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OCTOBER 16-17-18-19, 1974 Director - JAMES AVIDON Designor,Technicol Director - FRED J. THAYER Costume Designer - PAMELA SIMMONS Produud by 1peciol orrongoment with Somuel French, Inc. ( Due to p0per shortage ond increased costs, only one program wi ll bet distributed per couple. >

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CONGRATULATIONS! The staff and students of the Otterbein College Theatre (post and present) would like to publicly congratulate ond celebrate with P,of. Fred J. Thayer, Designer-Techni col Di rector, the successful completion of 100 scene designs with the settings for Covnl

Droculo.

His first des ign ot Otterbein was for Teahouse of the Augusr Moon in the foll of 1960.

In the succeeding 14 years he hos designed over 75 major productions, i ncluding pro· scenium designs such as the setting for this production, thrust or open stage designs such os those frequently used for pre-modern plays, severa l children's theatre productions

ond the bulk of the arena theatre designs for eight years of the Otterbein Summer Theatre.

He hos worked with over 20 di fferent directors at Otterbein during this period. Prior to

coming to Otterbein he hod designed for Bowling Green Stole University, the Huron Playhouse and the University of Toledo.

While it i s impossible to estimate the thousands of hours of labor and creative effort so apparent in his 14 yeors at Otterbein, on th is occasion of his 100th design it is pos .. sible to soy " thank you" ond to hope for at leost another 100 designs in the years to come!

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR I t is with a great deol of pleasure that we w"'lcome Jomes D. Avidon to the Otterbein

College Theatre staff. A native New Yorker (he would probably soy from Brooklyn) Jim hos a B.A. ond M. F.A. in theatre from Brooklyn College. Prior to his appointment ot Otterbein he was employed as Director of Young People's Theatre at the Grand Rapids Ovit ThMtre in Michigan.

Jim hos on extensive background in o variety of theatre acti vities, including numerous acting roles ot Brooklyn College. Most recently his work hos centered on directing, particularly children's theotrc productions, ond work os a designer-technical director

assistant ot Brooklyn College. Hi s work ot Grand Rapids also included the production of o TV children's theatre series. He was honored by the Grand Rapids Educational Assoc· iation with their Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to their program during

the 1972-73 season.

His activi ties at Otlerbein for 1974-75 will indude designing Scopin, working wi th the Work shop Theatre program, and teaching a varie:ty of cou~ses including makeup, creative dramatics ond children's theatre, pre-modern on d modern theatre ond directing. He wi I I also be working with our Summer Theatre os o di .r ector and designer.

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DIRECTOR 'S CORNER For o number of yeors as time, space and inspiration hove permitted, I hove attempted to write brief essays for the theatre programs, ranging in content from concerns about speci fic produ ctions to rationales for selecting o season of ploys to "Why Theatre in o Libero! Arts College?" On occasion I hove deleted the essay because I ei ther didn't have time to wri te, didn' t hove anything to s oy, or most frequently d idn't hove ti me to write and re-write in order to formulate properly concepts that needed expression. Fortunately (or unfortunately} I hove no excuse this fall - I'm not directing so I can't use time as on excuse and I do hove something to shore with our theatre-goers that exci tas us.

As o result of recent major changes we b.e lieve the Theatre has token two very important steps towards maintaining the goal of "presenting the finest qual ity theatrical pro• duction possible while providing education ornd training for our students." Lost yeor th e theat re curricu lum wos modified to odd new cour$eS in acting, design, crea tive dra matics ond children ' s theat re, theatre ond orts mono g ement, while on expansion of our Workshop Theatre program to nine productions annuol ly allows student directors ond dozens of aspiring ac tors to practice ond develop th eil' c rea tivity ond technique.

This year a nother maior innovative prog ram is currently under way . Spawned lost winter during my sabbatica l leave and helped a long with o Ford Fou ndation Vent ure Grant, we were able lo concei ve and estoblish o THEATRE INTERNSHIP program for our sen ior student s which permits o complete term of on•the-job experience and training. In preparation for th is program I vi sited 12 professiona l regional thea tres, d inner theatres and several community and children's theat res. Professional groups agreei ng to partici pa te and c:aoperote with us in this program include the Actors' Theatre of Lou isville, the Areno Stoge of Woshi ngton, O. C., the Bullolo Studio Arena, A l lian ce Theatre of Atlanta, Indiana Repertory of lndionopoli s, Sorter Thea t re of Vi rginia, Cen tre Stage of Ba ltimore, Trinity Squotc of Providence, Players Theat re of Miami and t he C incinnati Playhouse.

Twe lve sen ior students were gron ted permission 10 porticipote in the program this year. During the current foll term five students ore off.campus: Jerry Con fer on d Beth Mochlon ore acting in1erns and Pam Hill is a management intern at the Actors' Theatre of Lou i svi l le, while Robert Boles and Mo rty Bookwalter ore working in stage management and lechnico l theatre respectively ot Arena Stage in Woshin gton . Bill Brewer wos to hove worked at Cincinnati in management and acting, but he elected a student teaching exper· ience and the opportunity to di rect the Opera Theatre production of Amahl and the Night Vis;tors instead. The winter and spring terms wil l find studen ts working wi th the Colum· bus PloyerS Club, the Columbus Jun ior Theatre of the Arts, the Country Dinner Ploy• house, the Al liance Ch i ldren ' s Theatre, Borter Theatre of Virg inia a nd the Acto rs' Theatre of Louisville.

F i rst reports from this new adventure ore fantastically exc iting - the st udent s in· volved t his term report en thusiastica ll y about their new learning and work experiences; examples include Jerry Confer and Beth Mach Ian being cost in a major children's th eatre production, major technica l work and supervi:sion by Morty Bookwa lter and the develop· ment of new publ ic relations work by Pam Hil l. Whi le we ore tremendously excited by such reports we ore perhaps even more excited by the response of professional directors in these theatres - they ore excited about our program and our students, primarily be· cause they hove found them to be well trained, h: gh ly motivated and extremely rcspon· sible young ladies and gentlemen. Perhaps our desi re to "bridge the gap" between educationa l and profes sional theatre is working!

This Theatre hos always token great pride- in our total training program and we hove attempted to achieve high produ ction standards which would permi t young graduotes to continue in thi s highly competitive field. The continued success of o number of recent groduoles is encouraging ond rewording, but we believe these two recent innovations in curriculum ond internship programs will permi t us to graduate students who ore bet ter prepared to compete in the modern reolities of the theatre morket·ploce .

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CAST (in order of app earance)

Sybil Seward .................................................................................................... LESLIE YOUNG * Hennessey ............................................................................................................ CABOT REA Dr. Arthur Seward ............................................................................................... ... JOHN CAIN • • Ren field ..................... ............................................. .......... ...................................... DAN HAWK ' Wesley ...................... .. .............................................................................................. J ON WHITE Jonathan Harker .............................................................................................. BILL BREWER ** Mino .............................................................................................................. SUE ANN KOCKS • • Count Dracula ............................................................................................................ J IM WEST •• Dr. Heinrich Von Helsing .............................................................................. GIAN MORELLI '* * fndicotes membership in Cop and Dagger Dramatics Club

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SYNOPSIS SCENE: Living quarters in Dr. Seword' s Asylum for the Insane, north of London.

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- An autumn evening. l ntervo I

ACT 11 - Nearly midnight, three nights la ter. lntervall

ACT Il l - Scene 1: Twenty-eigh t hours later, before down.

Scene 2: The Crypt at daybreak.

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