BUTLEY AT CWRU

The Theatre in Eldred Hall, Case Western Reserve University, opens its very sociable season with a production of one of the most successful plays in recent British Stage history, Simon Gray's Butley.

Nipping at the heels of Joseph Garry's Production featuring David Frazier in the title role, The CWRU Production features Robert Berkman, one of the University's most versatile and -outstanding young actors, as Butley. Bob has previously been seen on the University stage as John P. Wintergreen in Of Thee I Sing, Estragon in Waiting For Godot, and Feste in Twelfth Night. Bob is a first-year. graduate student in the MFA program in acting with the Department of Theatre.

Also featured in the cast are Scott Whipple as Joey, Jeffrey Grover as Reg, Julie Nasvytis as Anne. Butley, and Deborah Adler as Edna Shaft.

Directing the production is William Rhys, known to Cleveland audiences for his directorial work at the Cleveland Play House, including The Count of Monte Cristo and Yellow Jacket, and also for his work in the title role of Scapino.

Simon Gray's writing is sharp. clean, precise. and excruciatingly funny. Ben Butley ranks with Willy Loman, Jimmy Porter, and Bill Maitland in The Gallery of Distinguished Human Debris.

Butley opens on September 30 and plays through October 8. Tickets are $2.00. For further information and reservations, call 368-2904 or 368-2858.

EXPERIENCE

by Van Ault

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A total experience.

For no one else

soos what. Intricate designs

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within a single mind-

Release the experience, the liquid soaks thru

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is encompassed within our faculties

to release it.

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People are very excited in Akron over two new ministers at Akron's Metropolitan Community Church. Formerly, Stan Roberts now minister at San Jose's MCC, filled the position of minister.

Reverend Karen Wheeler, a former Lakewood resident and graduate of Ohio State University, will team up with Reverend Angle Umbertino, graduate of Samaritan Theological Institute of St. Louis, Missouri. The two will expand MCC's outreach in the Akron-Canton gay community acting as a ministry team. Both child and adult services are held at Akron MCC each Sunday at 2 P.M. For further information, call 253-8388.

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Hollywood has come to Akron and with it came Bette Davis,. well known film star. A four hour television movie called "HARVEST HOME" is being shot here during this month of September. There is a great deal of local casting being done for 15 speaking parts and hundreds of.. extra parts. Many Akronites will be working on the movie and may just have that one chance for stardom. People who wish further information should contact Mari Soult of the Ohio Film Bureau.

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