THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three THE MiCHIGAN DAILY Poge' Three stir 'cii promote fered. Each day was ended states "in an experiment there's with an intense critique session no such thing as failure." led by the Festival's critics, However, in the first critique Martin Esslin, Robert Sorrigan session this was not stressed. and Richard Schechner. P-+ - 7 free By MICHELE BECKER At 3:00 a.m. Monday, the last people straggled out of the Frieze Building into the cold morning. The first annual Invita- tion Festival of Experimental Theatre was over. The Festival began at 3:00 p.m. Friday afternoon and ran through Monday morning. Dur- ing that period, 12 shows, two workshops and one film were of- A "Parade" down the hall- way of the Frieze opened the Festival. It was followed by Swathmore's "Public Utilities", Albion's "Knots" and a film by the "Once Group." In a line from "Public Utilities" an actor Corrigan opened tie discussion by saying, "I did not sense great exploration of the possibilities of the theatre, rather I saw a com- bination of concrete art and old interpretive dance." Esslin sup- ported the statement. "It wasn't experimental theatre at all, it was traditional theatre." He went on to state that some people thought experimen- tal theatre "is walking like Frankenstein's monster." Schechner supported his col- leagues and discussed society's role in experimental theatre. He raised concern for today's stu- dents who had grown up in what he .calls the "sexual, political revolution." "How can we have an art that is experimental, that says something about our lives and that makes no promises, for you're a generation that were made many promises that were never kept." The activities resumed at ten Saturday morning with "Now Playing, Playing Now", Illinois Wesleyan University. Body Poli- tics from Chicago conducted a workshop, Kansas State did their version of Cinderella "The Last Glow of Firelight," "Journey" was presented by the University of Michigan Jazz Theatre, Oak- land University per- formed "Brainwash" and Body Politics ended the day with "Five Dream-Stories." There was definitely a lack of He said one of the things he respect for people's right to thought should be changed in the state their opinions. A bat flying Festival is "to eliminate the cri- around Trueblood completed the tics. Criticism is one of the most feeling of tension arising in the destructive forces in experimen- theatre. And again, at approxi- tal theatre. Negative criticism is mately one a.m. the festival par- an immoral force, it takes the ticipants left Trueblood to con- energy we have to create." tinue informally and the bat had Esslin began to debate Kirby, the peace of the theatre to itself. "if you renounce the right of The final day of the Festival criticism you're on the road to presented "Lucifer" performed Facism." Kirby argued back by Ohio State University," a Sun- that there is "a way to deal with day Newspaper workshop with theatre that doesn't deal with students from Knoxville, Tennes- value judgements." see, Antioch's "Show me a Good Observers and participants in Loser and I'll Show you a Los- the Festival were on the whole er," "A Touch of Mime," "Round very positive towards the event is a Hole" and Grinnel's "But and felt strongly it should con- This is Not War." tinue. One spectator from Brook- The final critique session be- lyn, New York called the Festi- gan with a great deal of reitera- val "faster than most begin- tion of the past two sessions. nmgs." Then Schechner hit upon a rele- A visitor from Muncie, Indiana vant subject that had only been called it "tremendous" and some briefly mentioned previously. He participants from Illinois Wes- began by saying that if someone leyan felt "it was a wonderful asked him if he had been to an experience." experimental theatre festival he Esslin said the Festival was would answer "no I did not see "well worth while. By the very one, I saw what universities are fact it generated criticism to- doing, some of it was good and wards the university it shows ,yY_. ."'tCAR \ i TS " C " l V C l ^Y C/ '_Y " . \i Photo by RICHARD LEE ChicagoBody Politics Photo by RICHARD LEE "Three wise men from the east" (. to r.) Richard Schnechner, Robert Corrigan and Martin Esslin Black Sa bbathoffers Ine w, -mellow12~er i mage The second critique session was again led off by Corrigan who began by saying that the criticism of the night before was "directed in the wrong places." He referred to himself, Esslin and Schechner as the "three wise men from the East who say it's no good." Esslin agreed with Corrigan, but he further stated "to let illu- sions grow in the theatre is bad for the artists and the art." There seemed to be a tension within the audience. One man complained about the "three wise men's" blanket criticism. The audience rallied to the critic's support and booed the man. He became very angry and walked out. some of it wasn't." He went on talking about uni- versities with increased vehe- mence, "if the universities don't teach you the theatre of the last S0 years then they're fucking you over, but bad . . . they should spend three weeks on an- cient drama in introductory courses and terms on, modern drama. As it is now you have to wait till you're a PhD. student to study modern theatre and by then your head is all messed up." At about one a.m. Trueblood had to be left because of regula- tion but interest was so intense that the session continued in an- other room. Here Michael Kirby, editor of Tulane Drama Review spoke. that the university is moving in the right direction." if you" By GLORIA JANE SMITH Black Sabbath hit Ypsilanti last weekend. I wasn't able to be there, but judging from what the group told me later that evening in their hotel room, I didn't miss much. The, light crew was off cue. The sound system had a notice- al' buzz. And the audience was taie. Not their best perform- ance. Black Sabbath doesn't usually do college gigs. Winding down this month - long tour of Ameri- can cities (which included De- troit), they thought Ypsilanti would be an interesting "experi- ment." It was. Leave it at that. Since the group first signed with Warner Brothers in 1970, the