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Students present Engaged It will be presented in the Humanities Theatre at 8 p.m. to night through Satur day. Written by W S (:il bert, the man who be came the librettist for the famous light opera team of Gilbert and Sullivan, this produc tion of Engaged is directed by Douglas w.S. Gilbert‘s En gaged. a romantic farce in the most fran tic tradition of the nineteenth century The University of _ Tickets are $5 for Waterloo drama deâ€" general admission, $3 partment presents, as for students and sen its major production of iors. $2 each for a the Winter 1982 season, £roup of 2099 people w S Gilbert‘s En â€" and $1.50 each for a PAGE 14 â€" WATEBLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1982 In the course of his research Butts interviewed Girty‘s great greatâ€"greatâ€"grandson who cur ‘‘Prof. Reaney asked me if 1‘d heard of Girty, and vaguely I recalled that 1 had read someâ€" thing about him in some novel somewhere .‘ ‘"For my degree project, I was doing research into outlaws, rebels, brigands and the like, and a friend who had seen my play on Crockett suggested 1 get in touch with Reaney, whose work on the Black Donneliys fell somewhat into the same category. "It‘s largely on the basis of one incident where he was unable to save an American colonel named Crawford from being burned by the Indians that Girty has come down in American history a: a friend." Butts, who a couple of years ago wrote a oneâ€"man play about another legendary frontiersman, Davy Crockett, says the idea for this play was suggested to him by Canadian playwright and Uniâ€" versity of Western Ontario Prof James Reaney. Butts says that in his two years of research on Girty, he has found that in many instances the frontiersman saved American prisoners from being tortured. Girty, who is honored by a monument on the Canadian side of the Detroit river, was a frontiersman raised by Indians in the i8th century. During the American Revolution, he sided with the British and led Indians in attacks on American settleâ€" ments. Ed Butts, a UW graduate, says that his play, The Fame Of Simon Girty, will attempt to show that the title character "was not as brutal and bloodthirsty as folkâ€" lore and American history made him out to be." By Victor Stanton A Waterloo writer is debunking some longâ€"established American folklore in a new play which opens at the University of Waterâ€" loo â€"(UW) Threatre of the Arts tomorrow (March 18). UW PRODUCTION Waterloo writer debunks folklore through new play The newlyâ€"formed Elmira and Woolwich Community Theatre Workshop will perform The Drunkard (or Down With Demon Drink), this Friday and Saturday, and next Friday, Saturday and Sunday The play, written by Brian J . Burton, will be performed each eveâ€" ning at 7 p.m. at the St. The Drunkard to be performed ‘‘Prof. Reaney has been comâ€" missioned to write it, and I‘ve been hired to do research on the history of Waterloo. Workshops on the production will begin in the summer and I would suspect the finished production would be staged probably sometime in Noâ€" vember .‘ Meanwhile, Butts is busy reâ€" searching material for a special theatrical production celebrating this year‘s joint anniversaries of the city of Waterloo and the University of Waterioo. The twoâ€"act play, which feaâ€" tures 34 different charfacters, has had a professional reading by Toronto‘s NDWT Company, and Butts says there is a ‘"possibiliâ€" ty" that the company "might want to do a production of it some time in the future." \ On Saturday night, Prof. Reanâ€" ey will be bringing along a Canadian drama class from the University of Ann Arbor in Miâ€" chigan. The cast, headed by Jim Gardner in the title role, is made up primarily of UW students and staff. The premiere production, which is being directed by UW integrated studies student Sue Alexanian, will first be perâ€" formed tomorrow afternoon for a student audience, and then nightâ€" ly tomorrow through Saturday (March 20) beginning at 8 p.m. ‘"‘"There are flashbacks to things that happened in his past, and while a couple of things could be taken as documentary, other things are more conjecturized." "In the play. the guilt and memories of the things he‘s been involved in are coming back to him. He‘s kind of standing on a line between the facts of his life and the legend. "It‘s set in Amherstburg in what was then known as Upper Canada in February, 1818, just prior to Girty‘s death. Butts describes The Fame of Simon Girty as a "historical drama." rently lives in Windsor, Ont Tickets for the din ner theatre are $12, and are availabile by calling 6§64â€"2279 or 669â€"8606. This is the second major production the Theatre Workshop has presented. The first was Agatha Christic‘s The Mousetrap, per formed this past Oc tober Jacobs Country Mill in downtown St. Jacobs For information and reservations, call the UW Centre for the Arts al 8X5â€" 4280 group of 100 or more people. The climax of the week will be on Friday evening March 26 when the premiere perfor mance of a work com missioned especially for this festival takes place The work is enâ€" titled Swa Cwaeth Erd stapa (Thus Spake the Earthwalker), and is scored for two choirs, brass, winds, and harp. The composer himself On Tuesday Keane will open the week‘s activities with a lec ture entitled The Anat omy of Musical Expeâ€" rience. The ideas preâ€" sented in the lecture will be illustrated by the performance of two of his recent works Sinfonia, for violin, cello, piano, and tape, and Harmonion I1I, for viola and computer generated sounds. the lectureâ€"recital takes place in the UW Thea tre of the Arts at 8 p.m. and admission is free At 12. 