Thursday, October 3, 1974

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Page Five

Thurday Ocober3, 974HE MCHIAN AIL


The r rtur sin modern drag

By DAVID BLOMQUIST
Nearly 20 generations of cri-
tics and theatregoers have un-
equivocally acclaimed the gen-
ius of William Shakespeare, yetI
for some unfathomable reason
each has found it necessary to
make some kind of "minor"
change along the way to make
The Bard a "little more palat-'
able to contemporary audi-
ences."
When theatre resumed afterr
the Restoration, for example,
many directors thought is nec-
essary to insert extra scenes;

Kaminsky said that the idea
for an all-male As You Like It
- a show which usually re-
quires four women - originated
with Sir Laurence Olivier, the
artistic director of the Old Vic.
"They were ready to do a
new production as As You Like1
It, and right about then a Po-
lish Shakespearean scholar had1
been writing essays about the
sexual ambiguities of Shake-
spearean characters," Kamin-j
ski explained.
"Since originally all of Shake-
speare's plays were done withj

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Stanley Kaminsky

and songs into Shakespeare's i
works. Ii
The Victorian era saw all in-
stances of bawdiness and s-x
neatly deleted ("bowdlerized")
from the original text. In mod-
ern times, Shakespeare is al-
hiost always cut apart and
pared down to a "more proper"
length - sometimes quite ruth-
lessly.

all-male casts - it was the
convention of the age - Sir


THE NATIONAL THEATER Company of Great Britain's version of Shakespeare's "As You Like
It" has moved the Elizabethan play into a stylistically hip, futuristic world of pyramids, trap-
ezoids and black-and-white screens. Tho production, scheduled to run for three nights at
Detroit's Music Hall Theater next month, uses an all-male cast, thereby following the custom

of the English stage in Shakespeare's time when male aci
'Mad Impre4-ssi(
featuretd in cen

PARIS (Reuter) - Just over
100 years ago they were corn-
pared by some to the dabblings
of children.
But today, the 42 canvases
hanging in the Grand Palais
here to celebrate the 100th an-
niversary of impressionism re-
present one of the finest and
richest collections of paintings
ever assembled under one roof.
The paintings have been se-
lected from outstanding exam-
ples of impressionist art in gal-
leries throughout the world, not-
ably the Louvre and New York's
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
They include works by Monet,
Pissaro, Degas, Renoir, Ce-
zanne and Sisley.

painting by Monet, "these mad!
impressionists".
Another wrote of Monet's Sun-1
rise, "The impression of sun-1
rise is as if it were done by
the infantile hand of a school-
boy spreading color on someE
surface for the first time".
What so revolted the critics
then seems strange today when
impressionist paintings fetch six-
figure sums and take pride of
place in modern galleries.
To help explain this point ano-
ther exhibition of contemporary,
19th century established art has
been assembled in the Luxem-
bourg Palace here.
The contrast is striking. The
established artists depieted their 1
nct'innt ltyf,6 ,Aa nnll -tr f 1

tors played female roles. In a sense, then ,it should
have been no surprise to usI
when we received word of the4
National Theatre Company of
Great Britain's latest touring
production: an all-maleverswhich i
scheduled to run for three nights
® at Detroit's Music Hall Theater?
next month.
how publicist Stanley Kamin-
cast is somewhat of a box of-
Figaro said at the time. fice gimmick, but firmly main-
"M. Pissarro must be made to tains that the emphasis of the
understandthat trees are tlot production is still on the Shake-
blue, that sky is not tie shade speare text.
of fresh butter and that no in- "They're not in drag, as it
telligent person can accept such were," he asserted recently.
stupidity." "They wear wigs, they wear
Spurned by the established art makeup. But the costumes are4
world and banished from :;h of- not terribly feminine - they're
ficial French salon, the ;mores- not padded.
sionsts held their first exhibition "The actors are merely,
in a photographers studio near playing the characters as they
the Paris opera. were written. The play is still
Above the main gallery at pure Shakespeare.
the Grand Palais the organ-zers "The actors are not really fe-I
have drawn together with illus- male impersonators. In otherI
trated biographies and key words, it isn't Gregory Floy,I
dates. who plays Rosaline, getting into
Audio visual studios have been ' drag and playing Rosaline.
erected and ticket-holders cani "It's Gregory Floy, the ac-
hear taped lectures with appro- I tor, playing the character of
priate slides and music on Rosaline. It so happens that
many of the background sub- Rosaline is a female and Greg-
jects to the artists' revolt. ory is a male."
VANESSA REDGRAVE and DAVID HEMMINGS
in MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI'S
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Laurence thought 'Well, let's
mount an all-male production."'
Kaminsky believes that the CAROL REEDS 1952
one-sex cast will make the play A
easier to understand. "By re-
moving the sexual aspects of )
having a heroine, the audience
can reach the interior truth of ) A great English cast that includes Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley, and
the play," he stated. Wendy Hiller and stars Trevor Howard as the "Outcast" join Carol Reed
"You take away the bawdy ) in creating the best screen version of a Joseph Conrad novel ever made. A
face, and you can concentrate sound plot, fine psychological insights and an exotic setting combine to
on the poetry and the meaning give the cast a chance to make the best use of their many talents.
of Shakespeare's words, be-
cause you're not distracted by
beauty." FRI.: Mae West's I'M NO ANGEL
The production uses a soft SAT.: Bergman's VIRGIN SPRING
rock music score and an unob-
trusive plexiglass set in an ef-s
fort to create what Kaminsky iri ADM. ONLY $1 ACIETR
called an "early space age" at- INEMA GUILD TONIGHT at 7 & 9 ARCHTECTURE AUD.
mosphere.
Originally, however, director
Clifford Williams had thought --- '-- -- ___--------------
of setting the play in a prisoner-
of-war camp.
"The POWs in this camp
would do a production of As You
Like It; naturally it would be
all-male. They thought that was You eat here.
a smashing idea until the next
morning when they sobered up," Youp here.
Kaminsky said. P
Despite the success of the
present production, Kaminsky
indicated that no further all-
male productions were being
planned. You rent here.
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The organizers justly claim subjects w i e aurazyo!
that it is a once-in-a-lifetime cameras, and the idealized hu-1
experience. It is unlikely that man subjects so that they seem- '
such an exhibition, with pro- ed like relis from Homer's
hibitive insurance, packing and a Odyssey. m
travel costs could be repeated But the impressionists did not
before the second centenary of want their work to look eternal
the movement, or unchangeable. Their aim was
tto depict their subjects as they,
Although modern critics now appeared in the mind's eye at
dissect the impressionists' dif- that instant, in a fluid vibration
ferences rather than what they of color.
have in common, their impact The colors used were mainly
on the contemporary scene was the bright ones, and whether
of a group of non-conformists painting Paris under snow or
trying to sabotage art. two absinthe drinkers, the es-,
One Paris journalist unwit- sential quality is the interplay
tingly gave a name to their between light and color.
movement when he said of a But their critics did not see
things in that light. "Their ex-
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of human vanityturned to in-
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