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A2CT to tackle
challenging 'Lear'

Art exhibit to explore
nature's influence

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Local theater
to present
classic tragedy
By GRACE PROSNIEWSKI
Daily Arts Writer
Political intrigue, betrayal,
power-hungry schemers. No, not
talking about last week's episode
of "Scandal;"
rather William King Lear
Shakespeare's
tragic master- Fridayand
piece, "King Saturday at8
Lear." p.m. andSunday
"Lear". is atZp.m.
often regarded
as one of his A2CT Studio Theater
best works, $12
which, consid-
ering his track
record and the
fact that he's one of - if not the
- greatest writer of all time, is a
pretty big deal.
Intimidating as such a drama
may seem, the Ann Arbor Civic
Theatre is ready to perform it in
all its moral complexities, with
a cast of 11 actors playing all the
characters in the ensemble-driv-
en production.
For those of you who haven't
.read "King Lear" since AP Lit-
erature, here's a refresher:
Lear, the elderly king of
England, decides to divide his
kingdom between his three
daughters, Goneril, Regan and
Cordelia. Before doing so, he
decides to test each of his daugh-
ters, asking each to describe how
much they love him. The cunning
and ambitious Goneril and Regan
use excessive flattery and fawning
to please their father. However,
youngest daughter Cordelia replies
simply that she has no words to
describe how much she loves her
father. This enrages Lear, and he,
subsequently banishesherfronthe
kingdom. Having attained power,
Goneril and Regan show their true
colors and betray Lear, who slowly
falls into madness.
"Lear" 's director, Kat Walsh,
has had a passion for theater and

A2CT

Director Walsh to helm her fourth show for the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre.

dance since a young age and stud-
ied theater in college. This produc-
tion marks the fourth show she has
directed for Ann Arbor Civic The-
atre.
For Walsh, what differentiates
"King Lear" from other Shake-
spearean tragedies is the title char-
acter himself.
"Unlike his other tragedies,"
Walsh said, "the protagonist does
not have a tragic flaw. Hamlet
is plagued by inaction, Macbeth
with ambition and Othello with
jealousy, and while Lear certainly
has his flaws, pride being one, you
come away feeling that he is truly
'a man more sinned against than
sinning."-
There's no pinpointing Lear's
source of failure, but is failure even
an apt description? The entirety of
"Lear" involves truth and percep-
tion, and whether they matter at all
to the natural world.
"The play," Walsh said, "con-

fronts the existential question of
'nothingness' and what it means to
be a human in a sometimes cruel
and indifferent world."
Indeed, ambiguity is one of the
most striking aspects of "King
Lear," and perhaps the most dis-
turbing. Even though retribution is
served when evil characters die, so,
too, do unfailingly virtuous char-
acters. There is a supreme uncer-
tainty at who triumphs in the end.
Nature does not dispense justice
in accordance with any social or
moral code.
It is in this collective fear
of humanity that the audience
becpmes engulfed in the story.
Lear ponders the almighty power
of nature as sompared to the
frailty of man, the audience
ponders along with him. Lear's
insignificance is one's own insig-
nificance. And that, according
to Walsh, is what theater's all
about.

By CAROLYN DARR
Daily Arts Writer
Last week, an innovative,
student-centered exhibition
"Soundscapes of Childhood"
opened in
the Univer-
sity's Hatch- SoundscapeS
er Graduate of Childhood
Library.This
cutting Arthur Miller
edge art Theater
installation Friday8a.m.
combines
spoken word toll:45 p.m.
narrative
and envi-
ronmental sounds to explore
how nature influences stu-
dents' personal experiences
of childhood and home. This
fascinating project is the final
product of a Residential Col-
lege English class taught by
Prof. Liz Goodenough. Good-
enough, in collaboration with
cultural geographer Anja Hilg
Bieri, worked with students
to develop these novel sound-
scapes.
"It was a course that used
authors that wrote for chil-
dren of the Great Lakes who
celebrated the Mitten and the
lakes around it," Goodenough
said. "Their books explore
how their location shaped
their behavior, their character
and their play histories. So we
asked, did it matter that they
had a white pine in their front
yard? Did it matter that they
lived by a river? Did it matter
that they lived in the middle of
Chicago? These are the types
of questions that helped the
students formulate their life
stories."
These personal narratives
were developed throughout
the semester, both inside the
classroom and ontrips to near-
by Nichols Arboretum. 4
"Throughout the semes-
ter they were always writing
on their impressions, their
readings and their autobiog-
raphies," Bieri said. "It was a
constant process so that the
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writing was one creation and
the other creation was the
soundscape and the sound
work. It's really an interdisci-
plinary approach that fosters
the creative process of the
students' work. They had to
understand the software and
then be able to compose and
revise both their writing and
their sound and then give each
other feedback."
At the end of the semes-
ter, in a reader's theater, the
students stood up in front of
the class and presented their
soundscapes. It was months
later, with the help of Chil-
dren's Literature Learning
Librarian Jo Angela Oehrli,
that these final.products were
chosen for display to a much
wider audience in Room 100 of
the Graduate Library.
"We talked to (Oehrli), and
she approached me and want-
ed to do this," Goodenough
said. "It is a museum quality
exhibit with innovative sound
domes, which I had never seen
before. You stand under it and
you don't hear what's outside
and when you're not under it
you don't hear what's inside
the dome. You get this kind of
three dimensional experience
which is amazing."
The soundscapes are meant
for both the campus popula-
tions and the entire city of Ann
Arbor since they are available
for download from the Inter-
net.
"You can download them
and go to the Arboretum where
the walks were inspired," Bieri
said. "We have a path, not a
path exactly from A to Z, but
more a certain area which
you can see on the map in the
exhibit. We hope that people
who go to the exhibit will
want to go outside too. We
noticed when we listened to
the soundscapes in class that
they had a certain quality,
but when you go outside and
hear them as you walk it adds
a whole different dimension."
In the future, these sound-

scapes may even be used to
encourage families staying at
the Ronald McDonald House
to go outside.
"I met with Robert Grese,
the Director of Nichols Arbo-
retum, and Julie Piazza who
is the child life internship and
training coordinator at Mott
Children's Hospital," Good-
enough said. "They want to
use the exhibit, so in January,
it's going to migrate in some
kind of enhanced form. One of
the missions of Nichols Arbo-
retum is to get the families
staying at the Ronald McDon-
ald House, who have traveled
many miles and are under a
lot of stress, to actually go to
the Arb."

Download
soundscapes
and walk
the Arb.
The soundscapes them-
selves encourage every listen-
er to utilize their senses and
appreciate the nature around
them.
"Every soundscape has
its own message," Bieri said.
"They're less straightforward
documentary so you can really
take away what you'd like, but
the meta-message is one that
is based in the philosophy of
aesthetic education. The one
who makes the soundwalk,
but also the one who takes it
uses a mixture of their senses
and their intellect and their
imagination to understand.
"We really hope to trigger
new questions of how to look
at the world, how to look at
nature and culture. Nature
is in part formed by our cul-
ture. Our understanding of
nature and what it looks like,
our autobiography of it. The
nature we carry in our heads."

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