Radford University - Beehive Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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Separate Tables The Radford University Theatre Department finished off its '79-'80 season with a fine production of Separate Tables. The play was actually two plays combined, each centered around the residents of the Beauregard Hotel. The guest artist for this production, Ed Nelson, whose credits include numerous guest roles on television, played both John Mal-com and Major Pollock. The first play concerns itself with Malcom, a man bitter about the past and trying to drown his sorrows in alcohol. He finds his life further complicated when his ex-wife, played by Sandra Young, comes to the hotel to get her husband back. The second play deals with the troubles of Major Pollock, a man the hotel busybody, deftly played by Mary Davis Schwantke, discovers is a fraud. She soon makes her discovery known to all the hotel residents, including her shy daughter, Sibil, played by Sheila Crowley. This play ends with a delightful twist when Sibil refuses to hold Major Pollock's lies against him, despite her mother's objections. The play took its title from the fact that all the residents of the hotel ate their meals at individual tables in the dining room. 20 Spring Ooug Bwbcr

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Radford's Own Ballet, COPPELIA As part of Radford's Celebration of the Arts '80, the Radford University Dance Theatre presented COPPELIA, its first full length ballet. Directed by Franco Jelincic, Coppelia is the story of a young couple, Franz and Swanhilda. An eccentric dollmaker. Dr. Coppelius, creates a lifelike doll, Coppelia, who attracts the interest of Franz. Swanhilda becomes jealous, and together with her friends, sneaks into the doll workshop only to find that Coppelia is a lifeless doll. When Franz learns of this, he and Swanhilda get back together and are married. According to Dr. Balkus, chairman of the Dance Department, the production of Coppelia was ballet on a shoestring. The entire production, including costume rental and hiring guest dancers, cost $10,000. Swanhilda was portrayed by Dagmar Kessler, former prima ballerina with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Ted Kivitt, a principal dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet, danced the part of Franz. Gernot Petzold, ballet instructor at the Charlotte Blume School of Dance in Fayetteville, N.C., portrayed Dr. Coppelius. Other dancers hired were male students from the Jof-frey School in New York. 22 Spring