Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, July 25, 1968 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY theatre Fun and games in Paradiso' .r A ,."r..1....r J.... .... ' J. "i. .1..J. .. .f ....... . . . . . . A .r.f . DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ....::: ww. ,,, : . rrr.L4Y::::: t! k t":: r:,iff fhh ::'r 10"J."f. r:hV:,"J.h1": Ne V.Y::J: ' ^JS %::^.: ".^.".".: ..,..,... v. ;...: .vvv ....,.J,,... ,,".:"."J.vv:vr.".n":.":vr.".vv. ........, t..?Gv. ..,.. f:::N.v ..............ir.................v.....zvF......... ..Jt........ ., ... ....:. r........ r: o" J .re .. ra ...fN.{,,, ,. l..V...a. Jei": Y:" ... .... r.. .. ... ... .a... .....a. ....! .. ... .............. ....... ...... ....... r.........e ....... n.... ... ................. .! "f , 1Y" ,a a"'a:r,,, ,a.,. ,. "F. r"a t a.t a.,,a, . .y.,.....a....., ..[[......... ivr. +.c....,....i" l....,m.,.}......" 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The turn of the century French bedroom farce by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvalliers is a wicked blend of kick in the pants slapstick and subtle double entendre. And Peter Glenville's trans- lation is masterfully faithful to French sensibilities. The plot is delightfully complex; the end- ing is instantly predictable. The premise is that a man "can't be responsive to his own wife;" the conclusion is that man is too clumsy and stupid to merit the attention of anyone but his mate. ' Everyone overacts and the sets are exquisitely baroque. However, all the opulence gets to you after a while. Three acts of broad farce are too much for the University Play- ers to sustain. And part of Paradiso's prob- lem is that it is idiomatic. Classical French' actors have a knack for exploiting every ges- tureand slurring every line, to an extent that seems hopelessly affected on a stage where Eng- lish is spoken. Although the cast seems in- defatiguable, the audience be- comes bored by the middle of the second act and begins to appreciate only the obvious sight gags and sound gimmicks. Redemption glimmers for moments in the last act, but by that time the audience has been entertained and is ready to go home. However, some people may have been ready to leave right at first. The production opens with- a rather Annoying and self-conscious giddiness as the stage crew giggles and toys with the lights before dimming them. John Slade's whimsical score is witty enough to set the mood without the stage crew's ham- pering hand. But from the moment James Hosbein, as M. Boniface, stum- bles on stage the humor jerks along. Director Robert E. McGill prefers a careful stop and go approach to a fast-paced one. He encourages his players, not- ably Boniface and his would-be amour Marcelle (Ge o r g e tte Weremiuk), to indulge in glor ious, prolonged double takes. McGill stops the action several times during the production to extract every laugh from an indiscreet situation. During the first and third acts, this approach works won- ders. Boniface turns to address the audience, but is cut off by the off-stage yelp of his guard- ian angel, his wife Angelique. Angelique, hilariously played by Gilda Radner, is a tremen- dous sow of a woman, who cows her husband, and brays at everyone she meets. Of course, Boniface is at- tracted by the whimpering and purring of his neighbor's' wife, Marcelle. She, in turn,, finds her dry, husband, M. Cot (Jack Mc- Laughlin) to be "unresponsive and insupportable." And meanwhile, M. Cot's nephew, Maxime (Michael Fire- stone), a serious philosophy student enters and begins to fancy the Boniface's promis- cuous maid Victoire (inda McLaughlin). The kind of frustrations building up can only be re- solved at the Hotel Paradiso, a dump that offers a "large dis- count for seasonal bookings." By the end of the first act, M. Boniface and Mme. Cot, Maxime and Victoire, and M. Cot (by himself) are all headed for the hotel. To complicate things, M. Martin (W. Martin Hunt), a lawyer who stutters and literal- ly kicks out every word begin- ning with c, f, or s, decides to put up at the hotel with his four brats, after being ousted from the Boniface residence. The second act, then, is the killer. Screaming, singing, dancing and leering were all written into the rollicking hotel scenes by Feydeau and Desvalliers. In the spooky hotel, every- body runs into everybody else, gets embarassed, gets scared, gets bruised, and gets arrested. In the capsule-sized Lydia Mendelssohn, all the carrying ons are overwhelming. Although the second act set is cleverly devised, the University is not equipped with the lighting to make the "philanderer's park- dise",very frightening. All the screaming seems unwarranted. And McGill's direction pauses for laughs, when he should be leaving the audience breathless. The pace never quickens in the second act, and thus the sec- ond act dies. The third act thrives on a few witty lines, well delivered by Boniface and Marcelle, and it throbs with the reappearance of Angelique. But underneath, the act is more of the same. While it re- solves the comic conflict in a delightfully preposterous way, it should be disposed of as quickly as possible. The one device that is never exhausted during the play is the energy of the cast. Hosbein must have as many bruises from his hilarious falls, as Charlie Chaplinendured. And Misses Radner and Weremiuk, and Mr. Hunt are likewise con- sistently hilarious. Furthermore, most of the bit players did more than carry their share. Melvyn Puchner, as the Italian proprieter of the Paradiso, and Richard Beebe, as his hotel porter, were espe- cially noteworthy. The Daily Official Bulletin is as official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editor- ial responsibility. 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