ARTS The Michigan Daily Friday, February 3, 1989 Page 7 * Love's Labour's Lost Giovanni seeks to keep play's grandeur BY JOE HELMINSKI N EWSPAPERS and critics from New York to Phoenix have praised the Acting Company, a touring * professional repertory theater. Tomorrow, Ann Arbor will get a chance to view and critique the 16-year-old group as they make their Michigan Theater debut in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Paul Giovanni directed the production just before it bit the road three weeks ago. He currently teaches the- Ater at the University of South Carolina. His back- (Director Paul) Giovanni confesses that he 'bent the period of (Love's Labour's Lost)' .... But why not set it in modern times? 'That,' says the director, 'is silly. When you do Shakespeare, you need a certain amount of grandeur.' ground, though, is less than academic. He appeared on Broadway in the 1960s musical The Fantasticks, which reigned in the New York theater scene of the day. He gradually became interested in other aspects of the theater: "I found an affinity for directing. Since I had studied acting, I gained a sympathy for actors." Giovanni em- phasizes the performer's perspective in his produc- tions: "Everything I do focuses on the actor." Appar- ently this strategy serves him well, because his direct- ing credits include work on Broadway and London's West End, the theatrical "big time." Recently he began to realize the potential power of Shakespeare's classic comedy. He directed Love's Labour's Lost first at Washington D.C.'s Folger Theater, and the show impressed the Acting Company. They asked him to work with them on their own pro- duction of it, and he agreed. Love's Labour's Lost is the story of three young lords who, influenced by the King of Navarre, promise themselves to seclusion and the ascetic life. They pledge further to avoid all contact with women. At least until the Princess of France and her three ladies arrive at the King's Court. The monarch and his monastic proteg6s fall hard for these lovely women and individually pursue them, anonymously at first and later in disguise. These impetuous bluebloods are dis- covered by the Princess and her attendants, however, who reject them until they can demonstrate their re- grets. Giovanni confesses that he "bent the period of the play." Instead of choosing the traditional Elizabethan setting, he felt inspired to "put it into a more glam- orous age." He settled on pre-Louis XIV France. This made for a "sexy version" of the play, he said, and gained kudos from Washington audiences. He adds that the road production in store for Ann Arbor is "much more elegant." "It's important to give the event a modern sense," Giovanni says. But why not set it in modern times? "That," says the director, "is silly. When you do Shakespeare, you need a certain amount of grandeur." Giovanni hopes the new setting provides it. Bringing the language of Shakespeare to life, he says, is a special problem for a director. The dialogue "must be spoken well" because of the old English Shakespeare wrote it in. But he decries productions which emphasize a British accent: "The sound of Shakespeare's English is a combination of Bronx and Appalachian accents." Above all, he says, "the voice must move up and down the scale." Spencer Beckwith appears as the King of Navarre. He played in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, also an Acting Company project, and this marks his second year with the group. The three lords are Larry Green, Gary Sloan, and Ken Sawyer. All have been in previous productions of Shakespeare. Alison Stair Neet and Laura Perrotta do double duty, each playing the Princess of France and Lady Rosaline. Theresa McCarthy also plays a lady, and appeared as Ophelia in a University of California version of Hamlet. Martha Thompson is Lady Katharine. This is her first year See Lost, Page 8 Peter Capaldi, left, and Sammi Davis stare in amazement at what is most likely at least par- tially reminiscent of a phallus in Ken Russell's latest film, Lair of the White Worm. White Worm: Russell is a very strange man BY GREG FERLAND Let's face it, director Ken Russell is just plain nuts. Who can forget such images from his films as the castration scene from The Devils, the nude fight between Alan Bates and Oliver Reed in Women in Love, Ann Margret + bean soup + a pillow in Tommy, or William Hurt as a cave man in Altered States ? Ken Russell films are notorious for their outrageous images, and his latest film, Lair of the White Worm, is no exception. He heaps on the gore and flashy camerawork at the expense of the story. Russell adapted the script from Bram (Dracula) Stoker's short story. The film is about a town in England renowned for the legend of the white worm that was slain there centuries ago. When the parents of a town res- ident, Mary Trent (Sammi Davis) disappear, the ensuing search leads a young lord to believe that the White Worm may still exist. Somehow, all this leads to a battle between Chris- tianity and a pagan snake religion called Dionyan which has been maintained over the centuries by Sylvia (Catherine Oxenberg), a kind of "she-snake." The plot is filled with gaping holes and trite dialogue, but one can- not help but think that Russell knows this all too well. With tongue HELP WANTED HELP WANTED -- HELP WANTED ADORABLE TODDLER NEEDS loving pt. time sitter in his home 6 hrs./wk. own trans- portation 971-3476. Aerobics Instructor Needed for UAC Mini-Courses Call 763-1 107 for More Info. APARTMENT MANAGER-looking for an honest and hardworking up rclassman or grad student to manage a student complex on a part-time basis. Some maintenance work is required. Send resume to P.O. Box 7072, Ann Arbor 48107. ATTENTION WSome jobs pay well. Some jobs change the world. 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Russell's humor is evident when Sylvia burns her childhood game of "Snakes and Ladders" and says "Rosebud," in reference to the sled in Citizen Kane. Sylvia also has such dialogue as, "Time for ritual - no time for sodomy!" Which reminds me, the phallic symbols are so prominent in this film that you have to laugh, just as "nasty Ken" surely is. In addition to the mocking tone of the film, the cinematography carries Lair of the White Worm above the slasher horror film genre. There are beautiful scenes of tranquil English countryside contrasted with some of the most startling dream sequences ever seen. Sure, they're nasty, but the style is very effective. During these sequences, Russell constantly zooms in and out of scenes such as Christ on the cross being attacked by the White Worm. The colors are washed-out pastels, blacks, and greys See Worm, Page 8 TICKETS $400 TICKE' 'VOUCHER for Continental Airlines. Call Ellen at 747-9428. 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