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Flaymakers revive Shakespeare
Many experts believe William
Shakespeare's The Tempest to be the most
dreamlike and magical of his works.
Tuesday night's Playmakers rendition of
the play, while being energetic enough to
make the play enjoyable, lacked the mystical
aura necessary to make The Tempest a
complete artistic success.
Tommy Rezzuto, drama professor at
UNC and director of the production, earlier
this week expressed a preoccupation with
presenting a Shakespeare that people can
easily enjoy. This sentiment is certainly
irreproachable and probably self-evident.
But an overindulgence in enjoyment
gimmickry may interrupt the flow of any
carefully constructed scene. The
intervention of The Shapes at several
junctures in the play seemed merely,
pretentious. Instead of presenting wispy
ethereal nymphs drifting in and out of the
action, director Rezzuto chose to portray
The Shapes as cooing, munchkin-Iike figures
in gaudy wigs. While fitting in with the color
and energy of the entire production. The
Shapes tended to distract more from the flow
of the play than add to its comedy.
Contributing successfully to the play's
unity, Warren Hansen acted well and
projected clearly as the magician Prospero.
But the best performance of the evening was
rendered by Hal Erickson as Antonio, the
usurping Duke of Milan. Erickson's dark,
mustachioed figure lent just enough ev il to a
solidly spoken and acted characterization of
Prospero's conniving brother.
Adequate renderings of Alonso, Gonza'o
and Sebastian were given by Kenny Morris,
Richard Ussery and Gregory Hurst,
respectively.
In spite of a good exhibition of stage
movement, Ann Hard's voice was
uncomfortably shrill at times and detracted
from her attempts to make Ariel's vital,
supernatural character interesting. f
Margot Conigan showed flashes of insight
into the character of Miranda, Prospero's
naive daughter, but was particularly
overdramatic in the first act.
Director Rezuto's handling of the
raucous subplot was the highliht of the
evening. Richard Ravits. James Hutton and
Michael Rogers gave heartily funny
performances as Caliban, Stephano and
Trinculo, although Roger's dandified
cockney accent came on a bit too strong. In
shockingly appropriate costume, Caliban
sent chills running up and down my spine as
he stalked the stage like a demonically
possessed Lon Chaney.
The vigor with which these three highly
believable characters guzzled their wine and
aspired to higher fortune created a
satisfyingly humorous relief to the heaviness
of the main plot.
But the play's primary defect was not to be
found in any particular individual
performance. Rather, it was a lack of
attention to atmosphere and mood. More
touches like Prospero's final mystical
gesticulation might have served to further
the magical nature of the whole world of the
play.
While offering a pleasant diversion from
mid-semester slump and academic worries.
Tuesday evening's Playmakers' production
of The Tempest came up short in attempting
to portray the wonder and amazement that
Shakespeare injected into the poetry of the
original 1611 manuscript.
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The unusual group of directors who
sprang up in Russia shortly after the
Revolution had one thing in common. They
were all very young.
At the age of 22, Sergei Eisenstein was
known as "Old Man." Because of this, it is
surprising that most of them are now dead.
With the recent death of Grigori ICozintsev,
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Room never achieved the renown outside
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