Bowling Green State University - Key Yearbook (Bowling Green, OH)

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STORY BY CATHY PRATT I'IIJ UN IDI. YHUIJSE IT'S ICE IDLACE VISIT VCU UIJLD 9 WAN LI EIQE ,ha--f N . . . of course, you happen to be both talented very dedicated to the theatre, because Huron house demands an excessive amount of each. The season stretches from late June to late August with no Three shows are in rehearsal or production simultaneously day doesn't fold after a couple of hours of rehearsal or scene changes. lt goes from 8:30 in the morning to l night. The Huron Playhouse is directly affiliated with the BGSU department. All equipment used at Huron is ofa portable and must be transported to Huron and back to BG at the end in late August. The playhouse operates in the Jr. High School occupying land paying rent fort the g auditorium, several classrooms, cafeteria area, and a area. Huron was chosen as a site for the playhouse its location in the Lake Erie resort area. lts 22-year makes it the oldest continuing playhouse in Ohio. The Huron Playhouse company consists of 29 students, all of act as well as do technical and crew work. About o from Bowling Green. The remainder are a diversified from across the country. Among the Bowling Green the Huron Company are Julie Spitzer, Bob Arnold, and Bianchi all of whom appeared in various BG productions year. Another of the company competed in the l97O Miss contest at Cedar Point, and one of the actresses in the has appeared on television in commercials, a TV movie segment of Hawaii 5-0. Each member of the company receives not only acting 1 but a total theatre experience. lnvaluable first-hand of every aspect of theatre production is gained. As is in the program for one of the productions The members of the Huron Playhouse Company do more ACT in our weekly productions. The Company members struct, paint and assemble the sets, sew the costumes, and change the properties used in each scene,'run the and sound cues for each scene, when necessary, shift between the scenes. They strike the set after the final mance of each production. Tonight's leading lady may curtain for next week's production. The Company me the Playhouse Office, too. They answer the tele' tickets, type and address all the publicityand program ments that you receive in the mail. Included in this total theatre experience concept is not on-stage and back-stage time of the company but almost time of the company from the moment they arrive at 29 students live with the staff members in four cottages lake-dormitory-like fashion. They eat together in a c mosphere. And between acting and crew work, the Cor helps out in the kitchen or the offices on a part-time basis to defray the cost of their room and board. Rough you think? Well, you're right, it's certainly not an easy way to

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mer vacation, Eat, sleep, work . . . eat, sleep, work . . . ever, the benefits enormously outweigh any disadvantages conveniences for any one seriously interested in the theatre. t of all, the Huron Playhouse provides a temporary but inten- thrust from student-actor life into professional-actor life. lt ides a good testing ground for the student to decide if theatre ly is his bag. Secondly, Huron provides the opportunity to ex- ence a summer acting workshop with an extremely well- lified staff who can offer their own years of experience and ledge. n N. Kepke, the Managing Director ofthe Huron Playhouse, is ssociote Professor of Speech at BGSU and Chm. of the Faculty te for l97O-7l. He has worked in the past with the Stadium tre at Ohio State and with the Summer Circle Theatre at igon State. He directed BGSU's production, last season, of o's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and has iust completed his nth season at Huron, H. Hepler, Associate Managing Director and Designer-Techni- Director ot the playhouse is also an associate professor of ch at BGSU, and has devoted l9 years of service to Huron. k Glann, Associate Technical Director for the Playhouse, and ife Jann Graham-Glann met and were married after working ther at the Huron Playhouse. es exposure to a theatre living environment and experienced onnel, the students can also receive up to I2 hours college it for the summer season at Huron. This coupled with the satis- on of helping. with or acting in a production, of seeing all the hard hours materialize into a finished product with the open- of hearing the audience approval at the final curtain it worth all the work. nember team of actors at Huron Playhouse spent many hours both backstage in make-up and on stage in rehearsals. .,,f. si. ...I fig Tit, , l 1 g srl 8