The Santa Fe New Mexican from Santa Fe, New Mexico • 26

B2 THE NEW MEXICAN Santa Fe, N.M., Sunday, April 26, 1970 THEATER OF ALL LITIES actors In a scene from The Guru" which opens Theater of All Possibilities 1 opens south of-SF on May 1 ated milking stalls. Swords for Henry were forged on a two hundred year old anvil. Stage furniture and. new construction are made In the Theaters carpentry shop. The performing area is an, outdoor courtyard surrounded by studios and living rooms.

The lighting booth is on the no curtain to create a false edge of the square. There is partition between audience and performers. The totality of the area leads to a very close between the performers, the audience and nature. The audience sits on benches on one side of the dirt courtyard or on the roof of the portal on-two sides. Fro.m that roof, one can see hundreds of miles across the desert to the Jemez, Sangre de Crlsto, Taos, and Sandia Mountains.

Five original members of the 21-member group first lived in Cerrillos four years ago. From there they moved to San Francisco, New York and Houston before returning to the present land one year ago. They did extended performances in these cities and started a restaurant in Houston, to augment ticket sales and keep the Theater alive. Ticket sales and income from small businesses at the Theater now provide funds for the groups continuation. The Theaters idea of a self- sufficient community based on different but related 1 creative works Is a combination of Buckminster Fuller and their own experience over the past four years.

The idea of a dramatic group being a living community goes back to the', time of Shakespeare and Moliere. All members work for the benefit and continuity of the group. The theater Itself, the production of dramatic performances, Is the focus for the groups energies, and the reason for the Theaters exjstence. Their dramatic ideas come from Stanislavsky, classic theater and ancient mystery theater which was the outgrowth of mans first attempts to control his environment. The Theaters capacity of two hundred is partially filled from subscription sales but seats are still available.

From Aug. 17, through Sept. 7, the Theater will present a giant dramatic fsetival of ser-en plays in 44 'performances. Accommodations in tents, with meals, will be available. Reservations for any three-day cycle should be made before July 15.

This will be the first such long-term outdoor drama festival in the United States and may begin an annual event. Information on either next weekends plays or on the summer festival is available from the Theater of All Possibilities, R.R. No. 1, Box 271, Santa Fe, or at 982-1431. By FRED GLAZER The Theater of All Possibilities lives on a 160-acre ranch on State Highway 22, between Santa Fe and Cerrillos.

Its members build their own buildings, grow their own food, forge their own iron, make costumes, leatherwork and jewelry, take and print their own photographs and will soon publish their own translations of foreign plays on their press. Livestock live in weathered wood pens behind the old adobe buildings that are their living quarters, sKfdios and kitchen. Next Friday, the Theater will begin its second two-weekend festival of plays. On Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9, they will present The Guru, a play by an unknown author. Next Saturday and Friday, May 8, they give Shakespeares Henry IV, part I.

All performances will be at 8 p.m. The Guru appeared one morning on the Theaters kitchen table unsigned. In the directors words, it is a statement of the new age. King Henry IV, part is built on the almost universal idea of the conflict between the established Court and a group of rebels. The action centers around the town tavern, the meeting place of all people.

Costumes for both plays were made in a converted dairy bam. Before a performance they make-up in redecor OPERA THEATER ready for 1970 week in the arts- SFO needs homes SFO staff, and it is becoming more difficult each year, said assistant business manager Benjamin Saiz. The Santa Fe Opera is one of the City Differents oldest, smogless, $1 million industries, and certainly one which One of the most important preparations for the Santa Fe Opera season is the obtaining of sufficient and adequate housing for most of the 300 members of the company. Housing is one of the most time-consuming chores of the Notes yj 5 Beethoven concert set LAS VEGAS, N.M. In recognition of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig Von Beethoven, the music department at Highlands University is performing a Beethoven Concert May 3 at 4 p.m.

in Ilfeld Auditorium. The concert will be presented by members of the HU music faculty: Francis Elliott, violinist; Littleton Scott, baritone; and Mrs. Carolyn Morgan, pianist. Works to be performed during the concert include the Kreutzer Sonata, Op. 47 for piano and violin; An Die Feme Geliebte, Op.

98, a cycle of six songs; and the Waldstein Sonata for piano. According to Dr. Champ Tyrone, head of the music department the concert should be one of the highlights of the musical year at Highlands. Open Monday thro Friday 11 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.

