the 1978
Fall Colloquium's Wednesday
series on "Conflict and Reso
lution."
A lecture-demonstration
will begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday
in Sternberger Auditorium, to
be followed by a reception in
the Boren Lounge.