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Show Theater review Updated 'Antigon opens at Theatre By Mike Whitney In the last exciting episode of Theater 138 reviews I s. Theater 138 had not yet produced a bomb and probabi.l would. A reviewer I am, a predictor I ain't. Now don't get me wrong. The opening night of "Anligo: not a complete disaster. Almost, but not quite. ! Perhaps it was opening night jitters, perhaps it was tliefcj the cast was all volunteers and not strictly top theatrical e perhaps it was bad direction. Perhaps. But whatever it was A; just did not manage to come together as a convincing play. Perhaps a good portion of the blame could be handed play's author Jean Anouilh. Anouilh wrote his update version greek tragedy Antigone while the Nazis occupied his native : during World War II. He obviously intended some parallel b-j situation presented in Antigone and the situation in France. V! e up with though was a two hour anachronism loadr:' more cliches per line than almost any other play in histor. Perhaps the worst thing in Theater 138's production ol'A i was the make-up job done on Marvin Smith who p!.r. H C:-was C:-was approached only by his acting. Smith suffered I ruin a I case of overacting and turned what should have been :f calculating Creon into an over emotional line shouter. I Bui as I said, Antigone was not a complete disaster ! Land'ures as Antigone and Earl Nelson as a one man Greet j were not spectacular but they were good. j Stewart Falconer in a relatively minor role as a guard tin the best performance. But one could only wonder why a with Falconer's talent was cast as a guard while soineonl Smith's lack of talent was cast as Creon. Perhaps in future performances the cast will be able: together and make something of Anouilh's poorly written p from viewing the opening night performance the only thinjl say is, a tragedy it was, a play it was not. i |
