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Howell opens Bicentennial tribute
The UNL Theater Arts Dept. launches its "All American morphine after a long and painful childbirth, and each year
Season" Friday with the opening of Eugene OTsleill s Long
Day's Journey Into Night.
Professor William Morgan, play director, calls it "the
best play of one of America's greatest and most unique
playwrights.
"Written in the realistic style of Ibsen and Chekhov, it is
also one of the most interesting and frankly autobiogra
phical plays to date," he said.
All plays in this year's season at Howell Theatre are by
Americans, which Morgan says is a tribute to the Bicen
tennial. Other 1975-76 season productions include Arthur
Miller's The Crucfrle. Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof, and You Can't take it with You by Moss Hart
and George S. Kaufman.
O'Neill wrote Long Day 's Journey Into Night to come to
peace in his own mind with his family, Morgan said. Charac
ters protrayed are his father, an actor; brother Jamie, a
drunkard and derelict; his mother, a morphine addict, and
Edmund (O'Neill as a young man).
The characters are portrayed realistically yet sympa
thetically, so that from their viewpoint each of them seems
reasonable. The mother, for instance, became addicted to
horsplf of the addiction.
She always returns to the drug, however, in an attempt
to remove herself from the pain of personal relationships
with other characters. . t
Kathleen, the maid, represents the outside world. She
tries to understand the delicately balanced relationships
between family members, but can't comprehend their
problems. , - , . -
All action in this tightly-knit play takes place between
morning and midnight of one day, and deals with the
reunion of the major characters as they move into their
summer cottage in Connecticut. -
Long Day's Journey Into Night will feature Randall
Parker as the father, Jo Hill as the mother, Mitch Tebo as
Edmund, Jerry Homan as Jamie and Andrea Visuthipal as
Kathleen.
The UNL production is entered in the American College
Theatre Festival. Regional judges will view it here, and it
may be selected for presentation at the February regional
competition in Emporia, Kansas.
Each of the 13 regions will then select one or two plays
to represent their region for presentation in Washington L
D.C., during the National Festival in April.
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etworks bumper crop
also contains five duds
The crop of new television shows has
matured it seems, because networks have
begun their harvest.
They are garnering bumper profits from
CBS's "Phyllis," ABC's "Starsky and
Hutch" and NBC's "Joe Forrester." But,
faster than you can say Diazinon, five new
programs have been rooted out.
Falling to the chaff side of the rating
reapings are: CBS's "Kate McShane,"
NBC's "Fay," "The Montefuscos,"
"Family Holvak" and "The Invisible Man."
It's fine to weed out the bad shows.
Let's just hope they are not replaced by
worse. For the coming week, Aunt Hannah
recommends:
Paradise Restored (Thursday, Ch. 12. 8 p.m.) A
play about poet John Milton, set about 1665.
The blind old Puritan, embittered by the restora
tion of the English monarchy, retreats to the
countryside and writes a 10,565-line ditty about
Adam and Eve.
Spirits of th Dead (Friday. Ch. 6. 10:30 p.m.
Three horror stories by Edgar Allen Poe, directed
and acted by celebrated talents. Roger Vadim,
Louis Made and Frederico Fellini each direct a
tale. Acting are Jane and Peter Fonda, Terence
Stamp and Brigitte Bardot.
They Shoot Horses. Don't They? (Sunday,
Ch. 7, 8 p.m.) A dandy movie from 1969, with
Jane Fonda dancing and dreaming during the
Depression.
Tha Producers (Sunday, Ch. 6. 10:30 p.m.)
Hilarious Mel Brooks movie starring Zero Mostel
and Gene Wilder. Trying to bilk their investors,
two Broadway producers write a play in the
worst possible taste.
The UFO Incident (Monday, Ch. 3, 8 p.m.)
A TV-movie based on a real-life episode. Barney
and Betty Hill board a spaceship and are given a
physical aliens. James Earl Jones plays Barney.
How real can life get?
The Longest Day (Cabla TV Ch. 9; Sunday,
J p.m.; Monday. 7 p.m.; Tuesday, 2 p.m 4 Wed
nesday, 1 a.m., 11 p.m.) The Allies invade
Europe in 1944 end little is left out of this
exhaustive retelling. John Wayne, Henry Fonda,
Richard Burton, Rod Steigwr, Peter Lawford and
many more star.
J.Geils Band, Frampton
featured in concert tonight
The internationally known rhythm and
blues group, the J. Ceils Band, will perform
in a Filmore concert tonight at 8 in
Pershing Auditorium. Special guest star
with the group will be the former member
of Humble Pie, Peter Frampton.
The J Ceils Band's rsccni slburn Hot'
t.ne has been steadily climbing the Bill
board record charts since its release in
August.
Tickets for the concert are S6.50 and
are available at the Nebraska Union South
Desk and P?rshin Auditori',rn Box Office,
David Syrotiak, director of the National Marionette Theatre (NMT), said he
hopes puppetry will be seen a3 more than "kid stuff" after the NMT production
"Art of the Puppeteer" in the Nebraska Union Ballroom at noon on Oct. 17.
Syrotiak, a professional puppeteer for 22 years, said that his marionettes are
tools of self-expression.
"The figures have life because my own feelings are transmitted down the
strings," he said.
The award winning production "Art of the Puppeteer", produced and designed
by Syrotiak, was intended to bring puppetry back to an adult entertainment level,
he said.
The program, sponsored by the Union Contemporary Arts Committee, is free
and open to the public.
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