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

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14 His Arts, f [Fy LATA The Native Amencan: | His Culture, and His History

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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

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iy Indian silhouettes adapted from a work by Ward Churchill; see schedule. Monday, November 4, 1985 CONVOCATION 20th c Lifestyles and Problems Francis Whitebird, Esq. speaker Coordinator, Department of Indian Affairs for the State of South Dakota 10:00 a.m. Auditorium, Harrison H. Ferrell Building Tuesday, November 5, 1985 7:30 p.m. RECEPTION Della Brown Taylor Gallery Ward Churchill, Artist also Ancient Indian Artifacts from Kanawha Valley courtesy West Virginia Department of Culture and History, Sunrise Museum and David Martin Thursday, November 7, 1985 SCIENCE SEMINAR Psychology of Herbal Medicine Florentine Blue Thunder, speaker 12:30 p.m. Science Auditorium Tuesday, November 12, 1985 WRITERS SEMINAR American Indian Women: A Perspective Beatrice Medicine, Professor Natives Studies Program, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 12:30 p.m. Theatre, John W. Davis Fine Arts Building Thursday, November 14, 1985 12:30-3:30 Room 103, John W. Davis Fine Arts Building FILM SCREENINGS Prehistoric Man (17 min) Indian Amenca (52 min) North American Indian Legends (21 min) Navajo: The Last Red Indians (35 min) Monday, November 18, 1985 11:00 a.m. Auditorium, Harrison H. Ferrell Building 8:00 p.m. Theatre, John W. Davis Fine Arts Building EDUCATION SEMINAR Indian Culture and Education Patricia Locke, speaker CONCERT Native American Music and Dances Kevin Locke, Performer 15 Sn a hg EF OE en oe ES eee = amar renee aad 7 Aca ! : TS ES BO a ier ne tek Ki t