monday, april 13, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 9
NETV presents play based on correspondence
The legendary 40-year correspondence betwee n nlav.
wright George Bernard Shaw and British actress Mrs.
Patrick Campbell is brought to television in a two-act
dramatic play, dear liar, airing on "Hall of Fame," Wed
nesday at 7 p.m. on the Nebraska Educational Television
Network.
Based on the duo's correspondence, the rnhntntinn
by Jerome Kilty deals with Nobel Laureate, playwright
and critic Shaw's infatuation for Campbell, the leading
lady of the London stage.
A powerful actress, Campbell possessed wit and a
biting tongue that matched Shaw's. She was fascinated
by the brilliant dramatists and set out to captivate him.
As a theater critic, as well as a playwright, Shaw showered
the actress with praise, poetry and pedantry, but their
romance never went further than correspondence.
entertainment notes
Shaw wrote the part of Llia in Pygmalion specifically
for Campbell and the production was a triumph for them
both.
Edward Herrmann who appeared earlier this month in
t he Nebraska LTV Netwrok and The Great Amwell
Company co-production of Mark Twain's "The Private
History of a Campaign That Failed" and Jeanne Alex
ander star in the two-character performance.
Members of the UNL Opera Theater will present two
one-act operas at 3:30 p.m. today and again at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, in the Recital Hall of Westbrook Music Building,
1 1th and R Streets.
The two programs are free and open to the public,
according to Gregg Tallman, UNL's Opera Theater Depart
ment director.
The first one-act opera to be presented is Ralph
Vaughan William's Riders to the Sea, a tragedy based on
J.M. Synge's one-act play of the same name.
"The story involves the Irish fisherfolk of the Aran
Islands and their constant battle against the sea," Tallman
said.
Cast members include UNL Professor of Voice Donna
llarler and students Judy Donaghy, Dawn Buller, Tim
Vanderheiden, Lynda Madej, Patti Lldred, Linda Preiss,
Karen Kendle, Greta Bredemeier, Sue Peck, Kara Ogden,
Alan Moravec, Dan Bolin, Steve Andrew and Jim Nichols,
who also is stage manager.
Graduate student Joe Manley serves as stage director
for the opera.
A comedy of unrequited love, Gian Carlo Menotti's
The Old Man and the Thief, wiM be the second opera
presented by the group, said Tollman, who is responsible
for the musical direction of the two operas.
Cast members include Sandra Strohm, Kathy Sherlock,
Anne Roberts and Alan Moravec. Lois Vaccariello, a grad
uate student in the opera department, is the opera's
director.
Poet-teacher John Twobirds Arbuckle joins First
Poetry Quartet members for a presentation of Native
American poetry from many different tribes in "American
Indian Poetry" on "Anyone for Tennyson?", airing
today at 7 p.m. over NLTV stations.
The program was filmed on location in the sacred
Indian tribal territory of the Black Hills of South Dakota
and at the pictureseque pueblo in Taos, N.M.
Poet Arbuckle, whose heritage comes from the Plains
Indians of the Choctaw and Ojibwa tribes, discusses the
importance of poetry as a form of story-telling handed
down by the elders. The poems express the love of their
forefathers for nature and their affinity for all living
creatures.
Arbuckle and First Poetry Quartet members George
Backman, Cynthia Herman and Victor Bevine share poetic
selections from the N. ' Perce, Paiute, Navajo, Zuni
and Taos Pueblo tribes. Also included is the Sioux "Black
I Ik's Prayer," translated by John C. Neihardt and several
poems by modern Native American poets Simon Ortiz,
Alonzo Lopez and Raymond Carden, as well as one of
Arbuckle's own works.
Nebraska communities interested in spicing up their
summer cultural calendar can again turn to the UNL
Nebraska Repertory Theater, winch will take three shows
on the road from June 25 through August 15.
Communities can contract with the group to have per
formed any or all of the plays, titled, You Ye a Good Man,
Oiarlie Brow n, The World of Carl Sandberg, and Vie
Kium in' Tree.
According to Julie Pearson, the coordinator of the
Nebraska Repertory Touring Company, the Repertory's
group of actors, technicians, stage managers and scene
designers also will be available to conduct workshops.
Communities may have one, two or all three of the
plays performed during a day, she said.
"A possible schedule could be a performance of the
children's play The Knowin ' Tree, which can be perform
ed outdoors in the late morning or early afternoon,
followed by The World of Carl Sandberg at any location
in the late afternoon," Pearson said.
"The Carl Sandberg play, which will be performed
by faculty members of UNL'S Deaprtment of Theater
Arts, is especially suitable for clubs and churches,'
she continued. "The script utilizes his magnificemt poetry
along with folksongs from his songbooks.
"Later, in the evening, You're a Good Man, Charlie
Brown could be performed outdoors," she said. "The
characters of the famous Charles Schultz cartoon will
come alive in sketches and songs. The play is entertain
ment for the whole family."
One performance of each of the three plays plus a
workshop will cost a community $1,200, Pearson said.
Two plays and a workshop cost $700. One performance
of one play will run $500, with a workshop being added
for an extra $25.
This year the beginning of the Jewish Passover cele
bration occurs on the same day as the Christian Faster.
The Nebraska Fducational Network will broadcast three
special programs in honor of these religious holidays.
A 30-minute documentary film on the Jewish holiday,
Passover, will air Friday, at 11 a.m., repeating Sunday
at 12:30 p.m.
Hosted by actor Fdward Asner, "Passover" details
the history, practice and significance ot the holiday
celebrated each spring by Jews in remembrance of the
Fxodus led by Moses from Fgypt into Israel more than
3,000 years ago.
The beginning of Passover is observed at the Seder,
a home service centered on a special meal. The program's
focal point is an American Seder, although Seder's prac
ticed by several rare, historical Haggadahs (Passover prayer
books); an Israeli dance troupe; and several geograplucal
locations that pertain to the Passover story.
On Friday, at 3 p.m., biphysicist John DeSalvo discuss
es the history and scientific research surrounding the fam
ous Shroud of Turin, an ancient strip of linen 3'Sfeet by
14 feet long which bears the faint imprint of a human
being, on "A Conversation with John DeSalvo."
Reputed to be Christ's shroud, it was ancient when
first documented in 1353 and has been stored at the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy.
The shroud acts, in a matter as yet unexplained, as
a negative plate, so that photographs taken of it are
positives. An 1898 photograph first indicated a faint im
age of a face; subsequent color photography in 1979
indicated a well-defined portrait of a man with long hair,
forked beard, and bruises on the face. The head images,
back-to-back on the center of the shroud, show wounds
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