Tony Award-winner here Friday
for first collegiate performance
By BOB WEBB
Of the Emerald
“Equus," a play by Peter Shaf
fer which won the 1975 Tony
Award for Best Play, will receive
its first collegiate performance
when the University’s Carnival
Theatre opens its summer sea
son Friday night.
The play is a journey into the
mind of a deranged 17-year-old
boy who senselessly and sys
tematically blinds six horses with
a steel spike. The play's drama
unfolds when a psychiatrist exp
lores the young boy's tortured
^ British playwright Peter Shaffer
was bom in Liverpool in 1926. His
first play, "Five Finger Exercise,'
opened in both London and New
York to strong critical acclaim.
Shaffer has written and produced
five other plays: “The Private
Ear’’ and The Public Eye’’ in
1962, “The Royal Hunt of the
Sun ” in 1964, "Black Comedy in
1965 and "Shrivings,” which first
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appeared on the London stage as
the “Battle of Shrivings" in 1970.
“Equus” is considered to be
Shaffer's most conspicuous suc
cess to date.
Carnival's production of
“Equus” will be directed by Faber
DeChaine. DeChaine is a profes
sor of theater Arts at the Univer
sity. He received his B.S. here in
1952, his M.S. at Michigan State
in 1953 and his Ph.D. at the Uni
versity of Minnesota in 1963. His
most recent production was last
winter’s "MacBeth." Other Uni
versity Theatre (UT) directing as
signments include “Our Town”
(1974), “Tiny Alice" (1975) and
Carnival Theatre's “Dylan'
(1976).
Others involved with the play
include University speech faculty
members Mimi Mace, costume
designer; Jerry Williams, scenic
designer; J. Thibeau, technical di
rector; and James Conant of
Eugene who will portray the dis
turbed boy, Alan Strang. The
psychiatrist will be played by Tom
Laswell.
“Equus" is the first of seven
productions Carnival Theatre will
be mounting this summer. The
other major shows and their run
ning dates are: “And Miss Rear
don Drinks a Little,” by Paul Zin
del and directed by Tom Gill (July
8); "Funny Girl,” by Jule Styne,
Bob Merrill and Isobel Lennart, di
rected by Tom Laswell (July 21);
and N. Richard Nash’s “The
Rainmaker,” directed by Melina
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Neal (August 5).
In addition to the major produc
tions three children's shows will
be presented. “Skupper
Duppers" by Flora Atkin will be
directed by Tom Gressler and
opens July 2. Mary Pack will be
directing “Sing Ho for a Prince”
by Joe Grenzebach with music by
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formed July 16 through the 21.
An additional treat will be a
presentation of “Hansel and Gre
tel” in the form of a marionette
opera directed by Jerry Williams."
Hansel and Gretel" will open July
30 for a five-day run. People in
terested in working on this show
in creating and operating the
puppets may sign up for William s
Puppetry Class (407) during the
summer school term.
All Carnival Theatre produc
tions are produced under the tent
to the west of the Robinson
Theatre, Villard Hall. Major pro
ductions begin at 8 p.m. and
children's shows are scheduled
at 11 a.m.
Reserved seat tickets, at $3
and $4 for the major productions
(University students and senior
citizens are one-half price), are
now on sale at the UT box office,
686-4191. The box office is open
from noon to 5 p.m. Monday
through Saturday and from noon
to 9 p.m. on productions nights
Children's shows are $1.
“Equus" runs Friday and
Saturday night and next Wed
nesday through Saturday.
‘Bus Stop’ comedy opens at Atrium
.The Oregon Repertory Theatre (formerly
Eugene Theatre Company) will open its production
of “Bus Stop,” a comedy from the fifties by William
Inge, tonight at 8:30 p.m. on the second floor of the
Atrium in Eugene.
Bus Stop is a warm-hearted comedy about
what happens when several bizarre individuals get
stranded overnight in a Kansas country diner. The
company selected this script because each of the
eight characters has an individual story to tell, em
phasizing the kind of ensemble work that the
Oregon Repertory Theatre is committed to produc
ing.
The cast of “ Bus Stop” features Carol Young
as Cherrie and Jim Robinson as Bo, playing the
young lovers in an adult play after having played
opposite each other in the company s children's
play, “Androcles and the Lion.” Will Emery, most
recently seen as the Lion in the same production,
will play Bo's cowboy sidekick, Virgil. Popular com
pany actresses Jane VanBoskirk and Nyla McCar
thy play the two waitresses at the bus stop, one
salty and tough, the other demure and innocent.
Their quiet and slow night is interrupted by a degen
erate, alcoholic Dr. Lyman, played by John
Freeman, and the earthy bus dnver, played by Philip
Miller.
'Bus Stop" will play at 8:30 on the following
evenings in the theater's new home on the second
floor of the Atrium Mall: June 23-26, June 30, July
1-3 and July 7-8. Tickets are $3 Thursday and Sun
day and $4 Friday and Saturday. For advance re
servations and information, call 485-1946
The company s production of "Androcles and
the Lion continues to run as well, in the Atnum, every
Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. Tickets are $1 for chil
dren and $2 for adults. For advance reservations
and information call 485-1946.
James Conant, who plays Alan Strang in the University's Carnival
Theatre performance of “Equus," sits asthde his horse (played by
Rick Norris) during a play rehearsal. ‘Equus" opens Friday.
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