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he Michigan Daily Friday, May 6, 1988 Page 11
'That'll Be The Day' arrives with drama
BY LISA MAGNINO
PERFORMANCE Network
puts the old saying "It's all
according to your point of view" in
rspective this weekend in its latest
production, That'll Be The Day.
Written by former Hopwood
Ninner and one of Performance Net-
kork's six playwrights-in-residence,
1l Sjoerdsma, the psychological
rama centers on a convicted mur-
erer who recites the plot of John
ord's Western film, The Searchers,
s he awaits his sentence in his jail
11.
I The film, which starred John
ayne and Natalie Wood, was one
of the first of the Western genre that The intention within the pacing is to highest level, the wife and friend sit
added a psychological dimension to build an understanding of the charac- on the next level, and the lowest two
the usual good-guy-in-the-white-hat ter's self-esteem, his jealousies, his are for the flashback sequences.
scenario. Though the movie be- frustrations." Similarly, the lighting brings focus
comes an obsession with the main Sjoerdsma explains that the non- to the nineteen short scenes of the
character, Sjoerdsma adds, "[His re- chronological sequences were re- play.
membrance] is not precisely accu- quired: "It pushes up the irony of David Hunsberger directs the cast
rate. Depending on what his focus is certain things ... it displays certain of Cindy Hee, Barbara Newell, and
at that point in the play, certain el- aspects that might not be seen oth-
ements [of the film] are left out. He erwise. When you have seen the Special Student ai
also makes [Wayne's] character background through the flashbacks,
much more heroic in his mind." of the present. Similarly, when you
The play operates through the don't have background knowledge
ramblings of the man, the remi- you also see different things. It's all U
nisces of his wife and her best friend, a point of view." from Chicago on S
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