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"Summertree" is a black-steel,
laddered scaffold draped by vinyl leaves,
pierced through the heart by a
putting-green flag and laced at the roots
with crepe paper geraniums.
"Summertree" is also the name of the
current Playmakers production at
Graham Memorial Lounge Theatre and
it's a sentimental winner for those who
enjoy melodrama, character probing and
unabashedly emotional experiences.
Ron Cowen's extra-relevant story
concerns a 20-year-old Young Man and
his life, which is swiftly represented
cinematically and in stream-of-conscious-ness
through dissolves and fade-outs
within and between vignettes and
glimpses of life. The Young Man grows up
as a Little Boy in love with his backyard,
family, and friends. His father is a stern
salesman who plays golf, wants his son to
"be a man," and firmly believes that in
life, "You can't always do what you want
to do." His mother is a stereotyped
e very-mom who plants geraniums,
remembers her son's past in vivid detail,
sifts . through past photographs and
worries that her son's relationship with
his college roommate is too intimate.
The Young Man himself grows up in
Jove with the piano and dreams of earning
a music scholarship to train for concert
jwork. His father sends him to college but
refuses to fund a music education, yet
because Father makes so much money,
the Young Man cannot receive a
scholarship. The Young Man turns to his
teen mistress, "the girl he slept with in
school," for sympathy and pure escapism,
but the turbulence at home ('There's a
war in this family") sends him nervously
packing away to war ("they say the best
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F;ree flick fare is varied this weekend.
'The Caine Mutiny" will be shown at 7,
9:30 and 11 Friday night. Based on
Herman Wouk's novel, the film is mainly
memorable for Humphrey Bogart's
performance as the paranoid martinet,
Captain Queeg. There's a tense court
room clash between tradition, authority
and the individual conscience.
Saturday night (show times sameas
Fricfay) the hokum and high camp of the
musical, "LiT Abner," may insinuate its
way into your heart or stomach. "LiT
Abner" is conspicuous for its lack of
subtlety but Stubby Kaye is worth
watching. "Virdiana," slated for 7 and
9:30 showings Sunday night, sustains a
series of enigmas.
Crossword Puzzle
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Randy Jones plays the Young Man
superbly and effectively-jungle-gymming
between the scaffolding and the
symbolically road-marked stage searching
for a way: to puli his life together, to
make a portrait of the past and to define
coherently the elusive images and thus
achieve a life continuity and security. The
range of the role is, of course,
immense the Young Man must cavort
with his cute girlfriend (it's "all very high
schoolish"), sustain a crushing love for
music ("Everything has music in it"),
fight pressure from his overbearing father
who advises that "you should be out
making friends with people that can help
you," battle in war and even express in
sentimental soliloquy his true feelings to
the father he love-hates: "I love you,
Dad. I hate you enough to kill you
sometimes, but I love you."
The rest of Director Mary George
Jester's cast is reasonably well-chosen.
Young Mike Barnard plays the Little Boy
with abandon, sincerity, and
convincingness -we feel the hard-ball hurt
his bare hand in one scene and we
empathize with his unwillingness to pull
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12 noon Tuesday, April 20.
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Cynthie" by Rudolph Fisher at 9 and 10:30
Friday night in the Union Coffee House.
Tonight the Cinematheque will present
Orson Welles' version of Franz Kafka's 'The
Trial." The film stars Welles, Anthony Perkins,
Romy Schneider and Jeanne Moreau. Shows
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Squad game.
Elise Tribble is the Girl, and her
portrayal is a highlight. She has the
properly "high-schoolish" looks and spirit
of a girl you want to compose sonnets
for, and her marvelous gumptious giggles
give substance to the Young Man's
romantically lyrical line, "whatever I pby
is for you."
Diana Hawfield's Mother is a
sympathetic character played to create a
double-edge: interest in having her son
face life alone and after his death, interest
in starting all over, "another beginning."
The performance is, however, too
reflective.
Robert Bloodworth's Father is
stabbingly convincing, but at times the
stereotype carries the role. Dusty Staub
grimly executes the role of Soldier,
communicating horrors in a husky,
Southern-honed voice.
Again, the mood of the play is highly
sentimental and emotional, and to some,
this will be a fault. The dialogue and
situations can be as subtly droll
as-Father: How's school? Boy: It's
there or as cliched and as
Edge-of-Nightish as the home encounters
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of the Young Man and his father.
Comparison-contrasts of people and
giraffes ("People are harder to give up
than giraffes") or a dead dog and a dead
son overly melodramatize many scenes.
Also, history since the play was written
causes uncontrollable identifications with
the war scenes, leaving their effect
fragmented.
But for the most part, the rapid,
cinematic pace of scene melting to scene,
the emotionally soft lighting of Mary Mac
Moore, the . thematically appropriate
costuming of Deborah Bloodworth (the
Young Man and his younger self, Little
Boy, wear green and brown colors of a
real summertree), and the stark, bleak,
significant sets of Sam Allen all combine
to keep the sharply sentimental edges
under control.
"Summertree" is an enjoyable,
emotional, relevant (yes, down to the last
cliche) play as classically cast as the
Young Man and his Girl's favorite Mozart
sonata. It presents strict exposition,
development, and recapitulation, which
draws the isolated individuals together
into a heart-wringing family portrait
framed like a tree, its branches and roots
reaching and reaching-for security.
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marvelous movie, one of the best of the
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Gimme Shelter A dynamic
powerhouse of a movie, perhaps the most
horrible bad trip ever put on film. It is
much more honest than Woodstock and is
the first movie to really show the sexual
and demonic side of rock. The scenes at
Altamont brilliantly capture the horror of
that concert. A remarkable film, very
unpleasant to sit through, but an
experience not to be forgotten. CH, G
The Great White Hope From the
opening scene, it is obvious that we are in
fairy tale land, with stereotyped villains
and old racial cliches. Moreover, director
Martin Ritt matches the crudeness of the
script with his direction. However, as on
the stage, this very crudeness makes for
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perhaps the makings of an important
movie. Those seriously interested in
cinema will want to see it; others wCl be
bored stiff.-CH
Wtterloo-The script for this is
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picture, though uninvolvicg, is visually
magnificent. Sergei Bondarchuk is one of
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