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Caption: Book - Report on Need for Campus Recreation Facilities (1947)
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DRAMATICS (The Illini Theatre Guild) Wesley Swanson PAST I I PROGRAMS NOW IN OPERATION • Recreatio 1 aspects of Illini Theatre Guild work are: I (a) r reetior for its audiences I (b) r ation for its participants. The Guild has two principal divisions as far as public production of plays is concerned: (a) the season productions (to which admission is charged) (b) the Laboratory Theatre productions (to which admission is free). No detailed mention can be made here of the educational and artistic aspects of zhe Guild's work. The cultural and educative values of theatre going and theatre doing cannot be indicated by the statistics which follow. It must be realized also that what is an avocation for some participants is a vocational project far other students. But recreation from theatre work comes to both groups: The Guild is a part of a large non-commercial theatre movement, nationwide in sccpe, reaching into thousands of American communities, closely allied to many organized recreational programs of many park districts, camps, clubs and organizations, an integral part of the curricular and extra-curricular pattern of every American school, a movement which has considerable organization, unity of purpose and concert of effort. In many of its aspects the work of the Guild EU3t be considered in relationship to this larger picture particularly in -(a) furnishing practice for students who will be recreational leaders and specialists after they leave the University. (b) developing skills for students who will affiliate with community I theatre rograms in the various communities in which they will J establish themselves after graduation. (c) through the training of audiences helping to build wiser and more enthusiastic audiences and supporters for what is good in theatre. (d) satisfying immediate needs of audiences and participants on our own campus. | (e) giving early training to students who later will become professional performers and directors for the commercial and non-commercial theatre (thereby contributing eventually to the recreation of many other pcroons). RECREATION ?0R LOCAL AUDIENCES: i lumber of Guild productions last ooason: l6 (in addition the Guil 1 sponsored a public lecture and showing of six performances of the motion picture, J/.) T per ma 00: 48 (Th/ re It scarcely a week of the •chool yoar when there is not aomo productior or othorwiio, in performance). •nda 1 (of the ' '< ;/ V) 17,: . >no to which admltelon wna ohargt but
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