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Ex-Addicts Portray Selves.
In Revealing Drug Drama

Sometime between now and Oct.
20, you owe it to yourself to go
see ‘‘The Concept’’ at the Theater
of the Living Arts in Philadelphia,
This sounds like an advertisement
but it is a sincere statement be-
cause the play provides a unique
and fascinating experience for its
audience,

The very structure of the play
is unique. Its cast consists of
amateur actors, all former drug
Its script is their tes-
timonial to Daytop, the community
in which they made the transition
to ex-addict. Instead of giving
individual profiles, the program.
tells that: ‘Together the three
casts (they. rotate. weekly) have
experienced 176 years of heroin
addiction. They have spent a total
of 41 years in jails and similar
institutions. -As a group, they

_have completed 32 drug-free years
“at Daytop: ‘The average age Of our

cast is 25.” This is all you
really need to know of them from
“the first, “since in the course
of. the evening you get to know
the people behind the characters
better than any playbill could des-
cribe them.

There is ‘a written script, but
it is drawn directly from impro-
visations and retains an informal,
spontaneous air. The bare plot
follows a young addict from his
downfall in society through his
rehabilitation at Daytop. But the
cast isn’t on the stage to enter-
tain you. The performers are there

‘ to relate to-you their experience.

‘It is one from which not only a
drug addict can profit.

The emphasis is not on drugs.
In fact, some, who have become
biasé abollfAll of the recent por=

Brass Quintet Opens
BMC Music Series

The New York Brass Quintet
will open the 1968-69 series spon-

' sored by the Friends of Music of

Bryn Mawr College on Wednesday, '
Oct. 30, at 8:30 p.m. in Goodhart
Hall.

The group, which combines two
trumpets, a trombone, French horn
and tuba, will feature brass music

\ from the Renaissance through Con -

mporary. periods. Since it was
ormed 10 years ago, the quintet
has taken its unique sound around
the world,

In a 1967 spring tour arranged
by the State Department, the quintet
performed in 20 cities and at
four music festivals in Europe.
The members of the group are
Robert Nagel and Allen Dean, trum-
pets, Thompson Hanks, tuba, Paul
Ingraham, French horn, and John
Swallow, trombone.

This year, in addition to the
regular Friends of Music programs
there will be two small concerts
at the college on Sunday after-
noons. The first, on November 24,
-will feature Medieval Renaissance
and Baroque music for voices,,
recorders, viols and harpsichord;'
presented by the Collegium
Musicum of Brooklyn College,
under the direction of Jean Hakes,
formerly a soloist with the New
York Pro Musica.

The second concert on February
2 will be a program of contempor-
ary French sonatas for violin and
piano to be given by the French

trayals of drug addicts, might
criticize the pantomimed reactions
of the drug user in the beginning
of ‘‘The Concept.’’ . But the real
message of the play lies in ac-
tions after drug use has been
forsaken.

The goal at Daytop seems to be
a group effort (of only former
addicts) toward a personal recon-
ciliation of each individual with
his society. This is achieved
through constant interaction ‘be-
tween members of the community
(in this case the actors in ‘The
Concept’’) and also a type of emo-
tional bull session called an
‘‘Encounter.’? which would benefit
anyone who is feeling hung up
with the world around him,

The title “The Concept’’ is an
amazingly apt one. What. is
presented at the Theater of the

Living Arts is a new concept in.

living “by m¥ans ° 6f ‘a ‘new concept
in theater. The theater is being
used by these people to plead their
cause, to break down the communi-
cation barriers, which initially
drove them to drug use. But the
cause isn’t pleaded in an.elabor ate
allegory aS many “angry young
playwrights’? have done; it is
straight-forward, unpretentious in
its lack .of professionalism and
very moving.

The experience of ‘‘The Con-
cept?’ won’t appeal to your intel-
lect; in places-it may insult it;
but at the end of two hours, cli-
maxed by what amounts to an
actual test of your attitudes, your
inhibitions and prejudices, you will
come out a little more enlightened
about yourself and a little more
hopeful about the mixed-up world
we live in.

