University Daily Kansan, July 27, 1981
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Theatre offers wide variety
By ERLEEN CHRISTENSEN Guest Reviewer
There's still time to catch the best entertainment value around -Kansas Repertory Theatre. You can choose from witterly British comedy Tuesday night, "Hay Fever," a musical "The Robber Bridegroom" Wednesday and a musical "The Last Meeting" on Thursday "The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia."
"Hay Fever" by Noel Coward Directed by Tom P. Rea Inge Theatre 8 n.m Tuesday, Jul
If the play is by Noel Coward, expect slightly brittle British gentlefolk being witty. In "Hay Fever" the audience gets just that. The Blizzanes—an aging actress mama, novelist papa, and son and daughter just becoming adults—each invite a guest for a country weekend, without consulting the rest of the family. The result is one puff off basic good manners, not to mention the inevitable unexpected pairings.
The set is elegantly British, but lends itself to some rather inegleant galloping about as cast members (and even on kitchen, library and usitests study.
Some of the costuming is distractingly amateurise with ladies in evening attire looking more like a mermaid, whose class than British gentry of the 1920s.
Nonetheless, the flavor of the 1920s is captured well, especially by Cynthia Gorman, who plays young Sorel Bliss with a fine combination of ingenuous spontaneity and wit. Tyrell, as Judith Bliss, does well by some long and difficult monologues and Jim Kreider shows his virtuosity as an actor by playing a prim and stuff diplomat-type character, a character radically different from the teenagers he no longer lives in "The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magolia."
"The Robber Bridegroom" (Book and Lyrics by Alfred Uhry, music by Robert Waldman, based on the novella by Eudora Welty)
Directed by Jem Graves
Igate Theatre 8 p.m. Wednesday July 29
Making a musical from a Eudora Warner
play will make an evening dress out of grandpa's
long underwear—the material doesn't quite
suit the purpose. The Kansas
Repertory Theatre has such a
rollicking good time with "The Robber
in the corn," that such thins scarecens matter.
The cast is large, and there is more lively square dancing and acrobatics than you'd think there was room for on the small stage at the Ingle Theatre. It also allows us to use of his space. They play from the ropes hanging from the ceiling; they
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play from the ladders leading to the musicians' gallery and the gallery itself; they even play from the railings around the stage. All that action defy around the key characters as a chorus of minors one highlights the action.
Initially, the story seems confusing as the residents of a town left behind by the Mississippi River's change in course tell bits and snippets of past history. But the townskill swing into presenting a play about their ancestors on the old Natchez Trace, the story told by Caroline Rose; Rosamund and her bandit, with plenty of complications from an evil stepmother and other nasty characters.
James Olson's boyish smile and swashbuckling bravado win an audience as easily as they win Rosamund and her pa. Add Olson's Jake Lockhart the star of the show.
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Delbert Urnuh's set changes from inn to kitchen to woods cabin with a minimum of fuss and props, and the adaptable cast of minor characters in *The Grapes of Wrath*. Greek chorus to Mississippi country players chatting with the audience.
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"The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia" by Preston Jones Directed by Jack B. Wright Inge Theatre, 8 m. p.m. Thursday July 30
recognize the set of "The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia." And those who have ever lived in the kind of town where they have chairs in front of the filling station will recognize the Knights. It's hard to remember to give Bethe Kelley credit for costuming the knights, but she is elected on a swing through the High Plains or to give playwright Preston Jones credit for his dialogue when they talk like hometown kin. But it's art, not life that gives this play its realism, and both the playwright and the Kansas Repertory Theatre group deserve credit for the authenticity given by their judgments on its home ground tremendous impact.
Director Jack B. Wright plays his Knights in pairs, with two ex-soldiers as trump. From the moment Skip Hampton ambles through the door in a three-day braid and sleep in Texaco shirt,劫 Rusty L laushman has the audience convinced that he's a small-town loser messed up by a blink in Korea.
The ironic contrast between the Knights' myth and reality is constantly underscored by caretaker Ramsay-Eyes, played to perfection by Beafour K. Woods. The shuffling, step-in "f-kniph-ring" Ramsay-Eyes who looks to the Knights' secrets, knows his competence and inherent superiority. The final, biting commentary on what it means to be a Knight fails to him.
'Tarzan'a revealing vehicle for Bo
By MIKE GEBERT Contributing Reviewer
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**Miles O'Keele, John Philip Law.**
**Directed by Derek**
The movie is now in the hands of these two, and frankly, Tarzan's appearance in the film, being as clumsy as it is, sets a note of abhorrence. The periodic scenes back at the camp to remind us that Dad intends to kill Tarz and stuff him, the movie turns basically into a "Blue Lagoon" romance between the mute Tarzan and unfortunately talkative Mika Derek.
TARZAN,THE APE MAN
THROUGHOUT THE last decade and a half, the movie-giving public has inflicted upon it a number of remakes of classic stories that, because of a particular leaning, have ranged from not very good to atrocious "King Rohde" comedy (many), to funny, "Dracula" as a love story (lost its bite, so to speak), Robin Hood as a mid-life crisis story in "Robin and Marian" (depressing), "Lost Horizon" as a musical (stomach-tching), "The Postman Always Rings Twice" as neo-realist drama (boring), "Hurricane" as a love story (more boring), and now "Tarzan the Lone Ranger" is hunky fun (over-exposed characters of Derek all of the above).
A better title for this film would be "Tarzan and the Tease," or maybe "Tarzan and the Blue Lagoon." Most appropriately, they should leave "Tarzan" out of the title entirely, he doesn't come along until the movie's
half over and he doesn't do much anyway. Make no mistake, the choice of "Tarzan" as a story for a Bo Derek film was made strictly because of the opportunities it offered For Bo to shed more and more clothing as the story progressed. Tarzan himself is an afterthought.
Once in the Heart of Darkness,
represented by a magnificent blue sea
(they waste no time in sending Boo
skimming, of course), we meet
played by a well-built, sullowing
actor named Miles O'Keefe.
The movie has been propelled so far by a kind of idiot suspense based on our curiosity about both Tarzan and the few parts of Miss Derek's life that have been shown. John Derek, Be's husband and the director, is clearly a photographer, not a film-maker, but he managed to give the earlier parts an exotic, steamy quality. When Derek and O'Keepe hop into the water together, there's no mistaking her for anything but California beach clothing. The camera goes from Be to Tarz; "You're more beautiful than any girl I know."
As you may have guessed, Derek plays Jane. She is joining the father she has never seen in darkest Africa, where he is searching for the Elephant's Graveyard. Dad has evidently gone a little power crazy, and as played by Richard Harris in his best Aguirre, the wrath of God shows up. You don't want to amusement. After a family tiff which shows off Bo's extraordinary acting talent, they set off for the Heart of Darkness.
ONE CAN ALMOST hear the nasal strains of Marina Perkins as we inerminally travel past scenic vista and verdant forest. All right, the landscape is evident, but a travelogue with cheese-cakes thrown in doth not a movie make.
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