The UPEI SUN, Novenber 5, 1981, page 5

VUNDER MILK woon

Come next March, there will be a respite for those persons desperately looking for a way to shake the winter blues. The UPEI Theatre Society has scheduled Dylan Thomas' radio for perfcmance on March 12,_l3, and 14, 1982 in Steel Hall. Under Milk ‘ Wood 'is "full of sunshine and the warmth of 'spring", says Terry Pratt, director of the upcoming production. . ‘ > , Dylan Thanas, a Welsh poet, died at the age of 39 in 1953; with this play, his only dramatic effort, just completed. He is generally regarded as one of the finest

masters of the English

language in this century. Some of his poetry is “ ' .dix :fficult but when] i .

be celebrates his ' L v ‘

boyhood among therollins farmsteads and,litt1e‘ ‘ * seaports of Wales, he; is, accessible to every - , .I‘howplaiflhas” ‘ pictbut-“fdilows a day in the life of a little Welsh fishing .Village a the present tine. I . Beginning in the wee hours of the morning, we see the dreams of. sons of the towspeople. They then awaken and the town goesabout the day's business. A very funny play, Under Milk .Wood » is also a fantasy.“ of the characters. are ' ‘ just absurd'and silly. Ben Beynon the butcher convinces“ his wife that she breakfasts ,on pusscat liver, moles, otters, and shrews. Mr. Ogmore was a proper gentleman, "even though he hanged his collie." - And then ~ there's Ocky Milkman, ‘ " who keeps his wife in the cupboard with the empties. ‘ 'A‘trlitions for Under Milk Wood will be heal-Ed '_ through out the day and evening of Monday, 9 Novenber in Room 107 Main The play involves about 69 characters, but one V person” will not be cast for each Instead, eadi pérson will. be menses say at least three parts. Eight when and seven . men are the mininum

a

amount of -' actors necessary, _

Jr,

but if enough persons

show for auditions, the production canmake use of twenty or twenty-five people at the most. The Theatre Society is looking for people who 4 can read the of the play with understanding and feeling. Terry Pratt, a professor in UPEI's English Department explains: "The play is easy to read and not

difficult to understand,

but the actor should be able“ to appreciate the beauty of the play as he/she is reading." When questioned about the number of professional; non-university actors seen in past theatrical productions put on by UPEI, Pratt replied,"If possible, I would like.

‘a cast totally taken

from the university, v

i and will. bend over — '

backwards to get them.

fi will even phone people ‘ “Who don't turn out if ' " . necessary, and ask them

to think about acting

in the play. I won't

go downtam until all resources here have been exhausted."

.The production also requires people to assist with makeup and publicity, but the Host desperately needed people are set i - painters, "people who are willing to be bold and wield large strokes as they paint an outline of a house ten feet high. This is ‘a job for those

' ' who have always wanted ' to paint mirals: If

done right, it will be

" just what we need to set

off the play. The paintersv' do not have to be that talented, justkeen. "

continued on page 7 ,

The Professors

' of the unevocative "A", "B", etc., we will now

I -U;.P.E.I. When it was pointed out that we have ' only gig fornuér president of U.P.E.I. , I suggested

somewhere . )

. Diary

Monday: Spent the week—end marking mid-term essays. At first I tried the traditional method of throwing them all down the stairs, _ whereby the heaviest goes farthest and lands scme way down, the next heaviest is a bit higher, and the one-page efforts merely flutter to one's feet. It is then a simple matter to assign grades as one goes up from the bottom: A+, A, A—,B+ , B, B—, and so forth. However, on this occasion, a great many essays, annoyingly, kept falling apart, and I had to read than after all.

Tuesday: The intricacies of contemporary univer- sity financing are both Byzantine and bizarre. I now understand that, to the Business Office and the President, I am not a professor; I am an ETA -- an "Effective Full Time Equivalent." Little do they know that I am. secretly an IFI‘A.

Wednesday: For a change, we had a most successful meeting of the Parking Committee today, in which we decided to rename the parking lots. Instead

nanie the lots to honour former presidents of

that we simply create a sort of acronym of his name, using one letter per lot: "B", "A", etc. This was certainly felt to be highly satisfactory- and certainly a feather in my cap as chairman.

Thursday: I see that the university newsletter, Topics, has armounced another publication by Professor X, my arch-rival. Happily, havever, it is in a second—class journal. We all know X's One of his listed publications, I seem to recall, is in a journal he started himself. It went one issue and then, with his article entombed, expired. If only Topics were more discriminating! If only I had something to announce. (Perhaps I could publish this Diary

Friday: Spent the morning reading the Harris report on UPEI, "Ten Years Later." Harris is rather down on the "publish or perish" doctrine, so prevalent in universities today, and on its invidious effects for true learning. I agree wholeheartedly, especially when I look at- Professor X. Here am I, just because I don't publish much, perishing on a bare $35,000 a year With tenures only four months off in the summer, and with a teaching load of fully nine hours a week! It certainly would be good to have some of the pressure taken off.

j 'WOR‘LD PROBLEM SERIES

A] PANEL DISCUSSION

-, j ‘ y ' “Political problems in the North-South dialogue.

Panelists :

Moderator :

Everyone Welcorre.

Mr. David Pollock... . . National Field Worker,Ten Days for World Development ‘ .- Prof. Don Nemetz . .. . . School of Business Administration, UPEI. ’ , V Prof. Peter Gardner. . . Dept. of Economics, UPEI.

,VProf. Reginald C. Stuart.... Coor ' tor, World‘Problem Series, Dept.

Thursday, Nov.5,l981, 7:30pm. ‘ _ ‘ St. Paul's Church Hall, Charlottetown

of History, UPEI .