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Friday, April 2, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Arts & Entertainment
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Insane in the madhouse
Anunus, played by Ron Willis (left), professor of theater, points out a special入侵 in his maddness to his assistant Lelillo,
played by Lynx Levy, Lawrence sophomore, in "The Changling" which opened at the University Theatre. Performance will be 8 o'clock and 9 o'clock on Saturday.
The plot is simply that a young woman of seeming virtue Reatice-Joanna, is drawn by passionate desire into a course
Play views skewed virtue
Time, they say, heals all things, so perhaps by opening night the sluggish and uneven tempo of an otherwise admirable production may have been rectified.
The play, by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, is a 17th century piece of the Jacobone revenge-tragedy sort and it is refreshing (and indeed frightening) to be able to see a production of something—anything—from that period besides Shakespeare.
Staff Writer
Although views of tragedy have changed radically since 1623 we might more apt call them 'sorrowful' because it is curiously modern in its cynical view of a morally skewed universe wherein the villains are often indulgent in disillusion from the virtuous.
This is a review of a "work in progress," so to speak. The necessity of deadlines found me seeing the University Theatre production of "The Changeling" not on open night, but at Wednesday's dress rehearsal. It was unusual that some, at least, of the play's problems were merely symptomatic of that circumstance.
Grateful Dead transcends music trends
By BILL UYEKI
The Grateful Dead is one of the few groups left from the San Francisco music scene of the late 1960's. And for a while it seemed the Dead was hardly surviving.
GARcia RANKS among the vin 'je rock guitarists. There's problems no one better at with vin 'je and no novelive leaves without venturing too far from a song's melody. There may be some who are faster or fancier or less attentive than master at expressing emotions.
The group's attempt to record, promote and distribute its own records flat on its face. But the group negotiated a deal with some of the artists and freed itself to what it does best - play music.
Solo albums from the group's seven members have appeared over the last couple of years, since the Dead quit touring. Two of the most recent albums are lead guitarist Jerry Garcia's "Reflections" and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir's "Kingfish".
By JOHN BUSH JONES
It's a shame more of the album isn't set aside for Garcia's guitar improvisations. Perhaps the limitless creativity of Garcia, which continually adds new material comfortably confined to a plastic vinyl disc with only 20 minutes of music on each side.
Among the standouts on the album is "Mission in the Rain," which weeps with regret. Larry Ragni, an executive compartment provides a blues
Guest Reviewer
Most of the eight songs on "Reflections" are toned-down, laid-back rock, jazz and blues numbers, none of which approaches more than a casual beat. All members of the reflections are associated with the album, along with several session musicians.
Weir joins a tight crew of four California musicians, one being Dave Torbert, former bassist
"Tore Up Over You" is the album's big rock number. Garcia opens with some biting blues riffs and the tempo coasts behind some spunky barron piano runs by Nicky Hopkins. Another notable cut is "Cattifah" which starts with Garcia, Weir and Donna Godcheux combining in wailing, gospel harmony.
Perhaps more accessible for the mass audience is "hugged" Wer's second solo LP, recorded by a group of the same name.
GARCIA EXPLORES new musical tangents with "Reflections," although the album seems uninspiring because it lacks anything faster than a casual pocker rocker.
plot was of moral ones: two pretend madmen vie for the affections of the young wife of old Albius, the proprietor of this 17th century cuckoo's nest. Albius is played to the hilt with doddering bluster by Ronald Willis.
Generally less successful than the Beatrice-DeFlores action, the sub-plot's problem is one of performance.
Uneven performances assus,
the vigorous and visually
striking production was
engineered by the sure hand of
William Keeler, a director
daring and imaginative enough
to have pulled off such a play at
all-and the production's
success is largely his. His,
and Gregory Hill, for the
creation of a gorgeous set
combining opulent luxury with
encouraging decay—the perfect
image for the play's theme of
decadence.
audience an opportunity to see her growing awareness of忍睬 evil and her capacity for duplicity and revenge, all despite her protestations of innocence and honor.
Other performers in the main action lend adequate, although not outstanding, support to the team. When necessary, satisfying, perhaps, are Michael Wise and Larry Jasper, but the general mixture of styles and varying degrees of execution remain a problem.
Meanwhile, back at the comic sub-plot (yes, gentle reader), there's one of those, we see the boy on the right, presumably typical London madhouse. Here is a plot of physical disguises, as the main
John Bush Jones, associate professor of English, is the special drama correspondent to the Kansas City Times and Star.
(7:30p.m. Tuesday at Off the Wall Hall)
BENEFIT CONCERT: Local musicians will perform in a benefit concert for Mike Bilchroth and Medical Center Burn Center.
CHICAGO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by Dieler Rober, will perform works for wind brass
Ballet
(8 p.m. Monday at Off-the Wall Hall)
KENJE KAMIYA AND KIYOTO ISHIMARU: Classical guitarists from Japan.
