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THE COMPASS
NOVEMBER 1, 1969
Pauletter Hall helps Shirley Weaver change from black to white.
Brenda Boone and Robert Hall — “What did you
marry me for?”
ECSU PLAYERS
GIVE GRAND
PERFORMANCE
Superbly performed by
our ECSU Players was
“Day of Absence,” a sat
irical fantasy by Douglas
Turner Ward, one of the
leading black playwrights
of the present generation.
This play made a humor
ous statement concerning
what might happen to a
Southern community if all
the Negroes in town mys
teriously disappeared.
The parts of the white
citizens were all played
by black actors.
Featured in “Day of
Absence” were Walter
Sykes and Donald Liver-
man as Clem and Luke,
two Lum-and-Abner-type
storekeepers who discov
ered that the Negroes had
disappeared. James Rob
ert Hall and Brenda Boone
played the roles of John
and Mary, a young exe
cutive and his southern
belle wife, who faced the
problem of caring for
their own baby without
the help of their maid,
Lula. The part of the
northern radio announcer
who broadcasted the news
to the rest of the world
was portrayed by Ger
ald Bundy. The role of the
Mayor of the town was
played by Bernard L. Pet
erson, Jr, who directed
the play. Assistant di
rector was Tommy
Brown; lighting manager
was Harold Coppedge,
Also billed with “Day
of Absence”, was Paul
Green’s “The No ‘No
County Boy”. This play
is the best known of a
number of one-act plays
which has been written
by Greene about Negro
life in rural North east
ern North Carolina. Star
ring as the harmonica-
playing “no ‘count Boy”
was Charles Caudle, a
veteran player who has
appeared with the group
for the past seven years.
Also featured were Ella
Parker as Pheelie, Eddie
Davis as Enos, and Gail
Turner as the Mother.
Rosa Monroe an addition to the cast of characters
here listens to Mr. Peterson “scoop back and tell the
members of your organization that everything be
alright”.
Tommy Brown, Mr, Peterson, Pauletter Hall, Willie Woodard — “Those
niggers in the hospital must know something about the others” , ■ i
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