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List of Plays Performed at UW Oshkosh 1960-1969

The Wizard of Oz The Imperial Nightingale Playwright: Adele Thane, based on a Playwright: Stuart Gray book by Frank Baum Director: Diane Wuellner and Judy Director: Annette Stern Tschopp Performance dates: January 15-17, Performance dates: January 12-14, 1960 1962

The Glass Menagerie Summer and Smoke Playwright: Playwright: Tennessee Williams Director: Gloria Link Director: Gloria Link Performance dates: March 17 & 18, Performance dates: March 22-24, 1960 1962

The Rainmaker Dark of the Moon Playwright: N. Richard Nash Playwright: Howard Richardson and Director: Gloria Link William Berney Performance dates: October 20 & 21, Director: Gloria Link 1960 Performance dates: May 10-12, 1962

Many Moons Blithe Spirit Playwright: Playwright: Noel Coward Director William Denson & Carol Kroll Director: Gloria Link Performance dates: December 9-11, Performance dates: November 1-3, 1960 1962

Finian’s Rainbow An Evening of One Acts Playwright: Fred Saidy and E. Y. I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix Harburg Playwright Tennessee Williams Director: Gloria Link Director: Grant Killoran Performance dates: February 23-25, 1961 The Chairs Playwright: Eugene Ionesco Antigone Director: James Hook Playwright: Jean Anouilh Director: Gloria Link Performance dates: April 24-26, 1961 Playwright: Director: DuWayne Stowe Visit to a Small Planet Performance dates: December 13-15, Playwright: Gore Vidal 1962 Director: Gloria Link Performance dates: October 26-28, 1961 One Borrowed Time Playwright: Playwright: Paul Osborn Director: Don Burdick Director: Robert Heise Performance dates: March 8-10, 1963 Performance dates: April 30, May 1 & 2, 1964 Three Men on a Horse Playwright: John Cecil Holm and The Would-be Invalid Playwright: Molière Director: Gloria Link Director: Don Burdick Performance dates: May 9-11, 1963 Performance dates: October 29-21, 1964 The Heiress Playwright: Ruth and Augustus Goetz Volpone Director: Gloria Link Playwright: Ben Jonson Performance dates: October 31, Director: Robert Heise November 1 & 2, 1963 Performance dates: November 18, 1964 Juno and the Paycock Playwright: Sean O’Casey An Evening of One Acts: Director: Don Burdick Performance dates: November 20, The Boor 1963 Playwright: Anton Chekov Director: Thom McCain The Death of a Salesman Playwright: The Lesson Director: Don Burdick Playwright: Eugene Ionesco Performance dates: April 20, 1964 Director: Gary Messerschmidt

One Acts: Hello Out There Playwright: The Workhouse Ward Director: Playwright: Lady Gregory Performance dates: December 10-12, Director: David Sealy 1964

The Marriage Proposal Heartbreak House Playwright: Anton Chekov Playwright: Director: Lynn Seibel Director: Robert Heise Performance dates: March 11-13, A Phoenix Too Frequent 1965 Playwright: Christopher Fry Director: Richard Klancer Medea Performance dates: 1964? Playwright: Robinson Jeffers, adapted from Euripides Director: Gloria Link Playwright: March 17-18, 1965

The Cocktail Party The Importance of Being Earnest Playwright: T.S. Eliot Playwright: Oscar Wilde Director: Gloria Link Director: Gloria Link Performance dates: May 6-8, 1965 Performance dates: July 27, 1966

The Drunkard Six Characters in Search of an Author Playwright: William H. Smith Playwright: Luigi Pirandello Director: Don Burdick Director: Gloria Link Performance dates: October 21-23, Performance dates: October 20-22, 1965 1966

The Adding Machine Spoon River Anthology Playwright: Playwright: Edgar Lee Masters Director: Gloria Link Director: Nancy Vunovich Performance dates: November 17-18, Performance dates: November 16 & 1965 17, 1966

An Evening of One Acts: The Private Ear and the Public Eye Playwright: Peter Shaffer The Tiger Director: John Rengstorff Playwright: Murray Schisgal Performance dates: December 8-10, Director: Thomas Hanson 1966

