Wednesday, May 1, 1968
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Playmakers
Having a little fun in the up
coming production of "The
Hostage," begnining May 7.
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By LAURIE WILLIAMS
Special to the DTI I
Mike Meneaugh is a 22 year
old Englishman. But last
Thursday night he was a 42
year-old Russian clerk, moving
from eccentricity to insanity
in a captivating one-man
performance of Gogol's short
story "Diary of a Madman."
Aksenti Ivanov Poprischtchin
is head derk in a bureaucracy
of nameless civil servants. He
lives in a dismal one-room
apartment with only his diary,
his love fantasies, and his
futile ambitions for diversion.
He is funny hilariously, grimly
funny.
Each day, and each scene,
a new sheet is ripped from
his desk calendar. Through
October, December, and into
nameless, dateless days, his
mind disintegrates to the point
where fantasy equals reality.
"If it weren't for the
prestige," he tells us, "I'd
have left the department long
ago." But the prestige he ekes
out of his job is continually
threatened by the om
nipresence of army officers,
or Directors, or others who
in his eyes cannot approach
him in claims to an
aristocratic past and an in
evitably propserous future.
His paranoia first takes form
in the anguish of his attraction
to the Director's daughter. A
fantasy is duly created to keep
his mind from this pain: her
lap dog is obviously cor
responding with another doggie
friend on matters of the
household. H only those letters
could be obtained, the insights
there gained would solve all
his difficulties.
Some of Meneaugh's most
effective acting took place at
this point, as he recounted
to the audience and to his
diary his theft of the canine
with your doggie"), then later,
letters ("I want a few words
their quality and contents.
Dogs, of course, "have a
shrewd view of everything."
But the view is too shrewd,
and reveals that beautiful,
unattainable Sohpie is engaged
to one of the hated breed of
guard officers. Reduced to a
dog himself, the madman
barks his way off-stage.
After the intermission, the
second fantasy is set up, this
time involving the clerk as
direct participant. In the
newspapers he finds that
SPAIN LACKS A KING. The
king must therefore be in
hiding, unknown. The day
following December 8 is a day
Captivatin
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(Dimaia
of "great jubilation." It is 2000
A.D.. Anril SI rvi "I
tse king." The clearer the
role assumes shape for him.
tpe more derangtd i: is lor
the audience. The new king
Ferdinand VIII is finally taken
away to his country, a place
of shaved heads and councilors
'bo will not allow his destined
rule in a senseless world.
1 These final moments, in the
bare-stsge representation of an
insane asylum, had the pro
fessional skill of Marat-Sade.
The agony of the damned is
reflected in the eyes and voice
of Meneaugh's mad, tortured
character in a rare creation
of credibility..
Much of the credit for such
a brilliant performance goes,
as Meneaugh is first to
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acknowledge, to Richmond
Crinkley, director. Together
they worked a pattern of
movements about the stage,
a depth of experession, and
a flexibility of voice usage
into an experience to hold an
audience for over an hour and
a half, for four curtain calls.
Another of the forces in the
plav which made it hold
together so well was the eerie,
surrealistic music composed
especially for Meneaugh by
Robert CornfonL It and the
between-scene lighting pulled
sequential plot into flowing
continuity; a particulary good
example found the clerk
crouched under his desk in
half-light, as self-assured and
crazy as a hear-no-evil
monkey. In another, red
lighting accentuated a stylized
whipping for the king's in
tractability in giving up his
new-found crown.
Richmond Crinkley, pro
fessor here in the English
Department, has had much ex
perience with the drama as
reviewer and student. He will
show "Diary of a Madman"
again in October as a special
production for National Educa
tional Television produced dur
ing Meneaugh's stay in Chapel
Hill. He also predicts the
possibility of an off-Broadway
presentation next year with
Meneaugh.
Meneaugh is a student of
chemistry at Oxford, with an
incurable love of theatre. His
acting talent combined with
Crinkley s direction and skill
at plot interpretation created
a near - perfect play, and
the future success of "Mad
man" with this team seems
inevitable.
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