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THE IMPORTANCE of BEING EARNEST State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State College Digital Commons at Buffalo State Studio Arena Programs Studio Arena 3-12-1967 The mpI ortance of Being Earnest Studio Arena Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/saprograms Recommended Citation Studio Arena, "The mporI tance of Being Earnest" (1967). Studio Arena Programs. 60. https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/saprograms/60 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Studio Arena at Digital Commons at Buffalo tS ate. It has been accepted for inclusion in Studio Arena Programs by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons at Buffalo tS ate. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STUDIO THEATRE THEATRE MAGAZINE MAR. 12-18, 1967 Jt'itr, llchlxini lli'/lj, H c ih t l.vicht tun! Juiin Sci-.uck THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST" NEXT PRODUCTION! THE BUFFALO STUDIO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LUKAS FOSS Conductor - Music Director Presents THE LESSON by Eugene Ionesco and Sunday, M nrch 19— 2:30 PM Tuesday, M arch 21— 8.30 PM ANTIGONE Kleinhans Music Halt by Jean Anouilh I.L'K.AS FOSS, conductor T()N (J U, MAN, j>i:m’>>t Directed by Li:vi:iltri:1 A w a rd W inn er Allan Leicht MARCH 30-APRIL 22 Program Billy the Kid ............ Copland Cuilci.-rti) ............. Ravi:! April 27-May 20 Sea Piece with Birds Thomson GEORGE & IRA La Mer ......................... Debussy GERSHWIN'S Tickets, for all performances musical comedy of $4.80, $4.20, $3.60, $2.85 Music Hall (Penn. St. Ent.); 885-5P00 the 1920's or Denton, Cottier & Daniels, 32 Court St.; (Exc.Wed.). Enclose stamped, self- addressed envelope with mail orders. 681 M AIN /856-5650 around BUFFALO 3 I IT.N DA N CI:! ;i I S I u d i u Kosary Hill College: Conrad Scliuck A AHF.NA Theatre productions oi Bulfaios Slate University College; •has been up by 23 per cent this year Mrs. Reginald Wheeler, drama lea- but capita] Kind-giving must con­ ciier at LImwoori Franklin School- tinue so that the normal operating Allan Leiehl, production co-ordina- deficits ot a non-profit institution tor for the Studio Arena and acting can be underwritten, bearing in director of the Studio Arena Theatre mind that the theatre serves a wide School, and Lewis Sliupe, member of audience in the Greater Buffalo ilic State University of .New York area and beyond. W ith this in mind, and Studio Arena School faculties a special Studio AKKNA iund drlvi-.1 . Closing production of the Studio has been organized with two of Arena Theatre season will be a Buffalo’s leading businessmen, Ira coupling of. Anouilh’s Antigone and C. Koss, -president of the Cornell Fugene Ionesco's Tin: Lesson. Mar. Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc., ;md 30-April 22 . Fund-raising, or Claude Shuchtcr. -president o! Manu­ fun-raising, or 'both, one of the most facturers and Traders Trust, as co- pleasant ways of; arranging it is to chairman . Kathy King, a .sopho­ organize a Studio Arena Theatre more from (.rover Cleveland High, party. Croup sales director .Marion and Sarah Morion, a South Park Copeland has all the answers at High sophomore, -won tin: onlv l\vo S02o . And one of the most pleas­ scholarships awarded this year by ant spots in town to meet while tee­ the Women’s Committee of the; Stu­ ing up the fund or fun-raising is the dio AKF.NA Theatre in honor of: Studio Arena's Stage J.,eii Lounge, Jane Keeler. Sounder of the Studio just ofi the lobby arid open lor Theatre School and Director lilmeri- before-during-and-after refreshmen (: t'us ot the theatre. Miss King won and conversational pauses . Other the top prize lor her -presentation sound suggestions ‘in the same vein oi excerpts Iroin Jean Anouilh's Tin; — ..Mister Agio’s, The Koundtable. Lark, while Miss Moden won her Cedars ol Lebanon, David’s Table, scholarship lor-her recitation ol the the Staller Hilton, The Downtowner, Iloberl Nathan ..poem, Dunkirk. I’he Cloister, Old .Spain, Swiss Judges were Sister Mary Francis of Chalet' and Kuo Franklin West. u Scene Theatre Magazine Vol 4, ]\'o. 28 Alar. 12-18, 1967 Publisher Editor and Art Director David B. Crombie Stan Helleur Scene Theatre .Magazine is published weekly by Scene Publications Limited. (Buffalo Address: 681 M ain St. Toronto Address: 2 Carlton St. Printed in Canada. Subscription Rate. $5.00 per year. r linjjorlmica Oj Being Euniu.si, 'The 1. current production at. bulialo’s Studio AllhlNA Theatre, is Oscar NVildc.s most popular play. First per iormed at tin: St'. James Theatre in importance London in IS95, it lias been a perennial favorite ever since. In its original production it' was pro­ nounced one ol the most' sparkling