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Show Playbox The Playbox features drama "extraordinaire" acted in the theater-in-the- round method. Using the small Playbox building behind the Union Building, this theater group acts in the center of the audience. In this way, the audience feels itself almost part of the action, and unusual effects in position and lighting can be produced. Playbox productions were under the general supervision of the Speech Department and Robert Hyde Wilson. Theater faculty members alternated in directing the four plays produced this year. Unusual features of the Playbox include the refreshment hour for the audience during the intermission. Art exhibits of local talent are displayed in the lobby; and each play program is designed in shape and art work to fit the tone of the play. Production crew of the Playbox includes, left to right, Hal Curtis, Max Beere, John Elzey, Norman Tarbox. The cast of "Under Milkwood," a play for voices, assembles in characteristic positions. UNDER MILKWOOD "Under Milkwood," written by Dylan Thomas and directed by Robert Hyde Wilson, is listed by the Saturday Review as one of the ten major contributions to literature during 1954. The play opens at dawn in a small Welsh village where the townspeople express their desires, unhappiness or happiness in a very uninhibited manner. An almost "stream of consciousness" flow of dialogue is carried on, supplemented by isolated narrators. A dramatic scene occupies, left to right, Thomas Christensen, Beverlea Taylor, Betty Joe Anderson, Lowell Manfull, Vaughn McBride, Bunny Reese. Rear: James L. Jarrett, Mildred Baker. |