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The Tumbleweed, Tuesday, April 26, 1977-7
REVIEWS
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The first year under the guidance of Theater Director
Steve Vogler has been an excellent one for Carroll’s Lit­
tle Theater. Four outstanding productions have been
presented this year, starting with I Remeber Mama un­
der the direction of Dorothy Harper; Steve Vogler’s
production of Veronica’s Room followed; then John
Brown’s Body was produced by Dorothy Harper and Har­
ry Smith; and then finally, The Miser directed by Steve
Vogler. But this year was just a building year for the
theater and next year should be an even better season.
To Damascus-Part 1 will be the next production.
The workings of the Italian mind are apparent in the
Damascus is August Strindberg's play which turned the
treatment of the landscapes (shot in Arizona, Utah and
tide of modern theater at the turn of this century. Hailed Spain) lending them a golden Mediterranean glow as well
as the first expressionist play, To Damascus is a strange as in the score, a sort of latter-day Puccini's “Golden
and haunting tale about modern man’s search for mean­ Girl of the West” .
ing in life and suffering. It will be Steve Vogler's second
directing assignment.
New Republic commended Leone's editing: "Leone
anatomizes every scene into its components expanding
The final production of the season, which is scheduled
small incidents into small dram as.” The fine cast in­
to be shown on April 14-16 and 21-23, is Neil Simon’s The cludes Henry Fonda as the nefarious villain, Charles
Good Doctor. Neil Simon took the short stories of Anton Bronson as the pausciloquacious protagonist, Claudia
For the first time, Carroll’s Little Theater will be going Chekhov and wove them into an evening of bitter-sweet Cardinale ( “whose decollete adds more hills to the Utah
to a six show season. Five of these shows will be comedy. The nine vignettes of the play are linked by the landscape,” noted one obviously male reviewer), as well
produced by Carroll and the sixth show will be an Eastern narration of The Writer himself, who offers wise and as Jason Robards and Jack Elam.
Montana College production.
droll comments on the characters he has created. The
result is The Good Doctor. This enchanting evening of
Newsweek wrote, “Sergio Leone loves to let the
Techniscope lens linger and linger on the rough mean
The shows that have been scheduled for the 1977-1978 theater will be directed by the Directing II class here at
squints of his cast holding for record lengths before they
theater season are Ah Wilderness!, The Subject Was Carroll, under the guidance of Stephen Vogler.
pull their triggers This technique sets up a curious
Roses, People I’d Like to Keep, To Damascus-Part 1,
alteration between drawn-out periods of tension and brief
The Good Doctor and finally an Eastern production,
These six productions are being made available as a
instants of explosive release. Rhythmically, this is very
which at this time has not been decided.
season “package” for just $8.00 for adults (the regular
much like good sex but in every other way it is less
price without a season ticket would be $12.00) and $4.00
Ah Wilderness! by Eugene O’Neill, is the only comedy for students (a savings of $2.00). If you would be in­ pleasurable.”
It is a delightful family play which deals with the story terested in obtaining a season ticket contact Steve Vogler
Well, you can’t say the Italians don’t try. . .“Once Upon
of a young man’s coming of age in turn-of-the-century- in the Little Theater.
a
time
in the West” will be at the Second Story Cinema
America. The play will be under the direction of Steve
April 21-24, at 7.30 p.m. only Thursday, Friday, and Sun­
Vogler, and will be produced on October 21-23 and 28-30.
Next year's season here at Carroll looks to be an ex­ day, and at 6:45 and 9:45 p.m. Saturday.
citing adventure in the dramatic arts. Hope that you will
The genius of Shakespeare is evident in Akira
The exchange play from Eastern Montana will follow be able to partake in the joy of live theater.
Kurosawa’s “Throne of Blood” at the Second Story
Ah Wilderness! on November 18-19.
Cinema April 25 through 27 at 7 and 9:15 p.m. The horror
The third show of the season will be The Subject Was
and tragedy are conveyed through rich imagery and an
Roses, which is the Pulitzer prize-winning play by Frank
exciting portrayal by Japan's leading actor, Toshiro
Gilroy. It concerns a young man's return from the war
Mifune. Although the Shakespearean text is not used,
and its devastating effects on his mother and father. This
“Kurosawa impels his drama with demonic drive, ” notes
deeply moving play will be directed by Greg Schwab, a
Time.
theater major at Carroll College. The production dates
The Bard’s “Macbeth” as a Japanese movie? Westerns
for Roses are December 2-4 and 9-11.
made in Spain by an Italian director with American ac­
Once Upon a Time in the West and "Throne of Blood”
tors? What will they think of next. . .
will be shown at separate matinees at 1:30 p.m. April 23
and 24 respectively. As always, the Second Story Cinema
The first show of the second semester will be People I’d
Like To Keep which will be produced on February 10-12
American westerns have always been tremendously at 9 Placer Street is offering fine films, so bring garlic
and 17-19. People is an original Group Theater produc­ popular in Europe. The director of “Once Upon a Time in salt for your popcorn or some saki to sip (don’t mix the
tion, created by the cast of actors and dancers under the the West” , Sergio Leone, probably spent a good share of two though) and enjoy.
direction of Dorothy Harper.
—Appassionata Schulz
his young life gobbling up Italian popcorn and John Ford.
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A host of people including many Carroll students are
packing their bags right at this very moment in anxious
anticipation of the 1977 Carroll College Summer Spree to
Europe.
By next week the group will leave Calgary for a little
over a month-long tour, followed by individual splinter
travels to many separate areas of the European conti­
nent.
On Monday, May 16, the scheduled day of departure, a
group of twenty-one people, led by Sister Miriam Claire:
Dannette Sullivan, College Registrar; Sharon Robinson
(D irector of Guadaloupe H all), Marlyn Bull, Lee
Neuman, (Assistant Director of Guad.), Fr. Ed Neuman,
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Mary Cahill, Kay Satre, Mary Janacaro, Mary Jo Sauber,
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Duncan, Cindy Carlin, Mary Pat Carlin, Stephanie
Hanser, Deb Nelson, Richard and Amanda Cullinon, and
Mary Ann Petrich will be ready for take off.
Some will stay over in Europe or Ireland until June 27;
some even longer, perhaps until July 4. Sister Miriam
Claire will be in Europe until July 25.
The European Tour, conducted by American Express,
will begin in London, England for four days. It will then
proceed to Paris, France for three days going on to
Madrid, Spain. It is here that the group will swing around
the Mediterranean: Barcelona, Nice, Florence, Rome,
Venice, and then back North through the Eastern Euro­
pean countries: the city of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia; Vien­
na, Austria; Innsbruck, Heidelberg, Rudesheim, Amster­
dam, Rotterdam, Hoek of Holland, and then return to
London.
In thirty-six days, the group will cover seventeen cities
of the mother continent: the Old World.
Throughout the tour there will be opportunities for
sidetrips to special points of interest, such as Versailles,
Pompei, Fontainebleau, Avila, Capri, and Sorrento. After
June 20, the tour will be turned loose to spend whatever
money and spirit that is left at any spots they choose.
This summer experience is an experince which is deep­
ly educational. An experience which many of the people
will receive college credit in humanities or other areas.
But that is not as important as the rich cultural styles
present in Europe that one can surround himself in.
Europe can give many varying perspectives on our own
life here at home; a chance to get lost in a city which can­
not understand you; where there is the chance to order
snacks in a bistro and not know what you have said, or
what it is that you have bitten into.