Company '72 Presents
The Night
Thoreau
Spent in Jail
by Jerome Lawrence
~ ~obert~.Lee
JULY 13, 14, 15, 16 &17, 1972/FINE ARTS THEATRE/EIU/CHARLESTON, ILL.
The Night Thoreau ~'}pent in Jail
DIRECTED BY
GERALD SULLIVAN
SETTING
&COSTUMES DESIGNED BY LIGHTING &SPECIAL EFFECTS DESIGNED BY
ED BAGGER &JOHN SMITH
JOHN KEOUGH
PROJECTIONS DESIGNED BY JIM DIAS &JOHN METCALF
NOTE
CAST OF CHARACTERS
WALDO.
• Bob Dodd
LYD I AN
.. . .
. . . . Jan Bu l l a
MOTHER. . .
. . Diane Byrd
HENRY.
.Bob Entwistle
JOHN.
.Beryl McClerren
BA I LEY
. . ••
. Ron Fortner
BALL •
John Hanners
ELLEN.
• . .
.Joan Forman
SAM. .
. Walt Howard
EDWARD .
. L. Johnson
WILLIAMS.
.Marcel Reid
PASSER-BY.
.Dennis Durbin
DRUNK.
.. ..
. . . . J. Sain
FARMER. • . . .
. . . Joe Allison
WOMAN. . • . Katherine Teter Ba l linger
TOWNSPEOPLE ,Dana Harrold, David Rang,
Steve Rodgers, Ruthie Riegel
& Gary Wintersteen
THERE WILL BE ONE TEN-MINUTE
INTERMISSION.
TECHNICAL STAFF
Saovanut Bhuvanit
Stage Manager
Mi Idred Navolt
Lighting Technician
John Pau I &
Sound Technicians
Judith Larkin
J. Sa i n
Stage Carpenter
Cindy
Williams
Costume Construction
Laurice Lichter
Organist
Promotion & Management James Rinnert
Anne Brady
Promotion assistant
Brenda
Ep ling
House Manager
Jim
Dias
Photographer
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If the law is of such a nature
that it requires you to be an
agent of injustic~ to another,
then I say, break the law.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
In 1849, the young Henry David
Thoreau, phi losopher, poet, naturalist, penned these timeless
words in his CiviZ Disobedience.
Three years earl ier Thoreau had
refused to pay taxes to the
government, which was engaged
in the Mexican War.
He condemned the war as unjust-a war
never formally declared, ' begun
without Congressional authorization, a savage and bloody war
fought to assuage the United
States' territorial ambitions.
For his courageous and unprecedented act of protest, he was
thrown in ja i I.
Thoreau was a
man of the future.
Over the
past century, his action has
had worldwide reprecussions.
Tolstoi was influenced by his
stand, and Ghandi based his
passive resistance campaign on
the words of the ph i losopher of
Walden Pond.
Now Thoreau's
action takes on a new relevance.
THE NIGHT THOREAU SPENT IN JAIL
is an essential work for today's
world.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AI Joseph, Marianne Schneider, Nancy Schmidt, Patricia
Keenan, Renee Soucek, Sam Reese, EIU School of Music. Guns
designed by David Rang.
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