Page Four
Kreskin Amazes
by Jay Shannon
Collegian Staff Writer
The room had a quiet hush. The
audience sat is awe as the man on
stage rattled off names, places,
dates, concerning the personal
life of a member of the audience,
information which he would have
had no way of knowing. This was
the scene in Erie Hall two
Thursday evenings ago when the
Student Union Board presented
the Amazing Kreskin. The world
renowned mentalist displayed
this fascinating ability and many
other powers of the mind before a
fairly large and receptive
audience of Behrend students and
Erie area residents. Despite a
one hour delay in the start of the
program, Kreskin, who appears
as a regular guest on the Johnny
Carson and the Mike Douglas
shows, gave a complete three
hour show to the obvious ap
proval of the crowd.
Kreskin, who is known not only
as a performer, but also as an
author, lecturer, and
psychologist, demonstrated
powers which he claimed many
of us could develop if we just took
the time to do it. Perhaps the
most useful of these was the
power of suggestion which is
generally used with hypnosis but
which Kreskin demonstrated on a
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stage full of Behrend students
without the use of hypnosis.
Within a few minutes he had
people speaking moon language,
unexplainably stuck to their
chairs, and shivering from the
cold which he produced in their
minds through suggestion.
I’m sure that many people
were very suspicious of Kreskin
when they went in, but he per
formed one feat which would
have convinced all but the har
dest of skeptics. After picking
four members of the audience at
random, he entrusted them to
hide the signed check for his
appeamace anywhere inside the
gym after he had been locked in a
backstage room with a random
witness. It was Kreskin’s job to
lead one of the four people to
where the check had been hidden
simply by receiving thoughts
from them. If he failed to locate
it, the money would have been
returned to the 5.U.8.. After
about ten minutes of con
centration and obvious
frustration on Kreskin’s part, he
worked his way up to a spotlight
in the bleachers and discovered
the check which had been hidden
inside. It was then plain to see
why he is known as “The
Amazing” Kreskin: It was a truly
amazing performance.
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Fine Tribute To Arno’s Last
by Kristen Hartzell
Arno Selco, directing his last
play for the Behrend Players,
skillfully led the cast in a very
real, utterly shocking portrayal
of the pitiful characters in
Kennedy’s Children.
The play consists of various
monologues given in rapid
succession to one another, each
revealing a certain element of the
character’s self-concept. Selco
and his crew balanced the in
tellectual with the emotional and
presented their audience with the
convincing, almost masochistic
attempt of the characters to
analyze their own lives and the
maddening desire to cling to their
goals and to rationalize their
means of attaining them, which
seems hopeless for this weird
assortment of pathetic failures.
Sparger and Carla, played by
Playwright Visits Behrend
By Sheri Reim
Collegian Staff Writer
‘I don’t think I came ex
traordinary’ ... is one of the
many lines the public will
remember. Oh November 14, the
international playwright and
author of “Kennedy’s Children,”
Robert Patrick, twice twenty and
going blonde, overwhelmed the
public. Each person in the studio
theatre hung onto every word as
Mr. Patrick spoke about off-off
Broadway Theatre. He explained
how the movement really started
and how, “when the prirrannas
came,” it was slowly put to an
end. Patrick was anxious to point
out that off-off Broadway
Most of the 1977-78 staff
Ron Larsen and Jo Laraway
respectively, try desperately to
explain the holes in their lives to
themselves, meanwhile stripping
their souls and afraid to confront
what that reveals. Wanda, played
by Deirdre McCauley,
reminisces about the “good ‘ole
days” when America was happy
because Kennedy was alive to
hold the masses together. Mark,
portrayed by Tim Baum, is the
perfect example of a mentally
unbalanced man, caught between
his values and those values
others want him to hold. Finally
Tracy Parks explodes with a
somewhat hysterical account of
her activist life with her long lost
friends in the 60’s. During the
duration of the play,' Greg
Johnson moves around in a
detached, bartenderish fashion,
seeming to have no regard for his
produced an active generation of
solid young playwrights and
actors.
“Got any fantasies you want
cast?” Patrick stated, “Any one
can write plays. Just take a
fantasy and write about it.” He is
the author of over 125 plays, most
of which he has directed himself
at underground venues like New
York’s Cafe-Cino. “Kennedy’s
Children” has been performed in
over forty countries in twenty
different languages. Some of his
other successful American wit is
“Lily of the Valley of the Dolls,”
“Female Flower,” and
“Absolute Power Over Movie
Stars.” Mr. Patrick wrote a new
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The characters’ stories climax
in a frenzied moment of fear and
confusion, as they all speak at the
same time, not to each other but
to no one in particular, em
phasizing their helpless isolation
from each other and from anyone
who might recover meaning for
their lives. They give in to their
doubts and allow severe
depression, the only thing they
share, to accompany their
realizations. The audience was
left emotionally drained when
Carla calmly informs them of her
suicidal diet of 70-some aspirins.
Her action is a summation of the
miserable attitudes most of the
characters hold towards life—
death as an answer and an
escape.
Long live the Behrend Players!
The pertinent and the Real reign!
version of “Kennedy’s Children”
which premiered November 3 in
New York.'
Following the November 4
performance here at Behrend,
Robert Patrick, in overalls and T
shirt, sat around talking to the
cast and crew. His good humor,
intelligence, and unbelievable
experiences truly gave everyone
something to think about. After
thanking everyone for inviting
him to such an entertaining
evening, he signed programs and
scripts.
For one brief but fantastic
evening, the Studio Theatre of
Behrend College relived the Cafe
Cino.
Presents
Dance
Ji
November IQ, 1977