Coming Events The University Theatre I December 22. 23 ANDROCLES AND THE LION adapted by Aurand Harri s January 17, 18. 19, 20 Sartre's NO EXIT (lab Theatre) February 1. 2, 3 & James Joyce's 7, 8. 9, 10 ULYSSES IN NIGHTTOWN directed by Glenn Cannon February 14, 15, 16. 17 DANCE CONCERT (Lab Theatre) February 28 & Jules Feilfer's GOO BLESS March 1, 2. 3 (Lab Theatre) March 15, 16, 17 & Bhasa's Sanskrit drama 21 , 22. 23, 24 THE VISION OF VASAVADATTA guest director: Mrs. Shanta Gandhi March 29. 30 AWAJI PUPPET THEATRE OF JAPAN Sponsored by the College of Continuing Education and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Apnl 4, 5, 6, 7 Prokofieff's PETER AND THE WOLF (lab Theatre) Apnl 19, 20 & Prem1ere modern dance work 26, 27, 28 METAPHYSICAL CIRCUS choreography by Carl Wolz music by Armand Russell Apnl 28 THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY SHOW May 3. 4 PERFORMANCES OF KYOGEN guest director: Mansaku Nomura .. 'Johan August Strindberg', L'Oeuvre. 1927 from George Freedley and John Reeves. A History of the Theatre. Johan August Strindberg 3rd edition, 1968 Destiny did not pamper Strindberg. His birth was humble; his childhood, wretched; his character, neurotic and unstable in the extreme. His career was beset with dis­ appointments and frustrations which would have broken a less resi lient nature. In his youth he could not find the money with which to complete his education, and all his life he struggled with poverty... Physically he was not brave; he was, indeed, neurot­ ically fearful. yet his language was bold, and he constantly provoked aggression. In consequence, he spent a good deal of his time in terror of reprisals. Aggressive as he was, it is clear that his will to power was not as decisive an influence on his life as his will to suffer; he received the manifold indig­ nities which life showered upon him as his just meed, and the measure of his success. - Mauroce Valency. The Ffower and the Castle 3 1849 Johan August Strindberg is born in Stockholm Although at twenty he was in a state on January 22. of _mental turmoil, Strindberg began to wnte poetry and plays, which won him a In that momentous decade between the meas_ure of recognition but no money. Communist Manifesto and the Origin of He tn~d to support himself by journalism Sp~cies, the Swedish playwright August but fa1led at that. Then he applied for a civil Stnndberg was born. More precisely it was service job and, in spite of not having a in 1849, the year of the Gold Rush of the college degree, was the winning candidate beginning of Dostoevsky's Siberian exile for the position of assistant librarian at the and of such a diverse literary market as ' Royal Library of Stockholm. During eight Thackeray's Pendennis, Proudhon's Con­ y~ars there (1874-1882), he read and wrote fessions d'un revolutionnaire, and Kierke­ w1th great intensity and began to publish gaard's Sickness Unto Death. It was a year stories and essays about Sweden and to also ma~ked by the death of Edgar Allan Poe. gather the material he made use of later in that cunous literary phenomenon whose his historical plays. He had come under the influence was out of all proportion to his influence of Darwin's theory of evolution, essential genius. Alas. Poe died a few months Schopenhauer's pessimism, Buckle's relativis­ too late for Strindberg to be the t!c _theory of history, Kierkegaard's existen­ reincarnation that, for a few exhilarating ttahsm, and von Hartmann's Philosophy of months, he fancied himself to be. the Unconscious. - Richard B. Vowles, translator, - Randolph Goodman, From Script to Stage The Natives of Hemso by Strindberg 1875 In the spring, Strindberg meets Captain 1867 On May 25, Strindberg graduates from high Wrangel and his wife Siri von Essen. school in Stockholm. In the fall, he begins his studies at Uppsala University. 1877 Strindberg finishes Anno 48 early in the year. On December 30, he marries Siri von 1869 In the spring, he interrupts his medical Essen (1850-1912) who had meantime been studies; in the fall, he fails dismally as divorced. aspiring actor at the Dramatic Theater. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, he writes, 1882 May 1, finishes Lucky Per's Journey, a play in four days, his first drama, the two-act commissioned by theater director Ludvig A Name Day Gift, rejected by the Dramatic Josephson. Theater; the manuscript is lost. 1883 In the fall, journey to France. Otto Dix's 'Wounded Soldier 1924' from Bernard Myers, As early as 1884, he wrote: "My best writing Expressionism. 1968. comes when I am suffering from hallucina­ tions ... "; and in 1887 he remarked in a letter to a young Swedish writer, "It seems to me as though I walk in my sleep-as though reality and imagination are one ..." -Randolph Goodman. From Script to Stage 1887 In January, Strindberg moves to Bavaria. On February 15, he finishes the tragedy The Father. 