30 p.m. on Wednesday a multi media work by David Keane and Trevor Hodgson will be pre sented in the Humani ties Theatre. Time and Light II combines elec tronically generated music and multiple slide projections. Ad mission for this event is also free. From March 23 to 26 the music department of Conrad Grebel Colâ€" lege at the University of Waterioo will presâ€" ent its first Festival of Contemporary â€" Music, featuring the music of Canadian composer David Keane. A reception for Prof Deane and the per formers will follow. AT CONRAD GREBEL Jim Gardner plays the title role in the original new drama The Fame of Simon Girty playing at the University of Waterioo‘s Theatre of the Arts from March 18 to 20. The play was written by Waterioo writer Ed Butts. Contemporary music featured in festival Prof. Keane has con centrated his attention on producing music which is intended to be understood and enâ€" joyed by the widest Although he has used most contemporary techniques in his com positions he feels that technical considera tions are secondary to aesthetic ones, even if the latterâ€" considera tions are very difficult to isolate. He has pub lished articles and lec tured on these matters widely in Europe and North America, but he feels that the real test of aesthetic under standing is the worth of the music built upon such understanding. At the heart of David Keen‘s work in music has been a search for understanding of the way people listen to music and of how to satisfy musical lis teners in the fullest and most rewarding way. As well Prof. Keane will be speaking at various classes on campus throughout the week. Tickets for this event are $3 general admis sion, $2 for students and seniors, and are available at the UW Arts Centre Box Office, Conrad Grebel College, and from members of the band and choirs. will conduct this preâ€" miere performance. A vartety of works by other composers will also be performed in this concert, Spring Airs, which is the first of two annual spring concerts by the student ensembles of the Uniâ€" versity of Waterioo. Ballet and mime lecture planned In Canada he has been commissioned to write numerous comâ€" positions under comâ€" missioning grants from the Ontario Arts Counâ€" cil and the Canada Council. Outside of Canada he has been commissioned by the Swiss Radio, Belgian Ministry of Culture, the Cuban Commission of the International Music Council, and by the Group de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (France). Dr. Peterson Royce, Indiana University, will be giving a public lecture on baliet and mime in room 6091A of the mathematics and computer building on the University of Waâ€" terloo campus Thurs day morning, March 18 at 9: 30 a.m. His music has been performed in concert and broadcast all over the world and he has This will be a general interest lecture and is Keane is the director of the Queen‘s Univerâ€" sity electronic music studios and associate professor of theory and co m position at Queen‘s. He has proâ€" duced music for the Canadian Broadcastâ€" ing Corporation, the National Film Board and the National Deâ€" sign Council. possible public while remaining very much in the reaim of "serious‘‘ music. Four of his electronic works are available on a disc recording reâ€" leased (by Music Gal lery Editions, Toronto) and his book Tape Music Composition was released in the Fall of 1980 (by Oxford Uni versity Press, Lon don) Dr. Royce is the au thor of several books on dance and is cur rently completing an other to be entitled Creativity and Interâ€" pretation in Ballet and Mime. She is a consult ing editor for the Inter national Encyclopedia of Dance. open to anyone wishing to attend Born in the United States in 1943, David Keane obtained his B.:S¢.. B.Mus.. and M.Mus. degrees from The Ohio State Univer sity. He immigrated to Canada in 1967 and became a citizen in 1974. He was appointed to his position at Queen‘s in 1970 after three years in Van couver where he was a double bassist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and taught at Simon Fraser Uniâ€" versity. Among his published works is a series of pieces for use in schools (published by Universal Edition, London). received awards for his work in both Europe and North America.