THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE

presents

Sophocles'

OEDIPUS December I6, I7, 18, 19, 20, 1964

The Characters (in order of appearance)

Oedipus .. ....... ... .... ....... ..... .... ........ ..... .... ........ ..... ... ... ..... .. .. .... ..... ... ..... JOHN STALKER A Priest ... ..... .... .. .. ... ...... .... ....... .... ... ....... ... ..... ... ..... ... ..... .... ..... .. . KENNETH FRANKEL Supplicants ... ..... .... .... .. .. .... .... ... ... .... ..... ... ......... .. JoHN BIRD, SHELLEY BRADFORD,

RENEE lNG, CHRIS LONGO, ALVIN MALALJS Creon .... ... .... .. .. .. ........... ..... .. ... ... .. .... ..... .. ..... ... ...... .... ... ..... ..... ... .... .. RoBIN FowLER Leader of Theban Chorus .... .... .. .. ...... .. ...... ..... ... ... ... .... .. .. ... .. ..... .. .. RICHARD ABEL Teiresias ... ....... ........ .. ..... ... .... .... ..... ... ...... .. ..... ... ..... ... ...... ........ .. ...... .... .. KARL WYLIE A Page .... ... .. ... .. .... ...... .... .... ... .. .... ....... .... .... .. ............ ... ... ... .. .. ... ...... .. ALVIN MALALIS Jocasta .... ...... .... .... .... .... .... ... ........ ... ........... ... .... ... ... ....... .. .. .... ....... ... . JoYCE MALTBY Messenger from Corinth ..... .. ...... ... ..... .. ....... ... ..... ....... .... ...... ... .... ... ..... .. JoHN BIRD The Shepherd .. ... ...... ... .... .. ..... ... .. ... ..... ... .. .. ... . ..... .... .... .. ... ... .. ....... .... CHRIS LoNGO Messenger from the Palace ···· ··· -· ·· - ... ............. ... ...... ... .. ..... .... KENNETH FRANKEL Daughters of Oedipus as Children ... ....... RENEE INc, ALEXANDRA LYNCH Antigone ... .. ........... ... .. .... .. ..... ... .. .......... ..... ....... .... ...... ... .... .. .. .. ...... ... JoYCE MALTBY Stranger at Colonus .... ..... .... ........ .... .... ..... .... .. .............. .. .............. .... .... .. JOHN BmD Leader of Athenian Chorus ....... .. .... .... . ... ... ..... .... ...... .. ..... ... KENNETH FRANKEL Ismene ... ... ..... .. ...... ..... ..... .. ... ...... ...... .... .... ... ... .... .. ...... ...... .. .. ... ... ALEXANDRA LYNCH Theseus ... ........ ....... ......... .. .... ......... ... ..... ... ..... ........ .. ........ ...... .. ......... ... KARL WYLIE Polyneices ....... ...... ....... ....... ....... ... ..... ... ..... ... .... ...... ...... ... ... ... ... .. . WILLIAM SIEVERS Messenger at Colonus ........ ... ..... ..... .. ......... ........... ..... .... .... .... ... ...... CHRIS -LoNGO

The Chorus

RICHARD ABEL, BENJAMIN CERVANTES, KENNETH FRANKEL, VERNA FUJINAKA, fEAN KING, Buzz LoNDON, BoNNIE MILLER, WILLIAM SIEVERS, PAULA SIMPSON, ABIGAIL ToFFEL, SEr Yoo, KATHY BENDER

ACT I. At Thebes

ACT II: Years later at Colon us

Production directed · by EARLE ERNsT Designed by RrcHARD MASON

Technical Director ... .... ..... .. .. ROBERT SoLLER Choreographer .............. .. CARL WoLz

Assistant to Director .... ...... ... ... RrcHARD ABEL Stage Manager ..... .. : .. ...... AMIEL LEONARDIA