1888 He completes the naturalistic drama Miss Julie in early August. Creditors is completed late that summer. 1889 Strindberg finishes the one-act play The Stronger on January 2, the one-act Pariah on January 9. 1892 Divorce from Siri von Essen. Love has all the symptoms of insanity. Hallucinations, or seeing beauty where none exists. Melancholia of the deepest dye, 4 5 (Continued on page 11) Munch's lithograph 'The Cry' from La Revue Blanche. The University Theatre presents 1694 A Dream Play by AUGUST STRINDBERG Directed by EDWARD PAYSON CALL :.:::: ... = -::. ..... Set Design by RICHARD G. MASON %+·--- ,; ~ yr' Costumes by SANDRA FINNEY Lighting and Technical Direction by MARK BOYD Original Music composed by DON SLEPIAN and PETER CORAGGIO, realized at the Sinergia Electronic Music Studio, Honolulu. ' December 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15 at 8 p.m. December 16 at 2 p.m. Kennedy Theatre University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii THE CAST (in order' of speaking) INTRODUCING THE DIRECTOR lndra Paul Cravath Edward Payson Call has in the last year staged lndra's Daughter Shari Au works in Los Angeles and San Diego, The Guide Vincent Priore California, Chicago, Illinois, Seattle, The Officer David Johnson Washington and Princeton, New Jersey. The Mother Carol Honda Since leaving the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in The Father James Benton Minneapolis, Minnesota (a theatre with Lin a Bonnie Creamer which he was associated over a period The Gatekeeper Pamela Viera ~ of seven years, rising from Stage Manager The Billposter Michael Cowell to be the Producing Director of the Victoria Sari Moss company), Mr. Call has made itinerant First Member stage direction a way of life, rarely of the Ballet Company Leslie Endo ' staying for more than six weeks in any Second Member given location including his home, of the Ballet Company Luella Costello which he makes in New York City. The Prompter Mike Nobriga For the Guthrie Theatre he directed The Policeman Kevin Murphy two Brecht productions, THE CAUCASIAN The Lawyer Earll Kingston CHALK CIROLE and ARTURO Ul (the Kristin Carol Honda latter touring to New York and Los Angeles) The Quarantine Master Michael Cowell in addition to Shakespeare's JULIUS The Poet James Benton CAESAR and AS YOU LikE IT and The Old Roue Hal Finley Slavomir Mrozek's TANGO. The Retired Man Kevin Murphy Among the other theatres for which Victoria's Lover Tola Bennington Mr. Call has directed are The Seattle The Schoolmaster Kevin Murphy Repertory Company (CHILD'S PLAY). The Naval Officer Hal Finley American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, The Blind Man Steve Feher Connecticut (THE TEMPEST), The Edith Elizabeth Scheuer American Conservatory Theatre, San Edith's Mother Pamela Viera Francisco (ENDGAME, THE SEA GULL). Alice Luella Costello and The San Diego Shakespeare Festival (KING LEAR, TWELFTH NIGHT, RICHARD Dream People, Members of the Ballet Ill). Troupe, People at Foulstrand and Fair­ Besides directing plays he has at various cove, Students, etc.: Michael Cowell, times been an actor. a stage manager, a ball Mike Nobriga, Hal Finley, Steve Feher, room dance instructor, a distributor of soap Leslie Endo, Beverly Chang, Khamtoun coupons, a ranch hand and a college bum. Choummany, Sari Moss, Elizabeth Mr. Call is enchanted with his first stay in Scheuer, Tricia Ely, Tola Bennington, Hawaii and only wishes that his wife Pamela, Carol Honda, Rick Greene, Vincent Priore, who is a model in New York, could join him Ed Baxa, David Larsen, Kevin Murphy, here. Richard Tillotson. The engagement of Mr. Call, guest director of this production, was made possible by a generous grant from the Charles M. & Anna 8 9 C. Cooke Trust. PRODUCTION STAFF alternating with boisterous merriment, and nothing in between. Unreasoning hatred, Stage Manager: Cho Yee Wong distorted ideas about the other's intentions Assistant Stage (the so-called misunderstanding)·; attacks Manager: Ken Rohde of persecution mania, during which they Lighting Crew: Jim Takahashi, Charles Myers Ill suspect the other partner of spying on them, of setting traps for them, of hounding Sound Crew: Bud Cornell them, why even of seeking to take their life, Property Crew: Sari Moss especially by means of poison. Costume Crew: Peggy Egbert- Crew Head: Kitty -Strindberg, The Cloister Heacox, Cynthia Kunishige, Lynne Tanaka, Lynn Tsuruda, Kate McBride, Irene Ohashi, Coco Offer, 1893 On May 2, on the island of Heligoland, Jan Shipley, Molly Burns, Cassie Strindberg marries Frida Uhl (1872-1943). Tudor. Fifi Newcomb, Fujie Kajikawa Technicians: Ken Rohde, Charles Myers Ill, and Frida's sister, Maria ... wrote a penetrating the students of Drama 240 and 299 description of him, which reads, in part: Photography: Francis Haar "He manages to remain absorbed in his Properties: thoughts for a quarter of an hour at a time, Elizabeth Wichmann not saying a word and not hearing what is Set Designer's said to him.