1. Jeff Johnson as the priestandjoEllen Noland as a nun, share an intense moment - in "The Runner Stumbles. " 2. Sherry Lewis contemplates the situation in "Wind and the Willows." 3. Thoureau played by Robin Cannon and Melinda LeFevers as Ellen Sewell, explain the defense in "The Night Thoreau Spent In jail." 4. Don Morrison as Toad receives his sentence in "Wind and the Willows." 5. Eddie Madden and Donna Laney fear for their lives as Robin Cannon holds them at gunpoint in "Watership Down." 6. Alice Brown as Mrs. Britton entertains Phillip Thames as jonathon Nye, Louisa's guest, as Kay Coree, Louisa, dreads the afternoon while Vic Phares, grandfather, sleeps. 32/Plays Role Playing In addition to the Homecoming musical "Oklahoma!" Harding students and faculty produced some memorable moments during 1982-83 with speech department presentations of "Wind in the Willows" February 18-20, "The Runner Stumbles" February 25-27, "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" March 25~26, "The Imaginary Invalid" April 22-24, "Elizabeth the Queen" April 26, "Watership Down" April 26, "The Menace from Earth" September 11, "Pride of the Brittons" November 18-20, "Actors" February 18-19, and "The Tavern: A Melodrama" February 25-26. "Wind in the Willows" began the year off on a light note as some 35 actors, actresses and musicians participated in this musical designed for both children and adults. The theme was one of friendship, with events revolving around "Toad" Don Morrison. The next two productions - 'Runner' and 'Thoreau' - were both student-directed. Robin Cannon directed "The Runner Stumbles." A former priest, running from his past and a murder charge, is arrested and forced to deal with his failure to cope with life. liThe Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" was directed by Mrs. Anna Brenton, with Thoreau played by Robin Cannon, Thoreau's mothe'r by Rona lyon, Lidian Emerson by Debbie Young, Emerson by Vic Phares, John Thoreau by Barry Fisk and Ellen Sewell by Melinda LaFevers. Set in the 1800's, the play title suggests a night Thoreau spent in jail for failure to pay six years of taxes, but the period covered is much longer, and deals with Thoreau's individualism as it affects different relationships. Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid" was directed by Chuck Parker with technical director Robin Miller. Paul Perkins in the lead role of Argan, portrayed a hypochondriac in this French comedy set in the 1700's. The plot concerned Argan's attempts to persuade his beautiful daughter to marry a doctor in order to receive free medical advice. The daughter, however, was in love with another man, and the whole household conspired with her to change Argan's mind, with hilarious results. "Elizabeth the Queen" was a , graduate acting project of Melinda LaFevers, in which she combined different authors' views of Queen Elizabeth into a narrative in the form of a series of letters written to Lord Essex protrayed by Blake Eubanks. "Watership Down" was directed by Robin Cannon and based on the novel by the same title. It . was a story of rabbits and their struggle to survive against man and human civilization. Half the cast died during the course of the powerful drama, with a small group of students playing several roles each. Eddie Madden, Stevie Byrd, Cherie Ney, Dan Billingsley and Eddie Randle supplied most of the acting, and succeeded in captivating the audience. "The Menace from Earth" was
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