Bradley University - Anaga Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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MUCH T0 THE DISMAY of The Townspeople, The Poef QSTeven Pefrinij parades wiTh his Gorgon. F W Biddensfadf The Seahorse The fall season conTinued wiTh a moving presenTaTion of Edward J. lvloore's The Seahorse, which ran from OcT. 40 Through TQ. SeT in a waTerfronT bar aT a Cali- fornia seaporT, The Two acTs of The play unfolded wiTh a casT of only Two: Lynda Hillesheim and Michael Fancher porTrayed The characfers GerTrude Blum and Harry Bales. ln The play, Harry, who once worked wiTh G-erTrude in The bar and evenTually fell in love wiTh her, re- Turns from The sea wiTh The hope of sTarTing a new life wiTh her. Howev- er, her faTher's murder and her un- pleasanT experiences wiTh a wife- beaTing husband have made her biTTer and unwilling To be a parT of Harry's plans, despiTe her love for him. Harry becomes angry because of 28fFall Shows her repeaTed refusals, and Tensions build unTil The Two physically fighT each oTher. The climax occurs when he gives her a wedding dress which she sTubbornly refuses. Harry never- Theless depends on his love To break down GerTrude's barrier of disTrusT and Tells her in The lasT scene, You'll TrusT me, l know you will. The Seahorse was direcTed by Dr. Collins J. Bell, wiTh Richard Wollen- berger as assisTanT direcTor. BrenT and Deann Fleming were The seT and lighfing designers, and Mary Vasquez was The sTage manager. Bradley TheaTre sTudenTs assisTed in sTagecrafT, producfion, and ma- keup. FACED WITH INNER CONFLICTS, GerTrude QLynda Hillesheimj wiThdraws from Harry Qlvli- chael Fancherj.

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ow ' H5 in- ...RQ qw' ,pxfs fi . :Pg -Q. ,,.,,sN Dove Dornberg K, W Dove Dornberg IN THE PLAY WITHIN A PLAY, Peiruchio Uom Giounerj Tomes The Shrew Koihorine Uomi Geczrringy. PERFORMING ENERGETICALLY, The Singing ond Dancing Ensembles preseni Anoiher Op'nin, Another Show. Foli Showsf27

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The Unicorn, The Gorgon, And The lvlonticore The foll seoson come to o close with Goin-Corlo lVlenotti's The Uni- corn, The Gorgon, and the Monti- core, o bollet subtitled uThe Three Sundoys of o Poet. The production, which ron from Nov. 24 Through Dec. 7, consisted of o cost of 30 or more singers ond ddncers, ond feotured 42 modrigols ond six musicol inter- ludes. Steven Petrini, the leoding octor, portroyed the mon in the costle fthe Poetj, who owns o Unicorn, o Gor- gon, ond o Monticore. The three beosts, eoch ot different times, ore the object of interest ond ridicule omong the townspeople. Despite their disgust ond belief thot re- spectoble people do not own such beosts, the citizens nevertheless purchose similor bedsts to copy the mon in the costle. When he jokingly tells them thot he hos killed his Uni- corn ond shows off his Gorgon, they kill their Unicorns ond purchose Gor- F.W, Biddensfcdf gons. When the poet repeots his jest in reference to his Gorgon ond shows off his lvlonticore, they kill their Gorgons ond buy lvlonticores. Loter, becouse they hdven't seen the mon in the costle lotely, the townspeople suspect he's killed his Monticore. Such injustice hos to be dedlt with, ond they morch on his costle. There they find him surround- ed by oll three beosts. ln exploining the foble to them, the Poet tells the people thot the Unicorn, the Gor- gon, ond the Monticore ore his works of ort ond stotes, You, not I, ore the indifferent killers of the Po- et's dreomsf' The Once Upon o Time period of the ploy wos mode even more like o fdiry tole with the multicolored stoge. The juxtdposition ond the be- speckled effect of the yellows, greens, lovenders, blues, ond differ- ent shodes of eoch ddded dn extro touch of mogic to the production: the mogic wos enhonced by the rich, velvet qudlity of the costumes, which were obtoined from the Uni- versity of Michigon ot Ann Arbor. The production wos directed by Richord Morriott ond choreo- grophed by Poulo Petrini. The musi- col director ond conductor wos Molly McCullough. The lighting de- signer wos Brent Fleming, who to- gether with his wife Deonn Fleming, designed the set. Glenn Schorsch wos stoge monoger. AN OUTRAGED MAYOR QSteve Ddwsonj confronts the Count ond Countess QRon Cloypool ond Downe lvloseleyj with news of the Poet's lotest offense. 3 M jig? M T 3 'Q aj 'T 1 j if we i'T .. -if ,il F.W. Biddensfodf Foll Shows f 29