THE UPEI SIN,’IYmrsday,Dec.l,1977,page ll 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     MUSIC & DRAMA NIGHT 
     
    
   
   
    
     On anday evening, the 
     
     U.P.E.I. Drama Society 
     
     presented an entertaining ‘ 
     
     two hours of music and 
     
     drama to about 85 students, 
     
     staff and family of the , 
     
     university. 
     
    

    
     For their first present- 
     
     ation of the year, the 
     
     Society decided to depart 
     
     from the usual two hour ~ 
     
     play format, and performed 
     
     a series of short, one act 
     
     plays, together with a 
     
    
   
   
    
     number of musical features. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     The program was hosted by 
     
     Joan MacFarlane and ' -. 
     
     Dhurice Rodgerson. 
     
    

    
     Although each individ- 
     
     ual act went well, the 
     
     blending of the various 
     
     acts, or the continuity, 
     
     was, at times, weak, 
     
     despite Joan and Maurice's 
     
     best efforts. The result 
     
     was reminiscent of a well 
     
     done high school produc— 
     
     tion. , 
     
    

    
     Four of the six one-act 
     
     plays presented were writ- 
     
     ten and directed by Rabbin 
     
     Ward, and he is to be 
     
     congratulated, as each were 
     
     well "written, and well 
     
     performed- 
     
    

    
     Of course, the actors 
     
     and actresses should be' 
     
     the ones accepting congrat— 
     
     ulations for their own 
     
     perfonmnces. All of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     performers in R.W. Ward's 
     
     plays, in fact, in all the 
     
     dramatic productions of '-‘ 7 
     
     the evening, "lived it up", 
     
     enjoyed themselves, and as 
     
     a result, each play was 
     
     thoroughly enjoyable“ 
     
    

    
     'lhe four works written 
     
     and directed by Robbin I 
     
     were: Breathless, a short 
     
     comedy, The QEeement 
     
     and Pass, mo 5 rt 
     
    
   
   
    
     dramatic pieces, and  
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     of the Gull, anofler drama- 
     
     tic play written, directed 
     
     and performed with excell- 
     
     ence by Robbin Ward. 
     
     Green also deserves men- 
     
     tion for his role as a 
     
     corpse in this play, as 
     
     T he didn't smile once.... 
     
     The twodance numbers, 
     
     the Can—Can and the Charle— 
     
     ton, added sate liveliness 
     
     to the program, not to 
     
     mention the talent and 
     
     beauty of the three 
     
    
   
   
    
     dancers . _ 
     
     Joan MacFarlane directed 
     
    
   
   
    
     a number of "budding per— 
     
     formers" from the Education 
     
     Society in a short comedy 
     
     entitled The Wise file 
     
     of Gotham. Mike MacKinnon 
     
    
   
   
    
     and Wayne Ramsay played 
     
     their parts especially 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     . well, but even they could 
     
    
   
   
    
     not steal the show away 
     
     from our educators of 
     
     tomorrow, members of the 
     
     Education Society, who 
     
     Played the role of fools 
     
     with an amazing natural— 
     
     ness. , 
     
     The final short piece 
     
     of drama of the evening 
     
     was Overtones, written by 
     
     Alice Gerstenberg', dir- 
     
     ected by Jennifer meddle. 
     
     This was, perhaps, the 
     
     most difficult play to 
     
     perform, due to the number 
     
     of lines, and the need for 
     
     correct timing. The four 
     
     girls played their parts 
     
     almost flawlessly, .and 
     
     as a result, Overtones was 
     
     a fitting end to the show. 
     
     The three musical 
     
     performers, although they 
     
     all displayed a large 
     
     amount of talent, each 
     
     Were very nervous. . 
     
     .Ideed, they were overly 
     
     nervous, considering the 
     
    
   
   
    
     size of the audience, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     Larry V 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the relaxed atmosphere of 
     
     the occasion. 
     
    

    
     Another problem was, 
     
     although each of the acts 
     
     were well rehearsed, the 
     
     transition between the 
     
     plays was poor, especially 
     
     towards the end of the 
     
     show. Tables, microphones, 
     
     and other props were, at 
     
     first, handled quickly 
     
    
   
   
    
     and unobtrusively by a 
     
    
   
   
    
     number of stagehands. 
     
    

    
     But, after the inter- 
     
     mission, most of the 
     
     stagehands had disap— 
     
     peared, and, by the end of 
     
     the evening, Maurice had 
     
     begun to help move pianos 
     
    
   
   
    
     and tables himself, 
     
     announcing at the same 
     
      This lack of 
     
     continuity lowered the 
     
     overall quality of the 
     
     show, although not to any 
     
     great extent. 
     
    
   
   
    
     They say the best ad— 
     
     vertisement for an organ- 
     
     fization's future play is 
     
     the success of their past 
     
     performances. ‘If this is 
     
     the case, anday night's 
     
     performance should attract 
     
     _a large crowd to the Drama 
     
     Society's next endeavor, 
     
     as it really was a fine 
     
     evenings entertainment.