THE MICHIGAN DAILY dramayE' Fernald Company: 'Excellent' By FRITZ LYON When the APA-closes its sea- son in the fall, it's like the cir- cus leaving town. If you're a circus afficionado, the other companies that play Ann Arbor are only sawdust tentshows- a few star performers, occa- sional feats of real skill, but us- ually uneven and almost always a little disappointing. If you can't wait until next year's APA,, you have to drive all the way to Stratford to feed your habit. After seeing a production of the Hilberry, Classic Theatre Company at Wayne last year, I began to suspect that this ego- centricity might be a myth. Af- ter seeing the John Fernald Company's production of No Exit and The Firebugs at the Meadow Brook Theatre (Oak- land University) Friday night, I'm convinced of my ignorance. I don't mean to predict that every production of this reper- atory group will be astounding, but the company meets a pro- fessional standard of excellence. The audience can expect a min- imum of strong and capable performance at the putset, and they can anticipate the extra possibility that any particular production might explode into one of those rare one-time- only events that go beyond ver- bal description and affect you as a personal and emotional ex- perience. A company of this quality is always exciting. When you don't have to worry about for- gotten lines, amateur actors, or clumsy blocking, you are free to concentrate your full attention on the play. For example, the first play in this production, No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, did not engage me in its perform- ance, and yet it sufficiently ful- filled the criteria of first-rate theatre. The glaring walls of the set strain your eyes and train them on the door that is only an entrance. The actors are technically very good. Their delivery, their movement, their credibility - everything is in order. No excessive flaws to speak of; but the play is not alive. And that's the answer - the play is not alive. The problem isn't what the actors or the di- rector or the designers are not doing; the play's the thing. No Exit can be summarized. In a paragraph or two, you can tell someone who hasn't seen the play what it is about - the theme, the plot, and the char- acters. Someone can experience the play without having seen it. He can read about it in a book or hear a description of it. Sartre's metaphor, "Hell is just other people," is self-con- tained. Every college sophomore knows the punchline, and you can't help but feel like you're listening to a second-hand joke. Once you've said it, that's it. Once you have seen the play, it's over. Any production, at best, can only be interesting. On the other hand, The Fire- bugs by Max Frisch can't be We Protest We, the undersigned members of the University of Michigan Speech Clinic, believe that U.S.' involve- ment in Viet Nam is immoral and unjust. We be- lieve the principles of our profession and our con- cern for humanity are being compromised by our military efforts in Viet Nam. We advocate de-esca- lotion and graduated U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, and urge others to join us in our support of political candidates who advocate this view. Patricia J. Deckert Joan R. Goldstein Martina C. Burns Jo Ann Schwartz Kathleen McGlaughlin Tom Stringer Pam Hoffer Aaron Smith Eve Silverstein Carol Porter Diane Globus Roger Walters Judy Shefman Carolyn Chaney Rhoda Yaner Louise Peele Willa Linoff Valerie Krull -Leslie Howey VICTOR HOLCHAK as Sepp Schmitz in the Fernald Company's production of Max Frisch's TH was also presented. described. The play is a para- ble of the rise of Facism in which two arsonists, Sepp and Willi, move themselves into a man's (Biedermann's) house and demoniacally force him to assist them in burning his house down while the firemen (a greek chorus) sit by and watch. But it is far more than that. It's the firebug-Facists them- selves, their joy of building fires, their blatant, methodical, unconcealed tactics, and how they manipulate Biedermann. It's Biedermann, his despicable,' ineffectual, sympathetic, pathe- tic submission. There is a book of topics to talk about in this play, but reading the book wouldn't re- place seeing the' production. Most of the critical vocabulary E FIREBUGS. Sartr'e NO EXIT expresses dissatisfaction, but I don't have words to communi- cate how I felt during the per- formance. The acting, like the play, transcends literal descrip- tion. The cast-and especially Betty Sinclair, as Biedermann's wife, Victor Holchak as Sepp, George Guidall as Willi, and Colin Pinney as Biedermann- has a magical life on the stage. You can't abstract that magi- cal life and put it on a news- paper page. Criticism doesn't do much when it raves. You can set down a few fundamentals: the John Fernald Company is first rank; most of their productions will be interesting if they main- tain this level of quality; and some of their productions, like The Firebugs, will be magnifi- cent. Subscribe To THE MICHIGAN DAILY Call 764-0558 L~rI ~ I I All I ' r' , ' w r -Leslie Howey BARBARA CARUSO as Estelle, Joshua Bryant as Cradeau and Jill Tanner as Inez in Sartre's NO EXIT. i}, ......v:. :::::::::.::.v .