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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Thursday, October 21, 1971
Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, October21, 1971
theatre
'Caesar & Cleo': Theatrical experience
By GREG JARBOE
Perhaps after a few more en-
joyable productions like the Uni-
versity Players debut in the
"concrete aquarium", even the
Power Center could begin to feel
like a theater. William Hal-
stead's direction of Caesar and
Cleopatra was warm and enter-
taining- in my opinion, the
best way anyone can make
Shaw's cerebral wit a theatrical
experience for two-and-a-half
hours..
Chester Smith was outstand-
ing in the role of Julius Caesar.
Deftly underplaying his part in
the presence of more animated
characterizations by the support-
ing actors, Smith suotly kept
Caesar as the focus of decision
and power. Priscilla Lindsay
countered with a very vibrant
portrayal of Cleopatra. The is-
sues of age, love and power were
handled with humor as well as
thought. Especially rewarding,
was the development o. Lind-
say's character in the fourth and
fifth acts into a more mature, it
still youthful Queen of Egypt.
Also deserving credit for out-
standing performances w e r e
Christine Lahti as Ftatateeta
(pronounced anyway you want ,
James Harris as Rufio, and Wil-
liam Becze as Apollodorus. All
three succeeded in filling out the
performance with quality sup-
porting - roles, something which
the Speech Department has been
in need of in the past. It was a
pleasure to watch Lahti grin
and swagger across stage, var-
ris .confront the lead actor with-
out -being overshadowed, and
Beeze draw laughs merely by
beginning a line.
Charles Rossi, Laurence Cov--
en, and Robert McBride on the
other hand were still a little
stiff on stage. Their diction and
voice control were excellent and
a credit to Halstead's direction,
however it seems that a few
more performances will be ne-
cessary to loosen them up.
Rounding out the production
was a very comic portrayal of
Ptolemy by Robert Chapel and
a. weak,. but very human pre-
sentation of a sentinel by Rich-
ard Frank.
Costumes, as usual, were
beautifully designed by Zelina
Weisfeld. In fact it wvas a piny
that traditional wardrobe used
pening even who would have
guessed it, at your local thea-
te. .
Included in U Players produc-
tion this season is an experi-
mental series of plays newly in-
troduced by the University Play-
ers. It is being created in an at-
tempt to fill the special needs of
both the theatre students and the
audience. More thna the na,)r
Playbill and Michigan Reper-
tory seasons, the material will
have a specialized appeal to a
more select audience. Thret aull.-
length, fully produced plays
will be presented in tne Frieze
Building's Arena Theatre in the
series, in an exploration of the
avant-garde and of new produc-
tion approaches to classical
works. The intimacy and flexi-
bility of this theatre has made
a major contribution to the
sanding-room-only popularity tI
the Student Laboratory Theare.
A fourth play will be oerfornmed
in the familiar Trueblood The-
tre.
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by Samuel White and his "boy"
army of Roman soldiers stood
out rather embarrassingly when
compared with Miss Weisfeld';;
creative use of color and shape.
The sets, resigned by , Alan
Billings were stark and striking
With the increased number of
productions that the Speech
department plans this year, I
am amazed that the quality of
the props and scenery has im-
proved. William Davis did a
more than adequate job of
lighting the Power Center's im-
mense stage. Especially notewor-
thy was the effect of the Ro-
man fleet burning in the harbor
at Alexandria.
The only disturbing technical
flaw was a minor one. After the
final curtain call, the curtain
refused to come more than half-
way down. I feel it is a testi-
mony to the ability of the en-
tire backstage crew that, more
mistakes weren't made on open-
ing night in a new theater.
It may sound as if I've been
brainwashed (remember what
followed when George Romney
admitted as mugh) or perhaps
that I have a number of friends
in the cast,.Actually, I have felt
rather disappointed with Speech
Department productions in the be the University Players pro-
past. Perhaps more theater is ductions of Waiting for Godot,
is good for theater. Anyway,
if one can judge from the Uni-
versity Players presentation of
Caesar and Cleopatra one can
again trust the theater to pro-
vide a rewarding and fulfilling
evening of entertainment.
Coming up in the future will
which I have heard is nearly
sold out already, and the se-
quel to this evening's play, An-
tony and Cleopatra. If it seems
that the cinema societies are
merely rehashing last year's ser-
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