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Show Page Ten The Daily Utah Chronicle, Thursday, January 12, 1977 ( gtheatec "Sugarplum' locks control and thought, 'Dutchman' projects power, sensuality It's Called the Sugarplum, Dutchman LAB THEATRE January 10, 1978 BY DAVID CHANDLER Chronicle staff It is obvious that the two plays being presented in the Lab Theatre this week are directed by two completely different people. The styles, and unfortunately the skills, of the directors are as different as night and day. The evening opens with "It's Called a Sugarplum," a black comedy by Israel Horowitz. Regrettably, director Klint Stevenson has allowed the production to flounder. His blocking is not effective, and at times so embarrassingly lacking in control and thought that the words of the playwright lose significance. Specific moments of action, particularly those of intense conflict (slaps, shoves and pushes), lose their believability due to a poor sense of timing and situation on stage. Joseph Onstott portrays Wallace Zuckerman, a Harvard in a meat market. literature student working part-tim- e Onstott has many moments of humor, but often one finds the script carrying the actor, rather than actor making the script come alive. Stevenson has not used a strong hand in picking and choosing Onstott's movements. He has allowed an obviously young actor to project nervousness, and a childishness that, although it can be effective, is not enough to hold an audience. Barbara Howard is a much stronger performer in so far as her stage presence is concerned. There still is a major directional problem of weak and unmotivated movement, which is unfortunate for Howard. She plays the fiance of a man who has been killed by Zuckerman in an candy-and-fru- it auto accident. "Sugarplum's" actors have not been lead by their director to a knowledge of the space that they are working in. They search for lines rather than ideas, and this has a devastating effect on their production. The power of Diane Haun's direction is evident from the first moments of "Dutchman." Haun has achieved through her actors an atmosphere of sensuality that brings life to the play. She uses a minimal amount of movement, as most of the Mrx UTAH SYMPHONY ABRAVANEL3 ON SALE! Today action takes place on a subway seat. But there is so much going on between the two "Dutchman" characters that very little movement is necessary. Playwright Imamu Baraka (LeRoi Jones) has given "Dutchman" an intense passion. Both Kelly Kennedy (Lula) and Kevin Harrison (Clay) carry off that passion through their characters. Kennedy is a good blend of the subtle and the outrageous. Her character works marvelously. Harrison He builds projects a power that is and finally exploding with beautifully, starting quite gently, the fury of a hurricane. Kennedy and Harrison are strong as individual performers, but even better, they work well together. An interesting aspect of "Dutchman" is Haun's decision to use her audience as riders on the train. Lighting by Jerry Blatt effectively brings the audience into the acting area. His work sense of being a passerby heightens the audience some very personal communication. intruding on the Called "It's Sugarplum" and "Dutchman" play through Saturday at the Lab Theatre. Admission is $1, curtain is 8 p.m. through Friday, and 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Saturday. v - 5f 1 ONLY U of U Music Hall 204 8:30-4:3- 0 7 CONCERT IeaIont TICKET Penman, violinist Sat., Jan. DePriest, conductor Sat., Jan. Ax, pianist Fri., Feb. Stern, violinist Sat., Feb. Sat. Mar. 8 Alicia De Larrocha. pianist Devetzi, pianist Wed., Mar. Sat., Apr. Symphony of a Thousand (No. 8) Students are entitled to second ticket for date or mate at this low student discount price. 14-Itz- hak 21-Ja- mes 25-Is- sac 1 29-V- asso hler Balcony $20 Save 57 II I I over single II I tickets j Main Floor g Save 35 nunr - . cinnlo H m G&fc) II llfalll I II llliTlfl I I "i--u to Mary McCaslin and Jim Ringer will play warm-u- p the Doc Watson concert January 21. Tickets are now available at Round Records, Odyssey Records and ASUU offices. They are $5 with ID, and $6 general. All three jHj performers have played at spots such as the Bottom Line in New York as well as at hundreds of stops between New York and L.A. Violinist Perlman to appear Saturday with Utah Symphony Vff Q For the first subscription a Philadelphia Inquirer concert of the new year, critic to write, "Itzhak Maruice Abravanel and the Perlman breathes a new life Utah Symphony will into the violin recital." Born in Tel Aviv in 1945, perform the familiar works of Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky Perlman doesn't remember a and Mendelssohn in the Salt time when he didn't want to Lake Tabernacle on play the violin. Even when Saturday. The program will he was stricken with polio at include the appearance of the age of four, the illness Israel-bor- n violinist, Ithzak and year's convalescence left CHART YOUR OWN COURSE 5V Perlman. Lsi ,. You can't ask for better navigator training than you can get from the United States Air Force And you can't be better prepared to chart your own course for the future than through Air Force ROTC. If you're a young person who can qualify for navigator training, you've got a good Jtart. You can also compete for a scholarship that will provide financial assistance while you work on your degree. After commissioning, your top notch training will continue at Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento, where Air Force navigators are trained in the ultra modem 20rhCemixyFoifVinti SEAN CONNERY ZARDOZ RAMPLING ho!" ensrsr I BOORMAN SARA KESTRMAN And MNHIMON JOHN ALOtRTON IMS(II ' IIUI l "5 LS- -JJ FRIDAY AND SATURDAY JANUARY 13 AND 14 UNION THEATRE 7:00 A 10:00 P.M. $1.00 Union Programs Presentation T 43 jet aircraft. Following 33 weeks of intensive training, youll be awarded the silver wings of an Air Force navigator. From there on. the sky's the limit. Find out about AFROTC and the navigator program Chart a secure future for yourself. Captain Danial J. Jonas AFROTC Oat 850. Annax Bldg. Rm. 2009. U of UPhona: - 581-623- 0 mm mourns AND ROTC his musical ambitions Since winning the 1964 unchanged. His first studies Leventritt Competition, were at the Tel Aviv Perlman has appeared in the Academy of Music. In 1958, Ed Sullivan major music capitals of the world for orchestral and brought him to the United Last States to appear on his recital appearances. season found him with a television show. Only 13, sold-oAmerican tour of Perlman decided to stay in orchestral and recital dates, a the United States and, with tour of Japan and three tours the help of scholarships from the AmericaIsrael of Europe. Culthe the tural Foundation and the greatest of Among world's violinists, Perlman Juilliard SchooJ, he studied annually appears in more at Juilliard. He made his first than 100 concerts around the Carnegie Hall appearance in globe. This will be his 1963 and the following year second appearance with the won the Leventritt CompeUtah Symphony. He first tition. Tickets for the Salt Lake performed with therh in January, 1976. Famed for his concert are available at the warmth of tone and Utah Symphony Box Office, phenomenal technical and outside the South Gate facility, the effect he creates of the Tabernacle, one hour when he performs prompted before the performance. ut |
