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Show Two dramas by U professor slated at Bab cock Theatre The Babcock Theatre in the basement of Pioneer Memorial Theatre is always looking toward the most importand drama to present to the student from the students. This season the student laboratory has produced a Gilbert and Sullivan musical, a comedy by Peter Ustinov, a Brecht Drama, and a new play. Remaining on the schedule are the Shakespeare players, the University's resident Shakespeare comnanv uhr. are to produce HAMLET, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR,.' and a return performance of TWELFTH NIGHT. In the Babcock Theatre, one of the requirements of an acting role is that each actor must be registered at the University. All designs, costumes, sets or lights, are done by students, with students building sets and costumes. Even the other primary ingredient for a good play comes in the majority from students: the audience, for with current quarter activity cards students pay only 50 cents for tickets on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, and $1 on Friday and Saturday. The next Babcock production is even more of an all campus event. Dr. David Kranes, associate professor of English, has written the two one act plays that will be produced March 11-15. Before coming to the University, ne was resident piaywrigni ai the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. During his residence at the Long Wharf, he wrote several plays, some of which were produced off Broadway. On his arrival on campus, the theatre department began to make arrangements to produce two of his one act plays in the Babcock Theatre. This quarter "The (Continued on Page 9) ex- ' 7- ) Q o Jeffery Forward and Heidi Hays star in ''I'm Nobodv"), i professor David Kranes, at Babcock theater. y nile 'Callers 9 and 'Nobody,' new onBabcock stage (Continued from Page 8) -jllers" and "I'm Nobody" will ,'ave their Utah premiere. "The Callers" was first written or a national radio drama contest, which it was a prize winner. The p'ay nas Deen produced on adio and is available as a ccording, but it has never been ione on stage before. According i0 Dr. Kranes, "Radio did not reach what I was looking for, but the stage adaptation does. I am ijstounded and excited by the cast and director, for they seem to be able to grasp what I had in mind nen I wrote the play." "The Callers" tells of a frustrated young man who can speak with no one except by the telephone. His only relationship he has with another person comes through a wrong number. Dan Handley, a senior theatre major, and Charlotte Pomeroy, a junior drama major, are featured in "The Callers." The second play is entitled "I'm Nobody." It is one of three of Dr. Kranes one act plays to have been produced with success off Broadway. "Dr. Redford and the oast. (Heidi Hayes and Jeff Forward) are treating the favorite of my plays exactly the way I feel they should" said Dr. Kranes. The play deals with the love of a girl who has lived her life with her father alone in a lighthouse. She is completely sheltered, completely innocent in the ways of the world. With the death of her father, the girl moves to New York City to her sister's apartment. On Christmas Eve she is more lonely than usual and decides to have an "experience." She goes out and picks up a man in a bar and brings him to the apartment. The young man she chooses is unhappy with the world and his situation in life. He is opposed to the commercialism of his unclepotato chip firm, refuses a position with it, but still accepts the profits. His is unhappy with the world, but even more unhappy with himself. The relationship between this young man and the young girl is one of total trust and tenderness. The Babcock Theatre production will be called "THE CALLERS", with both plays presented every evening at eight o'clock, March 11-15. The set, costumes, and lights were designed by Kay Mengers, with the sound by Bill Barber. |