Music composed and played by F~DRIC LIEBERMAN

THE PLAY

Sophocles' Oedipus the King, which constitutes Act I in this production, was probably first performed in 427 or 426 B.c. Astonishingly, it did not win a prize in the annual tragic contest in Athens, though Aristotle considered it the most satisfactory of all tragedies and though the plot and characters attracted later playwrights from Seneca to Cocteau. Oedipus is a man who, when the oracle at Delphi predicts a horrible fate for him, attempts to avoid it by fleeing from Corinth. He goes to Thebes, a city kingless and terrorized by a Sphinx. He destroys the Sphinx by solving the riddle it proposes, is made king by a grateful people, and marries Jocasta , wife of the former king Laius. They have four children. The play begins sixteen years after Oedipus comes to the throne, a time when a plague of infertility has fallen upon the city. It is caused, the oracle says, by the presence of the murderer of Laius in Thebes and will continue until the murderer is found. Oedipus begins his quest for the guilty man. "Man," said Protagoras , "is the measure of all things," and Oedipus believes the same. By knowledge he came to power (within his name is the verb oida, "I know"), and by calculations of time and place, measurements and comparisons, he will find the murderer. But his name also means "swollen foot"; he bears the scars of injuries when he was three days old, the scars which rnark hirn as a fallible human being. And he finds, at last, that he bas not been able to flee from what he is and that' man , is not the measure of all things , but the thing measured. Oedipus falls to the greatest · possible human misery, not punished by a vengeful god, but punished for being himself in a universe that is not ruled by chance but by Law.

Some twenty-two years after writing Oedipus the King, when he was almost ninety, Sophocles turned again to the legend and wrote Oedipus at Colonus, first produced in 404 B.c ... the year after his death. (This play is presented as Act II.) Oedipus, now an old man exiled from Thebes, has wandered with his daughter Antigone to a shrine of the Furies, the primeval goddesses of revenge and justice, in the outskirts of Athens. Here Oedipus begins an ascent from the depths of his misery. He senses that he is about to regain power, and the orade confirms his feeling by saying that those whom Oedipus blesses will be blessed, those he curses cursed, and that the country in which he is buried will have the protection of his spirit. Reborn in the tired old man is the young Oedipus, s~rc of himself, angrily uncom-promising in his ideas of justice. Creon comes to him, hoping to make him return to Thebes so that the city will enjoy his mana. His son Polyneices asks his blessing. But rejecting those who rejected him, Oedipus gives his mysteri-ous power to Athens. Oedipus is becoming something more than a man. At rthe beginning of Oedipus the King, the priest says, "You do not rank with the immortal gods, we know," but at his end Oedipus is indeed equated with the gods. He who fell from greatness to misery rises to the height of the gods, who alone possess knowledge and know justice.

Costumes ... .. .. ......... .... .. .......... .... ....... . .. . BONKIE MILLER and JEA:-o:NE DENHAM, assisted by JACQUELJ:\E :\oHRECA, HEATHEH MIYASHIRO,

\1AxiNE CICLER, MARCL\ LIBBY, YoKo SAKAl , FupE KAJIKAWA, BEK CERVA:\TES, ]A:\"ICE Kmo, PAULI'\E Loo, JoETTE

MM\:\"11'\C , VEH:-o:A FU]I:\.-\KA , AHIGAIL TOFFEL, RICHARD ABEL, CARL \VoLz, PAULA Siliii'SO:'\ , JEA:\ KrNc , KATHY BENDER

Business .. ... .......... .. ..... ......... ... ... . JEA!\:NE DEKHAM, assisted by WILLIE CHAN, To:-.a LEvr, GERRY MrNN, LoRNA LuKE,

MIKE KINe, RuBY YA:"AGIHARA, AMY TAKESUE, MAXINE CICLER, lREK D'AMATO, MARVIN CHAR,

DAISY CHu:--J, SYLVIA CABANAYAN, MARY ZAHARAKO

Publicity.. ... ... ....... . . .... .......... . KAREN BmcooD and KEN FRANKEL, assisted by MARIETTA BAKER, CHHis Lo;-.;co, STANLEY YouNG

House..... .. .. ... ........... .. .. . .... ... . ... .. HEKRY HART, and FRED GALLEGOS, assisted by DouG KAY A, HERB RosE:-.- BUSH, WrLLIE CHAN

CHEE, MARC.IF. KAu, VJVIAK SAITO, ALFRED CHOY, CHARLES BouRNE

Ushers ..... .... ............ ............... UH CHAPTER OF AMEHICAN HoME EcONOMICS AssoCIATION, UH YouNc. \iVoMEN's CHRISTIAN AssoCIATION,

Hur PooKELA, 1'\EWMAN CENTER, YANG CHUNG Hur, ST. FRANCIS CoNVENT ScHOOL

Members of the classes in Dramatic Production (Drama 150), Theatre Practice (Drama 200) , and Advanced Theatre Practice (Drama 700) have assisted in various phases of this production