Of comedies ol' the IS.JO’s. In the highly improbable plot, Jack Worthing invents an imaginary Being younger brother, Ernest, who de­ mands at tent ion whenever Jack needs a convenient alibi or to escape Earnest" lor a holiday, Gecily, Jack's ward, becomes interested in this brother, but' the lie gets out ol hand when Oscar Wilde’s classic Algernon Moncriell. Jack's friend, introduces himsell t'o (.'ecily as comedy now playing I'll'nest. Jack tells Algernon Ik-: is going to propose to Gwendolyn. at Buffalo’s Algernon’s cousin, who knows Jack as Ernest. Gwendolyn says she will Studio ARENA Theatre marry Jack emphasizing' her great loudness lor the name ‘‘Ernest'' and her feeling that she was fated to Ji’iii: Hchhmn ULiwr Kcu marry a man by that name. Lady Mracknell, Gwendolyn's mother, does not consent to the marriage, due to Jack's dubious paternity. In the meantime, Gceily and Algernon, known to her as Ernest, have become engaged, (..’ecily having a predilection tor the precious name. It obviously follows that both girls think they are engaged to tin: same man, but identities are finally established and all is lorgiven. Lady Brackncll discovers that Jack really is Algernon's lost: brother Ernest, and the curtain comers down on a happy and hilarious ending. Gonsidered by many to be one of the finest comedies of the English language, the opening performance Aina Niemela, Jean Hebborn and was praised by all the notable Elaine Kerr, who have appeared critics of the day. The play con­ consistently In Studio AKENA pro­ tinued to please and indeed delight ductions this season, portray, re­ the upper classes, who one must spectively, Cecily, Lady Bracknell admit, were the butt of W ilde’s pen. and Gwendolyn. The leading male Indeed every major critic between roles of Jack and Algy are being .! 895 and the present day, from played by John Schuc-k and Alan E. Montague to Agate, from Max Zampese. Schuck appeared as Jean- Beerbohm to MacCarthy, have vied Paul Marat in the sell-out produc­ with each other in praise of this tion of Marat, de Sade, which ended masterpiece. its run at the Studio ARENA, Satur­ The classic comedy is under the day, February 25. direction of Tom Gruenewald, whose Others in the Earnest cast are: (.-xpert hand helped to make After Renee Leicht, Miss Prism; Max the Vail the surprise hit of the cur­ Gulack, Chauscible; Kenneth Mc­ rent season. Gruenewald scored at Millan, Lane; and Gerald Richards. t lie beginning of the theatrical sea­ Merriman. Gulack portrayed the son as the director of the off-Broad­ Marquis tie Sade, while Richards way hit in New York. Man n:ith scored a success as Ouentin, I lie a Load of Mischief. central figure in After the Vail. Notes on Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde was an Irishman dramatized lor tin- stage and the who, upon his arrival in London as movies. Following the novel, he a young man, created quite a sensa­ began to write plays which reflected tion with his flamboyant posturing his true brilliance and wit. and his precious wit. Born in D ub­ The Importance of Being Earnest. lin, he attended Trinity College was Oscar W ilde’s last play. Shortly there and studied later at Oxford in after its opening, his world came Magdalen College. His academic crashing down around him. The career was brilliant, and he became ugly court trial between W ilde and widely known for 'his leadership ol the Marquis of Queensberrv brought a group of aesthetes who believed about W ilde’s imprisonment. Five in “Art for Art’s Sake.” years after the play first opened Carrying his flare for performance Wilde died in France at the age oi and his somewhat startling ideas 46. beyond the shores of: the British Though financially bankrupt at Isles, Wilde came to the United the time o f ’his death he left behind States in 1882 where he engaged in a highly successful lecture tour. some interesting essays, a lew good W ilde’s first literary effort was short stories, several plays and one his novel, The Picture of Dorian brilliant farce— The Importance of ( ’■rut/ (1891) which has been Being Earnest. o National Theatre Conference Regional authorities from across U.S. convening here April 20-21 N Api'il 20 -and 21, .regional aging Director and one of the O theatre authorities from all over founders of the famed Tyrone die country will convene in Buffalo, Guthrie Theatre of Minneapolis and under the-auspices of the Studio president of the National League Arena Theatre, for a National Con­ of Regional Theatres, Another ference. First of its type, the con­ uniquely qualified conferee will be ference will be sponsored by the Alan Schneider who has staged all Western New York Foundation, of Edward Albee’s plays as well as whose president, Welles V.
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