Written by Eugene Ionesco
Translated by Donald Watson
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Illinois State UniversityISU ReD: Research and eDataSchool of Theatre and Dance Programs Theatre and DanceSpring 1981Exit the KingSchool of Theatre and DanceIllinois State UniversityFollow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/sotdpPart of the Theatre and Performance Studies CommonsThis Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Theatre and Dance at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion inSchool of Theatre and Dance Programs by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contactISUReD@ilstu.edu.Recommended CitationSchool of Theatre and Dance, "Exit the King" (1981). School of Theatre and Dance Programs. 92.https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/sotdp/92ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY • COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS • DEPT. OF THEATRE p .. . . ... R -. I E I • ~-.. .. • • • ' .. 1 •• ~: . . r:(1 •• · - · ~-i;!;.~'(:;:-::_:._ .• s • - I E \ I N - T ,..• S - - • . ·';' : ·:. - : •' ' -.7'~'°-: \::-•:,·=--·~-~~:;~·,. ''.·'.:[\~tfg~;; AP11r0L · /Ot'H_/11~ /IT. 8:0tJ P.M. ·,: A~Rr~ : ,,;,i ··AT -~:oo · P.·M: · .• . . ... • ' t . . . . I . ' K··-.: . . . . . I .·· . . ' . , . . . N . . ·,_ . . . G .. . . ' . . . . . • • • 0 .T} f=KO>O>/ '81.;,7-;!,.J{ • ---~ -r - • -College of Fine Arts Department of Theatre presents by Eugene Ionesco Translated by Donald Watson Directed by SALLY A. MELLIS Costume Designer LAURAL. THOMPSON CAST Lighting Designer THOMAS B. MITCHELL The Guard ....................................... Daniel R. Proctor King Berenger the First ........................... Stephen Pelinski Queen Margaret ................................ Deborah Johnson Juliette ............................................ Joanne Becker Queen Marie ......................................... Debra Beyer The Doctor .................... 1 •••••••••••••••••••••• Judson Allen The action of the play passes on the morning in the dilapidated throne room of King Berenger the First's crumbling palace. There will be no intermission. MFA Committee of Sally Mellis John W. Kirk (chair) Don Lacasse J. William Ruyle J • r -• Production Staff Stage Manager Assistant Director Music Composed By Joseph B. Marich Ann M. Greenseth Mark A. Elliott Sue Sweeney Martin Cain • -1 -. I I Voice Coach Master Electrician Properties Mistress Box Office Manager House Manager Production Advisor Production Crew Ann Greenseth James Kampert Sandy Seegers John W. Kirk Costumes-Jean Mahoney (Crew Head), Abby Elvidge, Alan Richards Lighting-Dan Rivkin, Drew Doolin Properties-Fred Carl (Crew Head), Paige Ellsworth Sound-Sue Conover Set-Kerry Wright, Mary McMahon Acknowledgements Douglas Koertge Dan Valkema Frank Vybiral Uncle Bill Ruyle Debra Thompson Don Lacasse Harvey Mays John Kirk Director's Notes I met a traveler from an antique land, who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, tell that its sculpture well those passions read, which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings : Look on my works ye mighty, and despair I" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare. The lone and level sands stretch far away. -Percy Bysshe Shelley-We are afraid of too much humor, (and humor is freedom). We are afraid of freedom of thought, of a play that is too tragic or too despairing. Optimism and hope are compulsory under paid of death . And what is sometimes labeled the absurd is only the denunciation of the ridiculous nature of a language empty of substance, sterile, made up of cliches and slogans. I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least. When the theatre could be the place of the greatest freedom, of the wildest imaginings, it has become that of the greatest constraint, of a rigid and set system of conventions which may be called realist or other-wise. Very soon dramatists will be made apostles of all kinds of theologies, they will not be free. they will be told only to defend, or attack or praise this or that. lfthey are not apostles, then they are pedants. Elsewhere the theatre is the prisoner not of ideologies but of conventions, taboos, hardened metal habits, fixations. - • I • • • • • University Production Staff Business Manager-Don Lacasse Costume Shop Supervisor-Jan Walter Scene Shop Supervisor-Harvey Mays Management Area Box Office Manager-James Kampert Publicity Supervisor-Gordon Morris Allen Theatre Coordinator-Karla Koskinen Special Projects Coordinator-Carey Lawless Assistant to the Business Manager-Jeff Greene University Theatre House Managers-Jeff Greene and Kim Woodman Management Assistants-Doreen Dawson, Linda Jefferson, Kelly O'Connell, Colleen Shannon, Yolanda Tate, Kim Woodman, Chris Zimmerman. Costume Shop Graduate Assistants-RoseAnne St. Romaine, Michael Dixon, Laura Nichols, Nancy Parr Undergraduate Assistants-Debbie Boehm, Angie Funneman, Joy Missaggia, Denalda Lee, Mary Krylowicz, Karin Anderson, Fran Briddle, Laura Thompson, Daphne Taylor Scene Shop Graduate Assistants-Konrad Winters, Tom Mitchell, Bill Pierson, Patricia Walsh Undergraduate Assistants-James W. Borrelli, Darryl Casper, Jim Coffing, Brad Morris, Alan Richards, Linda Roach Prop Room-Tim Jones Sound-Mark A. Elliott See the Final Mainstage Show of the 1980-81 Season! The joyful, jubliant, farce: • L -the matchmaker by Thornton Wilder Apr il 16-18, 22-26 Westhoff Theatre 8:00 p.m. I • 

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