THEATRE GROUP PRODUCTION CHAIRMEN

JEANNE DENHAM (Business) FRED J UNG ( Sound) JACQUELINE NoBREGA (Displays) JANICE Kmo (Properties)

IREN D'AMATO (Makeup) HENRY HART (House) ToNr LEvr (Actors) ~vi AXINE CIGLER (Historian)

DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA AND THEATRE

Faculty and Staff: EARLE ERNST (Chairman), JoEL TRAPIDO (on leave), LucrE BENTLEY, EDWARD LANGHANS, RICHARD MASON, RoBERT SoLLER, ARTHUR CALDEIRA, NANCY T AKEI

Graduate Assistants: AMIEL LEONARDIA, RICHARD ABEL, RoBIN FoWLER, KENNETH FRANKEL, CHRIS LoNGO, BoNNIE MILLER, SEI Yoo, KARL WYLIE

Undergraduate Assistants: JEANNE DENHAM, JANICE Kmo, KAREN BmcooD, SYLVIA CABANAYAN, DAISY CHUN, MARY ZAHARAKO

Technical Trainees: YuAK KAVANICH, SEREE VANGNAITIIAM

"Jan. 6-lO Feh. 17-21

"t-.far. 3-7 Mar. 24-28

COMING EVENTS

Anouilh's Antigone Jon son's Vol pone (Neighbor Island Tour, Feh. 26-28) Om•-Act Plays Chekhov's The Cherr!J Orchard

• Apr. H-10 ~lay 12-lfi

\lay 2o-30

M e11ora (Thai dance-

THE GREAT PLAYS CYCLE

Oedipus the King is one of the dramatie masterpieees included in the University Theatre's Great Plays Cyde, a group of eight works that are considered to be of undeniable historical, artistic, and literary importance. These eight plays form a permanent repertory done at the rate of two a year as part of the regular University Theatre season schedule. The Cycle began in 1959 and is now in its second stage, the cmTent and future schedule being as follows:

Sophocles' Oedipus the King ____ . --------- · ... . . fall 1964 Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard . Shakespeare's King Lear Everyman ________________ ........ .... ...... ..... .

Moliere's Tartuffe .. --- .. -- . --·- .. .

__ _ spring 1965 _ . ____ fall 1965

_ .spring 1966 _______ .fall 1966

__ spring 1967 _ fall 1967

Aristophanes' Lysistrata

Shakespeare's Ham let _ Ibsen's Hedda Gabler __ _ _________ .. spring 1968

This unique experiment in edueational theatre offers improved correla-tion with academic instruction because of the advance scheduling of the Cycle plays, and it assures every college generation the opportunity to see or participate in the eight chosen \vorks. It is hoped that the plan makes drama's close relationship to academic work and to life itself more vivid and serves to help preserve' an important part of western civilization's cultural heri~age ..

JIRODUCTION STAFF

Prompter __________ L .. ... ------·---------------------- -------------- ---- - --- SHELLEY BRADFORD

Scenery ....... .. ................. ARTHUR CALDEIRA, Al\UEL LEONARDlA, CHRIS LoNGO, RICHARD ABEL, RoBIN FowLEH, KARL "VYLIE, and SEI

Yoo, assisted by EDWI:'>i NAKA;\;ISHI, CLYDE HuTCHISON, YuAK KAvANICH, SEREE VANGNAITilAM, FRANCIS

lwAJ\IOTO, JERRY KLUEVER, JoHN JENSEN

Lighting .... ------------· .... KATHERINE HARTZELL, as11isted by DouGLAS HALSTED, WILLIAM HAWK, CLYDE HuTCHISON, FRED JuNG,

YUAK KAVANICH, MIKE KING, SYLVIA LEE, ToNI LEVI

Sound ______________________ .FRED JuNG, assisted by LoRNA LuKE, SHELLEY BRADFORD

Properties _______________________________________ ----~IARVIN CHAR, assisted hy BRENDA JoNG, MARIE SHARP, SHEILA Loo, CARL KoNo, HEATHER MIYASHIRO, MELVIN KAOIIOHOU, FUMI CARPENTER

Makeup. __________________________________ , ___ ., ______ .IREN D'AMATO, assisted hy YoKo SAKAI, ' JACQUELINE NoBREGA, JANE ToMITA,

HEATHER MIYASHIRO