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Mac Beth Takes
Form
A sharply experimental
approach to Shakespeare’s
tragedy Macbeth will mark the
Mercer University Theater’s
next production of the season,
this Thursday and Fjrday,
November 13 and 14, at 8:00
P.M. This play, to be presented
in the round in the Cafeteria,
•will take the form of a collage,
rearranging, juxtaposting, and
combining elements of the
original in an effort to provide
another view; of the situation
of the tyrant.
The collage technique has
been used successfully by
• England's Royal Shakespeare
Company in its workshop pro
ductions of Hamlet and The
Tempest', but the enterprising
spirits behind the present
show, Edmond Williams and
John and Diana Stege, believe
that this wi|l- be the first time
such a version of Macbeth has
been produced. And since the
cast and production staff num
ber around sixty, it is probably
the most ambitious theatrical
event in Mercer's history.
In addition to the collage
technique, another feature
Which will distinguish this pro
duction is its concept of the
dramatic situation. This Mac
beth will not be set in twelfth
century Scotland, but in a
country suffering, generations
later,' from the aftermath of
nuclear disaster. What civiliza
tion exists is based on the
debris of former society; what
order exists is derived from
cold authority. The mass of the
people leads a brutal, barely
human existence on the sterile
soil of the devastated nation.
This will be a multi-dimen
sional Macbeth, a multi-medial
production at times partaking
of the sound and light spec
tacular. It is an attempt at total
theater moving out from the
traditional. The- production
should cause excitment. Hope
fully insights into some
modern dilemmas concerning
authority versus license will re
sult as well.
Exchange Comer
Concert Series
In Memorium
AGreat
Leader
Dr. Clarence L. Jordan,
founder of Koinonia, died on
October 29, 1969 while at his
home. He was buried Thursday
in the Christian farm com
munity he founded more than
twenty-five years ago.
One week before Dr. Jor
dan’s death, his book, “The
Cotton Patch Version of Luke
and Acts", came off the press.
The purpose of the book was
to simplify the books of Luke
and Acts by, in the author’s
words, “stripping away the
fancy language, the artificial
piety and barriers of time and
distance. It seeks to restore the ,
original feeling and excitment
oT~fasl breaking news— good
news 7 rather than musty his
tory!
Dr. Jordan started a Chris
tian community near Americus
in 1942. He named it Koino
nia. a Greek word meaning a
fellowship or community.
Koinonia had two purposes:
• first, to live together in a com
munity and witness to the
Christian teachings of peace,'
sharing brotherhood, and
secondi to assist local farmers
by introducing scientific farm
ing methods. During recent
years. Dr. Jordan felt Koinonia
needed new goals and direc
lions.
Although the chapel service
-on October 31 was not going
to be a eulogy for Dr. Jordan,
that is exactly what it was. Dr.
Otto, of Mercer, delivered the
eulogy, with.other members of
(he faculty giving their own .
personal tributes. According to
Dr. Otto,.Dr. Jordan withstood
sHootings, beatings, and bomb
ings, because of the racial ten
sions in the community. Dr.
Jordan had real courage, as Dr.
Otto put it, “he knew what to
be afraid of’.. , .
. Dr. Clarence L. Jordan was
buried in a grave with no
marker, but it U doubtful that
his name will be forgotten. A
man not afraid to die can not
be easily forgotten.
Fickle Finkle Fingler
Suppository Award
This week the Fickle Finkle
Fingler Suppository Award
goes out to the Mercer Univer
sity infirmary for their out
standing accomplishments in
the fields of medical analysis
and research. Their untiring
devotion to the development
and creation of sickness cannot
go unnoticed. If you aren’t
really sick when you go, you
will be when you leave. They
have passed a milestone in
medical technology with their
unsurpassed discovery of a dif
ferent color pill for all diseases
known to man. We of the Clus
ter salute the Mercer University
Infirmary. Keep the faith and
wear this award proudly.
Morath Plays
'Fool' Tuesday
The Cluster wishes to com
mend Susan Wiseman and the
staff of the 1968-’69 Cauldron
for a job well done. The time,
talent, and energy expended on
this project was clearly evident
ini the finished product Thank
you for a job well done.