-.v:::::: a::::: -... . .: .:.: .................. ...... .. ......................................................:................ ................. ......... i"? >+}%{.i/.i ]r}:.. .::.. ... ........ J .... ....... .... ......:...:..w::, :n:...::.......... : .. :.. ..u .. ... .......................v.v.....e . ..<...v...:.::: ..:..4.. .vv. n1.:::..K : F.n;::. :::::::: ' \. :...k:... n\v.... v. v ... ..uP .. ... .: ...n.VV .v..:r.. .. :.,.::::n: . e... 3...fn.:.y :: ............................... .::. ..:...... T ............ t::.. e.. 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SUNDAY, MARCH 31 Day Calendar Bureau of Industrial Relations Sem- inar--"Management of Managers No. 55": North Campus Commons, 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Professional Theatre Program-Hello Dolly: Hill Auditorium, 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. .School of Music Recital-Doctoral Students of the Wind Instrument De- partment: School of Music Recital Hall, 2:30 p.m. School of Music-Millard Gates, Tenor -Eugene Bossart, Piano: Rackham Lec- ture Hall, 4:15 p.m. School of Music-Liszt's Twelve Tran- cendental Etudes-DMA Piano Series: School of Music Recital Hail, 4:30 p.m. Cinema Guild--CBS Documentaries: Architecture Auditorium, 7:00 and 9:05 p.m. Discussion Group-Leader: J. Edgar Edwards, Guild House, "Conscientio'us Objection," Campus Chapel, 1236 Wash- tenaw 8:15 p.m. .School of Music Recital-Kappa Psi: School of Music Recital Hall, 8:30 p.m. Events Monday Eleventh Seminar and Training Course in Arson Detection and In'ves- 1tgation - Registration, Lobby, Rack- ham Building, 8:00 a.m. Bureau of Industrial Relations Sem- inar - "Management of Managers No. 55": North Campus Commons, 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Neuopsychopharmacology Training Pro- gram - Drugs, Brain and Behavior' Seminar - Dr. C. Shagass, Professor of Psychiatry, Temple University and Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric In- stitute, Philadelphia, "Electrophysio- logical Studies in Psychiatry": M7412 Medical Science Building, 12:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Department of Environmental Health Lecture - Leander S. Stuart, U.S. De- partment of Agriculture, "Use of Ster- ilizing Disinfecting Chemicals in the Hospital Sanitation Program": Audit- orum, School of Public Health, 4:00 p. in. Women's Research Club Banquet An- nual Meeting - Helen V. Smith, "Wild- flowers Through the Seasons," Michi- gan League,;6:30 p.m. Professional Theatre Program-Strat- ford National Theatre of Canada - William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, 8.30 p.m. School of Music - Composers Forum: School of Music Recital Hall, 8:30 p.m. (;NeiierFai notices Science Research Club Meeting, Tue- day, April 2, 1968, 7:30 p.m. Rackham Amphitheatre. Agenda: Business meet- ing - Election of Officers. Observing Solar X-rays from a Satellite - Rich- ard G. Teske Astronomy. Speleology - Rane L. Curl - Chemical and Metal- lurgical Engineering. Linguistics Club -- Professor Gene M. Schramm, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, "Semantic Categories in Hebrew," Tues- day, April 2, 25 Angell Hall, 7:45 p.m. May Festival Ushers: Your last chance to sign up to usher for the 1968 May Festival will be on Tuesday April 2nd and from 7 pm. to 9 p.m. Some va- cancies still exist. Come to the Box Office of Hill Auditorium to sign up. See Mr. Warner. .Doctoral Examinatlions Robert William Scrivens, Education Dissertation: "A Comparative Study of Different Approaches to Teaching the Hindu - Arabic Numberation System to Third Graders," on Monday, April 1 at 11 a.m. in Room 3019 U.H.S. (Univer- sity High School), Chairman: J. N. Payne. Christopher Mallet 'Hayden, Meteorol- ogy, Thesis:" The Utility of Satellite Cloud Photographs in Objective Anal- ysis of the 500-MB Height iFeld," on Monday, April 1 at 2 p.m. in Room 2038 East Engineering, Chairman: A. C. 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