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Two One-Act Arena Plays, Kansas State Teachers College

Communication and Theater Programs

No abstract provided.

The School For Scandal, Kansas State Teachers College

Communication and Theater Programs

No abstract provided.

The Miser, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

Satire and farce blend in the fast-moving plot, as when the miser's hoard is stolen. Asked by the police magistrate whom he suspects, Harpagon replies, “Everybody! I wish you to take into custody the whole town and suburbs” and indicates the theatre audience while doing so. The play also makes fun of certain theatrical conventions, such as the spoken aside addressed to the audience, hitherto ignored by the characters onstage. The characters of L'Avare, however, generally demand to know who exactly is being spoken to.

The Miser. (2017, July 19). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:08, September 26, …

Goodbye, My Fancy, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

A Broadway hit about a liberal Congresswoman who returns to her old school as an honorary visitor. Since her wartime experiences in Europe, she has devoted herself to the task of acquainting people with the horrors of war. That is why she has brought a documentary with her to be shown to the young graduates. The movie is considered harsh and improper by the trustees, so she has a fight on her hands. The conflict exposes the university president as a spineless and irresolute figure, instead of the upstanding and outspoken professor with whom Miss Reed thought she had been …

The Corn Is Green, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

Miss Moffat settles in a remote Welsh mining village and starts a school for the local boys, one of whom, Morgan Evans, shows great promise. Miss Moffat determin's to do everything to help Morgan's application for a scholarship to Oxford. But Morgan rebels against help from a woman and falls prey to the flashy charms of Bessie Watty. His chances of success are almost destroyed but Miss Moffat's courageous wisdom and her affection for him win the day and Morgan wins the'scholarship.

https://www.samuelfrench.co.uk/p/10885/the-corn-is-green

John Loves Mary, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

John Lawrence, who has been overseas three years, is welcomed home by the charming Mary McKinley. These two are and have been in love with each other. John's life had been saved while he was overseas by his buddy Fred Taylor. Fred returned home a year before John, and John brings him what should be a pleasant surprise—news that he has married Lily, an English girl Fred had fallen in love with and who could not hope to get to America for years unless as the wife of a G.I. John therefore marries her and plans to deliver her to …

Campus Lights 1951, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Ua68/17/2 Two Blind Mice, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for Western Players' production of Two Blind Mice

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1950-1951, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1950-1951 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding the WKU Debate Team and field trips taken by the Western Players.

• Racial Integration - Carlisle High School
• Livermore Freshman is Winner of Robinson Oratorical Contest - Wayne Everly
• Six Students Will Try for Speech Award in Robinson Contest
• Phi Delta Kappa
• Kappa Delta Pi
• Russell H. Miller Appears in Escape
• Talley, Rhea. A Tree Grows at Columbia for Kentucky Students
• Studies Speech at Columbia University
• Southside, USA, 1950
• T 'n' T, Vol. 3, No. 1, December 1950
• LaBoheme, 1950
• Goodbye, My …

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1950-1951, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1950-1951 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Southside USA, 1950
• Goodbye, My Fancy, 1950
• Curse You, Jack Dalton, 1951
• Kind Lady, 1951
• Swingtime, 1951

The Winslow Boy, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

The action of the play takes place in the Winslow family home in Kensington, London, in the years immediately before the First World War. The fourteen-year-old Ronnie Winslow has been expelled from naval college, accused of the theft of a postal order. The boy remains adamant that he is innocent. Enraged, his father Arthur engages a leading lawyer, Sir Robert Morton, to challenge the Admiralty to prove the charges in court. The play follows Arthur’s attempts to clear his son’s name, even in the face of public opposition and weakening resolve. Each member of the family suffers as the case …

Twelfth Night, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centers on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with the Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with plot elements …

On Whitman Avenue, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

A black family meets strong opposition, and only limited support, when they move into a white neighborhood, in Maxine Wood's play.

http://www.playbill.com/production/on-whitman-avenue-cort-theatre-vault-0000003576

Campus Lights 1950, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

My Man Godfrey, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

In the depths of the Depression, Godfrey, a "forgotten man," is rescued from his packing-crate home by ditzy socialite Irene Bullock during the course of a scavenger hunt. Irene offers Godfrey a job as butler to the banking family of Bullocks. Godfrey tolerates their eccentricities, alcoholism and general nuttiness. He cures hangovers, dodges missiles thrown by Irene's jealous sister, Cornelia, and charms matronly Angelica Bullock, who sees pixies every morning. Irene and Molly, the pert Irish maid, both fall in love with Godfrey, but for Irene it's serious—and she's determined to get her man. Falsely accused by Cornelia of stealing …

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook, 1949-1950, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1949-1950 season. Includes articles about campus activities.

