ATE 193 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Comedy Is Keynote Of Michigan Repertory cJ . 'Hay Fever' To Open Repertory PlaysJune 23 To Stage Eight Comedies; Present Productions By World-Fainous Authors Comedy is the keynote of the com- ing summer season of the Michigan Repertory Players. This season, which for five years has operated in copjunction with the University Summer Session, will stage nine plays-eight varying types of com- edies and one serious play-in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The opening date of the season is June 23, and it will run during the course of the summer session. "Hay Fever," the popular Farce by Noel Coward, will open the season Friday night, June 23. Produced by Play Production during the year, the play was such an uproarious success with Ann Arbor audiences that it was decided to present the identical cast for a revival Friday and Saturd&y nights of the opening week. The second play of the season comes from the pen of the popular Hungarian playwright, Franz Mol- nar. "The Play's The Thing," the last starring vehicle of the late Holbrook Blinn, is the chosen play. The play opens June 26 and 27, and thereafter will alternate with "Hay Fever" for the balance of the week. Beginning Wednesday, Juy 2, "The Romantic Young Lady," the third play of the season, will be presented each evening through Saturday night -a schedule which will be followed for the remaihder of the summer. "Belinda," the fourth ,play, is a somewhat satirical comment on the romantic-minded. The chief charac- ter was done by Ethel Barrymore when first presented in this country. The next week will find on the Mendelssohn stage one of the most successful plays in Max Rinehardt's repertoire, "The Servant of Two Mas- ters," the pride of the German pro,- ducing genius who was recently ex- pelled from the German State The- atrie by Adolf Hitler, is a "commedia del'arte" play by Carlo Goldoni, the father of Italian comedy. The staging will be in a manner highlystylized, with comic' scenery and exaggerated, costumes. Somerset Maugham's well-known problem comedy, "The Circle," is the sixth play on therschedule. Maugham is one of 'the' foremost literary lions of our day-playwright, novelist, critic, he has kept his work before the public eye for well over 25 years. SThe next week's play will be defi- Plat Season Tickets For All Plays Givn Season tickets will be sold by the Michigan Repertory Players for their forthcoming summer sea- son of outstanding plays. These tickets will be issued in the form of coupon books of nine coupons for the nine shows and will be priced at $2.75, $3.00 and $3.50. Each coupon is exchangable for a reserved seat for any performance of the season. The advantages of the coupon system lie in the feature that it adapts itself to everyone's conven- ience. Individuals who wish may make reservations for all nine plays at the beginning of the sea- scn; while the individual who wishes to decide from week to week what performance he desires to attend, may wait until a few days before the performance to reserve his seat. Under the coupon book system the prices for the current season will be thelowest in Ann Arbor theatrical history. A ticket to the best locations in the theatre may be had at an average cost of less than 40 cents for each play; while balcony tickets will average 30c for each play. Coupon books may be secured at Wahr's bookstore. nitely a contribution to stage history. T. W. Stevens, who will product that week, has chosen a "new" play by William Shakespeare for production. The play, "All's Well That Ends Well," has been produced only two recorded occasions in America. The bedroom implications are said to be directly responsible for the rarity of production. "A Kiss For Cinderella," James Mathew Barrie's whimsical comedy, will be the eighth and gala produc- tion of the players' summer season. After eight comedies, the players will produce Euripedes' famous lyri- cal drama, "The Trojan Women." Wide commendation was afforded T. W. Stevens' classroom production of it during last year's summer session. Franz Molnar Noel Coward's Plays Realistic Announce Staff For Repertory Summer Plays Co-Director Of Plays BY DAVID MOTT T. W. Stevens And V. B. Both "Hay Fever," the clever bur- lesque by Noel Cowara, and "'The Windt Z1()Be Directors; Play's The Thing," the unhanding Students Are Included satire by the Hungarian, Franz Mol- nar, were written upon direct in- . The production staff for the Mich- spiration from events in the authors' igan Repertory Players is headed by lives. Coward went away to the coun- Valentine B. Windt, director of Play try for a week-end rest, Molnar went Production at the University, and to Budapest to direct an all-star pro- Thomas Wood Stevens, at present duction, and out of Coward's week- of the Artists' Guild Theatre in St. end visit and Molnar's all-star cast Louis, as visiting director. came the ideas for two of the clever- Mr. Windt's work is well known est comedies written in the past ten i;to the campus. He has been con years. 'nected with Play Production at the Molnai has always, first and fore- University for the past five years, most, by his own confession, been a and was founder five summers ago of playwright. And being an extremely the Michigan Repertory Players. good playwright, who made lots of Mr. Stevens is a nationally-known money, there was no reason under author, producer, and director. He the sun why he should want to stab has been with the players for the (Continued on Page 7) past two seasons. Last summer his work was in the productions of ."Paolo and Francesca," "The Chalk Players Grain Mor. Circle," and "Around the World in 80 Days." Mr. Stevens was founder Recognition Yearly of the drama school at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and first Recognition of the Michigan Rep- director of the Goodman Theatre in ertory Players as an outstanding Chicago. theatre organization has come about As business manager for the play- through a number of years of un- ers is Carl G. Brandt, of the speech usual dramatic activity, Five years department, who has served in the ago, the Players came into being as capacity for the past two seasons. a dramatic company in conjunction He is to be assisted by Lauren Gil- with the courses in drama given at bert, Grad., and Frances K. John- the University of Michigan Summer son, '33. Session. As assistant to Mr. Windt and Mr. Msin.ngttStevens, Russell McCracken works in Maintaining its technical and act- the technical division of production. ing strength entirely from students, Fred Rebman has been appointed the players form a very lively sup- as Technician for the players. Jack plement to the classroom study of asTchnicanfothelayer._Jac drama and production. The serious attitude taken toward the drama, and the connection with academic study of the literature and practice R' . of the theatre, has brought each summer. new people from all parts (Continued on Page 7) ___ F Thomas Wood Stevens, of the Art- ists' Guild Theatre in St. Louis, who, with Valentine B. Windt, head of Play Production at the University, will direct the summer program of plays given by the Michigan Reper- tory Players. B. Nestle, '33, one of Play Produc- duction's outstanding actors for the present year, is stage manager. Aren Parker, '34, is scenic artist. 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