This Week's Highlights
Concerts
AMERICAN CHAMBER BALLET: Five works from a variety of ballets under the direction of Joel Benjamin.
COLLEGIUM MUSICUM: "A
Medieval Renaissance. Spring
works from the 13th-14th c.
tensions that deal with
immersion."
(3 p.m. Sunday at the Museum of Art)
UNIVERSITY SINGERS:
The freshman select choir will be conducted by James Ralston, a music professor in the music, and Martin Hook, Bolivar. Mo. graduate student.
@ p.m. Wednesday in room 102.
Exhibits
His girlfriend, Linda, is a part-time waterbed demonstrator, a writer, and, in her spare time, a Renaissance woman. She is competent, independent and witty.
(8 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch Auditorium)
MADLY IN LOVE with his elusive feminist, David finally asks her to marry him. She says something about wanting to commitments," and David feels like a discarded Big Mac card.
Gail Parent can turn a phrase with a grace to match Woody Allen's, which is not surprising—she's been turning phrases for a living for some time.
LINDA WORKS while David is left at home poring over "101 Ways to Use Campbell's Cheese Soup." It isn't long before he's asked if he'd desire to become a mother: "I tried on numerous occasions to bring the subject of having a baby to him, and that Pop has a baby! . . . I think it would be a great idea if we had one. She would say, 'No, I don't want to bring up a child here; they did foreign films.'
with the New Riders of the Purple Sage.
san't pinpoint the exact day that I became your typical housewife, but I guess it was an early morning, something very close to how: 'You never take me my anpause anymore,' and she said, 'For Christ sake. David, I'm tired at the end of "day" — is dinner ready?'
SURFACE DESIGN CONFERENCE I: A variety of
She, was one of the first female comedy writers for television, one of the creators of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," and "The Real Deal" selling "Shelia Levine is Dead and Living in New York."
(8 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium)
RENE GIARD:
"Shakespeare in Our Cultural
Humanities lecture. Girard is a
distinguished professor of
English and French at the State
University of New York at
Park Ridge."
As Beatrice-Joanne, Nancy Opel fares somewhat less successfully, especially in the early moments of the play. Too hard and calculating from the start, she never gives the
country riffs by Hoddinott, and Kelly's foot-draping harmonica interludes, "Home to Dixie," a funky, yet light and driftng, traveling song, has been getting displayed from local radio stations.
(8 p.m. Tuesday in Woodruff Auditorium)
Fortunately, for the overall production, the role of DeFlores is carried by Peter Miner in what is far and away the strongest performance of the evening. Miner's depth of characterization and range of vocal embellishments make him a very appealing man just the attractive scoundrel he should be.
With his deep, resonant vocals, We can easily cross the boundary from rock to country. On this album he sings a fine arrangement of the Marty Robbins' tunes, "Big Iron." Also, "Hymnotize" is a pleasant surprise. The group has a surprise song by Jimi Hendrix and folk, but this cut is surprisingly professional jazz. And if that's not enough variety for the critical ear, there's "Bye and Bye," a bouncy version of a traditional gospel song.
GEORGE PLIMPTON:
THE dearlevi author of "Paper
Cats" and numerous other books
based on his experiences
assuming the roles of
the Amateur willow or the Pro-
The Amateur vs. the Pro."
As a whole, this is an appealing package of folk-rock, country western and jazz music. It's quite a stick studio cut, too, with ample overdubs and touches that are used to create a varied sound.
Weir is one of the most creative rhythm guitarists in rock, thanks to years of backing Garcia.
Parent draws a caricature of role-muddled David Meyer, adapting to his new role: "I
finds out his girlfriend is the kind of person who would stop seeing a man if he saw the wrong movies.
FACULTY RECITAL Roger Stoner, assistant professor of wind and percussion, will perform on the trumpet.
of murder and sexual dissolution—all, she thinks wrong-mindedly, to protect her honor. As if this vicious irony weren't enough, the "honest DeFlores," the ugly reprobate to whom she is drawn for her sake, has denied that; unlike Beatrix Joanna, the villain knows himself to be a villain.
exhibits, some juried, ranging from historical textiles to industrial designs. Works by both students and professionals.
Lectures
THE CHANGELING : A
JASON MIDDleton
by Thomas Middleton
and William Rowley, replete with
murder, subplots, comedy and
WEIR AND TORHERT are both polished vocalists, and they deliver the album's lyrics with smooth and comforting manner.
"Wild Northland" is a notable track on the first side. It's a bouncy Torbert tune, a fine traveler's song aided by rapid
Recitals
(8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow night and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre)
(Through April at the Kansas Union, the Museum of Art, the Lawrence Public Library, 7E7 and the Lawrence Arts Center)
PUNISHMENT PARK—The first of seven films to be shown in campus during director Peter KU. "Punishment Park" is his most controversial film and represents a demonstration of production to one of the world's foremost political filmmakers. It is a film that unfolded in this country because of its alleghelic attack on the U.S. government's repression of war
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING--More than 20 years ago director John Huston planned to make his film with Bogart and Gable, only to have to abandon it. Now the dream project has now been realized, with Michael Caine and Sean Connery in the roles.
