Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, December 5, 1969 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, December 5, 1969 theatre Lord Chamberlain's Players entertain again PRESENTING .. . Dr. Wilbur Sutherland Director-I UCF of Canada on "AFTER T HE WEST, W HA NET T By ELLIOTT M. SIMON Once again the Lord Cham- berlairn's Players have provided an appreciative audience with a mildly experimental evening of interesting theatre. Under the direction of Bert Hornback and Betsey Smith, Mr. Hornback's A Game of Chess and Charles Marowitz's MacBeth present to us two historical plays in col- lage. Mr. Hornback attempts to create a collage out of the his- tories of Henry II and Thomas Beckett and Henry VIII and Thomas More. Within the over- riding metaphor of a chess match, the great and perhaps eternal struggles, as implied by the authors of church and state, divine and temporal power, Roman and English law, and the titanic personalities of two strong-willed men, are played out by Henry and Thomas as a game. The audience is invited to puzzle out the significance of these stories fused in time. Each character articulates his posi- tion well, and their dialectic debate comprehensively analyz- es the psychological motivation behind each position. Henry's final "checkmate" would seem to indicate once again that temporal power through vio- lence is the ultimate resolution to the spiritual and civil prob- lems of life. If the lessons of times past are true in the auth- or's vision of their repetition, then our Henrys and Thomases will play their bloody chess match immemorium. Similar to other contemporary dramatists, Mr. Marowitz, in his collage, attempts to experi- mnent with Shakespeare. Unlike those who feel modernity is achieved by the superficial changing of costumes, or those who play "the Bard' in new cul- tural contexts to bleat rele- vance, he attempts to find new patterns in MacBeth which can visually and immediately 11- lustrate the psychology behind MacBeth's moral decline. Sim- ilar to his eighteenth century counterparts Nathaniel Lee and David Garrick, Marowitz, less skillfully, reorders Shakespeare's speeches and scenes. Although he maintains the integrity of the story and attempts to keep the poetic d i c t i o n consistant, through repetition, condensa- tion, and flashback, he attempts to re-make the original play ac- cording to his own muse. It is difficult for this review- er to see what"newness" Maro- witz has instilled in old Mac- Beth worth the effort of pro- duction, except perhaps novel- ty. Clearly he has achieved a visual spectacle with the popu- lar mixing of films with stage drama; his use of the witches is most interesting, owing its suc- cess to fine direction and act- ing more than authoral influ- ences; and his adaptation of the poetry is clever if not a bit awkward. Still the audience must answer the question, so what. Still we must salute each author for his offering. In their collages, despite the labels of "experience is as to intensity, not as to duration" and "thea- trical discontinuity," each play raises provocative issues for modern theatre. Regardless of his dramatic and structural - ---- - -___ weaknesses, Mr. Hornback has attempted to thematically anal- yze the "divided self" of his characters. As if split into a prism Henry, King, England, lover and friend attempts to reconcile himself with Thomas, archbishop, priest, subject, and friend through the symbolic chess match. Mr. Marowitz in- tensifies MacBeth's experience, not through emotional melo- dramatics, but through the jux- taposition of that experience, real and fantasy, as perceived by the audience. It would be unfair to criticize the amateur acting in b o th plays. Here the sincerity of in- tention must outweigh the rigid- ity and lack of annimation of the productions. Special recog- nition must be paid, however, to Winnie Beasley's Lady MacBeth, and to Larry Glover's MacBeth for many moments of very ef- fective and creative perform- ance; and to both directors for their efforts to bring new kinds of theatre to the University. It is very important that the Lord Chamberlain's Players continue to provide us with such experi- ments, and doubly so that we as an audience support them. FRIDAY, DEC. 5 7:30 P.M. UGLI Multipurpose Room sponsored by: Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship Phone :665-5485 12 I mmmi uuumnwun,1AU1 I 9 '1 1 I I I 1 0 F :11 I 'i '." * POSTER * MEDICAL CENTER SPEECH: CLEARANCE 1 TO 1/ OFF ENTIRE STOCK ! Blacklites Priced to GO! 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