Antigone. Bull, and Sex
12:30 REP, abbreviated doses of drama at noontime orchestrated by the rustle of sandwich bags, opened its fifth season early last month with a 45-minute production of "Antigone" in Civil War dress. Classicists and avant-gardists lacked unanimity in their appraisal, but most parties agreed on the excellence of the acting. The fall offerings continued with a multi-media program "The Unanswered Question," billed as "a collage of film, dance, theater, and music." Rod Alexander's production of "The Mirror Man," an adaptation of Four Fairy Tales" by Brian Way, which Alexander hopes later to take on tour, and a collection of French plays, under the supervision of Professor John Rassias of The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, round out the fall season.
The extra-curricular world of the College continues to offer almost everything for almost everybody. Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy opened the Spectrum Series the Hopkins Center with two Samuel Beckett plays, a Swiss mime troupe appeared in late October, and British humorist Peter Bull offered "An Evening of Bull" on November 20. The Players presented Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" in October and "The Birthday Party" in November. Three concurrent music series claimed the attention of fans of the traditional and the contemporary. Visiting and indigenous poets talked and read their works on Thursdays. Lectures and colloquia on specialized topics were sponsored by dormitory clusters (Clark McGregor '44, former chairman of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, on current events), departments (Michael Hurst of Oxford on "The Historical Roots of the Conflict in Northern Ireland"), and pre-professional societies (Trustee R. Harcourt Dodds '58 on "Urban Law and the City of New York").
The Student Forum brought a number of distinguished visitors to the campus to speak on a gamut of subjects: Professor John Kenneth Galbraith on "Economics and the Public Purpose"; Congressman Julian Bond on "A Time to Speak, A Time to Act"; Professor Erving Goffman on "Sex Roles and Sexuality in the 70s"; and Bernard Brauchli, who lectured and demonstrated on the clavichord.