Theater
(8 p.m. Monday in Swarthout Recital Hall)
David Meyer thinks he has his act together where women are concerned. He's young, hip, wears 40 jeans and has always been a dapper and fierce "killer." His talents include an ability to hustle prom queens and others. There's no problem—that is, until he falls in love with a liberated woman. He goes to her apartment. Meyer's world turns upside down. He spends Saturday night at home waiting for the telephone to ring, or to see him in school, when carefree can't fit him in before his Friday night date. Chronic insecurity plagues him when he
Although David eventually does become a mother, his beloved Linda remains aloof and nothing is permanently resolved. It doesn't matter though, because neither Linda nor David will ever be the same after knowing each other.
Films
(8 p.m. Monday in Hoch Auditorium)
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOK'S NEST—So what if it won only slightly more than half of the Academy Awards it was nominated for? The tight ensembles and compensate the viewer who wants to quibble about idiotic Oscars.
WINGS—The first film to win an Academy Award, and a class of students inDirected by William Wallman, Warren Siskin, and Clara Bauer, digital
ON ANY SUNDAY— Everything you never wanted to know about motorcycle sports.
CALIFORNIA SPLIT—
baking celebration of gambling in a showcase for Elliot Gould and George Geiger, who star as the governor of Texas.
Check ads for theaters and times.
Let the myth be put to rest that feminists do not have a sense of humor about their predicament. Gail Parent has put together a spoofer at role reversal in the 1850's in which he uses the chauvain upringings that is anything but serious.
DAVID MEYER IS A MOTHER. By Gail Parent, New York, Harper and Row. $7.95.
By SHERRY FRANKLIN
Lady killer meets his match in feminist sex role parody
Reviewer
Stars strike sparks in sex clash
Reviewer
By CHUCK SACK
One of the oldest and most improbable plot situations is that of the old caswacks—two people who are shipwrecked on a desert island and forced to cooperate despite their incompatible natures. Now, with their new situation this same situation have been stranded at the same theater during the same week.
Both "Sweet Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August" and "Man Friday" are satirical treatments of the standard plot. The latter is Robinson Crusoe retold from
Friday's point of view. "Sweep away!" shows an economically minded Adam and Eve cast into a modern Garden of Eden.
Maybe it's a result of the current surplus of films that pair mule stars—this weekend alone you can see Goula-Sgalaal McGraw or Neil Jordan, Newman-Redford thing-or maybe it's simply that the battle between the sexes is more timely than the clash between races. but "Swet" competition six ways to Friday.
FOR ONE THING, the Peter O'Toole-Richard Roundtree combination in "Man Friday"
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doesn't strike any sparks. Although each man is an acceptable actor, they are both too polished in style and too refined in tactility to be necessary contrast. Jack Gold's static direction compounds the problem, and "Man Friday," for all its attention to Friday's challenging of Cruseus at his most essential dramatic conflict.
"Sweet Away" lacks much of the polish of "Man Friday," particularly in its script, but it is an infinitely superior film. The castaways are polar opposites. He's a hot-headed proletariat; she's an icy character who was the tale of poor boor and rich bitch, and makes the political satire entertaining as well, is the extraordinary attractiveness of the two stars.
To give you some idea of the peculiar chemistry of Mariangela Melato and Giancarlo Giannini, it is worth noting that America studio is considering a native version of this script to be acted by Jane Fonda and Jack Nicholson. That pairing is an accurate approximation of the work by their Italian counterparts.
Raffella (Melato), is given to idiotic distribs against communists in general and the sailor, whose dexterous in particular; invitably, the lady and the sailor, Gennarino (Gianammni), are separated from their comrades up on an uninhabited island.
Giannini, on the other hand, is
THROUGH THE FUROR,
insults and fights that follow.
Melato maintains her cool,
haughty composure, even as
she is superior to reverse their
roles and punish Raffella for the
sins of her economic
superiority in true screen
play. She has been clean and her flesh is brushed throughout the ordeal.
Richard Roundtree and Peter O'Toole in "Man Friday."
"Swept Away!" is very funny, but it is often cruel and brutal. Director Lina Wertmuller is well on her way to international
a slight figure with sleepy, hooded eyes that pop open in surprise, delight and, usually, fear. A fraggle man who is scarred by a mere slap, and who is finally revealed to be harboring a dream, not only of monetary wealth but also of sexual equality.
recognition, and her sure touch in this film shows why. A former assistant to Fellini, she has taken his ability to discover the behavior, and expanded it suit her own views and style.
The problem in Hollywood will be to find an equivalent to Wertmiller Then, if the film ever gets made, it will probably begin its week as an Italian version of "Robinson Crusoe on Mars."