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the lance, OCTOBER 30,1975 nmnmniiHiiniiniiiiiiiTO JOHN DODDS shoots radical leader Bill Allen in Lin Potts’ play- At The Movies “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” Directed by Wallace Horsley Starring Ixm Chaney, Sr. Victor Hugo’s tie of the grotesque bell ringer’s pathetic love for the proud gypsy girl led to this classic silent film. Lon Chaney’s hun chback elicits both sympathy and fear in a performance that has rarely been equalled in llie horror genre. 7:30 Friday night in the College Union Lounge. CONVENIENT FOOD MART Featuring a large selec tion of wines, beers, and mixers, as well as snacks for the late- night growling stomach. HIGHWAY 401 Beyond the South Campus Entrance Open 7 Days A Week 7 a.m. - 12 p.m. 5 Students’ Plays To Have World Premiere niimnniinnnnn! The world premiere of two original plays will take place on the a. Andrews campus next week. Tliese two plays are productions resulting from the co-operative efforts of two new playwrights and a novice director, along with the manbers of two theatre courses offered at the collie. This venture is unique in that this is the first time various classes have worked together to create a theatrical produc tion. The two playwrights are Lin Potts and Kathy Lun sford. Beth Rambo is the director of Lin’s play. lin Potts, from Charlotte, N.C. is the author of “Red July”. This is his first nlav althou^ he has been writing off and on for about three years. Lin likes the medium of drama, “primarily for its immediacy, knowing that you’re writing for a live audience and that you can form expression within a timed structure.” Lin, a Junior-year English niajor, is a participant in a special studies course in Playwriting. The result of Lin’s first un dertaking as a dramatist, “Red July”, is a play about a group of radical organiers- People’s Bicentennial Coalition - and their attempts to stage a July Fourth Rally in Philadelphia. In their roles as leaders, the characters come face to face with the reality of power that floats just beyond the reach of their means. The cast of the play is made up of students from &e Actmg I class. Bill Allen plays the f>art of Fable Blue, and Tim Van Hooser portrays the character of Max Reddington. Larry Petersai appears as Stokes Mann, John Dodds as Pick Scammrai and Lee Bar- nhardt as Mavis High. The First and Second FBI Agents are portrayed by Earl Rober ts and Mike Jones respec tively. FBI Agent Quinn is played by Clay Hamiltoi and FBI Agent Phillips by John Courtney. Kathy Lunsford, also a par ticipant in Playwriting, is from Albemarle, N.C. She is a senior majoring in Literature. Kathy enjoys writing poetry as well as plays. She likes to write plays because, “Plays allow you to get an immediate response from the audience.” Also, as a playwright, Kathy is able to “get inside the characters and explore the depth of per sonality.” Her play, “Mirror” is indicative of this interest in personality. "Mirror' is a story about the relationship between Jeff, a poet, and Casey, a preschool teacher. Jeff, an impractical person, is obsessed with mirrors. Casey is more realistic and is in love with Jeff. The play is a story of the problems once faces when dealing with images. m tne play, Jim Bumgard- ner portrays the character of Jeff. Jane Schwab appears in the role of Casey. Again, the cast was chosen from the Ac ting I dass. Beth Kambo, a member ot the Directing dass, plays an important part in this produc tion as irector of “Red July.” She was bom in Philadeljrfiia, where the play is set. She spent six years in Banner Elk, N.C. before living for seven years in Zaire, Africa. There she made her debut as a director in Fif th Grade at Central School for Missionary Children. She produced, directed and played a minor role in “The Prince’s Three Tests”. Beth, a Seniffl-, is majoring in English. As director of “Red July” she views her ef forts as “a challenge to me. First, because as an original never-produced play, it is more open to the Erector’s and actors’ interpretations,” she said, “and second, because I wanted to wra-k witn these actors in inese par ticular types of roles.” Beth is presently working diligently to prepare the ac tors for their performance. A fourth contribution to this productirai is being made by the students of the Technical Theatre class. They are laboring long and hard to create the sets for each play. Lin and Kathy are working closely with the others, of fering advice and en couragement to assure the perfection of the per formances. “Red July” and “Mirror” will be presented in the LA Auditorium at St. Andrews on Sunday, November 2 and Monday, November 3 at 8:00 p.m. These plays represent the end result of a sharing of ideas and talents from a num ber of different people. However, these combined ef forts are not limited to the Theatre department. Publidty for the plays has been provided by students from the Journalism class. The posters advertising the' plays are creations from students in the Art depart ment. The public is cordially invited as the students of St Andrews work together to provide an evening of en tertainment. Smith Wows ^Em InHuntsville SA Art Professor Mark Smith’s attendance at the Southern Assdation of Sculp tors’ annual conference in Hunstville, Alabama two weeks ago was marked by two personal achievements of signtficance. “At the general meeting of the Association rai Saturday morning” (October 10), Smith said, “I was nominated and elected to the Board of Direc tors.” “The exdting things about it all, “ he continued, “is that even though by charter definition the Association is confined to the thirteen states of the Southeast, there were over three hundred people at the conference, some of whom were from as far away as the West Coast. As there is only one other regional association and only one International Association, ours is on the verge of becoming the National Organization for sculptors.” Fart of the effort to make the S.A.S. the [H-edominant organization in the country will center around the reorganization of the group’s publication, “Sculpture Quar terly,” of which Smith was dioseh to be editor. Selection of the editor, he said, is by and large a matter of finding someone willing to do it. “My volunteering was a reaction to the abysmal quality of the publication in toe past and a reflection of what I thought we could do with it here.” With the support of the group’s Board of Directors (“they even doubled my budget”) Smith plans to revamp the magazine, publishing it twice yearly, with smajler news-letters coming out the rest of the year. The .Curveship Press, St. Andrews’ publishing house, will put out the first issue in thh spring, said Smith.
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