Page 8-The Michigan Daily-Thursday, April 4, 1991 The true importance of love by Diane Frieden costume. This does not apply to the scenes, adding "it's a good co University production; excellent for the audience to enter." H ow often do you see symbolist work has been done to preserve the The play itself takes the for drama on a daily basis? fairy-tale quality in the Maeter- a symbolist drama, describin .At the Trueblood Theater, what linck scenes, reinforcing at the same love triangle between two bro is rehearsed on stage is also real. The time the magic of being backstage. Golaud (Matthew Letscher) University production of Pelleas The dress-rehearsal interpretation Pelleas (Tom Daugherty), an ntext rm of g the thers, ) and d the And Melisande lays down the foundation of the original 1893 Maurice Maeterlinck dramatic plot and uses an innovative play-within- a-play structure, conceived by direc- tor Jerald Schweibert. "It's an adap- tation of outer life," says Schweibert, speaking about the par- allels between the action seen in the staged play and the lives of the per- forming actors. Formatting the play in a re- hearsal setting often allows for some looser interpretation, usually resulting in a more relaxed atmo- sphere in lighting, scenic design and kinko's 44 COPIES with this coupon 8 112 X 11, white. self serve or auto fed only expires 4/30/91 Open 24 Hours 540 E. Liberty 761-4539 1220 S. University 747-9070 Open 7 Days Michigan Union 662-1222 woman who is wife to one and lover to the other, Melisande (Johanna Borman). Symbols abound, such as the fountains of each brother, which liken the depths of the pool to the depths of the soul. Complex rela- tionships explored in the original dialogue spill over through Schweibert's frame to the three main actors. Schweibert interprets the main question posed by Maeterlinck as, "How important is a love that you risk your life for five minutes?" This tragic love is seen, as the ten- sion builds up among characters to a passionate conclusion. On whatever level the performance can be under- stood - lighter fantasy or dramatic tale - it should prove to be most entertaining. PELLEAS AND MELISANDE will be at the Trueblood Theater tonight through April 14. Thursday- Saturday shows are at 8 p.m and Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. Tickets are $9, $5 with I.D. at the Michigan League. RECORDS Continued from page 5 more musically intriguing sound unoriginal. The last song, "There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends," resembles the last song on Louder Than Bombs, "Asleep," with its piano and gentle vocal style. "The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye" has camera sounds at the beginning (and whips, too, or do my ears mock me?) much like Duran Duran's "Girls on Film." The effec- tive "Driving Your Girlfriend" and "Found Found Found" take this one step further to include lyrical simi- larities as well. "Found" sounds quite similar, like an earlier tune on Kill Uncle, "Asian Rut." The former is a mild, slight song remi- niscent of "There's A Light That Never Goes Out" from The Queen is Dead, and it is also concerns driv- ing around unhappy in cars. But maybe that's the rub. The music is supposed to sound like '50s Singers' instrumental backing at its worst, to make the words stand out more or to undercut them even more than a sensible guitar part would. Maybe Morrissey wants parents to buy this album to be able to bond with their sulky teens. Maybe, like Madonna, Morrissey is fucking with audiences' collective minds by sounding boring, saying "out- rageous" things with his lyrics which could be as serious as they are mocking, and then pulling the old "Which is it really?" attitude. Or is it both? Most of the lyrics would indi- cate this could be true. "Asian Rut" uses cheesy Asian-music sounds to garnish the tune, yet is actually a . . , ; ' ;: I Morrissey raises his arms to the sky. Why? In frustration over life? To vogue? To show off his big hands? To ask God for better collaborators7- Daugherty and Borman allows for a creative adaptation. "It functions at a mythical level," says Schweibert of the fantasy-like To worship Bob Mould? snide social commentary on the treatment of Asian (boys) by the British (boys). Morrissey divorces himself from his country by quip- ping: "I'm just passing through here on my way to somewhere civi- li zed." "King Leer" has a clever title and jeers at someone else (and Morrissey himself?): "I crept up behind you with a homeless chi- huahua/ you cooed for an hour/ you handed him back to me and said 'you'll never guess I'm bored now'." "Churchillian legs" is an, excellent image chiseled from "Camera Eye,"an arty song on hav- ing your photo taken (I assume as some sort of professional who has to have it done often). But the music bores so much that the words are lost on sea of mediocrity. A friend of mine is convinced, that Kill Uncle is a work of bril- liant genius, that the pop world just doesn't get it, that Morrissey has surpassed himself this time. Maybe, but I have my doubts. -Annette Petruso NASTY Continued from page 5 audience, making you constantly aware that you are sitting in a theater watching a film, and supposedly making you more apt to think about the film's message. The V-affect can become strenuous, as can the one-sidedness of the story and the largely one-dimensional characters. But The Nasty Girl must be applauded for mercilessly points out hypocrisy in every possible shape and form. In one of the best examples of this, an old communist tells of how he was freed from the local concentration camp by the Americans, only to be locked up a year later, by the Americans. When Sonja asks why, he answers, "For being a communist." THE NASTY GIRL is being shown at the Ann Arbor 1 & 2. 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