• Nothing but the Truth, 1949
• The Late Christopher Bean, 1949
• Mary the Third, 1950
• The Petrified Forest, 1950
• All My Sons, 1950

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook, 1949-1950, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1949-1950 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Nothing but the Truth, 1949
• Mary the Third, 1950
• The Petrified Forest, 1950
• All My Sons, 1950

The Butter And Egg Man, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

One of the most popular Broadway successes. A delightful satirical comedy about a seemingly simple country boy who came to New York and broke into the play producing game. But the young "butter-and-egg man" is somewhat more astute than he looks, and in the end is instrumental in turning a "flop" into what is known in the game as a "wow." The plot rises to the heights of satirical comedy in the second act where the production is discussed by the cast and backers. The play starts out with a tremendous stride and continues right up to the fall of …

The Fool, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

This play made theatrical history. Presented simultaneously by six companies in America and two in England; enthusiastically endorsed by schools and churches, it has been read or witnessed by millions of people, all over the world, and is still on the "required reading" list of colleges and universities. It deals with a young clergyman who resolves to try "What would happen now-a-days to a man who lived like Christ?" Through a series of intensely dramatic incidents, he learns that such a man might lose the world, but would find happiness. The incident of the healing of the little crippled girl, …

But Not Goodbye, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

The entire action of the play takes place between 7 and 9:30 in the evening of a summer in 1910. Sam Griggs dies in the first act. Immediately Sam's spirit, however, descends to the living room in great anxiety, because Sam has passes on not only leaving his wife and daughter penniless but having misappropriated his son's savings for a speculative venture. Moreover, he has kept his speculation a secret and the real estate investment has been made in the name of his partner. Sam, in the living room, encounters the spirit of his father, who had been killed in …

Campus Lights 1949, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook, 1948-1949, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1948-1949 season.

• Dust of the Road, 1948
• Missouri Legend, 1948
• The Contrast, 1949
• Life With Father, 1949

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook, 1948-1949, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1948-1949 season.

• Dust of the Road, 1948
• Missouri Legend, 1948
• The Contrast, 1949
• Life with Father, 1949
• Fresh Fields, 1949
• Papa is All, 1948

Also includes articles regarding Jesse James' robbery of the Southern Deposit Bank.

Deep Are The Roots, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

The play tells the story of Brett Charles, a decorated African-American lieutenant in the U.S. Army, who returns to his small hometown in the Deep South at the end of World War II. Brett has been treated like an equal in Europe, with men under his command, and slipping back into the shuffling role of "boy" is not something he's about to do. The liberal-minded Alice Langdon, daughter of a conservative U.S. senator, has been Brett's champion throughout his life, and she has plans for him to go to college in the North. Brett prefers to stay, however, and work …

Our Town, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous acting editions, yet it presents Our Town as Thornton Wilder wished it to be performed. Described by Edward Albee as “…the greatest American play ever written,” the story follows the small town of Grover’s Corners through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage,” and “Death and Eternity.” Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually – in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre – die. Thornton Wilder’s …

Laura, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

When Mark McPherson first falls in love with Laura, he knows he's in love with a phantom—for Laura is dead, and he's in charge of her murder investigation. From her portrait, her letters, her personal effects and from his contacts with the three men who loved her, Mark has created an image of a woman tantalizingly alive and real. When she appears in the midst of a thunderstorm, very much alive after all, it is revealed that Laura's best friend (and rival) was the true victim of the crime. But now, all evidence seems to point to Laura's guilt. Despite …

Campus Lights 1948, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1947-1948, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1947-1948.

• Fright, 1947
• Dear Ruth, 1947
• Arsenic & Old Lace, 1947
• Invitation to Laughter, 1947
• A Wedding Has Been Arranged, 1947
• Thank You, Doctor, 1947
• The City Slicker & Our Nell, 1948
• Joan of Lorraine, 1948
• Hot Biscuits, 1948
• Tonight at 8:15, 1948
• Our Dearest Possession, 1948
• Moonshine, 1948
• The Women, 1948
• Idiot's Delight, 1948
• Papa Is All, 1948
• You Can't Take It With You, 1948

Includes some photos of the basketball team, cheerleaders and an article about Glasgow murder.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook, Vol. I, 1947-1948, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1947-1948.

• Wilson, Gordon. Western Players
• Dear Ruth, 1947
• Invitation to Laughter, 1947
• A Wedding Has Been Arranged, 1947
• Thank You, Doctor, 1947
• Joan of Lorraine, 1948
• Harvey, 1948
• Nothing but the Truth, 1948
• Idiot's Delight, 1948

Papa Is All, Otterbein University

1907-1958 Productions

A cheerful comedy about the Pennsylvania Dutch. Papa's an ugly tempered tyrant with religious scruples against conveniences and pleasures of all kinds. Emma, the daughter, is in love with a surveyor who wants to marry her. Son Jake wants to simplify farm life by the installation of machinery. Mama, though resigned to accepting Papa's word, is wistful for the friendly association with neighbors that's part of even the most orthodox Mennonite life. The offspring suspect Papa's scruples are merely a way of keeping them as the farm's forced slave labor. Emma with Mama's connivance steals off to a movie with …