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With increased costs, in housing as well as materials, the company is forced to make appeals for increased donations, he said. The company needs housing of all descriptions: large and small individual homes; guest houses; efficiency and larger apartments. In addition, part of the housing need could be resolved by home owners interested in taking in single persons, even for part of the opera season, he said. The housing situation appears so critical for this summer that, for the first time, the rental of trailer units is being considered, said Saiz. The companys housing problem is in two areas.

In the first case, the company provides, and is responsible for, a lease with the landlord, he said. In the second case, the company provides a listing of of available rental units from which season employes can make theid own preferably long before June arrival dates," he said. Persons having housing available in June, July and August, or part of those months, nay contact Saiz at thellanta Fe Opera, 982-3851, or write P.O. Box 2408, Santa" Fe. This MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO Fine Arts Building: "A Gift of Time, nine Roswell artists in residence, through May 3.

Palace of the Governors: Archeology and history of New Mexico and the Southwest. Hall of the Modern Indian: Historic and contemporary Indian civilization of the. Southwest. International Folk Art Building: The New Mexico Santero, Spanish-colonial religious art of New Mexico, through 1970. Mini-Themes: East Indian musical instruments, artifacts from horns, bones, and antlers of animals, continuing.

Gravestone Rubbings from New England cemeteries continuing. Opera Poster Contest entries, through April 28. MUSEUM OP NAVAHO CEREMONIAL ART Navajos Look Forward," photographic portrayal of the modem Navajo and his country by Jack L. Crowder. Also on exhibit: jewelry, pottery, related crafts, ceremonial masks, Navajo textiles, sandpainting reproductions.

Museum hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; Sunday afternoon from 2-5. Closed Monday. NEW MEXICO MILITARY MUSEUM: Tuesday through Saturday.

Artillery and small arms collections, uniformed mannikins, both male and female of different eras, extensive collections of the American Military Saddles, exhibits of all phases of the American Mill-tary'from the Mexican War-period to date. Art shows Sandra Wilson Fine Arts Gallery, paintings, drawings and sculpture, 201 Canyon Rd. Eight New Mexico Artists, Larkins Gallery. 558 Can ANTONIO on Road. John W.

Mackay, color photographs, April 22-29, St. Johns College. Opal Shannon, paintings, Santa Fe National Bank, South-side Branch. New Mexico in the Last Century, prints from Dick Fitch Collection, Art Horizons Gallery, 111 N. Jefferson.

Hal Hermanson, oil seascapes and landscapes, Gallery Santa Fe, 518 Santa Fe Trail. John Philip Wagner, sculpture, drawings, Painters Gallery, yon Road. Hal Olsen, paintings, Kachlna Gallery, 112 Shelby William Butler Hogan, paintings mid graphics, Galeria Cuajimala, 1107 Canyon Road. Todd Webb, photograpns, 652 Canyon Road, Monday through Saturday, 9:40 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Photography f22 Gallery, 338 Camino del Monte Sol. Closed Mondays. Blair Galleries, representational artists, 653 Canyon Rd. Chuzo Tamotzu, Oriental-Occidental paintings, studio gallery, 9 a.m. 5 p.m.

314'2 Garcia St. Collectors items, Jean Seths Canyon Road Art Gallery, 710 Canyon Road, 10 a.m. to ,5 p.m. daily, closed Sunday only. Karl Kemberger, photographs, First Northern Savings and Loan, 241 W.

Alameda. Tom Dryce Studio Gallery, 1000 Canyon Road. Large variety of paintings, prints and sketches. TAOS Six Artists, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ledoux. Group Exhibition by twenty two Southwestern artists, through April, Gallery Kit Carson Road TLSUQUE Vint Blackburn Gallery, Paintings, Bishops Lodge Rd.

EL RANCHO Wlmetts Things Unlimited, gallery and showroom, open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Taos-Santa I POJOAQUE Gallery For Sculpture, Nambe Mills, Taos Highway, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Sunday. LOS ALAMOS Mlchlo Takayama, paintings, Mesa Public Library, April 22-May 11.

Hal Olsen, recent paintings, LASL Personnel Building, South Mesa. Pablo B. Wilson, Gene Pacheco, Los Alamos Building and-Loan through April. Theatre The Skin of Our Teeth, April 24-26, 8 p.m., Greer Garson Theater, CSF Players. Lectures Stuart Boyd, Control, May 1, 8 p.m., St.

