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The Michigan Daily

Friday, March 11, 1988

Page 7


RC
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Players do updated
espeare in boxers

By Cherie Curry
This weekend marks a clash be-
tween the traditional and the con-
temporary with the Residential Col-
lege Players' production of Shake-
speare's A Midsummer Night's
Dream. The play is being sponsored
financially by the LSA Student
Government, RHA, and the East
Quad Representative Assembly.
When asked why she chose to di-
iect the Midsummer production,
Nancy Bishop, a theatre major and
director/producer of the production,
responds, "I think it's interesting to
do Shakespeare in tht 20th Century
because the works of Shakespeare are
still relevant today. They take on a
different meaning in the 20th Cen-
tury than from the 16th, but it's still
an important one."
The play itself surrounds the
confused marriage planning between
our love-struck youth. The direction
Fof amorous outpourings varies based
on the spells cast upon them by
some of their contemporaries-

faeries. Meanwhile, a troupe of play,
actors (the mechanicals) are involved
in contriving a wedding production
of their own. These three levels of
activity are drawn together, in the
R.C.'s production, by correlating the
casting of the faeries and the hu-
mans. Audiences may be surprised
by their own interaction with the
mechanicals, who generate much of
the slapstick comedy of the play.
Bishop responded eagerly when
asked if she felt there were any dif-
ferences between this Midsummer
production and the others that have
been performed. Bishop said,
"Sexuality is very much emphasized
in this production. At least more
than in the other ones I've seen
where the emphasis is subtle." The
delivery and timing of the lines add
to this emphasis, and Theseus' at-
tendant is basically used as a sex
object in this production. Bishop
comments on this character: "For
example, in one scene, Titania and
Oberon [two faeries] are fighting
over a boy, and Oberon wants the

boy, I mean, does he want the boy!"
The costumes also add to the
sexual preoccupation of the produc-
tion. They are varied since the pro-
duction is not set in the traditional
Elizabethan Period - there might be
a costume with a top from the 16th
century and modern boxer shorts.
One innovative element of this
production is the inclusion of an ad-
ditional cast member named Scab.
He pops out of the audience to act as
a jester in the wedding production by
the mechanicals.
The R.C. Players' production of
A Midsummer Night's Dream
promises to present a humorous, in-
tuitive modern perspective on one of
the most enduring comedies in our
literary and theatrical history.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S
DREAM will be performed tonight
and Saturday at 8p.m. and Sunday at
2 p.m. at East Quad Auditorium.
The production will continue next
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tick-
ets are $5 and $3 for students and
senior citizens.

Puck (Louis Charbonneau) incurs the wrath of Oberon (Sean Williams) in the Residential College
Players' production of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'


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By Brian Bonet
In a New Yorker magazine pro-
file, jazz writer Whitney Balliett
placed Dave McKenna among a
foursome he deemed as the best pi-
anists since Art Tatum (also in the
group were Tommy Flanagan,
Jimmy Rowles, and Ellis Larkin).
But McKenna, a two-fisted player in

IcKenna
the tradition of Earl Hines, doesn
want to be tagged as a jazz pianis
He would rather be referred to as<
barroom pianist. Afterall, that'
what McKenna does for a living a
the Plaza Bar at Boston's Cople
Plaza.
"I play barroom piano," sai
McKenna in a Newsweek interview
"If I had my way, I don't think I'd d
anything with certain tunes ... just
little twist in a chord, maybe. But

packs a powerful
't I played as lazy as I want to, people magical southpaw allows him to
t. would say, 'well he's not doing a transform a simple melody into
a damn thing.' So I throw some runs smooth striding boogie-woogie.
s in, to make them think I know a From there he may touch basses
at little bit of pianistics." with the blues or jump to ragtime.
y McKenna, an overly modest giant McKenna grew up during the De-
with slicked-back hair, is best pression in Woonsocket, Rhode Is-
d known for his strong left hand that land, and was raised in a musical
v. developed when he couldn't find any family. His father, a postal worker,
o good double-bass players to back played the drums in local parades and
a him. Soon McKenna was playing his mother was a trained violinist
if with local trios without a bass. His who liked to play pop songs.

southpaw
-McKenna began to learn songs off of
the radio and took lessons from a.
nun. He refused to practice and
turned professional at the age of 15.
Pianist DAVE MCKENNA will
perform two sets at the Kerrytown
Concert House located on 415 N.
Fourth Avenue this Sunday at 4
p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are $15
(rows one throughfive) and $10 for
the rest. Reservations are suggested.


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