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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1967
PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MAR01 16, 1967
THEATRE
Miller's 'After the Fall' Weak MEa
Despite Strong Lead Character P
By ANN L. MARCHIO
"After the Fall" by Arthur Mil-
ler is a somewhat tedious and ov-
erwritten confession that the play-
wright does not know himself.
Presented as the second in a fes-
tival of three Miller plays, by
the speech department, the play is
a montage of incidents in which
Miller attempts to discover inno-
cence.
The hero, Quentin (Mark Owen),
is a lawyer who tells the story of
his life, which has an amazing
resemblance to Miller's own mat-
uration. From the beginning, the
stage is sterile, only decorated
once with bedcovers. Of course,
this would immediately suggest the
haze covering Quentin's own un-
derstanding, buthsomehow it just
seems to be a handy device for
maintaining the circulation of Mil-
ler's characters, most of which are
women.
And women play an important
role in the play. Obsessed and
aloof at the same time, Quentin
can never accept their existence
except as a source of philosophy.
And the latter is abundant. On
several occasions it is hard to re-
member that it is a play and not
a soliloquy that is being present-
ed.
To summarize briefly the auto-
biographical content of the play,
apart frnm the well-known incor-
poration of the late Marilyn Mon-
roe, there are counterparts in the
playwright's first wife, played by
Paula Marchese, and his ex-Com-
Across
Campus
THURSDAY ,MARCH 16
4:15 p.m.-Theodor H. Gastor,
professor of religion at Barnard
College, Columbia University, will
speak on "A New Aproach to the
Prophets" In Aud. D.
4:30 p.m.- An International
Center Tea will be held at 603
East Madison.
7:00 and 9:05 p.m. - Cinema
Guild presents "Les Quarte Cents
Coups The 400 Blows)" as part
of a weekend of Francios Truf-
fant in the Architecture Aud.
7:45 p.m. - Frank Koen will
present a Linguistics Department
Lecture on "Some Possible Im-
plications of Psychological Per-
formance for Linguistics Rules" in
the Rackham Amphitheater
8:00 p.m.-The Department of
Speech University Players presents
Arthur Miller's "After the Fall"
in Trueblood Aud.
FRIDAY, MARCH 17
..7:00 and 9:05 p.m. - Cinema
Guild presents "Les Quartes
Cents Coups" The 400 Blows) as
part ofa Francios Truffant week-
end in the Architecture Aud.
8:00 p.m.-The Department of
Speech University Players present
Arthur Miller's "After the Fall"
in Trueblood Aud.
8:30 p.m.-The School of Music
presents the University Arts
Chorale and Womne's Choit, May-
nard Klein directing, in Rackham
Lecture Hall.
munist friends who did and did
not cooperate with the House Un-
American Activities Committee
during the McCarthy trials.
However, the most intriguing sec-
tion of the play can be found in
the character of Maggie, played by
Kathleen Thompson. At first, her
tintilating sensuality seems to sup-
plement his uncertainty, and she
paradoxically moves before him as
a symbol that man can win in his
quest for innocence. She is not
ashamed of herself. But he is. And
that kills them both.
He realizes that the two opposite
women have drawn the same con-
clusion that he cannot love, and
the truth hurts. He divorces his
first wife and allows his second to
commit suicide. And with this de-
struction he begins to mourn
things falling apart.
Like the poor characters of,
Kafka, he sees too late that other
people exist, that there is hatred
in the world, and that the only
way to survive is to create a work-
able lie by killing the conscience.
But does it end so pessimistical-
ly? No, Arthur Miller is not dead.
From the depths of burning cities
-and the only one to survive of a
Group for the Assassination of
Hitler-there steps Holga, played
by Katherine Ferrand.
Holga instills him with new life
and introduces a new concept pre-
viously unmentioned, hope. Al-
though her character is full of
conflicts, she projects a certain
kind of unity for him.
To be sure she weeps for him,
worships him and flies from who-
knows-where to meet him, but
there is still some intangible bond
that exists between them. Miller
wouldn't step out so positively
from the midst of his foggy allu-
sions and admit that this new feel-
ing is love, but as they skip hap-
pily off the stage, there is little
doubt left to the imagination of
the audience.
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, The play will be shown through
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