Thursday, March 25, 1971 The Daily Tar Hsef 3
by Tony Lcntz
Feature Writer
The Duke Players recent production
of 'The Royal Hunt of the Sun" by Peter
Shaffer gratified its audiences with
glittering spectacle, imaginative staging
and competent acting.
The Hunt" is no easy work to
produce. Long, deep, complex, it
demands much of a cast. But the Players
stood up to the difficulties in staging the
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by Frank Parrish
Feature Editor
H.L. Mencken memorialized the
intellectually half-baked with the epithet,
"booboisie." Mencken died before
television flickered into out hearts and
the pits of our stomachs. Television
created the new "booboisie," a class of
empty-headed, improperly weaned dolts
whoU watch anything, but anything, that
comes to it through the tube.
In the Great Hall Wednesday and
Thursday "Groove Tube" exploded
television's intellectual vacuity and
imaginative sterility. Written by Kenneth
Shapiro and Lane Sarasohn, "Groove
Tube" bludgeons television. Yet,
considering television's consistent idiocy,
perhaps blunt satire is the best kind.
"Groove Tube" is a series of slashing
A one-man show is a most difficult
thing for a performer to sustain. Not only
does it require an enormous amount of
talent, it also requires a driving personal
force, a sense of magnetism and rapport
with the audience. Max Morath brought
his one-man show to Memorial Hall
Tuesday night, and displayed the talent
and magnetism in great quantity. So
strong was his rapport with the audience
that it appeared that he had invited us as
friends into his living room for an
evening's entertainment. '
Mr. Morath's piano playing was
extremely polished for a player of
ragtime. He had a firm command of tone
and his sense of dynamics is as strong as
any classical player's. However polish can"
sometimes work against a ragtime player. J
Ragtime must seem joyous, spontaneous,
as if the music were just rippling off of
the pianist's fingers. Any sense that the
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extremely demanding roles.
The story begins in 1 6th century Spain
as Pizarro, aging soldier-explorer, recruits
men for his final adventure in the New
World. The men join up in hopes of
finding gold; Pizarro leads them in search
of glory.
A hard-nosed skeptic, the old warrior
wants to leave behind him a name that
will outlast the fame of Spain. But he
holds no romantic illusions.
vignettes, presenting slices of non-life.
Three television monitors, mounted on
stands, channel the satire to every seat in
the house. And the satire is hilarious,
ribald, even Rableisian.
In pulling the plug from the tube, the
production counts heavily on sexual
humor. It seems quite appropriate to
parody an essentially barren medium.
Most of us have seen minor sports
events, all dressed up for the tube. An
announcer rattles off inane comments on
the techniques involved in the sport and a
former champion provides expert
opinions of performances.
"Groove Tube's" answer to tv sports'
coverage is the International Sex
Olympics in Tijuana, Mexico. The
defending champions from West Germany
are Bush and Stem. The announcer bleats,
"Now he's bringing his left hand into
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piece has been studied ruins the effect.
Mr. Morath's playing was always bouncy
and almost always seemingly
spontaneous. His playing of a duet with a
piano roll was marvelous, the high point
of the evening.
Even more admirable was his
remarkable sense of timing. Every
gesture, every joke slipped into place at
just the right moment with just the
proper effect. He has probably ; played
this show thousands of times, and now
gives the impression of a well-oiled
comedy machine which never seemed
mechanical., Finally he indulged in a brief
bit of hoofing which made one, want to
see much more, ' - "' ' '" .' '
'The' evening' was not" without' its' faults'.
Mr. Morath was almost always better than
his non-ragtime material and some of the
material in the second half was so poor
that it could have only been included for
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"The world of soldiers is a great yard
of ungrowable children," he tells his
idealistic page. "Noble's a word, boy.
Leave it for what it is."
Pizarro develops as the focus of the
play, becomes the symbol of all men as
he searches for one last thing to believe
in, some reason to believe that life isn't
really as meaningless as it seems.
"Does anyone ever die for anything? I
used to think so."
Early in the story we find the hints of
tv apart with wit
play. There's a downward sweep ... a
stroke . . . and oh, a beautiful probe!
How about that technique!"
A gumby-like figure, Sammy Smart,
offers offers tips on VD as a public
service announcement. Koko the Clown
comes on singing and dancing like Shirley
Temple in drag. His voice is counter-tenor
or higher. Perhaps Koko has been
emasculated. Still shrilling winningly, he
beseeches his kiddie fans to send the "big
people" those over 10 out of the room.
It is "Make Believe Time."
Having disposed of the "big people,"
Koko takes off his false nose, lights a
cigarette and puts on his reading glasses.
