ARTS Thursday, February 1, 1990 The Michigan Daily Pagel7 'Jetsons or jet-setters? Wenomadmen puts future life in present tense BY AMI MEHTA THE idea of the future has been presented to today's society in a va- riety of different ways. Whether it is similar to the spacey lifestyles of the Jetsons or a scenario that resembles Back to the Future Part II, everyone has his or her own visions formed of what the coming years will be like. The Theatre Grottesco, an inter- national touring theater company, perceives the future to be a world- .wide desert where society is concen- trated in a small, urban oasis in which four major castes have evolved. Bringing this futuristic do- main alive on stage, the four mem- bers of the Theatre Grottesco vicari- ously live the lives of four very dif- ferent people, each from one of the four castes (the Powerful, the Enter- tainers, the Knowledge-Keepers and the Builders.) Hurled together by the Ochaotic events of the future, these four characters are featured in a play titled Wenomadmen. The foursome - a builder, an en- tertainer's valet, a student, and an umbrella-carrier - are plucked from their separate castes and find them- selves fleeing a threatened city to- gether. Away from their friends, col- leges, and occupations, each person's ,* particular strengths and weaknesses are exposed. Once outside of the city, where there is nothing but the bare desert and scattered ruins, each caste member tries to retain his or her identity while combatting the hostile forces of the great leveller: Nature. Eventually, the characters create their own new society settling conflicts and ending in compromise. The acts of everyday life, whether it be modern or futuristic, are reduced to cosmopolitan rituals. This particular show is the third in a series about America written, acted and directed by the Theatre Grottesco. Wenomadmen, however, varies from the usual style of the company. "Our natural bent is to be somewhat comic," said company member Elizabeth Wiseman. "This time we chose not to go for comedy but a more stringent and sparsely comical method," she added. The theme of this play is isola- tion in the future, something that is inherent in both actual caste systems and the fictional ones in the play. Even today there is segregation of the classes in society - with the omnipresent yuppies as a prime ex- ample - and Wenomadmen ad- dresses this. Wiseman describes the play as set in a very modern expres- sionistic style. This show, as with all of their work, was the original creation of the four members of the company, John Flax, Paul Herwig, Malcolm Tulip, and Wiseman. With their ages ranging from 28 to 38, these artists have found being a part of the The- atre Grottesco their full-time occupa- tion. "I've been doing theater since I was a child but I didn't really know I was doing theater until I was 20 or so. It's such a funny career," said Wiseman. Even though each member of the company has had various training experience, all of them have studied at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq, a theater school in Paris. Having studied Eu- ropean and American theater, Wise- man characterizes Europeans as us- ing more traditional style in their. pieces and Americans as doing mostly realistic theater. "In Europe, theater is part of the culture, whereas here people go to the mall," she said. But this group hardly has time for shopping as they are on the road touring both nationally and interna- tionally about one-third of the year. The remaining part of their time is spent creating, writing, acting, im- The Theatre Grottesco, an international touring theater company, perceives the future to be a world-wide desert where society is concentrated in a small, urban oasis in which four major castes have evolved. Bringing this futuristic domain alive on stage, the four members of the Theatre Grottesco vicariously live the lives of four very different people, each from one of the four castes (the Powerful, the Entertainers, the Knowledge-Keepers and the Builders.) provising, and rehearsing new and original concepts at their home base in Detroit. WENOMADMEN will be per- formed tonight, tomorrow and Sat- urday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at the Performance Network, 408 W. Washington. Tickets are $10, $8 for students and seniors. Pictured here at their sound check before Tuesday night's show, the Meat Puppets ponder their imminent foray into the realm of the cool. Meat Puppets rock hot and cold BY ANNETTE PETR USSO The Meat Puppets floated through a 90+ minute set at the Blind Pig on Tuesday that seemed too short but displayed their musical diversity. By recreating the airy whims of their records on stage the band was able to further develop its ever-evolving persona. While not playing many of the songs one would expect ("Bad Love" from Huevos immediately comes to mind), they sculpted a series of mu- sical images that would have had any art patron reeling from the beauty. In contrast, Eleventh Dream Day opened with a just-under-one-hour gig that tried to push itself in the audience's collective face. Sporting a serious garage band look, they com- plemented it with a one-pace attitude that made this reviewer wish they had stayed there until they came up with more than one good thing. De- spite their unnecessarily consistent sound limitations, EDD presented a decent first effort as a newly-signed band. Mixing carefully-crafted instru- mentals that displayed lead singer/guitarist Curt Kirkwood's overpowering talent, with imagina- tive interpretations of wordy songs. -and blistering rockers, the Puppets manipulated tempo and different song styles and had the crowd eating out of the palm of their hands. The audience's reactions ran the gamut Express yourself in Daily Arts Call 763-0379 from slamming to mellow swaying as each song dictated. Unfortunately the band never let their sound go anywhere near too far, making them seem slightly dismembered; smooth transitions or a gradual building to ecstasy were never allowed to take place. Their grinding version of "Automatic Mojo" captured the essence of pulverizing rock 'n' roil while whistle-happy "Maiden's Milk" and way-mellow "Up on the Sun" lived up to the MP's reputa- tion for off-beat sound and vision. 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