Page 6-Friday, July 21, 1978-The Michigan Daily If Y th is a theatr don't' curtai two o Actor's Schorli Duke B hurling the sev game. the inn rambli monolo the pit mouth, One-act plays: O By OWEN GLEIBERMAN (he's losing control) and his life (ditto). anks 3 Detroit 0 Top of the Seven- This is baseball as metaphor, and the my indication, then baseball and playwright, Jonathan Reynolds, very e don't mix. In fact, together they likely enjoys thinking of life as one do much of anything. When the giant ballgame. Yanks 3 Detroit 0 offers n opens on the play, the first of the same pedestrian wisdom one might ne-acts being presented by the encounter during a coach's pep talk. It is not so much a play as an hour-long gimmick, amusing for five minutes un- til itsbegins to collape under the weight o tts6 of its static limitations. THE REAL culprit in this unfathomably r monotonous production is its star, Greg Rosenberg. Much of the problem may be chalked up to his voice, which Ensemble through Saturday at sustains a tone somewhere between a ng Auditorium, Yankee pitcher whine and a shriek. When he really got Ironkowski (Greg Rosenberg) is going he sounded like a castrati auc- pitces ito he wngs opeing tioneer, emitting a never-ending stream (pitches into the wings, opening of squeaky vocalizations that enth inning on an as-yet perfect ofsuay vclztos ta Thentiningon an ns-yet peret threatened to give new meaning to the The entire play ensues during word "grating." And under the largely ing, in which we are treated to a inept direction of B. David Green, ing, occasionally-interrupted Rosenberg's naturally frenetic delivery gue by Duke, stalking around on had no control. Instead of opening with cher's mound, frothing at the some semblance of a laid-back tem- and wailing about nsapiching ne afjj perment to establish th baseball atmosphere, Rosenb ded like a panicked high schoo the word go, his maniacal ton overshadowing everything saying. Through the contrived v vocalized memory ("Gee, I r back in '62... "), we discove 36, hit the pinnacle of his suc with appearances on Carson a vanks3etroit Top of the Seventh By Jonathan Reynolds Duke Bronkowski. Greg Beanie Maligma .. .. Dan Old Salt ...,................ Jam esI Lucky Johnson .........' Lincol Lewis III . .. . ginaldC Donna Luna Donna ..............Lor Guido Mancini................... Ja Brick Brock ...........,... ...... Jer SexualPerversity In Chicago By David Mamet Bernard Litko.............Michae DanShapiro...................Rober Deborah Soloman .......... J JoanWbbe ..r . . ... La B. David Green, director; Danial K producer anddesigner; Jill Bowers,c coordinator; william Craven,echnica Presented by the Actor's Ensemble GEORGE C. SCOTT in ISLANDS IN THE STREAK This beautifully photographe portrays the relationship.betw Hemingwayesque character{ and his three sons. Scott's be since PATTON. Also starringI HEMMINGS and CLAIRE BLOC this solid version of Papa's losti SAT: PINK FLAMING CINEMA GUIL OLD ARCH. AuD. TONIGHT AT 7:30 & 9:3 $1.50 one awful e proper sive womanizing, and is now erg soun- desperately struggling to regain his i kid from position at the top. He depends on his te of voice one good pitch, the slider, to carry him he was through to a perfect game, and on his "groupie in Texas" (Lori Jacobson) for ehicle of life-sustaining comfort and affection. emember THE IDEA OF a one-inning play cer- tr Duke is tainly sounds like fun, but this one has cess in '65 no genuine drama, only the hero's nd exten- static co:n templation of his quickly tiresome situation. An otherwise wearing idea, is it granted relief by the brief interruptions of Yankee's coach, a rasping workaday geezer named Old Rosenberg Salt (James Konwinski), whose conver- delKantner sation is a rambling garble of clubhouse Konwinski cliches. The characterization was an Kirk Haas appropriate satire on all those Casey Cathey, Jr. i Jacobson Stengel-type old-coaches-that-never- y Thornhill die, and Konwinski should be blessed ry Kantner for breathing some good-natured life in- to the play. Yanks 3 Detroit 0 is a one- idea play in the very worst sense, and it wastes no time striking out. David Mamet's Sexual Perversity In lA. Cooper Chicago, the second of two plays, is a rtMeiksins lively series of vignettes concerning cony Klion four wayward characters moving within a sketchy narrative on the theme antner, of contemporary sexual mores. The costume dialogue is street-wise, deliberately ob- ladicC:o' scene (one character manages to say "fuck" every three words), and often quite humorous. The story, comprised of short sketches, takes Dan Shapiro (Robert Meiksins) and Deborah 1976 Soloman (Jenny Klion) through a very "modern" affair, amidst the sometimes helpful, sometimes destruc- tive consolations of friends Bernard A Litko (Michael Cooper) and Joan Web- d film ber (Laura Hitt). een a PART OF the joke comes from Ma- (Scott) met's humorous fascination with the jar- st role gon of modern mating. His ear for dialogue DAVID is sharp, and he knows how to milk OM in vulgarity for laughs. Structurally, the novel, play fares less well. Many of the scenes are barely thirty seconds long, and are os cut off immediately upon reaching an emotional peak or a telling line. 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