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The activity is strictly legitimate. by MARY MANTZ
UNTIL William Shakespeare started shifting the scenery around, the Elizabethan theatre was usually stocked with moralizing miracle plays, not the rollicking farces or realistic tragedies that we now associate with it.
Credit Shakespeare for this transformation which was the birth of the theater as we know it today, but give an assist to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which lent scholars, poets and translators who contributed greatly to productions that still play to standing-room-only audiences in modern theatres.
Today our colleges and universities are providing impetus to another transformation that is changing the scope of comedy and drama here in America.
In the past, a Broadway address was needed to insure good theater to a playgoer in the United States. A hackneyed road show or whitewashed movie version of former New York hits was the usual fare for people outside the metropolitan area.
But now there are many hustling centers of theatrical activity between the footlights of Broadway and the klieg lights of Hollywood. As in
Elizabethan times, an important contribution to this broadening of dramatic interest, which began with the growth of summer stock companies and little theatre movements, is being made by our colleges and universities with their playhouses and dramatic organizations.
The University of Kansas City is one of the schools which is proving that the legitimate theatre is far from dead. Its annual drama season develops fresh talent, original themes, and experimental techniques as a spur to the modern theatre; and in addition revives an appreciation of the classics.
For 16 seasons the University has been sponsoring dramatic activity, and in the past two years this activity has become amazingly widespread. Since the opening of the University of Kansas City Playhouse in October, 1948, its achievements have been a bright example to many larger theatre groups.
Few soldiers would recognize as the Playhouse on the campus of the University the former army post auditorium from Camp Crowder, Missouri. A modern facade has removed the boxy barracks look, and bright