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| Thursday, December 1, 2011 10:58AM | | | | Writing Lesson From a Mime | Tags: Dallas Theater Center, Theater of Nations, As I Lay Dying, Kennedy assassination, Baylor University, Journey to Jefferson, Marcell Marceau, Etienne Decroux, Waco, Jean-Louis Barrault, Faulkner, Hemingway
| | | | The Dallas Theater Center was selected to present my adaptation of a Faulkner novel at the Theater of Nations competition in Paris. The year was 1964, a year after the Kennedy assassination, and the novel was As I Lay Dying. A troubled Charles “Chip” Bohlen, US ambassador to France, called to say that the French loved President Kennedy and posters highlighting Dallas and “As I Lay Dying” would horrify them. The title of the play had to be changed.
On a transatlantic call I changed the title of the play to “Journey to Jefferson,” and the Dallas Theater Center production of the play received a Special Jury Award.
One night when we were dark, the cast decided to see Marcell Marceau who was appearing at... | | | | | | | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:12PM | | | | Sit-In at Baylor Drug | Tags: Baylor University, Baptist, Drama, Paul Baker, Eugene McKinney, Thornton Wilder, integration, Baylor Drug, Abner McCall,
| | | | After two degrees from Baylor University, and two years teaching at Gardner-Webb, a Baptist college in North Carolina, I was invited to be a member of the Baylor Drama Department. Life Magazine, Saturday Review, Reader’s Digest, and other magazines and newspapers had given the department and its theater productions an international reputation. I was going to join my mentors, Paul Baker and Eugene McKinney. The impossible dream, had come true.
I had a wife and two young children and my first year I taught in summer school because I needed the income. That meant teaching three classes and directing a play in the summer theater program. My plan to write full-time in the summer was severely curtailed, especially since directing required the same kind of work... | | | | | |
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