Wednesday, September 11, 1968
The Daily Nebraskan
Page 7
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The perplexing situation of being both an enemy soldier held hostage and
a friend on his captors puzzles Dennis Calendra in the University Summer
Repetory repeat of Brendan Behan's Musical "The Hostage".
The stage at Howell
Theatre won t have a chance
to gather cobwebs this fall
because a summer production
is being held hostage there.
"The Hostage," still warm
from a run during this sum
mer's University of Nebraska
repertory season, will be
presented Thursday, Friday
and Saturday nights. Curtain
time is 8 p.m.
The entire cast, with one
exception, will appear, but
not without some "jet-set
ting on the part of some.
Susan Nohr, who plays Meg
Dillon in the play, teaches
high school drama in
Hempstead, N.Y. She flew
back to Lincoln in order to
repeat her role during the
regular school session.
" . The play's director, Mrs.
Nancy Cole, has just arrived
this week from Ithaca, N.Y.,
to direct the play. Her hus
band is Steven Cole, former
NU drama professor who ac
cepted a position at Cornell
University last summer.
There has been only one
change in the cast. The part
of a Polish sailor, played by
Clint Jakeman this summer,
has been given to Rick
Shrimp. Jakeman left for
New York last week and
could not return.
But the play itself a
bawdy, musical-comedy
will not be changed.
"Every song, every situa
tion which delighted our au
diences this summer, will be
intact," Dr. Dallas Williams,
director of the repertory
company, said. "The play
was by far the most popular
of the season, and we are
most happy to bring it to the
regular campus community."
"The Hostage" is con
sidered to be theater for its
own sake: a circus of flam
boyant colors and style. It is
a blend of music, dance,
theater of reality and theater
of the absurd, according to
Mrs. Cole.
It concerns an English
army private, played by Den
nis Calandra, who is taken
hostage by an Irish terrorist
group. Brendan Behan, the
author, was a member of that
group and s a u g h t to
dramatize the after effects of
the Irish Revolution on its
people.
"The play is written in
light-hearted Irish humor,"
Mrs. Cole said, "but the
emotions of the play and its
characters go much deeper
than the surface laughter.
Actually, Behan is ribbing
everyone."
Built within the framework
of the University production
is a slideshow, designed by
NU art student Claud Bery.
Nearly 200 slides are pro
jected onto two screens on
stage which underscore
musical numbers and
dialogue.
The overall effect has been
termed "collage in the
theater" by members of the
drama department
"The Hostage" was one of
three plays produced this
summer in what was termed
a "Repertory Theater of
Protest."
The protest label brought
some criticism from
members of the University
community and had some ef
fect on the size of audiences
during the summer,
according to Dr. Williams.
"We feel that many people
misinterpreted the word
'protest'," he said. "Any play
is a protest or it wouldn't
have been written. But what
'The Hostage' embodies is
good family entertainment, a
real experience in fun."
Tickets are on sale at the
Howell Theater box office.
Yearbooks ready
Editors of the 1969 CORN
HUSKER yearbook announced
Tuesday that there are still
1968 copies available. Students
who have not received their
books from last year may ob
tain them at the Cornhusker
office.
Career
Scholars
are named
Fifty University students
have been named 'Nebraska
Career Scholars this fall.
Dr. Benjamin McCashland,
assistant dean of the
Graduate Colege and
coordinator of the program,
said this brings to 449 the
number of students who have
participated in this program
since it began in 1963 under
a grant from the Ford Foun
dation. V.
Students are identified for
participation in the program
on the basis of superior
scholarship and an interest in
a career in college teaching.
They follow a course of study
which may lead to the
bachelor's and master's
degrees at the end of the fifth
year of university work, Dr.
McCasrland said.
New participants include :
Boyd B. Bacon: Dennis L.
Beckmann: Bruce Blanchard:
Joyce J. J. Boesiger: Amy S.
Bouska; Ann Brayton; David
Brinkman; Wayne Brinkmen;
Mary Bristol; Dwane H .
Campbell.
Donald L. Cordes; Jean L.
Eberly; Shelley E. Fry;
Roger D. Fuchs; Owen C.
Gadeken; Michael R.
Gendler; Karen Gounaud;
Irene Gross; John D. Hanson;
Richard L. Helms; Susan
Henderson; David Holcomb;
Linda Keck; Mary Ann
Kielian; Cynthia M. Kuppig;
Jane Lind; Monte Lunc; Anne
McGough ; John Mahaffy ;
Janice May; Lucinda Meyer;
Nancy Jo Miller; Karen
Myers; Mary Nelson; Bruce
Raymer; Randy Reeves;
Elaine Rogge; Robert
Schmucker; Susan C. Schulz;
Opal Sieg.
Diane L. Smith;
Christopher Sorenson; Evelyn
Steiner; Marilyn Thackray;
Marcian Trornton; James
Traut; Alana Turner; Roslyn
Wages ; Sharon W e n t z e 1 ;
Linda Zech.
English courses
undergo change
The fundamental revision in
the freshman English cur
riculum is a change from a
p r e d omihantly linguistics
course to a literature course,
according to Kenneth Pellow,
co-author of the new
curriculum.
In recent years the
freshman English program
has been a linguistics and
language history study for the
first semester and a n
employment of languge for
the second semester, Pellow
said.
"Freshman English will
now be exclusively literary in
context with composition and
language employment in
cidental to. subject material,"
Pellow added.
Pellow further explained
that the course will take a
professional view of literature
from the standpoint of those
who make it their life's work
in addition to trying to make
literature more profitable and
enjoyable for the student.
The new curriculum follows
two patterns. It takes literary
traditions and traces them
through history in literary
works.
The second pattern works
with themes outside o f
literature and relates them to
literature. Pellow cited
linguistics in poetry and
rhetoric in literature as ex
amples. The course consists of eight
units, four per semester.
Freshmen students can still
take the combined course, all
eight units, in one semester
as in previous years.
THE REASON FOR THE
CHANGE, according to
Pellow, is that most freshmen
will have already dealt with
the material formerly offered
in freshmen English in high
school curriculums.
Pellow added, that in the
future, continued use of a
1 inguistics-language history
course would be redundant.
According to P e 1 1 o ,
another reason for the change
is the difficulty English in
structors have encountered
teaching a linguistics course
when their interest i s
literature.
The new curriculum gives
the instructor more freedom
to conduct the course while
simultaneously giving the
course clearer direction.
Pellow said
"Because there is more
material in the curriculum
than can be used, the in
structor can be selective in
determining what will be
taught in his class," Pellow
said.
He added, that the same
patterns will be followed
regardless of the difference
in literature. "In this manner,
the course will be more
tightly knit even though there
is great variance in the
literature used," Pellow said.
As a result of the
curriculum change, Pellow
feels that in future years 100
and 200 course level instruc
tors will be able to take more
liberties and make more as
sumptions concerning the
background of their students.
Even so, the new freshman
English program is an ex
periment. There is no
permanent text. Instead, the
material is printed on sheet
paper and bound together.
Chances are very high that
there will be some change in
the next few years, Pellow
said. The English department
wants to find out from the
instructors which parts of the
curriculum succeed and
which fail, Pellow added.
Debate meeting
open to anyone
The first meeting of the in
tercollegiate debate squad will
be held on Thursday at 7:30
p.m.
No previous experience in
high school or college is re
quired to participate; this ac
tivity is open to any University
student.
Our Debaters attend about
20 tournaments a year. One of
the highlights of this years
program is the National Tour
nament of Delta Sigma Rho
Tau Kappa Alpha to be held in
Lincoln during the Easter
holidays.
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