anything goes - New University

October 10, 1968
NEW UNIVERSITY
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William Inge on Drama:
ANYTHING GOES
by PATSY TRUXAW
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them to feel uscripts, Inge will look for what
I he looks for in all good drama,
every freedom in the world
feel very reticent aboutimposing "Some element of truth. Somerules. There are no longer any thing they ve found that is their
own. Even the best fantasies
rules anything goes.'
Anything goes may be the stu- are written by people who have
dent-playwright's experience found a truth.''
Truth is what Mr. Inge rewith Mr. Inge as a teacher, also
spects
most in today's new
for Inge says, "How to teach
"Maybe the new theatheatre.
playwriting?I'm not sure I
know.
tre of involvement means theaIthink we learn as we teach."
Timmie Leary has a new book. HIGH PRIEST. "The high priest of
It will indeed be a personal- tre is getting closer to life.
ignores individuals."
relationship-experience as is Theatre is no longej a photo- the psychedelic religion takes his first book-length trip." Sounds
like a pretty heavy trip.
In an effort to find that indi- evident in Inge's plays and at- graph of life, but life, itself."
A few quotes from the guru's cheek: "The success of the psyCiting as an example Le Roi
vidual peace, and hopefully, to titudes toward people today and
Inge
TOILET,
went
chedelic
movement was guaranteed
The movement would grow
encounter and guide those past theatre today. More than just Jones' THE
ignored individuals, Playwright teaching HOW TO WRITE A on to say, Seeing something like everything organic grows, cell by cell. Friends turning on
William Inge has accepted a per- PLAY, Inge wants to help his shocking on stage is not the friends. Husbands turning on wives. TEACHERS TURNING ON STUsame as seeing it in real life. DENTS
Theraw electricshudderingsensitivity of the psychedelic
manent appointment as full pro- students how to be people.
stage
experience!"
When
it
we
we
see
on
are
fessor of drama with the UC Irto
assignment
is
"The first
For the real story read Tom Wolfe's ELECTRIC KOOL AID ACID
vine Fine Arts Department.Inge, write a play. I'll see what Iget able to objectify and developnew
my
perspectives.
I
watched
TEST.
PICNIC,
ATTHE
Wolfe is not so in to it that he can't see it.
they
author of
DARK
and go on from there. If
Another good book on the same now dull topic is THE ANSWER by
TOP OF THE STAIRS, BUSTOP, have never written a play, then language very closely for several weeks after seeing THE Jeremy Larner, one of the editors ofDISSENT Magazine. Larner has
Academy Award winner for his
TOiLET, simply because Isaw a doctor and an estatein his novel which echo more than faintly of
screenplay SPLENDOR IN THE
it
in that aspect."
our latest turned-on author and his Millbrook. Like Wolfe, Larner
GRASS, and a Pulitzer Prizewrites a very funny-sad book. * *
winner, comes to UCI, he gently
♥
and honestly admits, as much
Mr. Inge likes happenings for
trading
as
Freak
cards.
personal
adds,
need
out of
out of
the same reasons. And
*
altruistic motives.
"The world is the drama. At the
PAPAHRREA
"Now that I'm getting older,
moment the best drama in the
I want to feel a part of a group.
world is the World Series."
NOON CONCERTS, every Thursday at 12:00 in FA 178. Today's
I feel the need to belong to a
Of censorship, Inge states it is
concert
is a Harpsichord recital, with works of Byrd and Haydn.
working iToup, and then also,
"pointless. Idon't think we are
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra,
I think th.it after living alone
corrnpted by what we see. We Admission is free
Mehta,
Zubin
will be at Irvine Saturday,October 26
past
beginning,
by
these
years, I'm
are corrupted by what we see conducted
includes the Ruy Bias Overture by
program
Campus
Hall.
The
now, to need the stimulation.of
in
in what we see." *
Mozart,
and Symphony 5 by Beethoven.
Mendolsshon;
by
♥
Symphony 39
other minds. And from today's
The concert begins at 8:30, tickets for UCI students are $1.00
generation, Ihave a lot to learn
myself."
Pete Seeger will be at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Monday,
again
Inge
is
once
a
Canned Heat and Spirit are
at the Bank, 19840 South
Inge at present is teaching beWilliam
October 14
' Barbarella,"
university man and ClaytonGar- Hamilton in Torrance, this weekend
which sounds
ginning andadvancedplaywriting.
opened this week at Loew's on Hollywood
strange
film,
rison can count still another like a pretty
He plans to dismiss the class
'
astonishing coup in his effort to Boulevard. Barbarella' stars such heroes/heroines as Jane Fonda,
groups, and deal, characteristi"Funny
bring
professionals
into his Fine David Hemmings, MarcelMarceau and John PhillipLaw.
cally, witheachprospectiveplay' with Barbra and Omar, also opened this week.
Arts Department. All sides
wright individually.
Girl
student,Dean,professor should
Although Mr. Inge, is not new
PLAYWRIGHT
be well pleased. The students
to teaching
he last taught 20
WILLIAM INGE
and the Dean for obvious reayears ago, he views his return
with some temerity. "I hate," I can help them find themselves sons; Mr. Inge because he's
Inge says, "being in a position through finding what is familiar where he feels the playwright's
of authority. And teachingauto- to them. Often students make onlyhopeful ground is.
"The University is the only
matically assumes an authori- mistakes in trying to write in
pastures that are not their own. home the playwright has. Where
tarian role."
This fear aligned with Inge's A course in playwriting,fiction, else can the playwright go? With
by MICHAEL STEEN
the collapse of the professional
background and talent will only writing, poetry writing is a
York,
there is no
increase his value to his stu- course in which one learns about theatre in New
What happens when three itinerant musicians, being presently
dents. He wished to place no oneself. In any art it is this way. theatre the playwrightcan depend
between gigs, happen to fall into the same studio at the same
restrictions on what he coaches, A painter learns through his upon to nurture him.
going
time, and decide to jam together because they feel like playing
playwrights
paintings
how he sees life."
