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Thursday, December 1, 1988
The Michigan Daily
Page 7
Players.
shake
dust off
! Dream
"(Audiences) should have
fun with it... They should
hear, see, and experience
Shakespeare's treatise on
love."
Associate Theater Prof.
Phillip Kerr, on A Mid-
summer Night's Dream
ites: Maple
leaf
reggae
BY JOE HELMINSKI
SHAKESPEARE comes out of the
woods and into the light in the Uni-
versity Players' production of A
Midsummer Night's Dream. Strobe
light, that is.
"This version is not done in a
assi fred AdS
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dusty, old classical sense," says
director and Associate Professor of
Theater Philip Kerr. This classic
story of youth, romance, and magic
is, in fact, done in the most modern
sense possible. Instead of taking
place in the forest primeval, it is set
in an '80s discotheque.
The text, promises Kerr, remains
basically unaltered - although he
confesses having "trimmed" the story
a bit. He hopes the new setting will
add something special to the work.
Audiences, he says, "should have fun
with it... They should hear, see, and
experience Shakespeare's treatise on
love."
Production stars include Kabin
Thomas as Bottom the Weaver, and
Diane Petersen as Helena. Petersen
last appeared in a professional pro-
duction of Follies in Detroit. One of
Shakespeare's most memorable char-
acters, Puck, will be played by not
one but three actors: Alexa Eldred,
Liz Haas, and Cassandra Nelson.
Director Kerr has appeared on
Broadway in Macbeth with Christo-
pher Plummer and Glenda Jackson.
His last directing job was the Uni-
versity Players' rendition of The
Skin of Our Teeth.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S
DREAM will show Thursday
through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sun-
day at 2 p.m. at the Power Center.
Tickets are $5 with student i.d. and
are available at the Michigan League
Box Office.
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BY JIM PONIEWOZIK
OH, Canada... home of Esso gaso-
line, acid rain, and liberal drinking
ages. Though I don't visit there as
often as I did in my southeast
Michigander youth, I still slip into
the occasional reverie, pining for the
days when I would watch The Beach-
combers on CBC (followed by a
good curling match), take advantage
of the relatively-strong Ugly Ameri-
can Dollar, and listen to that great
Canadian reggae...
OK, I lied. Not only do I hate
curling, I also never listened to any
Canadian reggae. Because there's no
such thing.
Or so I thought, until I heard the
Sattalites. No, this isn't Gordon
Lightfoot with dreadlocks, it's a gen-
u-me reggae band from Canada, with
a sound heavy enough to make the
even the stiffest of mounties grab
their horses and start a-skankin'.
The Sattalites hail from Toronto
- a locale that doesn't exactly con-
jure up images of steel drums on a
warm beach late at night. The lead
singer looks like he'd be more at
home strumming an acoustic guitar
and singing about hunting ptarmi-
gans in Manitoba than shaking a
tambourine and toasting - his name
is Fergus Hambleton, fer God's
sake. Yet, somehow, the Sattalites
defy stereotype and latitude, with
their infectious combination of rasta
heat and North American pop that
draws on the band's cosmopolitan
makeup.
The band started when Hambleton
and the band's co-leader, flugelhorn
player Jo Jo Bennett, formed the
Sattalite Horn Section, a reggae brass
unit that backed visiting bands. The
role wasn't foreign to Bennett, who
played with Jamaican Byron Lee and
the Dragonnaires in the '60s and later
with Canadian Leroy Sibbles.
For Hambleton, though, it was
something of a change. He started his
musical career in the Toronto rock
scene of the late '60s and early '70s,
playing strictly rock and pop music.
But this all changed after Hambleton
heard Bob Marley's Catch a Fire al-
bum, which he bought after reading
the review in Rolling Stone, and
which turned a skinny young Beatles
fan from the Great White North into
a reggae fiend.
But not completely. When Ham-
bleton and Bennett expanded the horn
section to a full-fledged band, pulling
in a mix of Canadian and Jamaican
musicians, the resulting sound,
though heavy on the reggae, kept
some of Hambleton's pop influences;
case in point - the first cut on their
debut album was a cover of the Beat-
les's She Loves You.
Still, the Sattalites' sound is
nothing like the slick, TV dinner
psuedo-music of other pop-reggae
fusion bands like UB40. Instead, the
band works within the framework of
rhythm-heavy reggae songs and adds
intoxicating pop embellishments,
like the tickling, bubbly chorus of
"Perfect Day," from their second al-
bum, Live Via Sattalites, which es-
tablished them as one of Canada's
top reggae bands. The album, adven-
turously recorded live - hence the
title - also features plenty of
straight-ahead reggae, like Bennett's
"Lively Ivy" and the moody, slither-
ing "China Doll."
And the band doesn't just profit
from its members' divergent origins
musically; it also points to its white
Canadian and Black Jamaican mix as
a social statement. On
"Understanding," Bennett tells the
crowd, "Look up on this stage... you
see natty dreadlocks, you see bald
head, you see whitie, you see
Blackie. All it takes is a little under-
standing."
"A little understanding." Well,
this attitude will probably always be
snickered at by some people as too
simplistic, even naive. But before
you snicker, check out for yourself
what it's done for the Sattalites. If it
works this well on stage, you just
have to wonder...
THE SA7TALITES, sponsored by
UAC/Soundstage will play at the U-
Club tonight at 10 p.m. Cover is $4.
Be there or stay home and watch
curlin2.
Toronto's Sattalites come
to be a move by Canada
the comic strip For Better
to Ann Arbor tonight - rumored
to make amends for having visited
or For Worse on the U.S.
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