Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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Talley Hohlfeld 21 Miller to yler. Miller :01 and the show. NNOH hm! I LOOKING OVER LINES graduate student Luella Aubrey awaits her cue backstage. Aubrey portrayed Aunt Julianna Tesman who worried about everyone and everything. Talley Hohlfeld THE LOST MANUSCRIPT in her hand senior Julia Miller's Hedda Gabler plots the fate of Eilert Lov- borg's masterpiece. Hedda burned the manuscript and ruined the lost romanticts chance to reform. ; , i g . Hedda Gabler Z9

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A f ' 1' in presenting Henrik Ibsenis uHedda Gablerii the University Players were faced with the task of successfully interpreting one of the most difv ficult plays in modern theatre. uThe difficulty is due mainly to the fine line between comedy and tragedy found in iHedda Gablerf director LG. Severns, professor of dramatics, said. The title character, played by senior Julia Miller, is a woman who wishes to control and manipulate the lives of the people around her. Hedda wants to shape their destinies. Throughout the play Hedda attempts to reshape the unsatisfying world she has created for herself. Miller said the role was ucomplicated because she is not quite right in the head. She can turn on the charm as well as bitchiness as long as it serves her purpose.U Hedda wants control of all of the people in her life, but especially the men, who, in her Victorian world, control simply on the basis of their sex. She marries goodenatured George Tesman who talks often of his good fortune but buries himselfin his books and writing. Her attempts to design the suicide of Eilert Lovborg, played by senior Ray Twenter, result in a messy death rather than the perfectly er ecuted act she created. Hedda burns the manuscript Eilert and Thea Elvsted, played by senior Denise May, have worked to complete. Eilert must explain the disappearance to Thea who thinks of the manuscript as a child. iii had never played a was the hardest part. He tEilerti is trying to be melodramatic as he tells Thea he tore up the manuscript when he really doesnt know what he did with it, Twenter said. The guilt over the loss of the manuscript combined with Hedda's prompting lead him close to the point of shooting himself in the head as Hedda has planned for him, but he ruins her perfect suicide when he shoots himself in the stomach. As a result of her plotting, Hedda becomes entrapped by the powerful and sophisticated Judge Brack. Brack, played by sophomore Rana dy Bame, discovers Heddais pistol was used in Eilertis suicide and uses his knowledge to blackmail her. Even Tesmanis Aunt Julianna, played by graduate student Luella Aubrey, does not sucv cumb to Heddais manipulation. Hedda can find no escape from the problems she has created. She has a calm outward ap pearance and an inward tension? Miller said. Her dead father instilled in her a sense of the impossibility of surrrender and she uses his one ly gift to her, his target pistols, to end her life. Even after her death, the other characters do not understand the reasons for her frustration and eventual suicide. Judge Brack can only uta ter the feeling of the time that upeople just dont do such things. ECHO drunk before and it was interesting because it Talley Hohlfeld A PRACTICE SHOT prepares senior Julia Miller to fire the gun in her portrayal of Hedda Gabler. Miller was initially nervous about firing the pistol and the loud noise startled the audience during the show. REFLECTED in his makeup mirror sophomore Ranv dy Bame apglies his stage makeup for his perfor- mance as Ju ge Brack, the eloquent and powerful sophisticate who attempts to control Hedda Gabler. LOOKII Aubrey Aunt Ju and even ' PHHOH AFN? I Z8 Hedda Gabler

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i P profits When Lewis and Clark set out to explore the West they took along native Indian guides. The two explorers knew the best guides were people who already knew the territory. The Universi' ty also uses this theory in its orientation pro! gram for incoming freshmen. During the summer, incoming freshmen are requested to come to campus for a day of registration and campus orientation. To offer a more realistic impression Of campus life to new students and their parents, the summer orienta' tion program hires University students as part of the staff. IN A GROUP, parents and prospective students stop in front of Blantoanason Hall while junior Pam Weatherby tells them about the building. Students are considered the best campus tour guides. Ray Jagger BEFORE schedule, freshman her colleg hWe was a w voice in freshma summer Stude mer orie 1978. T tant in undergrw Dean 0 to cont Darrell to work Dunseit Duns each da and em made: a Eident