April 5, 1979
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Thoreau in jail
The Cast of The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail.
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resident student who skips all
three meals involved.”
On Wednesday at 1:30 the
fast will start with a kick-
off meeting in the large
lounge of Long Student Cen
ter. Between 5 and 6, all
fasters and friends of fasters
are invited to meet for con
versation and fellowship in
the large lounge. The day-
trippers will sponsor a coffee
break at 9:30 Thursday morn
ing. Between 1 and 2 p.m. the
fasters will meet again for
fellowship.
The period of fasting will
be brought to a close with a
special communion/love
feast worship service in the
large lounge. The worship
service is sponsored by the
Religious Life Committee.
Bill Sharpe and Carole Chase
will administer the Sacrament
of the Lord’s Supper. The
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service will conclude with a
simple meal of cheese, bread
and fruit.
Dr. Chase savs. “The fast
consists of eating no food for
28 hours and drinking water
and unsweetened tea and cof
fee. Anyone interested in fast
ing or sponsoring a faster
should sign up in McEwen or
Harper Center cafeteria Fri
day or Monday.” For more
information, contact Dr.
Chase in 315 Mooney, Vinnie
Suozzi at Smith 109, or Nan
Pearson at Ext. 304.
Perhaps Vinnie Suozzi
summed up the fast by saying
“28 hours is nothing com
pared to a lifetime of hun
ger.”
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came alive on stage. Words
worth said, “By saying Imes,
one can give an emotional
impact to the audience.” He
also contrasted the actor’s
approach and the academic
approach. He strongly recom
mended the actor’s approach
to reading poetry and acting.
**Very often the academics
won’t enjoy or make the most
of Shakespeare. Often people
don’t realize the strength and
potential in discussing
Shakespeare’s works. Shakes
peare is marvelous stuff.
Wordsworth emphasized
the value of effective facial
expressions and mannerisms
in acting. Actors should re
search their characters and
use their own originality to
make the character believable.
Wordsworth also discussed
Chekhov at the lecture. “Ac
tors love working with Chek
hov; he. absolutely adore it.
He wrote marvelous and won
derful plays,” although his
plays are not so popular with
the modern audience.
The Elon College Liberal
Arts Forum series on “The
Future of Democracy” con-
tim’es on tomorrow and Sat
urday, April 6 and 7, with a
dramatic reading of The
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail,
by Jerome Lawrence and
Robert E. Lee. This year’s
production, directed by Dr.
Andrew J. Angyal of the
English Department, includes
Elon students and staff, and
other members of the com
munity.
This contemporary, two-act
play, set in the Concord jail,
explores the reasons why Tho
reau refused to pay his poll
tax and allowed himselt lu oe
jailed briefly as a symbolic
gesture of protest against the
state. Thoreau’s experience in
jail later became the basis for
his famous essay on "Civil
Disobedience.” The play
deals with his one night in jail
intermingled with flashbacks
from his past.
The production on April 6
and 7 will be done in the style
of Readers Theater, in which
members of the cast sit on
stools and evoke the charac
ters and text of the play itself
primarily through their voic
es, rather than through the
elaborate staging cf a full-
scale dress production. In this
style of theater the actors try
to present the spoken word
and dialogue, rather than
offer a full treatment of each
character.
The cast includes Eric Mills
as Thoreau, Dan Moury as
Emerson, Jan Nelson as
Emerson’s wife Lydia and
Jane Moury as Rebecca, the
Emersons’ daughter.
Rhonda Apple plays Tho
reau’s mother while Larry
Hanker is Thoreau’s brother,
John.
Bailey, Thoreau’s cellmate,
is played by Ken Blake; Dea
con Ball by Tim Eanes; and
Ellen, a lovely young lady, by
Kandy Arthur.
Sam Staples, the local con
stable, is played by A1 Mora,
an area resident who has been
active in the Gallery Players
Community Theatre. Warren
Bell plays Williams, a newly
freed slave and Janet Smith
plays a woman of the town.
The Night Thoreau Spent
in Jail will begin each night at
7:30 in the Mooney Theatre.
Admission is free and stu
dents, faculty, staff and the
community are cordially in
vited to attend.
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