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by Adrian Scott
Drama Critic
For the last two or three years, a growing
group of drama-conscious people have been
discovering the UNC Lab Theatre. Those
with the perseverance to seek out the
basement of Graham Memorial on week
nights have been exposed to a vast spectrum
cf drama ranging from very good to pretty
disrr.il, from ambitious to humdrum, from
highly original to run-of-the-mill.
In general, the good has outweighed the
not-so-good. One remembers with pleasure
such gems as Susan Miller's Confessions of a
Female Disorder, in which Ruby Lerner
finally proved what an enormously talented
actress she is, and William Saroyan's Hello
Out There, where Christopher Adler
confounded his critics and demonstrated
that his directorial skill is not based solely on
his last name.
Of course there have been the failures;
they are to be expected from time to time in
any field of drama from Broadway on down.
But in every Lab Theatre production
someone has learned something, someone
has progressed as an actor or a director. Five
Playmakers shows a year is not enough to
give everyone the experience he needs.
Last week the Lab Theatre came out into
the open, both literally and figuratively, with
its production of The Taming oj the Shrew in
the Pit.
The capacity crowds that flocked to this
production were not disappointed. Director
Joe Coleman and his cast and crew came as
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close to an ideal performance of
Shakespeare as I have seen.
It was an interesting and sometimes
uncomplementary mixture of milieus:
Elizabethan language, futuristic set by
Gordon Pearlman, '30s costumes, period
costumes, Schlitz beer, take-out chow mein,
swords and cameras; but it all worked.
Whatever Warren Hansen and Carmen
Flowers scrounged up in the way of
costumes or props, the cast assimilated it,
used it and made it seem natural.
And here we come to the real strength of
the show the cast. Rumor has it that
Director Coleman hand-picked the actors
for most of the roles. If so, he came up with a
representative cross-section of the best
acting talent that UNC has to offer, a sort of
Chapel Hill all-star cast.
For those unfamiliar with Shakespeare's
plot, The Taming oj the Shrew concerns the
mating season in Padua. Baptista Minola, a
wealthy merchant, has two daughters, Kate
and Bianca. Kate, the eldest, is headstrong,
independent and very vocal, the terror of
anyone foolish enough to woo her. Bianca is
the opposite demure, restrained and
modest. She, of course, is beset by "suitors,
but Baptista will not let her marry until he
has got a husband for Kate.
Gremio and Hortensio, rivals in love for
Bianca, are joined in the quest by Lucentio,
son of Vincentio of Pisa, and the three of
them persuade the headstrong, tippling,
cursing Petrucchio to woo Kate.
In the end, of course, everyone gets their
just deserts. Petrucchio tames shrewish
Kate, Lucentio wins Bianca and everyone is
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happy. But a whole lot happens before
everything is resolved.
Paul Crawley and Peter Anlyan, as young
Lucentio and his servant Tranio, opened the
show well. Both were eminently audible, a
blessing in any outdoor drama, and the two
acted well together. Cullum Rogers, who
seemed to have a stranglehold on the
Falstaff, Dogberry type roles, was in his
element as the buffoonish Hortensio. He was
set off by Richard Ravits as the co-suitor
Gremio, who was only occasionally
somewhat less than distinct in his diction.
Those familiar with the exploits of Chapel
Hill's Everyman Theatre will know by now
about Gordon Ferguson. As Petrucchio,
Ferguson was a tower of strength whose very
entries came to provoke oohs and aahs of
' anticipation by Act II. Petrucchio's servant
Grumio was played by Hal Erickson, who
was at his very best (which is saying a lot in
view of his lead role in Tango last year.)
Erickson extracted every drop of humor
from Shakespeare's characterization and
added a good measure of his own after all,
Shakespeare could not have known about
Groucho Marx or W.C. Fields.
There are only two female roles of
importance in The Taming oj the Shrew,
which places a large burden of responsibility
on whoever plays them. It was hard to fault
either Nancy Boykin as Kate or Betsy
Flanagan as Bianca. Boykin was
wonderfully energetic in her shrewish period
and carried off her final profession of
compliance to her husband convincingly
enough to provoke hisses from the women's
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hard to hear when not full face to the
audience, was nevertheless a believable and
visually stunning younger sister.
