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Senior Thesis Productions LEARNING EXPERIENCES Close your eyes. Now imagine you were a senior Drama major at Kenyon in 1979. Having trouble? OK, here's some help: as part of your comps, you would have had to design a project to bring together all you'd learned. You might have opted to write a paper or to work on a production or some combination thereof. That's what Senior Thesis productions are specifically about. And the 1978-79 academic year saw five shows that came under that heading. In the first such production of the year, four majors chose to combine their talents. With Claire Bass, Scott Klavan, and Alan Wylde acting and Chip I amb directing, they brought to life Tennessee William's classic story of shattered illusions, A Streetcar Mamed Desire. Jon Trum- per provided the Cambier audience with another thought-provoking and powerful evening, acting in fdward Albee's Zoo Story. The one-and-only Breezy Salmon wrote and presented a one-woman night of comedy, much to the delight of the many who fre- quented Pirate's Cove that weekend. It's interesting to note here that this was the first year that most of the Senior Theses could be staged in the Hill I heater. In the past they were put on in the Drama Annex (now the Dance Studio), limited !x th audience size anti technical possibilities. Debbie Dobson, who wrote The family Portrait Season for her senior project, pointed out the great advantages of the new location anci how encouraging it was that the various produc- tions could fill the Hill. The family Portrait Season cer tainly gave its audienc e something to talk al out. Its biz- zarc plot, which defies description in a few lines, eli- cited as many interpretations as there were people in the house. Kathy Wilson, as part of a synoptic major in Political Seience Drama lnglish, directed herself in I he Belle of Amherst, a one-woman show that celebrates the life of Fmily Dickinson. Her performance won her the Wood ward Award. In addition to the Senior Thesis and major productions, junior Mike Wilson directed and acted in Clarence Darrow for the Defense as an independent study for history credit and as a way of learning about directing. Both he and Kathy Wilson did extensive research into the figures they portrayed, which demon- strates an irrifK rtant aspect of the Kenyon drama ideal: that theater is a good all-around educational experi- ence, not an exerc ise in slick professionalism. Senior Thesis produc lions are a part of this experience, provid- ing insight for those who work on them and enjoyment for those who view them. CLOCKWISE EROM UPPER LEFT: lamie Black. Mary Louise Kcady, and Edilh Reynolds in family Portrait, Wendy McLeod and Scoll Klavan in Streetcar, Tom Pre- slon and Ion Trumpcr in Zoo Story, Claire Bass in Street- car, Breezy; Mike Wilson in Clarence Darrow; Kathy Wil- son in Belle Senior Productions 2S
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The biggest name to appear on campus second semester was comsumer advocate Ralph Nader (below), whose lecture “The Utilities vs. the Consumer: Who's Winning? became a three-hour marathon. Other attractions were (opposite page, clockwise from upper left) the Nighthawks; author and sports commentator Jim Bouton; John Crowe Ransom lecturer Stanley Fish, who delivered a series of controversial talks on the value of interpretive authority in the classroom; entertainer Geraldine Fitzgerald in the critically- acclaimed revue Streetsongs; and promiment anthropologist Donald Johanson (here, with J. Kenneth Smail).
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