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If studying for exams next weekend
provides little creative relief, take a break
and check out the Laboratory Theatre's two
plays. Live Spelled Backwards by Jerome
Lawrence and A Day for Surprises by John
Guare.
The Theatre plans two productions for
each summer session and the first set is
scheduled for June 19-21 in Graham
Memorial Hall.
"Live is a mysterious play," according to
student-director Chris Adler. It concerns
two American ex-patriots in a Moroccan bar
having some wild drag experiences. Chris
added, "It's a magical and colorful play
about values and beliefs in modem days.
The second play considers what can go on
in a public library between the librarian and
a patron.
Adler feels that the Lab Theatre is the
reason why he's at UNC. "There is no other
school in the nation that can allow a student
director to work two shows a year. And this
year I've directed four.
The Laboratory Theatre is a student
workshop but is also offered as a course. It
by Harvey Elliott
"Alfredo, Alfredo" See review on this
page. (Now through Tuesday, at the
Carolina.)
"Aursi: Librae" This b the original
Rosalind HusseU (fei F5QZ MA7JSE, es opposed
to the current LUCY MAUE) as the madcap
society lady who taught her nephew el! about
Ufa and rsdacoratng epartments. Estty
Ccncsn and Adolph Green. (Wednesday at8,
cn a double bil, Gross Chemistry Auditorium,
Duke.)
"The Ca'lad of CabSa Kogue" a comic
elegy from Sam Pecktnpsh, about the Old
West and pioneering and prospecting. Jason
Retards plays Cabla Hogue, who turns a
watsrhola Into a rest stop on the stagecoach
line; David Vamsr Is a travelling preacher;
and StsHa Sevens, surprisingly comic,
breathes life into the rola of a prostitute with
that proverbial heart of sold. Richard
Schickel eel's Cable Hague "a wonderful
character" and "the best role Robard has
ever had in the movies.' (Tuesday at 8:33,
Carolina Union Free Flick, the Great Hail.)
"Cl'.iy Liar" Tom Courteney plays a
"Ornish cousin of Waltar Mitty" in this fable
about a guy who leads a boring life end gets
through its!! by fantasizing. John Schlesingsr
directed Courteney and Julia Christie she's
one of the fantasies. (Wednesday, Chapel Hill
Public Library, admission free.)
"Dirty f.'.an Crazy Larry" Incredibly, held
ever for a third week. (Playing all week, at
Flaza 3.)
"Huckleberry "Finn"' Amateur Jeff East,
who played Buck in Reader's Digest's musical
"Tom Sawyer" of last year, repeats In this
second big Twain musical, supported by Paul
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Our cafeteria offers 20 meals per week with unlimited seconds. And there's a variety for
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gives students a chance to be involved in
directing, acting, costume and scene make
up. Also, Adler stressed the experimentation
with ideas rather than with materials in the
productions. "Success is not emphasized. It's
just trying to fulfill an idea; whether it
succeeds or fails doesn't matter," he said.
The workshop began in 1971 and the first
play was directed by Sam Allen. Attempts
are made each year to produce between 30
and 40 plays. Adler insists that the Lab
Theatre is "one of the. biggest social
institutions on this campus."
"There are about 1200 people each month
going to see these plays and every one of
them is standing-room-only, he said.
Popularity does not just exist at the
audience level. Adler claims that "people
from all over come and want to produce in
the Lab Theatre." He said, "It's a highly
selective program because of the amount of
interest in it. Priorities are given to graduate
students and directing majors. It's not a
haphazard theatre group."
If you interested in student-produced
drama with an accent on idea
experimentation, check out the plays.
Tickets will be released June 14 in 06
Graham. It's free.
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Winfield
(of "Sounder") as Jim. The
are the same as for "Sawyer,"
producers
which would lead us to expect bigness and
blandness. (Playing all week, at Plaza 2.)
"The Incredible Journey" A bull terrier, a
Siamese cat and a Labrador retriever cross
203 miles of Canadian wilderness to find their
way home in this Disney animal adventure,
interrupted by irritating humans now and
then. (Playing all week, on a double biil at
Plaza 1 .)
"Key Largo" Bogart and Bacall and a
violent hurricane in a rundown Florida Keys
hotel, with Edward G. Robinson menacing
them downstairs, and Claire Trevor drunk
upstairs. Trevor won an Oscar, as all good
drunks do. (Friday and Saturday, Late Show,
at the Carolina.)
The Last Porno Flick" Promises,
promises. (Now through Saturday, at the
Varsity.)
"The Lavender Hill Mob" "A mousey
bank clerk conceives and engineers a plot to
steal and smuggle a hoard of gold bullion,
.cast in the image of little Eiffel towers, out of
England into France." Alec Guinness and
Stanley Ho noway are the partners in crime,
and this comedy won an Oscar in 1951 for
Cest Screenplay. (Wednesday at 8, on a
double bill, Gross Chemistry Auditorium,
Duke.)
"Old Yeller" Walt Disney's classic story,
for anyone who ever loved a dog. Tommy Kirk
and Kevin Corcoran are the kids who love Old
Yeller and protect him from wild boars and
pesky neighbors. Dad's gone to a cattle drive,
and they're the men around house Dorothy
McGuire's the lady but they don't feel much
like men when Old Yeller contracts rabies. A
real tearjerker. (Playing all week, on a double
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Scene from Lab Theatre's Live'
Donna Davis. Kennv fw'.orris. and Christopher Ad'.er play these three characters
who find themselves In a rundown Moroccan bar. Performances will be held inCS
Graham, June 19-21. Admission is frea.
bill, at Plaza 1.)