He answers little Linda Rosencrantz's
request and reads page 47 of John
Cleland's "Fanny Hill." He is about to
read from the Marquis de Sade when he
runs out of time.
MoraiJi
purposes of camp. He had neither the
correct voice or style for the talking blues
song, "Let it Alone." One could say the
evening really lacked a focal point, being
a loosely organized collection of turn of
the century songs, sayings, etc. However,
practically all objections were swept away,
by Mr. Morath's ingratiating personality..
He obviously loved the period and loved
performing and this love could not help
being transferred to the audience. This
was one of the most pleasant evening's
entertainment that has been offered on
this campus and it is a disgrace that the
audience, while very appreciative, was
miniscule.
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his humanity beneath the gruff exterior
the first signs that the old soldier who has
defied death all his life is growing afraid.
"I had a girl once, on a rock near the
southern ocean. I was all wrapped up in
her against the cold. That was the best
hour of my life. I thought that sea water
and bird droppings and the little pits in
the human body were all wrapped up in
some great plan for man But I lost
her."
Pizarro leads the search for that lost
"Groove Tube" also offers fingers
dancing gracefully over a nude woman,
ending the steps at her crotch. But
"Groove Tube isn't unrelieved
epidermis. "Roger Elgin with the News"
ventilates tv newscasts. The newscaster
traditionally ends with an amusing
anecdote which is really a gag with
build-up and no punchline.
He is supposed to exit laughing and
the audience with him. The announcer
enjoys his comic triumph. But what
would happen if the camera lingered a
few seconds longer on his contented face.
"Groove Tube" leaves the camera on
Roger Elgin. He begins to rustle papers,
sinks from view beneath his desk and
attempts to crawl out of his predicament.
But the camera stays with him and we see
his pained expression.
"Groove Tube" exposes television's
vapid vacancy. Presented by the National
Talent Service (NTS) Live Arts, it
supplies an antidote for victims of
"televitis." Who knows? Maybe it will get
the Pandora's Box out of our living
rooms.
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meaning into the land of the Incas, where
he confronts and captures the
, magnificent Atahuallpa, Lord of the "Four
Quarters and Son of the Sim.
Pizarro and his men then barter tie
king's life for gold. Greed overwhelms the
small group of Spaniards as they take the
gold and treacherously murder
Atahuallpa.
"So fell Peru. We gave her greed,
hunger and the cross."
Director Earl McCarroIl approached
the play with skill and imagination-,
utilizing the strong points of the
somewhat overlarge Page Auditorium.
Action and movement were accentuated
to fill the large stage area and support the
cast visually. The production progressed
. smoothly with energy abundant and the
stage was used to best advantage.
Set Designer Tom Bynum did it again.
In the past he created the imaginative sets
for the UNC Music Department's last two
operas, "The Marriage of Figaro" and
"The Ballad of Baby Doe." For "The
Hunt" he contrived a tower of platform
space which facilitated movement,
pricked the imagination and even
resembled Inca architecture.
Costume designer Fran Brassard
receives an A-plus for a spectacular
Inca-wear wardrobe. From the king, to
nobles, to Spaniards, it was an
outstanding job from the standpoint of
both professional skill and artistic
excellence.
Lighting director Lin wood Taylor
seems to have done the best possible with
the great expanse of stage he had to
cover. Stage Manager Chris Melchior, who
terms theatre a "terminal disease," is
commended for her part in the stage
business -always noticeable, well-handled,
never disturbing.
Jim Maher as Pizarro stood up bravely
to the demands of the most difficult role
in the play, but left the audience wishing
for a little more emotional fire in his
n nr try
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voice and expression. His polish and verve
in earlier Player productions rusjests that
Pizarro may have been a Lttls beyond his
capacities to "milk" the part.
Joe Tinko as Atahuallpa was all a
director could ask-pro ud, vibrant, in
control of his part. Excellent.
Lloyd J. Borstelman as Martin Ruiz,
the narrator, handled his lines and
movement welL But he seemed to be a
little too detached from the action and
the audience would hsft enjoyed more
emotional commitment to the story as it
unfolded.
Other standouts included Kenneth
Allison as Fray De Niza, Robert
Woodside as Royal Veedor Miguel Estete,
George Rand as Salinas and Stephen
Hamrick as Young Martin.
There were the expected rough edges.
Spaniards and Venetians do not, repeat
do not, have Brooklynese accents. Dead
Sun Kings do not have squirming
tummies. And actors in a large theatre
like Page should always stay in their
lights.
But the slip-ups were far outweighed
by the overall worth of the final product,
an impressive production which left the
audience visibly moved.
The next Players' production, slated
for the first two weekends in May, will be
George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak
House." .
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from 1-4 p.m.
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Dr. Jackson
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Tonsie McAden
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