name Black Sabbath has come to mean lots of things, most of which add up to grim lyrics and loud, powerful sounds. Whatever their formula, they have managed to consistently rank their albums gold. A plus for Warner Brothers and a fact for critics to contend with. In spite of their success . and perhaps the very reason for their success . . . members Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi ART 1 ENDS THURSDAY "Behind the Green Door" guitar), Geezer Butler (bass) and Bill Ward (drums) have been unable to shake their dis- tinction as a "downer" band. Their lyrics were down-right depressing and their music was above all else extremely high in decibel level. On their recent lp Sabbath Bloody Sabbath they've mellowed considerably. "We're at a stage now where we want to be more serious," Bill explained. "more understood, make the interpreta- tion clearer." They emerged as musicians from the streets of Aston, an in- ner city area of Birmingham, England and first called them- selves Earth, but later adopted the name Black Sabbath from a British horror flick starring Boris Karloff. In the eyes of the public, this name immediately linked the group with Satanism. At one time, they capitalized on the image, even performed a black mass on stage. They have since denied any serious affilia- tions with the devil. Speaking for the band about this confusion, Bill said that he "might not comment on it. It (black magic) exists. Period. Everything comes in twos. Ev- erything throughout the earth has a positive and a negative, bad and good, south and north." Musically, the band sees itself as "good." To ask for a more detailed description, would be "likeaskingtsomeone, how do you feel about your blood?" None of the group's four mem- bers have had any formal musi- cal training. Bill said that, he "doesn't believe in it . . . pro- fessional training and natural music. Professional training rubs out natural inhibitions. Music is a natural thing in everyone's heart." "The band is just four guys with a lot of love. Family men. We just want to carry on." Their philosophy is simple: "The only basic thing anybody can achieve is to be fuckin' hap- py, man. It's no good being a scientist or anything else or try- ing to change it all around. We're only here for a short time. The best thing to do is to enjoy it while you have it." "We're happy, man," Bill con- cluded. T h e w o r d s echoed throughout the room as other voices chimed in in agreement. Sunseed proclaims new spiritual age' THE MICHIGAN DAILY rated X Volume LXXXIV, Number 124 rated X Wednesday, February 27, 1974 is edited and managed by students at seT the University of Michigan. News phone 764-0562. Second class postage paid atENSTU DA Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. Published ne sENDS THURSDAY daily Tuesday through Sunday morning Sard treet. Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104.happC ampus Girls Subscription rates: $10 by carrier (cam- Pnd pus area); $11 local mail (Michigan and "The Sexuolist" Ohio); $12 non-local mail (other stater re and foreign). C i rated X Summer session publishea Tuesday through Saturday morning. Subscrip- tion rates: $5.50 by carrier (campus 7 - A I & 2 Theatres area)* $6.50 local mail (Michigan and 31 N. Washington Ohio); $7.00 non-looal mail ;other states and foreign). YPSILANTI 482-3300 "SI L ENT COMEDY CLASSICS COMEDY SH ORTScat 6:30) A program of early comedy shorts by Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Langdon. THE GENERAL (at 8:30&10:15) Keaton's masterpiece is definitely one of the top ten comedy films of all .time. A southern engineer takes on the Union Army and comes out, through his own faults, the winner. Thursday: DER UNTERTAN \ idARCHITECTURE S cinema$1 each show AUDITORIUM 0 _ IL.... Elm By MARGARET COFFEY ,Dealing with the American fol- lowers of Far Eastern religions, the film Sunseed is strangely reminiscient of Woodstock. Once again gaily-clothed young people dance in the fields and sing songs of peace; once again the dawning of a "New Age" is predicted. Sunseed (which is being shown through Saturday at Lydia Men- delssohn theatre) is partly a doc- umentary and partly an attempt "to help open your inner aware- ness." For the uninitiated the documentary segments are the most enjoyable. Interviews with proiinent re- ligious figures in India and Ne- pal open the picture: they are asked how Americans can at- tain enlightenment. Their responses as well as a skillfully blended montage of re- ligious ceremonies, landscapes, scenes and faces convey a sense of thetEast and the spiritualism that the film assumes stems from there. When the film shifts from the East to show American disci- ples at home, the effort to make the story an awakening becomes more pronounced. The meaning of the title of the film becomes clear. The Sufi school the faithful have estab- lished, it is hoped, will act as a seed. However, this part of the film tends to drag. Although some of the leaders are interesting char- acters, their segments are offset by too many dancing scenes, too many green fields, and too many close-ups of happy faces. For those who are followers of the movement Sunseed is a ful- filling experience. Such people return to see it time and time again. For others it is an interesting, if something drawn-out experi- ence of the world of those who find their spiritual guidance in the East. ATTENTION ADVERTISERS # Add radio to your promotional campaigns --650 AM broadcasting to students only. Try us at 763-3501 Miracles remembered By CHUCK BLOOM There is music that is unique to Detroit. It grew from a local label to the second largest recording com- pany in the world. To a Detroit- er, the words "Motown" and the "Motown Sound" signify the Motor City as much as the word "homicide." Even though Motou ed its bags and head California, it leave wealth of great mu collection can be f thology-Smokey R the. Miracles (Motow Of all the superlat DELIVERY PROBLEMS? the Motown stables, three stand wn has pack- heads above the crowd-Diana ed for sunny Ross and the Supremes, the s behind a Temptations, and Smokey Robin- asic. Such a son and the Miracles. 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