U PAGE TWO TILE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14,1966 PARE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1966 THEATRE - Kremlin Careerists I ti Corialanus: Skillful, Sensitive, Prove Stable, Serious' it But Conventional Sh By R. A. PERRY Coriolanus has never been a terribly popular play. Couched in the more compact'. poetry of Shakespeare's later period, it fol- lows the skepticism toward love of Troilus and Cressida with a cynic- ism toward .both . nobility and crowd. The hero is a rather overbearing fellow whose pride in his noble training, social position, and mar- tial .accomplishments become as distasteful to the audience as to the Roman crowd who finally ban- ish, him. His change in political al- Iegance 'requires a 'large "suspen- sion of disbelief," and his final assassination by no means grieves us as does that of other Shakes- peare heroes, Yet the play contains numerous feilcities of poetry and thought and splendid secondary roles, such as the sly sage Agrippa or the hero's mother Volumina (was there ever a better name f'r a mother?) Although a program preface al- ludes to modern political parallels in Coriolanus, William Halstead has chosen to present the conven- tionally paced Shakespeare that we all know too well, a show in which too often the depth of a speaker's mind is no deeper than the pitch of his voice. The lead actors are, without ex- ception, skillful and sensitive, and the crowd, happily enough avoids the usual embarrassing shufflings and mutterings. It is a shame then that' Halstead has aimed only at grandeur and power-make no mistake, he achieves it-for his actors seem capable of far more subtlety and introspection than is allowed them. In the rush of whirlwind entrances and )ratory we experience the vigor of the drama, but hear little of the subtle repartee which in many ways is akiespeare MOSCOW ()-The group of Kremlin careerists who took Ni- kita S. Khrushchev's power away the redeeming factor of Corio- from him two years ago has lanus. proved to be unusually stable, Caius Martius, as played by silent and serious. Richard Burgwin, reeks of nobility. Communist rule in Russia has a He stands the invincible wariior history of one man-a Lenin, a with perfumed underarms. Burg- Stalin or a Khrushchev-concen- win's whole demeanor-the super- trating all power in his hands. cilious glances, the ramrod post- When Khrushchev was kicked uring, the booming voice-is im- out Oct. 14, 1964 precedent idi- bued with won and inculcated elf- cteot er4, ower4trge nd esteem. His coming before the the emergence of another period commoner - another species to of one-man rule. him-offers one of the evenings Up to now, however, there has highpoints. been more stability than struggle Volumina (Julia Lacy) looks ~ visible to Kremlin watchers here. if she stepped out of a Pompeiin MjrRao fresco. Since her domination over Major Reason her son must never be questioned A major reason for this is also if Coriolanus' final submission is a major reason that enough Soviet to be more than perfunctory, Miss Communist leaders got together to Lacy most adroitly never lets slip oust Khrushchev: They were tired her show of rank and power. As of being dominated by one man. Menenius Agrippa, Robert E. Mc- They agreed then that in the fu- Gill comes as a fresh breeze in the ture the jobs of party boss and tumult, for he delivers his homilies premier should be combined. with humor and deliberation, and This may be the kind of rule he takes the time to make us con- that exists only until someone is sider.,his own pride when rejected strong enough to get it abolished by the steeled Coriolanus. -but it has a deterrent effect. Virgilia (Francine Karasik) ap- Within the new leadership, the pears succulent and weepy, and top man clearly is Leonid I. Brezh- her part asks nothing else. The nev, 59. The Communist party tribunes (Eric Brown and John runs the Soviet Union and Brezh- Knox) plot effectively, but per- nev has the key party job, secre- haps they are overly oily and sur- tary general. reptitious, for there is much truth The party tells the government in their cause of which they seem what to do. Premier Alexei N. unaware. It is worth the price of Kosygin, 62, is only one voice in a ticket, incidentally, just to see party discussions that Brezhnev Dale Bellaire, who looks like an dominates. Kosygin has wide lati- amalgam of Peter Lorre and Char- tude in handling economic matters les Laughton. The entire cast are and is a skillful diplomat, but his to be commended on sustaining a authority is limited. high level of theatrical reality. Brezhnev emphasized where the On the technical side, the cos- power lies by personally leading tumes as designed by Zelma Weis- talks with renchPresident Char- feld are superb; the set, as mono- les de Gaulle last June. Kosygin lithic as the direction, suffers from and Soviet President Nikolai V. non-existent lighting effects. Podgorny, 63, sat by silently. The University of Michigan Party Confer Players are to be commended on The party is run by its Polit- their premier production; they de- buro, with 11 and 8 candidate serve a filled Trueblood Audito- members, and by a secretariat of rium. 10 persons. The membership of f I i l l r J k these two groups has evolved a little but not changed radically in two years. The four persons who are both full Politburo members and secre- taries are the most obviously im- portant party leaders. Brezhnev is one. Service The man with longest service in both groups is Mikhail A. Sus- lov, 36. He delivered the indict-* ment of Khrushchev at the secret: ouster meeting. But for ill health and, possibly, a lack of ambition, he might now be the top man instead of Brezhnev. Suslov is a silent backroom par- ty organizer, uninterested in public roles. Lately, however, he has been doing things like receiving Com- munist ambassadors in Brezhnev's absence. 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