Lisa Lyons

SIX Internationals:
Join BMC Ranks

Six foreign students have joined
the undergraduate student body of
Bryn Mawr this year.

Sophomore Ayse Erzan form-
erly studied at the American Col-
lege for Girls in her home city
of Istanbul. She has already or-
ganized a Turkish Dancing class
on Campus,

After two years at the Univer-
sity of Munich, junior Angela Uther
comes to Bryn Mawr as a pos-
sible English or French major,’

From Zilina, Czechoslovakia
comes Elena Kralova.. She at-
tended the university at Bratis-
lava for two years in the field
of arthistory. She was intro-
duced to Bryn Mawr by UNESCO,

Another junior, Yoko Boettcher
of Sapporo, Japan is studying at
Bryn Mawr after two years at
Hokkaido University of Education.
Five years ago she was a high
school exchange student with Mar-
garet Shepherd, ’69,

President Taki-Fujita of Tsuda
University, a former classmate of
Miss McBride, recommended Bryn
Mawr to Naoko Miyamoto of Japan.
Naoko is a freshman, interested
in international politics.

Non-resident student Geraldine
Betegh of Venezuala comes to Bryn
Mawr after earning her baccal-
aureate in France. She has trav-
elled extensively throughout Eu-
rope and the States,

 

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Friday, October 11, 1968

 

Laie — Grape will nia at The bocomas on Rock Festival Oct. 19.

Cet ieegapesa*

Quaker City Rock F estival 1968
Calls All With-It Teeny Boppers

There I was, all excited about
meeting. the Moby Grape at the
press conference for the Quaker
City Rock Festival. {I never had
the opportunity to be a teeny-
bopper when I was in high school,
but last December, after seeing
the MG perform in Philadelphia,
teeny bopperism hit me full force.
Any mention’ of the group, or
anything pertaining to it, would
trigger ecstatic sighs, if you were
fortunate. If youwere unfortunate,
it would trigger a dissertation on
the various aspects of Bob Mosley,

the gyoup’s extremely attractive
bass/fplayer. ,

Looking Cool

When I arose Saturday morning,
I considered carefully what I should
wear. Since this was a press
conference, [decided that pants
were too informal, but I wanted
to make a good impression. I
wanted to look cool; but not aggres-
sively so.- What Iended up wearing
was just what happened to be both
respectable and clean simul-
taneously.

Having passed « the stages ‘of
preparation and transportation, I
was surprised and dismayed to
discover that most of the people
at the conference were repre-
senting high school publications.
They were either pitifully awkward
or obnoxiously hip, and both sorts
frightened me, particularly the
latter.

The first order of business was
the distribution of ‘‘press kits,’’
which included photos of the per-
formers, some xeroxed notes on
the festival and a- lengthy
biography of one of the groups,
Each -kit was different, so that
the time spent waiting for the
speakers was used in the trading
of photos. I traded Ramsey Lewis
for the Moby Grape, and Dionne
Warwick for Buddy Guy.

Finally, one of the proprietors .

of the Electric Factory appeared
to give us the details of the Rock.
Festival. The concert is to be

held at the Spectrum on: Oct... 19.
It will begin at-7 p.m. and con-

~ tinue for approximately five hours,

because each one of the five groups
playing will have a * complete 40-
45 minute set. There will be
two intermissions in which your
ears may relax. The stars are
the Vanilla Fudge, a ‘‘dramatic
acid-rock’’ sound; Big Brother

‘and the Holding .Company with
representing the -

Janis « Joplin,
‘chard rock’? sound; the Chambers
Brothers, representing the mix-
ture of rock, soul and blues; Buddy
Guy, a really fine traditional blues
guitarist; and the Moby Grape,
whose “sound is a fusion of: all
the above. It looks to be the
best rock concert ever held in-
doors and certainly the best rock
concert ever held in Philadelphia.
Tickets are $4, $5, and $6 and
are available by mail order from
the Electric Factory, located at
22nd and ArchSt. (They are also
available at various other spots
which I shall not list here, but
call me or the Factory if you
think you’ll be in Philly and will
have a chance to pick them up
personally.)

