'vol. 4, No. 3
North Carolina School of the Arts
October 20, 1969
Donley Visits
Drama School
A new guest artist will be
lecturing, teaching, and performing
in the theater for the next six weeks-
He is Robert Donley, character
actor and writer.
Donley worked with Leslie Hunt
(NCSA Drama Department Speech teacher
and Actress in Residence) in the
Broadway Production of Duerrenmatt's
The Visit. A few of his other
credits include the Broadway pro
ductions of The Unsinkdble Molly
Browrit Crime and Punishment (with
Sir John Gielgud), The Anderson-
ville Trial3 and Something About a
Soldier, Mr. Donley toured in the
National Touring Company's produc
tion of Inherit the Wind and A Man
for All Seasons (which played in
Greensboro and Winston-Salem in
1964).
( Gont. on page 3 )
Visiting
teacher for
Drama School
F
Robert Donley
The NCSA indignent ohidkenj
sculptured by faculty member Clifford
Earlj as it stands in front of the
Technical and Design Department
classrooms.
First Production
To Be"Liliom”
The Drama Department has
announced that its first major pro
duction this year will be Liliom, by
Ferenc Molnar. The play will be
directed by Bob Murray.
Liliom is a folk play in seven
scenes set in Hungary after the turn
of the century. It played on Broad
way in 1936 after being translated
from Hungarian. Richard Rogers and
Oscar Hammerstein II later adapted it
into their now famous musical.
Carousel^ relocating the setting to
New England.
Ron Pollock, Dean of the Drama
Department, explained the department's
choice of Liliom.
"Liliom has a variety of good
[parts with challenge, but within the
range of our actors. Also, it is a
good play. It just seemed to us to
be the right kind of challenge to the
actors".
(Cont. on page S)
MORATORIUM
PROGRAM
PRESENTED
The Moratorium convocation at
NCSA was a significant expression of
sentiment towards the war in Viet
Nam. The students who participated,
many wore black arm bands, found it
a rewarding event, even though it
was disappointing to see that more
of the student body was not repre
sented .
President Ward opened with com
ments on the American Committment in
the war. Then Mr. Irwin Freundlich,
Head of the piano department, spoke
of the war in terms of human energy,
one of our most important assets,
and the waste of human energy and
life in Viet Nam. In a moving
speech, he said that the humaness
in us is more important than the ac
tor, painter, or writer in us.
Mr. Peter Stambler, Head of the
Writing Department, read a poem by
Yeats and then one of his own. In
his remarks, Mr. Stambler emphasized
that our protest becomes meaningless
if it set aside for one specific day
and time. Instead, it should become
part of our daily lives, he said.
Continuing in the same vein,
Mr. Job Sanders of the Dance Depart
ment read selections from the lec
tures of Krishnamurti; it asked us
to reexamine ourselves and accept
the individual responsibility for
the wars and crime in society.
Among the students who par
ticipated were Tom Cavano, Jim
Bobbitt, and Steve Bordner. Cavano
sang a song he wrote which dealt
with a dying soldier's futile
cause. Essentially, the song "A
Death Song of a Patriot", s^ows the
two choices a soldier faces upon
(con't on page 5)
MERIT SEMI-FINALISTS
Six NCSA students have won
distinction in the National Merit
Scholarship Examination.
Four students3 Cathy Tait,
Cheryl Ussery^ Jane Scotty and
David Martin are semi-finalists.
Of these four^ Jane Scott is
a new student who comes from Durham
H.S.j and David Martin left NCSA
this year to attend Hickory H.S.
Two students who are not
semi-finalists3 but did exception
ally well are Dee Mosesj and Charles
Devine,who is new this year.