Johns College Great Hall. Opera The Medium and The Ttele-phone (Menotti) today, 3 p.m. KSNM, 95.5 mHz FM. Films China In the early 30s filmed and narrated by Dr. Richard Weigle, St.

John's College, today, 8 p.m. La Caraba, April 28, 8 p.m. Museum of International Folk Art. Top Hat, May 2, 8:45 p.m., Three' Cities of Spain, Canyon Road. Children of Paradise, May 2 8 p.m., St.

Johns College Film Senes. The Devils Eye" April 28. 7:30 p.m., Los Alamos Civic Auditorium, Film Society series. Santa Fean plays HASTINGS, Nebraska -Kathryn Lee Wilson, whose home address is Box 727, Santa Fe, is a member of the Has1 tings College Collegium Musician, which is touring Nebraska this spring. She is a member of the Instrumental Concert, which performs with the schools Madrigal Singers.

guitarist By Bill Dunning L. B. Tobin has mounted a new and reportedly very exciting production of Don Giovanni for the San Antonio Opera, which shares his talent with Santa Fe and the Speleto Festival. Voices familiar here are heard in that production: Doris Yarick and Donald Gramm among them. Miss Yarick also sings in the San Antonio production of La Ron-dine.

Their season also includes Aida. Maralin Niska and John Stewart, veterans of Santa Fe productions of the work, are cast in San Antonios production Of Madama Butterfly. The company will also tour Amarillo and Austin, Texas. Miss Niska will, of course, be in Santa Fe for La Traviata on opening night, July 3. The first brochures on the 1970 SFO season have been mailed out to friends and patrons of the Opera.

Philip Lynch of the Operas public relations office said this week that material will reach those who have moved shortly, through forwarding address channels. In the meantime, he pointed out that early ticket' orders receive preference for that opening night gala. Luciano Berio will conduct a chamber ensemble May 5 in a New York performance of his recently premiered "This Means, That at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art. It includes a folksinger, narrator and several other diverse musical elements, probably something like what we expect this summer In his Opera. Mdrk Davis and Eugene Kuntz will present a recital of music for organ and trumpet on May 10 at 3 p.m.

at St. Francis Auditorium. The recital will be sponsored by the Civic Chorus, which Davis has led for several years; he is also the cathedral organist. Kuntz, a veteran of the Metropolitan Opera pit as well as our own SFO, keeps his lip in practice while managing the Card and Party Shop in the Cordova Road Shopping Area. That same evening will mark the Los Alamos Choral Societys offering of Bachs St.

Matthew Passion, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hills acoustically bright brick-walled Catholic Church. Tickets for the evenlngare on sale around Los Alamos. A Slavic folk-dance troupe from Pittsburgh, the Tamburitzans, wlji present their exciting production in the Hills Civic Auditorium on May 12. They have been acclaimed in Eastern Europe when they traveled there last year for our State Department.

Tickets to that evening are already on 'sale and probably should be snapped up Antonio Mendoza, the eminent local guitarist, will be away briefly from his La Fonda engagement to play two concerts In Tulsa, Okla. this month; at the home of architect Donald McCormick and then, on Thursday, at Oral Roberts University there. Using his custom Lorenzo Pimentel guitar, he incorporates many of his own compositions along with classical works by Ponce, Sor, Tarrega and others, traditional Old World flamenco and Mexican folkiorica style the latter accompanied by projected slides of pre-Cortenzean culture and archeological sights. The fourth and latest Mendoza record album, by the way, 'is due shortly. 89c 2.59 a 22e Cheese Topped Stuffed Potatoes 20c Sweet and Sour Asparagus Speers 39e Chef Salad 66c Chocolate Bon Bon 25c Lemon Coconut Custard Pie 25e MONDAY, APRIL 27 Golden Baked Chicken 59c Fried Catfish Fillet 39e Banana Fritters 20e Broccoli with Poppy Seeds 25c Grapefruit end Orange Salad 22c Egg and Olive Salad 25c Billionaire Pie 30c Surprise Peean Pie 30e For The Finest In Spanish Decor SME DECORS de Santa Fe I 219 Cathedral Place Phone 982-1682 HOURS: 10 a.m.

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