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Ua37/35/1 Cultural Enrichment Through Community Action, O. J. Wilson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Final report for he Cultural Enrichment through Community Action project 1966 to 1970 "as a technique to eliminate a cultural blight or void in the areas of art, music and theatre in the service area of Western Kentucky University." [Final Report, p. 1]

A Critical Study Of The Dramas Of Four Major Romantic Poets, Earl Murphy Jr.

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Since little critical attention has been given to the dramas of this period, it would seem that further examination of them would be of value. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to investigate the dramas of the major Romantic poets in order to provide a new critical perspective on their plays specifically and Romantic drama generally. From this it is hoped useful conclusions can be drawn. The study will be limited to the plays of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, and George Gordon, Lord Byron. John Keats has been omitted from this group because his only …

Ua68/17/2 The Star-Spangled Girl!, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of The Star-Spangled Girl!

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1968-1969, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1968-1969 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips, campus activities, tributes to Russell Miller and Van Meter Hall renovations.

• Liliom, 1968
• Wait Until Dark, 1968
• The Star Spangled Girl, 1969
• The Crucible, 1969
• J.B., 1969
• Apollo of Bellac, 1968
• No Exit
• Box and Cox
• The Lesson, 1969
• Surpressed Desires, 1969
• Before Breakfast, 1969
• The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1968, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1968 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Shakertown Revisited
• Shaker Festival
• The Killing of Sister George
• The Fugitive Kind
• The Wizard of Oz

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1967-1968, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1967-1968 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• A View from the Bridge, 1967
• Anastasia, 1968
• Tea and Sympathy, 1968
• Ghosts, 1968
• The Male Animal, 1968
• Becket, 1967
• The Fisherman
• The Romancers
• The Bald Soprano
• Carnival of Characters, 1968

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1967, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1967 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Hay Fever
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
• Shakertown Revisited
• Auburn Shaker Festival

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1966-1967, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1966-1967 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• South Pacific, 1966
• The Taming of the Shrew, 1967
• Carmen, 1967
• Night Must Fall, 1967
• The Glass Menagerie, 1966
• Miss Julie
• Cyrano de Bergerac, 1967

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1966, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1966 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Shakertown Revisted
• Auburn Shaker Festival
• Oh Dad, Poor Dad!
• Summer and Smoke
• Tom Sawyer

Ua68/17/2 The Bat's Revenge, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of The Bat's Revenge.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1965-1966, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1965-1966 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• West Side Story, 1965
• The Doctor in Spite of Himself, 1966
• The Bat's Revenge, 1966
• Life With Father, 1966
• Modern Duo: Estrangement, 1965
• This Property is Condemned
• La Dama Del Alba
• Die Kleinen Verwandten
• John Brown's Body
• Red Peppers

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1965, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1965summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• This Fair Land
• Shakertown Revisted
• Three Men on a Horse
• The Night of the Iguana

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1964-1965, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1964-1965 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding meetings and activities.

• Six Characters in Search of an Author, 1964
• Antigone, 1964
• Phoenix Too Frequent, 1964
• Sancho Panza En Barataria, 1965
• The Misunderstanding, 1965
• Dance Concerto, 1965
• Bedtime Story, 1965
• Bye, Bye Birdie, 1965
• The Talented Failure, 1965
• The Letter, 1965
• The American Dream, 1965

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1964, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1964 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Shakertown Revisited
• Love Among the Ruins
• Royal Gambit

Ua68/17/2 The Teahouse Of The August Moon, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of The Teahouse of the August Moon.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1963-1964, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1963-1964 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding meetings and activities.

• As Your Like It, 1963
• A Far Country, 1963
• The Teahouse of the August Moon, 1964
• God's Trombones, 1964
• The Clod, 1964
• La Farce de Cuvier, 1964
• The Second Shepherd's Play, 1964
• Package Show, 1964
• Entremes del Mauceba que Caso con Mujir Brava, 1964
• The Boor, 1964

Ua68/17/2 Don Juan In Hell, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program from WKU Western Players' production of Don Juan in Hell.

Ua68/17/2 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1962-1963, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1962-1963 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding meetings and activities.

• The Secret of Christmas, 1962
• Don Juan in Hell, 1963
• Profile of the Exes
• Legend of the Lake
• The Ladder
• All My Sons, 1963
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1963

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1963, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1963 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Shakertown Revisted
• Auburn Shaker Festival
• The Unexpected Guest
• The Grass Harp

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1962, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1962 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• The House of Bernarda Alba
• Shaker Festival
• Private Lives

Ua68/17/2 Make Mine Music, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program from WKU Western Players' production of Make Mine Music.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1961-1962, Western Player

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1961-1962 season. The scrapbook also includes items regarding meetings and activities.

• Thunder on the Hill, 1961
• Winterset, 1961
• A Medicine for Melancholy, 1961
• Missouri Legend, 1961
• Brother to Dragons, 1962
• Ten Steps to the Presidency, 1962
• The Skin of Our Teeth, 1962
• Gonza the Lancer, 1962
• Make Mine Music, 1962
• The Little Show, 1962

The First Of The Modern Directors: The Actor-Manager Career Of William Charles Macready, Abe J. Bassett

Theatre Faculty Publications

“My ambition,” wrote William Charles Macready on retiring from the stage in February 1851, was “to establish a theatre, in regard to decorum and taste, worthy of our country, and to have in it the plays of our divine Shakespeare fitfully illustrated.” Although this was undoubtedly a life-long aspiration, which spanned over forty years of his professional career it was best expressed in the four theatrical seasons in which Macready managed Covent Garden theatre (from 1837 to 1839) and Drury Lane theatre (from 1841 to 1843.) It has been the purpose of this study to examine the contributions that Macready …

Ua68/17/2 Missouri Legend, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Missouri Legend.

Ua68/17/2 Summer Players Scrapbook 1961, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1961 summer theater season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Bus Stop
• The Curious Savage

Ua68/17/2 Dark Of The Moon, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Dark of the Moon.

Ua68/17/2 The Male Animal, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of The Male Animal.

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1960-1961, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1960-1961 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities as well as clippings for the Debate Team and Bowling Green Community Players.

• Oklahoma, 1960
• Our Town, 1960
• The Male Animal, 1961
• Dark of the Moon, 1961
• Homecoming, 1961
• Voice in the Dark, 1961

Ua68/17/2 Scrapbook 1960-1961, Western Players

Student Organizations

Scrapbook of clippings, playbills and photos of theatrical productions from 1960-1961 season. Includes souvenirs from field trips and campus activities.

• Oklahoma, 1960
• Our Town, 1960
• The Male Animal, 1961
• Dark of the Moon, 1961
• Voice in the Dark, 1961