Drama

Leonard Billing: Theatre was another interesting experience, although I was in only one play. I did help in setting up the stage in the dining hall at Lee Hall, and worked on sets.

Will Hamlin: Theatre at Black Mountain was radically different (from Antioch College). We performed with little or no scenery (often against the traditional black curtains).... Costumes for plays were imaginative but simple.... As we carried this minimal scenery and the equally minimal costumes [to the Drama Festival at the University of North Carolina], we saw people from other colleges unload trucks full of scenery and racks of costumes. But two days later we drove back to BMC with first prizes for acting, direction, and overall production.

Elizabeth Pollet: I was immediately co-opted for a role in the Irwin Shaw antiwar play Bury the Dead, which was in rehearsal and about to be performed.

Robert Sunley: Though I did not take drama with Wunsch, I gained much from watching the plays he produced with student actors – I did have minor parts in several plays.

Emil Willimetz: Bob Wunsch directed and supervised numbers of plays. In order to have a play at BMC almost every available body needed to be impressed. As shy as I was in public performances, Wunsch managed to get me into Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead, Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty, and Shakespeare's Macbeth.