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“Flea ” Set Called One Of Best This Year
and besides leaving the audience
breathless, it provided quick, rapid, and
smooth changes between sharply
contrasting scenes. On one side of the
turntable is the resectable parlor of M.
Chandebis, which is in sharp contrast to
the interior of the Hotel Cog D’Or on the
reverse side.
Color plays a major role in the set in
that the colors used in the Chandebis’
drawing room are basically the same
colors used in the Hotel Cog D’Or, only
toned down to their more refined hues.
This use of color ties in with the
concept of the play: being that people are
basically the same once you lift away the
veneer. Tlie use of color in the costumes
designed by Laurence Ropp, is unique in
that they blend well wt.th the sets and
cause no conflicts on stage providing
they are seen in their own environment.
Once taken out of that environment, the
character is brought to the attention of
the audience. The only identity that the
leading lady, portrayed by Cj^thia
Stewart, has with the Hotel D’Or is the
color of the revolving bed, which is
ironic, that being the place her troubles
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Bailey St. Expansion
City Will Hear Campus Plans
By JAMES ROCHELLE
Cynthia Stewart and Lori Gottemoeller
in Chandebis’ drawing room.
By MIKE NATIONS
Essay Staff Reporter
The show, “A Flea in Her Ear,” had
one of the most well-designed sets this
school has seen this year. It was designed
by Miss Judy Juracek, a D & P faculty
member executed by ^ot TempUn, also
a faculty member, assisted by D & P
students.
The two-ton turntable used was, as
Miss Juracek put it, like a great “great
carousel” on which the artors played.
Commencement
Zeisler
To Talk
By SHELLY McPHERSON
Essay Staff Reporter
Theatre producer Peter Zeisler, a man
who is deeply involved in drama, will
give the commencement address to the
1975 graduating class.
Zeisler is one of the three co-founders
of the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis,
Minn. He was also Uie managing director
of the Guthrie from 1963 to 1970. He has
been production manager for more than
twenty Broadway plays.
He also opened the American
Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Conn.,
and remained there for two seasons.
A dedicated traveler, Zeisler received
a Ford Foundation grant in 1970 to study
Eastern Europe^ ttieatres and training
sdiools. Earlier in his career he was the
recipient of a Fulbright grant to study
European repertory companies.
His current activities include
consulting for the Theatre Advisory
^panel of National Endowment for the
Arts. He serves on the advisory boards of
^e Kennedy Center Bicentennial, the
Intemational Theatre Institute and the
League of Professional Theatre Training
programs.
Since 1972, Zeisler has been the
director of the Theatre Communications
Group, Inc., a national service
organization for non-profit professional
theatres throughout the United States.
The conmiencement ceremony will be
held at 11:00 a.m.. May 31, in Crawford
HaU. Eighty high school students will
receive diplomas and 62 college students
will receive degrees.
Essay Staff Keporter
The N.C. School of the Arts will soon
present a plan for campus expansion in
the Bailey Street area to the Winston-
Salem Board of Alderman. The plan,
which the city is expected to adopt, would
begin clearance and acquisition of land to
the north of the present campus.
The project would cost $1,710,000, over
three years, and be the first step in
building a new entrance to the campus
and in construction of new campus
buildings and housing.
Money for the initial project has come
from a federal Community Development
grant which wUl he awarded to the city.
Winston-Salem’s share was $15,000,000
May 28, Wednesday
Studio A: Awards
May 29, Thursday
May 30, Friday
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« 1:30 p.m.
J Convocation.
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5:30 p.m.- Commencement
«rehearsal. All graduating seniors,
^high school and college, meet for
* briefing on lineup and exercises in
J Crawford Hall.
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^ 2:30 p.m.- Dance and drama
-t; workshop presentations, DeMille
t Theatre.
2 5:00 p.m.- Buffet dinner for^
^ parents, seniors and faculty at
2 ChanceUor’s residence, 28 Cascade
% Avenue.
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$ May 31, Saturday
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« 9:00-10:00 a.m.- Coffee for pvents
^ and soiiors. Commons Building-
{ Piazza Artran.
^ 11:00 a.m.- Commencement
« exercises, Crawford Hall; i^)eaker,
♦ Peter Zeisler.
12:00 noon- Luncheon for parents,
* seniors and faculty, cafeteria of
« Commons Building.
“Center”
Is Unique
By KAY CRUTCHER
Essay Staff Reporter
The Creative Learning Center offers a
planned, informal, flexible program
which stimulates and meets individual
and group needs for children between the
ages of one and four years. To students of
NCSA it offers the chance to learn how to
work with, teach, and learn from very
young children.
dollars. Once cleared, the land would
later be sold to the school at a price to be
determined, and expansion could begin.
