Motlow' Magda Players Players Brewing Magic with Three Plays-1970
Title
Motlow' Magda Players Players Brewing Magic with Three Plays-1970
Description
A Tullahoma News article highlighting the Motlow Magda Players' upcoming play performances. Photos of the following performers are included in the article: Brenda Jackson, Jim Culpepper, Maryhellen Gray, Susan Parham, and Terry Reeves. Plays performed were: Observer: The Person at Bay, The Reluctant Dragon, and The Bald Soprano.
Creator
The Tullahoma News
Date
April 3, 1970
Language
English
Type
Newspaper Clipping
Transcription
Motlow’s Magda Players Brewing Magic With 3 Plays This Week
ON MOTLOW STAGE __ Brenda Jackson, as the clock, prepares to strike the chime while Jim Culpepper and Marihelen Gray, as “Mrs. And Mrs. Smith,” wait in anticipation during a scene from “The Bald Soprano.” This is one of three short plays slated for final performances tonight and tomorrow at Motlow College.
By WELDON PAYNE
When feeling is aroused and thought provoked then the promise of drama has been fulfilled. When both of these reactions are evoked through the subtle unfolding of beauty by a group of actors functioning in unison then the true magic of the form has been worked. It is this kind of magic which the Magda Players of Motlow College are pursuing in readings of three short play this week at the college. The readings of three short plays this week at the college. The readings opened last night and final performances are set for 8 p.m. today and tomorrow. Director Walter )Skip) Gray could have chosen a safer route for the first public performance by the Players than “Observer: The Person at Bay,” “The Reluctant Dragon” and “The Bald Soprano” because none of them is likely to send mass audiences into ecstasy. The three plays are as diverse as one could imagine and yet they are all three so related as to combine into one whole work of art. The first, Russell Baker’s brief and biting satire on the pressure of conformity, pursuit of security, commercialism and industrialism on the individual in our society, whets the appetite and is disappointing only because it is too soon past.
TOGETHERNESS
Susan Parham as “Mrs. Martin” are caught in a harmonious pose in a scene from “The Bald Soprano,” one of three short plays being presented at Motlow College tonight and tomorrow.
Photo by Steve Graham
ON MOTLOW STAGE __ Brenda Jackson, as the clock, prepares to strike the chime while Jim Culpepper and Marihelen Gray, as “Mrs. And Mrs. Smith,” wait in anticipation during a scene from “The Bald Soprano.” This is one of three short plays slated for final performances tonight and tomorrow at Motlow College.
By WELDON PAYNE
When feeling is aroused and thought provoked then the promise of drama has been fulfilled. When both of these reactions are evoked through the subtle unfolding of beauty by a group of actors functioning in unison then the true magic of the form has been worked. It is this kind of magic which the Magda Players of Motlow College are pursuing in readings of three short play this week at the college. The readings of three short plays this week at the college. The readings opened last night and final performances are set for 8 p.m. today and tomorrow. Director Walter )Skip) Gray could have chosen a safer route for the first public performance by the Players than “Observer: The Person at Bay,” “The Reluctant Dragon” and “The Bald Soprano” because none of them is likely to send mass audiences into ecstasy. The three plays are as diverse as one could imagine and yet they are all three so related as to combine into one whole work of art. The first, Russell Baker’s brief and biting satire on the pressure of conformity, pursuit of security, commercialism and industrialism on the individual in our society, whets the appetite and is disappointing only because it is too soon past.
TOGETHERNESS
Susan Parham as “Mrs. Martin” are caught in a harmonious pose in a scene from “The Bald Soprano,” one of three short plays being presented at Motlow College tonight and tomorrow.
Photo by Steve Graham
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Citation
The Tullahoma News, “Motlow' Magda Players Players Brewing Magic with Three Plays-1970,” Motlow State Community College Archives, accessed April 29, 2024, https://msccarchives.omeka.net/items/show/8.
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