'The Philadelphia Story" Written for, and
dominated by, Katherine Hepburn, who had
become "box-office poison" in Hollywood
during the late Thirties. She plays socialite
Tracy Lord who is about to be married: James
Steward is a magazine reporter assigned to
cover the event: Cary Grant is her ex
husband, who appears at a most inopportune
time. She ends up with one of them. (Tonight
at 8, Biological Sciences Auditorium, Duke.)
"Serpico" An honest cop frustrated by a
dishonest system which doesn't even want to
go straight. Al Paclno gives a memorable
performance in thi3 tense film, which is
mostly true. (Starts Sunday at the Varsity.)
"The Shop on Main Street" This 1S65
Czech film told of life in a small occupied
town during World War II, and Ida Kaminska
gives a luminous portrayal of a shopowner
who finds a way to survive. It's a tragicomic
view, and British critic Peter Cowie called it
"one of the most effective anti-Fascist films of
recent years." (Sunday at 8:30, Carolina
Union Free flick, the Great Hall.)
"To Have and Have Not" Bogart and
Bacall again, this time in the film which
introduced them to each other. The plot has
little to do with the Hemingway novel, but it's
all secondary to the romantic team. Bacall
was 19 years old, and her singing voice was
dubbed by Andy Wiiiiams. (Thursday at 820,
Carolina Union Free Flick, the Great Hall.)
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" Still
another Bogart ("brilliant" here, says Pauline
Kael), this time with Walter Huston (who won
an Oscar) and directed by Walter's son John
(who won two). Huston Sr. once asked
Huston Jr. to "write a good role for your Dad
someday." Here It is. (Wednesday and
Thursday, at the Carolina.)
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"Only after man had set foot on the
moon. ..only then d id divorce come to Italy.
The irony of that pronouncement weighs
heavily on Alfredo's shoulders. In fact,
Alfredo's shoulders have a definite slope, as
manifested by Dustin Hoffman in Pietro
Germi's satirical comedy Alfredo. Alfredo..
Hoffman is briUiant in what amounts to a
purely physical performance as the reticent
bank employee who makes the mistake of
captivating the lovely, neurotic Maria Rosa.
His life becomes a series of hilarious
frustrations as he, at first, tries to ignore her
and, later, tries to escape.
But it's hard to ignore a woman who
telephones incessantly, eats fish heads and
punctuates her lovemaking with blood
curdling screams. And in Italy it's impossible
to escape her.
Alfredo had always been a tentative sort of
fellow. He was never sure, while courting
Maria Rosa, when or whether he should
make his move, and his motto was When in
doubt, abstain."
Afraid to make that final commitment,
Alfredo was about to abstain once more, but
Maria Rosa's suicide attempt cinched it he
was hooked! Most of Alfredo. Alfredo
documents his attempts to wiggle free.
Germi, as a satirist of Italy's social and
moral laws, has tread this path before. He
began back in the Sixties with Divorce,
Italian Style, and followed that with
Seduced and Abandoned and 77?? Birds, the
Bees and the Italians, two very popular
comedies whose themes should be obvious.
But in Alfredo, Alfredo his subject is as
fresh as it ever could have been, due to a
lively script, in which he had a hand, and to
the inspired casting of Dustin Hoffman.
Hoffman doesn't speak Italian, of course.
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three whole concert riffs, here they are. The
songs go on and and on and on and never go
anywhere.
Only Cisco Kid is lifelike, but then why
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which is excellent. Somehow in the studio
they make things click, but if their concerts
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Germi just liked the way he looked (and
acted, in his American successes). So the
director designed the story to allow for a
good deal of off-screen narration and a
minimum of on-screen dialogue for the
character of Alfredo.
He then dubbed Hoffman's entire role,
leaving the actor to make his own way
through the film without the familiar
squeaks and barks and twangs Hoffman has
used so well for vocal characterization.
Acting totally with his face and body.
Hoffman emerges a winner. His eyes gleam,
his arms and legs become wildly animated,
and even his eyebrows tell private jokes of
their own.
But you mustn't get the idea that Alfredo.
Alfredo is a tour de force, a one-man show.
Hoffnan must take direction incredibly
well, for his Alfredo never steals a scene, but
only takes what is rightfully his, and in turn.
Italian life is musical. There is music and
gaiety in the street scenes, love scenes, fight
scenes and family scenes; Germi is the ideal
director for such a light Latin treatment.
But, above all, there is music in the
language. Italian is an emotional tongue,
and humor and frustration can be conveyed
by intonation as well as by translation.
Alfredo. Alfredo, then, is a joy to hear as
well as see, and for this we should thank the
Carolina Theatre for making the wise, but
often uncommercial, decision to exhibit the
original version, with English subtitles.
We Chapel Hill chauvinists like to think
our community is different that local
audiences prefer subtitled film versions to
dubbed ones. Too often, district theatre
bookers treat Chapel Hill as just another
North Carolina community.
The manager of the Carolina went to some
trouble to obtain a subtitled print. It's nice to
know someone thinks we're special.
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The music is. excellent, at least an
indication that they have finally recovered
from the departures of Mathew Fisher and
Robin Trower.
But, Reid has drowned in the deep end of
intellectuality. Gary Brooker just doesn't
sound too confident.
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on the Road (Columbia)
They are boring. They pretend to be
cowboys. They talk about dope-smoking.
They even try to take a Stones' song (Dead
Flowers) and a Chuck Berry standard and
breathe new life into them.
Outside of that, they perform
competently, if not forgettably, as this album
amply shows. Who goes to their concerts
anyway?
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