The Typist The Public Eye Playwright: Murray Schisgal Playwright: Peter Shaffer Director: William Moyle Director: Thomas Hanson Performance dates: December 9-11, 1965 Richard III Playwright: William Shakespeare Blood Wedding Director: Gloria Link Playwright: Frederico Garcia Lorea Performance dates: March 16-18, Director: Gloria Link 1967 Performance dates: March 10-12 An Evening’s Frost Under Milkwood Playwright: Donald Hall Playwright: Staring: Will Geer Director: Don Burdick Performance dates: March 19, 1967 Playwright: March 29, 1966 A Street Car Named Desire Playboy of the Western World Playwright: Tennessee Williams Playwright: J. M. Synge Director: Gloria Link Director: Robert Heise Performance dates: April 12 & 13, Performance dates: May 5-7, 1966 1967

The Skin of our Teeth An Evening of One Acts: Playwright: Director: Nancy Vunovich Performance dates: May 4-6, 1967 Playwright: Edward Albee Director: Robert Bohnsack Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung in the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad The Playwright: Arthur Kopit Playwright: Edward Albee Director: Nancy Vunovich Director: Diane Armitage Performance dates: July 13-15, 1967 The Collection A Death in the Family Playwright: Harold Pinter Playwright: James Agee Director: Luann Schmalz Director: Don Burdick October 11 & 12, 1967 What Shall We Tell Caroline Playwright: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off! Director: Cheryl St. John Playwright: Anthony Newley and Leslie Briscue Aria Dacapo Director: Nancy Vunovich Playwright: Edna St. Vincent Millay Performance dates: November 2-4, Director: Ray LaPoint 1967 Impromptu Ah, Wilderness! Playwright: Playwright: Eugene O’Neill Director: Agnus MacDonald Director: Gloria Link Performance dates: December 14-16, The Dumbwaiter 1967 Playwright: Harold Pinter Director: William Schroeder Telemachus Clay Playwright: Lewis John Carlino A Resounding Tinkle Director: Nancy Vunovich Playwright: N.F. Simpson Performance dates: February 28 & 29, Director: Judy Jones 1968 The Knack Playwright: John Mortimer Playwright: Ann Jellicoe Director: Henry Krisch Director: Don Burdick Performance dates: April 2-4, 1968 Performance dates: March 21-23, 1968 Hedda Gabbler Playwright: Henrik Ibsen Director: Robert Heise Performance dates: May 2-4, 1968

The Waltz of the Toreadors An Evening of One Acts: Playwright: Jean Anouilh Director: Gloria Link Frankie and Albert Performance dates: June 25 & 26, Playwright: Elizabeth Hughes 1968 Director: Dann Jenks

The Birthday Party Mrs. Dolly Has a Lover Playwright: Harold Pinter Playwright: Mark Hanley Director: Don Burdick Director: Robert Spiecher Performance dates: October 24-16, Performance dates: May 5 & 7, 1969 1968 An Evening of One Acts: The Bald Soprano Playwright: Eugene Ionesco The Leader Director: Gloria Link Playwright: Eugene Ionesco Performance dates: November 1 & 2, Director: Ray La Point 1968 The Maids The Stories of Sholem Aleichem Playwright: Director: Robert Heise Director: Richard Wittkopf Performance dates: November 19 & Performance dates: May 6 & 8, 1969 20, 1968 The Medium Hansel and Gretel Playwright: Gian-Carlo Menotti Playwright: Lillian and Robert Masters Director: Karl Brock Director: Gloria Link Performance dates: July 31-August 2, Performance dates: December 6-8, 1969 1968 The Boyfriend Brecht on Brecht Playwright: Sandy Wilson Director: Gloria Link Director: Gloria Link Performance dates: February 25 & 26, Performance dates: July 24-26, 1969 September 24-27, 1969

The Scarecrow Ars Poetica, or How I Grew to Love Playwright: Percy Mackaye Mother Goose Director: Nancy Vunovich Director: Don Burdick Performance dates: March 20-22, Performance dates: October 14-15, 1969 1969

The Beaux’ Strategem An Evening of One Acts: Playwright: George Farqugar Director: Robert Heise No Exit Playwright: Jean-Paul Sartre Director: DuWayne Stowe

The Indian Wants the Bronx Playwright: Israel Horovitz Director: Dennis Schultz

It’s Called the Sugar Plum Playwright: Israel Horovitz Director: Roger Spiecher Performance dates: November 3-4, 1969

The Tempest Playwright: William Shakespeare Director: Nancy Vunovich Performance dates: December 10-13, 1969