Another ACTF Honor for Dartmouth Players

For the third successive year, a Dartmouth Players' production is being considered for the American College Theatre Festival in April in Washington, D. C. The Blood Knot, an October production at the Hopkins Center, is one of three New England entries submitted by the ACTF screening committee for possible performance at the festival.

The Players' 1970 production of TheGhost Sonata was one of ten chosen from among 161 college and university entries to be performed at Washington's Ford Theater. Later filmed for television on the Eastern Educational Network, the performance won top acting honors for Mark Bradley '71 and Susan LeBlanc Fergenson.

him by e.e.cummings was recommended last year to the final selection committee in Washington. The production was videotaped at the Hopkins Center for network distribution some time in 1972 by the Public Broadcasting System.

The Blood Knot, written by South African playwright Athol Fugard and directed by Professor Errol Hill, has only two characters, brothers played by Daniel Chodos '73 and Nels Armstrong '71. Armstrong is currently on the staff of the Office of Student Counseling.

The final decision on whether the Dartmouth production or an entry from the University of Maine or Middlebury College will represent New England at the Festival will be made late this month.

For their Winter Carnival show this month, The Players are presenting TheVisit by Friedrich Duerrenmatt, Switzerland's leading playwright. Guest director for this production is Herbert Shore, who founded the drama department at the University of East Africa and was theater consultant to 'he governments of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. He and Errol Hill, Dartmouth's professor of drama, worked together at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.