Max Morath will present his
show “At the Turn of the Cen
tury” under the auspices of the
Mercer University Student
Appropriations Committee in
Willingham Chapel on Tuesday
evening November 18 at 8:00
o’clock.
This show is being presented
exactly as it has been in its
long off-Broadway run at the
Jan Hus Theater and deals with
the music and culture of the
Chattauqua, the Katzenjammer
Kids, the Turkey Trot, the
Chicken Scratch, the Gizzly
Bear—these being styles of
dance—and deathless ballards
like “She’s More to be Pitied
Than Censured," or “Please
Don’t Go in the Lion’s Cage
Tonight.”
Morath is the whole show,
together with period props and
slide projections, some of them
viewed as through an antique
mirrow. “He is a man whose
vocation and advocation are
clearly one, whose musician
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less, whose vitality is infec
tious," (New York Post).
Morath first gained national
attention several years ago with
two award-winning TV series.
The Ragtime Era, and Turn of
the Century. He is a frequent
guest on Arthur Godfrey’s
popular show on CBS, and his
television credits include To
night Show, Bell Telephone
Hour, Mike Douglas Show,
Kraft Music Hall, Today, and
many others. He is also active
as a recording artist, writer,
and composer.
Mercer students will be ad
mitted upon presentation of
I.D. Card. All others must pur
chase admission tickets, which
are on sale at The Dempsey
Corner in Macon and at the
College Store on the Mercer
University Campus. Dates
other than Mercer students will
have to purchase tickets. Free
admission by I.D. is for Mercer
students exclusively.
In keeping with its policy of
opposition to the war in Viet
nam the Law Students Civil
Rights Research Council today
announced its support of the
November 15 Moratorium
marches in Washington, D. C.
and San Francisco.
The Council a national law
student movement will provide
legal observers and marshals'for
the marches.
In the past L.S.C.R.R.C. has
mobilized law students to pro
vide legal assistance in similar
situations. Fifty-five law stu
dents sent to Mississippi during
the November 1967 elections
performed a variety of services
including voter education, ori
entation of poll watchers and
documentation of intimida
tion.
Before and after the assas
sination of Dr. Martin Luther
King, L.S.C.R.R.C. workers in
vestigated and recorded inci
dents of police brutality in
Memphis. During the Poor Peo
ples Campaign, law students
acted as observers and legal
assistants in Resurrection City.
Legal activities in Washing
ton will be coordinated by
Philip Hirschkop, one of the
founders of L.S.C.R.R.C. and
presently a prominent “move
ment” lawyer in Alexandria,
Virginia. The law students will
be responsible for advising the
marchers of their legal rights
and obligations.
The L.S.C.R.R.C. volunteers
will act as legal observers,
documenting incidents of
police brutality and other in
fractions of the marchers
rights. Some law students will
provide legal assistance to
attorneys handling cases arising
from the march. .
“The Atlanta office will en
courage southern law students
to participate in the Mora
torium,” according to Rein-
hard Mohr, L.S.C.R.R.C.’s
Southern Director.
The Council’s members have
been active in draft counseling,
Selective Service and Military
Justice esses. Through its Sum-
mer Internship Program
L.S.C.R.R.C. has placed stu
dents with the Selective Service
Lew Reporter and the Central
Committee for Conscientious}
Objectors. Interns have per
formed research for the Dr.
Benjamin Spock case and the
well known Captain Noyd v.
McNamara case which sought
to establish the principle of
selective consclentous objec
tion. Students assigned to the
Atlanta office of the American
Civil Liberties Union did exten
sive research for the Howard
Levy brief on the question of
the right to in-service conscien
tious objection of the Cassius
Clay case. Several students in
Georgia, Louisiana and Missis
sippi prepared briefs and
memoranda for suits attacking
racial discrimination in the
practices and compositions of
Selective Service Boards.
“Anyone concerned with
justice within this nation can
not tolerate the travesty of jus
tice and morality on the inter
national level.” noted Mr.
Mohr. “The majority of law
students today are too know
ledgeable to accept mythical
explanations for the war. They
see the Vietnam war as a mani
festation of deeper ills in our
society and as an irrational ob
stacle to profound social
change within this country.
The law students of today who
will be the leaders of tomorrow
are adding their voice to the in
creasing . anti-war sentiment."
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