‘DJ Endorsement

After we were given the details,
the disc jockey Herman wasintro-
duced. I had never heard of him,
but then I am not at all familiar
with Philadelphia “radio, besides
which, he works for an FM Station,
and my cheap radio only gets AM
when it works at all. . He told us
how =GROOOOVY the concert is
going to be.

Only Jerry Miller, the. lead
guitar of the Grape, showed up
to answer questions. Most of the
questions asked were assinine,

‘e.g, What inspired you to become

a.rock and roll musician? Every
once and a while, I asked a ques-
tion about the Grape or about some
other groups, but while I couldn’t,

I spent my time drawing a very.

intricate dragon, which I chris-
tened Aloysius after asking the guy

in “welt of me how to spell it.
I had never drawn adragon before,
but Iam tremendously fond of them,
and was quite pleased with my
results. I also drew a huge
paisle, (which is the singular of

paisly in my. mind). and lots of **

flowers. Sporadically, when some-
thing of actual interest was said,
I wrote it in the margin,

Doors-Stop -

All that might be of general
-interest was the fact that Jerry
Miller thought that the Doors were
a giant hype--in other words--a
put-on. This made mevery happy,
since I do not particularly. like
the Doors.
the Grape had moved up into the
mountains, and later explained that
one is more rélaxed there, and
thus.can make better music, Back
to nature and all that. Most of
the rest of what he saig was in
answer to inane questions, and

therefore had little chance of being’

of any. interest. These answers
simply gave me time to improve
on Aloysius. He’s quite fine now.
And then it was all over. Jerry
Miller smiled and said good bye,
and I sighed sadly as I left, for
I hadn’t met Bob Mosley. Some-
how, however, it didn’t matter so
much anymere, because I found
out .that almost every girl, has a
crush on him. That decreased his
charm a. bit. But I still like
him, and I am still an enthu-
siastic Grape fan, and I definitely.
am going to the Quaker City Rock
Festival, if I have to crawl.

Connie Warren

 

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——~- Guide To The Perplexed

MONDAY, OCTOBER 14

ALL WEEKEND
8:30 p.m.

‘The Concept’,

Theatre of the

7:30 p.m. Interfaith lecture, Howard Kee,

Jerry also said that,

violinist, Robert Soetens and his
Russian-born accompanist, Minka
Roustcheva.

In spring the Friends of Music
will spopsor a-concert by Solisti
Di Veneti, a small twelve-man

ensemble from Venice which will

There will be no kite flying on
the Bryn Mawr campus this
Sunday because AA could not
find any kites.

 

be making its first appearance in

 

the Philadelphia area.

Tickets are available in Taylor -
Hall for those interested in attend
ing the concerts.

A surprise is coming
next week.

Living Arts, thru Oct, 20 (2:30
p.m. .matinees. Wed. & Sun,)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
8:30 p.m, Rockefeller Mixer

SUNDAY. OCTOBER 13
3:00 p.m, Erdman Coffee Hour

3:00 p.m, Concert featuring ‘‘The As-
sociation’, Field House,
Villanova, $3-5 (also at 8:00 ~
p.m.)

8:30 p.m. Roumanian Folk _ Ballet,

Academy of Music, $3-6.50 * °

Rufus Jones Prof, of History
of Religion at BMC, on ‘‘Re-
ligious Dilemmas in Modern
Israel’’?, Common Room 4

TUESDAY; OCTOBER 15
" 15 p.m. “BMC Movies series‘‘ba Dolce

Pe Vita’’, $.75 (also at 9:30)

~ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16

4:00 p.m. Hockey vs, Drexel at Bryn
Mawr .
7:30 p.m. Legislature, Physics Lecture

Room