"A lot of
are
because, he explains,
without the limitating and restricting presence of their fans,
"The theatre today is changing
In reading his student's man- to come out of theuniversities."
because they feel like experimenting, because they have the
musical inspiration and no immediate place to use it, but most
of all, because they want to experiment, create, succeed, or fail,
with,against, in,and around each other?
By GLEN PRITZKER
will join Steve Stills and Stevie Band. Bishop is currently rewhat happens when these same itinerant musicians happen
Winwood of Traffic to from a hearsing with his new group in toAnd
be
three
of the most talented, distinctive, and soulful players
The Electric San Francisco while Naftalin is
The following bits of informa- supergroup
contemporary
music scene, each of them a master of
on
the
tion although true are not to be Flag has broken up and itsmem- recording with Mother Earth.
creativity
skill, each of them having formed their
and
technical
taken too seriously.
bers have splintered in various Butterfield' s bassist /vocalist
past engagements, each of them reaching tolegend
of
own
out
During the past summer the directions. Mike Bloomfield Bugsy Maugh is cutting a solo
ward the mythic status of super-star?
rock music scene went through "freaked out' and is living on a album for Dot Records. Jim
What happens is that you come up with a helluva great album,
some incredible changes. Many ranch in Novalo althoughhe jams Peterman, Boz Scaggs, and Tim
of the best of this year. SUPER SESSION.
one
big groups split up while others occasionally with Al Kooper. Davis have left the Steve Miller
Side one is devoted to a duel of musical souls and techniques
Miles
has
major
Buddy
through
personal
went
Drummer
Band to form their own group between Bloomfield and Kooper in which, inevitably, both win.
changes. 1 thought it might be formed his own group out of LA
Pig Pen has left the GrateThere are two or three cuts of pretty straight blues, in which
interesting to trace the progress which includes the Flag horn ful Dead
Al Kooper has
both
of them can really stretch out. "Man's Temptation" sounds
Big Brother and left Blood, Sweat, and Tears to
or lack of progress of these section
a
lot
like the old Blues Project, even down to Keeper's vocal
groups.
the Holding Co. will break up in produce records for Columbia. (he always
sounds as if his adenoids should be taken out but
The Buffalo Springfield split December following a two night David Clayton Thomas has taken
it).
dig
I
can
But 'His Holy Modal Majesty" is simply beautiful;
up after releasing their finest stand in Hawaii on the 6th and his place.
peak
of their clash together, the point at which they,
it's the
album 'Last Time Around.' Neil 7th. Lead singer Janis Joplin
and
the
rest
of
the group, lose their "personalities" and their
Young will solo, Steve Stills will will be the featured singer in a
become one beautiful, solid, all-encompassing
"technique"
and
by
former
help form a new group while the new group headed up
instrument,
played
by a hand which is at once the sum total
remaining trio will stay together Electric Flag bassist Harvey
them,
each
one
of
and something more than the sum total of
of
The Cream will soon part Brooks. The rest of Big Brother
Kooper's
organ (and his Ondioline) display the full
of
all
them.
their separate ways, Jack Bruce will stay together.
genius, and Bloomfield demonstrates,
force
and
of
power
his
to produce. Ginger'Baker to form
Elvin Bishop and Mark Naftalin
before,
that without electronic gimmickery,
better than ever
a new group while Eric Clapton both left the Butterfield Blues
simply note for note,heis thebestdamn rock-blues guitarist alive.
You can't take the country out of the boy, etc., and one listen
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SNACK BAR:
to side two is proof that Steve Stills knows where his soul comes
from. Together he and Kooper make a Dylan song of a few alSome students continued to doubt Aldrich's good faith this sumbums ago sound like it came straight off JOHN WESLEY HARDmer, recalling that when former student body president Michael \\ We invite you
to enjoy our
ING; "You Don't Love Me' is straight-ahead good-time hard
change
Krisman had tried to
snack bar facilities a year ago during I1 exciting collection of fashrock, and it is technically perfect. "Season of the Witch" is an
the summer, the administration insisted that he poll the students I1 ions and boutiques designamazingly
beautiful, surprisingly lyrical piece of work; Still's
"young-minded"
I
ed
for
the
through the mail.
funky soul shines through like the clear morning sun in the hills,
Mike Krisman, now a newly-appointed student senator, went on I> woman.
and in the words of Michael Thomas on the back of the album,
to say that when the poll showed that students wanted a snack bar
"he makes you aware, for the first time, that the wah-wahpecampus's
park,
in the middle of the
central
Irvine Master Planner
dal's
not just a war toy."
William Pereira vetoed the idea.
power
to make decisions of that
The best things can happen after hours, when the strays and
-Mr. Pereira doesn't have the
the cast-offs and the in-betweens get together; when the musisort," replied the Chancellor. "I do. Mr. Pereira advises me, l\ 2850 mesa verde drive
suite m
cians have no one to fool and no one to impress but themselves,
and I make the decisions.'
costa
540-2376
"
mesa
that,"
better
Pereira
said
the
best or the worst can come out.
'Then someone
tell Mr.
Mike.
In the introduction to A LOSS
OF ROSES, a play William Inge
wrote in 1959, Inge writes, "I
feel that in A LOSS OF ROSES,
Ihave been able to make clearer
than in. any of my other plays
an existentialist view Ihavecome
to adopt during the past ten years,
that man can only hope for an
individual peace in the world;
and like Whitman,"I swear nothing is good to me now that
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drastically. Iwant
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