Blind Men form the Collection

Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan 1895

Playing together in a triple bill at the Memorial Theatre from Wednesday 26th April to Friday 28th, The Blind Men, The Form, and The Collection make up the term's second offering from V.U.W. Drama society. All these are contemporary plays, therefore one need have no fear of any cultural content - Playwrights Ghelderode, Simpson, and Pinter seem so unaware of cultural values that their plays would please a Goebbels or a Jackie Kennedy. Strengthening the idea that plays and intellect are poor mixers, the plays have been directed by members of the student fraternity - Messrs Steve Lahood, Murray Gadd, and Terry Casserly.

Ghelderode's The Blind Men is a grotesque morality play in Gangster garb. The Form is Simpson's absurd, anarchic good time. The Collection is all hard- laying thy neighbour and how to throw a cheese knife. As well as that, all three plays squeeze the tears out of you as you laugh... whatever that means and sex isn't absent.

This is an experiment — allowing the university to put on its own productions without the interference of those outside it! Its true the scale is small, but it generally is at the beginning of big things. All returns go to the Theatrical Revolution which erupts next term. But, in the meantime, one may come without a revolver. Save it for Vietnam Letters and Production Script Only. Come to these April plays with the one you lay. Take a little, give a little, live a little.