~ PRODUCTION STAFF ( STAGING--David Mahoney; assisted by Lawrence Bahler, John Earll, Harold Fu­ THE . jise, Gordon Kushimaejo, Edward Lau, Tom Luis, Louis Steed, and the class in Dramatic Production. UNIVERSITY I.IGHTINc--Miyoshi Ikeda; assist~d by John Earll and Harold Fujise. OF CoSTUMEs-Margaret De Velschow; assisted by Glenna Gitschlag, Clement Ka­ malu, and Gordon Kushimaejo. HAWAII PROPERTIEs-Ethel Chung, Katherine Clement, Rosalie Roberts, Nancy Young and Janet Tsugawa. THEATRE MAKE-UP-Raymond Shigaki; assisted by Helen Gascon, Shirley Ann Lee, Eleanore Santri, Helen Shimizu, and Elizabeth Stroupe. GROUP BtJSINEss-Myrle Pung and Maryanne Shimabukuro; assisted by Wallace Akiyama, Dorothy Chong, Thomas Kimura, Robert Lum, and Nancy Young. PUBLICITY-Henry Nakasone and Arthur Wong; assisted by Wallace Akiyama, Robert Lwn, Clara Oshiba, Nancy Taketa, and Doris Uchida . .Mu slc-Katherine Clement. PROMPTER-Margaret De Velschow. HBAD USHER-Michiko Y amato. Sean O'Casey's THEATRE GROUP COUNCIL Margaret DeVelschow David Mahoney Raymond Shigalci JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK Miyoshi Ikeda Henry Nakasone Maryanne Shimabukuro Gordon Kushimaejo Myrle Pung Arthur Wong florence Lum Michiko Yamato Joel Trapido (Director) Earle Ernst (Director; on leave, 1951-52) GRADUATE THEATRE STAFF Clifford Ashby . Technical direction Sylvia Ashby . Costumes Charlotte Baverstock Theatre management Kathleen Sullivan . Direction and properties The Theatre Group wishes to acknowledge the assistance of others, including both students and members of the University of Hawaii faculty and administration, who made this production possible. Special thanks go to Lucie Bentley for general January 4, 5, and 9, 10, 11, 12, 1952 assistance to the director; to Richard Vine and his students for assistance in music; and to Da Kind for furniture and properties. FARRINGTON HALL THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII THEATRE GROUP TONIGHT'S PLAY presents ( When the Abbey Theatre, already one of the most famous theatres of the '• io twentieth century, produced J11no and the Paycock in 1924, it confirmed its aim of JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK becoming a real community theatre. O'Casey's play satisfied the high standards of by Yeats and at the same time was understood and enjoyed by the ordinary man. , Sean O'Casey It was no accident that the setting for Jtmo and the PaycoFk was a tenement house, just as it was no accident that the Abbey Theatre was in a tenement distri~. THE CAST For Dublin had become a city of tenements. The fine houses of the 18th and 19th (in order of speaking) centuries had been turned into one- and two-room tenements occupied by the MARY BOYLE SHERR! BAVERSTOCK poorer people. As naturally as others say "a next door neighbor," O'Casey's people ]UNO BOYLE, Mary's mother • BE'I"'Y GARRET speak of a "front-top neighbor" or "an oul' back-parlour neighbor." JOHNNY BOYLE, Mary's brother THOMAS MOFFAT Sean O'Casey knew the slums, too-he had grown up in them. He had no JERRY DEVINE LOUIS STEED formal schooling and, like his neighbors, he made a living as well as he could by "CAPTAlN" JACK BOYLE, Mary's father D AVID MAHONEY working at any casual job he could find. Poverty was normal in his society. "JOXER" DALY . HENRY NAKASONE A SEWING MACHINE MAN . RoBERT ScoTT In addition, O'Casey's plays belong to a new period in Irjsh history. In the A COAL-BLOCK VENDOR JOHN PHILLIPS early days of the Abbey Theatre, warfare was an aspiration, not an experience. CHARLIE BENTHAM, a School Teacher . VrNCBNT PluoRB Juno and the Paycock takes place later, in 1922, the most turbulent period in mod­ MRS. MAlSlE MADIGAN KATHLEEN ScoTT ern Irish history, the birth year of the Irish Free State. A campaign of open revolt MRS. TANCRED . SYLVIA AsHBY against British rule had finally led to the withdrawal of British troops ("Black and TWO NEIGHBORS ROSALIE ROBERTS, GEORGETTE SPELVIN Tans") and to the acceptance by the Irish Assembly of a treaty which gave Irelanq "NEEDLE" NUGENT, a Tailor . ICAuPENA WoNG the status of a free dominion. However, a period of civil war and terrorism foi­ AN IRREGULAR MOBILIZER . EDWARD LAU low. The extremist "Republican" party, defeated in the first elections, proved bad TWO FURNITURE-REMOVAL MEN ROBERT SCOTT, JOHN PHILLIPS losers. They formed a "die-hard" opposition to the victorious "Free State" party. AN IRREGULAR . HAROLD BATBS Dublin became the scene of bitter free-for-aU fights between the Civic Guard, a The action takes place in the living apartment of the two-roomed hastily formed Free State militia, and the "Irregular" Republican gunmen. This tenancy of the Boyle family, in a tenement house in Dublin. The strife, little less than open civil war, profoundly affects O'Casey's people, combin­ time is 1922. ing with their vivacity to·produce a play whose mood sweeps back and forth between Act I Mid-morning in September. the extremes of laughter and pathos. .. Intermission The song Come Back to Eri11 is intended to suggest the conflict which is the Act II Evening, two days later. background of the play and to re-enforce its tragic-pathetic overtones. Intermission Act III Scene 1. About half-past six on a November evening. COMING EVENTS Scene 2. An. hour later. Between mid-January and mid-February, the University Theatre will show, in Directed by KATHLEEN SULLIVAN the latter part of each week, an outstanding recent foreign or old American film. As all these films are in considerable demand (they must be flown to and from Set designed by CLIFFORD AsHBY and KATHLEEN SULLIVAN Hawaii), it is not expected that they will be shown again soon. Though final Technical direction by CLIFFORD AsHBY arrangements for the films a.re not complete as this program goes to press, they will probably be chosen from among the following: Symphonie Pastorale (French), Lighting by ELBERT SMITH Quartet, Tight Little Island, The Spectre of tbe Rose, The Well-Digger's Da11ghter assisted by RoBERT ScoTT (French), The Thirty-Nine Steps (Hitchcock), Four early Chaplin films, and The Costumes by SYLVIA ASHBY River (Pare Lorentz). Make-up by RosALIE RoBERTS and KATHLEEN ScoTT In late February and early March, the Theatre Group expects to present its Produced under the supervision of JOEL TRAPIOO annual group of original prize plays. .