Sam Stone, director of development,
gave this description of the school’s
expansion hopes:
“What the school is hoping with the
first third of the land is to build a new
entrance to the campus and to build a
1,000-seat amphitheatre that will serve as
the main focal point and gathering-place
on this campus. This would be a major
element in the construction of a ‘cultural
park’ linking NCSA and Old Salem.”
“The second third of the land will be
devoted to approximately 100 housing
units to be rental property, and the school
would ben(rfit from the income of the
housing uhits. The bottom third (of the
land) will be for commerical use.”
“All of this is tied up in an
architecturally complementary fashion,
with the entrance, and public service and
so on. It happens to blend in very nicely
with the plans fac Old Salem.”
Stone said also that the area could be
joined by bike paths to Central Park and
Washington Park.
Chancellor Robert Suderburg said of
the plans, “The Bailey Street ^oject, if
developed along the artistic and
humanistic lines proposed by the school
of the arts, would ^ve a tremendous
positive effect, both on the school and on
Winston-Salem.”
“No doubt the effect would be a far
better living situation for the students of
the school and all residents of Southside,
Old Salem, and the center of Winston-
Salem. Presently all indications are that
the school’s proposal will be followed by
much enthusiastic response,” Suderburg
said.
The city’s clearance project will
involve removal of the residents now
living along Bailey St.
“They will be visited by the staff of the
Redevelopment Commission and talked
to about what the consequences of a plan
like this might be, in terms of how much
money they will get for their property,
where there are owners involved, what
assistance they would have in locating to
a new place, and assistance in moving,”
Stone said.
Both Stone and Vice-Chancellor Martin
Sokoloff noted the deteriorated state of
much of the housing in the area.
“It is not a stable neighborhood,” Stone
said. “There are some houses there that
are in very good shape and need very
little rehabilitation or very modest
rehabiliation. But it is a mixture.”
Some of the commercial buidings along
Waughtown Street are also run down.
Sokoloff said ways will be sought to
change the conunerical part of the area,
but that will have to be negotiated with
the business men and property owners.
The school’s plans for the area were
drawn up this spring by Eric Hill
Associates, a local architectural firm.
Shorts!
By SHELLY MCPHERSON
Essay SUff Reoorter
The N^A administration and board of
trustees is pondering whether to pursue a
possible offer that would donate to the
school a commercial Uieatre and hotel in
downtown Winston-Salem.
“We do not have an crffer, but there hag
been conversation about the sdiool
acquiring the faciliUes,” Sam Stone,
director of developmoit, said.
The property is the C^lina Theatre
and hotel, located on the comer of 4tti and
Marshall Streets.
If the sdiool does acquire the threatre,
it would cost less to renovate than it
would to build a 1,000-^t anq>hitheatre,
under consideration for the future after
clearance of the Bailey Street area.
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Dr. Robert Rockabrand, Director of
Choral Activities here at NCSA has
resigned his position as Choral Director
and voice instructor.
Dr. Rockabrand came to the School of
the Arts from Ball State University,
where he was Director (rf Chor^
Activities for five years. He took his
present position upon the resignation of
David Partington who was Choral
Director since 1970. He is now accepting
the pojution of Choral Director at
Principia College where he received his
Bachelor of Arts Degree.
Norman Johnsm, opera director, will
take over as Choral Director and Janice
Harsayni, a voice instructor, will take
over the chamber choir. Dr.
RockalH'and’s resignation is ^ective at
the end of this school year.
A unique feature of the Center is the
involvement in and exposure to the arts.
The children are introduced to the
instruments of the orchestra in a first
hand learning experience. Student
dancers expose them to a variety of
forms of dance, such as ballet, modem,
tap, and character. Design and
Production students intix)duce them to
some basic tools. Visual arts are enjoyed
in many ways. Particular study is made
of “Peter and the Wolf”, “Nutcracker
Ballet” and “Carnival of the Animals”.
The Student Council Association
provides scholarship money enabling
three children from low-income familes
to participate in the program who would
not be able to do so otherwise. A special
grant for music instrument purchase
exposes the children to percussion
instruments at a very early age. This
enriches the program oppoitunities lor
the children.
Work with these young children can be
done for academic cre^t, either one or
two hours credit per term. The
experience involves some teaching, staff
meetings and one or two hours a week of
just being with the children. “The main
thing we’re interested in,” said Othella
Johnson, director of the Center,” is ‘do
you like children?’.”
Another important phase of The Center
is helping cMdren to help themselves.
“We constantly strive to help them think
for themselves and develop
responsibilities and a sense of
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