West Virginia State University - Arch Yearbook (Institute, WV)

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West Virginia State College presents The Acting Company in Orchards Seven American Playwrights present stories by Chekhov Monday, October 21, 1985 8:00 p.m. Theatre, John W. Davis Fine Arts Building Institute, West Virginia The Acting Company, the touring branch of the John F. Kennedy Center, will present “Orchards” at 8 pm. Monday at West Virginia State College “Orchards” is a collection of Anton Chekhov stones adapted by seven American playwrights ibe ORCHARDS Seven American Playwrights Present Stories by Chekhov Directed by ROBERT FALLS Sets Designed by ADRIANNE LOBEL Costuines Designed by LAURA CROW Lights Designed by PAUL GALLO Onigina! Music by LOUIS ROSEN Dramaturg—ANNE CATTANEO Production Stage Manager—MAUREEN F GIBSON Stage Manager—SUSAN B. FELTMAN THE MAN IN A CASE by WENDY WASSERSTEIN an adaptation of a Chekhov story, “The Man tna Case”, translated by Manan Fell Byelinkov BRIAN REDDY Vannka ; MARIANGELA PINO A small garden in the village of Mironitsk: 1898 VINT by DAVID MAMET adapted from the short story, “Vint”. translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky Porter CRAIG BRYANT Commissioner Persolin TERRENCE CAZA Zvisdulin JOEL F MILLER Kuklaveuch PHIL MEYER Nedkudov KEVIN JACKSON Psiuhin ALED DAVIES The corndors of power, late at mght DROWNING by MARIA IRENE FORNES inspired by the story. “Drowning”. translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky Pea PHILIP GOODWIN Roe ANTHONY POWELL Stephen MARK MOSES Scene 1—a cafe, probably in Europe It is late afternoon Scene 2—ten minutes later Scene 3—a month later A DOPEY FAIRY TALE by MICHAEL WELLER based loosely. very loosely. on the Chekhov's short story, The Skit”, translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. or the theme thereof Smile PHIL MEYER Father Baker TERRENCE CAZA Mother Baker SUSAN FINCH Clarence 2%. CRAIG BRYANT Chatter (the dog) JOEL F. MILLER Mayor P KEVIN JACKSON Magistrate ANTHONY POWELL Minister MARK MOSES Female Frog WENDY BRENNAN Male Frog BRIAN REDDY Sad Princess Gladys LAURA BRUTSMAN — INTERMISSION — EVE OF THE TRIAL by SAMM-ART WILLIAMS Freely adapted from the short story, The Eve of the Trdl”. translated by April FitzLyon and Kyril Zinomeff Ma Lola SUSAN FINCH Lester Simmons BRIAN REDDY Pear! Simmons LAURA BRUTSMAN Tate JOEL F MILLER Lilly MARIANGELA PINO Kitty WENDY BRENNAN Alex Buskin (Alexis Buskenov) PHILIP GOODWIN Time August, 1919—Midnight Place Ma Lola's rooming house just outside Baton Rouge, Lousiana just after the Bol shevik Revolution in Russia, USSR Note The weather ts hot, humid and sticky The mosquitos bite with a vengeance and one’s clothing seldom dnes from yesterday's sweat Not to mention that the air seldom moves in this part of Louisiana Especially at midnight THE TALKING DOG by JOHN GUARE an adaptation of “A Joke”. translated by Marian Fell F SUSAN FINCH M MARK MOSES F's Hang Glider KEVIN JACKSON M's Hang Glider PHIL MEYER Setting The Catskills RIVKALA'S RING by SPALDING GRAY from the short story. The Witch”. translated by Constance Garnett with Aled Davies “If there is something comforting—religious, if you want—about paranoia. there ts still also anti-paranoia, where nothing ts connected to anything. a condition not many of us can bear for long = a homas Pynchon “Go, go, go said the bird human kind cannot bear very much reality T S Ehot

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The West Virginia State College Players and The Department of Communications present The West Virginia Premiere of FOOL FOR LOVE by Sam Shepard Directed and Designed by David Wohl Assistant Director Sterling Spangler Stage Manager Lynn McWatt Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatist’s Play Service, Inc. Direcror’s Note Fool For Love is the second Sam Shepard play produced here at West Virginia State College. The first, Buired Child was presented in 1980, one year after it won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Like Buried Child, WVSC’s production of Fool For Love is a West Virginia premiere. In the past five years, Shepard has taken his place at the forefront of American dramatists. His plays are being produced by regional theatres all over the country. (Fool For Love will be presented by over 20 theatres throughout the U.S. this season.) Shepard's play, True West was recently filmed (starring John Malkovich) and shown on the Public Broadcasting System. During September of this year, there were five Shepard plays in production off-Broadway in New York City, including Fool For Love. which ran for two years and won an Obie award for Best Play. The New York Daily News called it “Sam Shepard's purest and most beautiful play.” The New Yorker magazine called it, “. . . mysterious and unsettling . . . and as funny as anything he has ever done.” Fool For Love is currently being made into a full length feature film, starring Shepard and Kim Bassinger, directed by Robert Altman. Although theatre buffs have long regarded Shepard as America’s finest playwright, he has now achieved star status as a film actor. Since his first screen appearance in Days of Heaven, Shepard has garnered critical acclaim for his performances in Resurrection, Raggedy Man, Frances, and Country and earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of West Virginia native Chuck Yaeger in The Right Stuff. Shepard’s plays are not realistic in a conventional sense. As critic Ross Wetzsteon describes, “time is immediate rather than sequential, narrative is a matter of consciousness rather than behavior, and character is spontaneous rather than coherent.” Using rock and roll street language (Shepard used to be a drummer for the Holy Modal Rounders, which toured the U.S. along with the Rolling Stones in the 60's) and emotionally vivid images, Shepard consistently manages to create powerful theatrical masterpieces. Fool For Love is the first play in which Shepard examines the sexual and emotional connection between men and women. It is a violent play; a world of ruthless futility, claustrophobia, confinement and sexual destiny. We're pleased to present the West Virginia premiere of Fool For Love. David Wohl The Cast Eppie Jim Wolfe MAv ee eee eee eee eee ee ae Debbie: Holstein O p Man . Peter Jackson MarTIN Lexie Nutter The action of the play takes place in a motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert. — T he play is performed without an intermission — Smoking, eating, drinking, and the use of a camera or recording device are strictly forbidden during the performance. Production Staff TECHNICAL DiRECTOR David Wohl David Wohl, Jim Ferguson, Str CONSTRUCTION : Sterling Spangler, Leigh Ann Estep LiGHts . Gary Smith, Gary Wooten SOUND Lynn Mc Watt PuBLicity David Wohl Special thanks to: The Saddle Shop, West Virginia State College Print Shop, West Virginia State College Office of Fiscal Affairs, Mrs. Larry Holstein