Program for The Cocktail Party (January 6-7, 1961)

Eliot, T. S.

English

Program for The Cocktail Party (January 6-7, 1961).
To view the photos from this production of The Cocktail Party, please click here

Digital Commons@Lindenwood University

The Lindenwood College Theatre presents T. S. EEot's The Cocktail Party a comedy Directed by STEVEN T. KARDALEFF*" A project in The Department of Speeeh, under the Regisseurship of ROBERT DOUGLAS HUME LINDENWOOD COLLEGE CHAPEL FELLOWSHIP HALL St. Charles, Mo. Friday and Saturday January 6 and 7, 1961 8:00 p. m. Note Mr. Eliot calls this play a comedy, and on the surface it is an en-tertaining comedy of manners. However, once the depth is realized, a sort of morality is discovered. Audience members will get various ideas from the play, depending upon their own interpretations. We are considering the theme to be the realization of the need for salva-tion and the doing of God's will - through the choice of the human way or the way of special dedication to God's service. We believe that the author is saying that on this earth there are degrees of attainment and fulfilment, and that the pinnacle of them both is sainthood. Both ways are ways of loneliness - and communion; but the road to saint-hood through martyrdom is a terrifying journey. For the onlooker, martyrdom is tragic; for the martyr, it is triumphant. In The Cocktail Party, gin would seem to symbolize the spiritual way and whisky the worldly way. One-eyed Riley and the one-lensed spec-tacles seem to represent partial insight - as regards Sir Henry and Julia. The play ha,s theological and ecclesiastical implications as well as philosophical ones. The psychiatrist's desk represents the altar and the two chairs indicate the congregation. One critic has wittily described the play as "a comedy, with tragic relief." The first pro-duction was at the Edinburgh Festival, 1949, with Alec Guinness in the role of the Unidentified Guest. Persons Edward Chamberlayne ________ ________ _____ ________ __ _____ ____ ___ _____ KEITH HAMMEL** Julia (Mrs. Shuttlethwaite) --- ----------------- -------------- ------LUCINDA HAUSER Celia Coplestone ------------------ -------------------------------------- PATRICIA PAYNE** Alexander MacColgie Gibbs __ ________________ _______ _________________ KENNETH Cox** Peter Quilpe ---- -- --------------- ----- -------------------------------------- ROBERT HILLIARDt An Unidentified Guest, later identified as Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly ______________________________ DOUGLAS HUMEu Lavinia Chamberlayne -- ------,-----------------------------------JULIANN BOTTORFF* A Nurse-Secretary ------------------------------------ --- --- ------------~----- JUDY LETSON ·~ Caterer's Woman ____ ________ ______________ _______ _____ _____ ________ ___________ ____ JUDITH HALE The scene is laid in London ACT I The drawing-room of the Chamberlayne London flat Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Early evening A quarter of an hour later Late afternoon of the next day ACT II Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly's consulting room in London Morning: several weeks later ACT III The drawing-room of the Chamberlayne flat Two years later: a late afternoon in July ** Members of Alpha Psi Omega * Pledges t Member of Delta Psi Omega StaH Stage Manager ---------------------------------------------------- FREDA GRACE MILLER* Assistant Stage Manager ____________________________________________________ EMILY SMITH Lighting ______________________________________________________ ____________________ JOYCE HAMILTON JANE BARBIE Sound ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUDY HALE Stage Crew _____ ______________ _____________ __ ______________ _______ _________________ SHERRY HAYES SUSIE EU,IS BRIAN McCULLOUGH RICKY MCCULLOUGH House Manager -------------------<------------------------------------------------BETH POTTER Ushers _____________________ ___________________________________________ LUCILLE SCHWEICKHART ... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We extend sincere thanks to Mrs. John Steinbrinker for furniture JACKIE HAMILTON D' ARcY HORNER BARBARA JENKINS Mr. Charles Bushnell and Staff for technical assistance Messrs. Brian and Ricky McCullough for scenic assistance All others who have helped with this production Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, New York 

The Cocktail Party (January 6-7, 1961)

https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/context/st_programs/article/1343/viewcontent/The_Cocktail_Party_Pamphlet_1961_b3304f1.pdf

The Cocktail Party (January 6-7, 1961)

Abstract

Similar works

Full text

Available Versions

Digital Commons@Lindenwood University