Only the fact that this was an outdoor
production saved Richard Settle from
overplaying his role as Baptista to some
extent; but in spite of a deteriorating voice,
he was easy to hear and understand.
Other high points were a characteristically
funny performance by Haskell Fitz-Simons
as the pedant, an athletic show and good
straight-man act (to Erickson's clowning) by
Chris McKinney, a solid Vincentio from
Warren Hansen, and an often amusing
though spotty performance by Ben Cameron
as the lackey Biondello. Diane Brandon
made the most of her role as the widow in the
last act.
All in all, the success of this production
did not hinge on any single performance
(with the possible exception of Ferguson's
Petrucchio). It was a team effort, and the
cast very evidently had a lot of fun in the
process. This was what might be called a
loose production, with plenty of exuberance
and running round, but its flamboyance was
well-suited to the outdoor setting.
Coleman and stage manager Kathleen
Phalen did well by any standard, especially
considering a rained-out dress rehearsal. It
was ambitious to mount a full staging, set,
lights (a subtle job by Edward Thomas),
music and all in the Pit, and it came off well.
One wishes it could have run longer. One
can only hope that someone will have the
initiative to try it again soon.
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and bring your mama (wah-wah) totheSha-.
Na-Na concert at 8 p.m. Thursday in
Carmichacl Auditorium.
Tickets, $2, are available at the Union
desk.
Sha-Na-Na has been able to recreate the
'50s both visually and musically, but the
accomplished musicians are more than a
campy nostalgic fad. "What they're doing is
presenting a poetic recreation of the past,"
Ed Goodgold, manager, says. "They're role
playing, imagining themselves as they would
have been had they been allowed to realize
the fantasies they had as kids."
Since the group's beginning in 1969, there
have been concerts at Woodstock and the
Fillmores and performances on the Flip
Wilson, Dick Caveti and Johnny Carson
shows.
It's the last day of classes (sh-boom, oo
wah) so go celebrate.
Mission Mountain Wood Band
The bluegrass sound of the Mission
Mountain Wood Band is coming to Chapel
Hill at 8 tonight in Memorial Hall.
Admission is free.
Billed as probably the only electric
bluegrass band in the world, the quintet also
includes some country-western, blues, jazz
and rock in their music.
Mission Mountain has performed on
other college campuses and in the CBS
special, Country Comes to New York.
Woody Herman
Jazz musician Woody Herman and his
Thundering Herd band will perform at 8
p.m. Wednesday in Memorial Hall.
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Herman's trademark is the big-band
sound moderated by ; ontemporary music.
"The big dance band belongs to an era that's
long gone." he says.
Herman, an accomplished performer on
clarinet and alto sax, has been performing
approximately 40 years. Igor Stravinsky was
impressed enough by Herman and the Herd
to write Ebony Concerto for Herman's 1946
Carnegie Hall debut.
Herman's approach to music reveals his
sound: "Let it be tasteful, let it be exciting
and always make it swing."
Dance Theatre
The University Dance Theatre will give its
first performance at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the
Great Hall. Admission is free.
The dance group, formed this spring,
specializes in ballet and modern dance. AH
the members are dance students at Carolina.
Pamela Davis of the women's physical
education program is the faculty director.
Stop the World...
The Laboratory Theatre and Union
Drama Committee will present Anthony
Newley and Leslie Bricusse'sSop the World
1 Want To Get Ojj at 8 p.m. Wednesday
through Saturday in Gerrard Hall.
Tickets, $1, are available at the Union
desk.
Richard Ussery plays the Little Chap and
Deborah Phialas plays Eve. Michael Kerley
is director.
Pop Concert
The North Carolina Symphony,
conducted by John Gosling, will present a
free pops concert at 6 p.m. Friday in the Pit.
The concert will include selections from
Oklahoma and Godspell, and songs such as
Moon River and Raindrops Keep Falling on
My Head.
This is the symphony's last 1973-74
evening concert in the Research Triangle
area.
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