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Show Wednesday, November 2, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 1388 Creative staging has impact in 'Carmen' By jean Marshall Herald Staff Writer 'Carmen" opened on a bare stage with a single work light burning at the back. As K. Newell Dayley conducted et's overture, racks of' Opera Review story and left the elaborate sets associated with opera to the viewer's imagination. His concept worked. With the magic of lighting he created the illusion of a bustling market place in Seville, Spain. The great ramps were arranged to become barracks, a factory, a prison, a tavern, mountains Bizcos- tumes were pushed onto the stage, cast members rushed on to finish dressing as gypsies and soldiers and three huge ramps appeared. For this Brigham Young University production director David Warner focused on the and a bull ring. Projected images on backdrops clarified the settings, and the lighted cyclorama added dramatic effect. The Saturday cast composed principally of faculty members Lila Stuart as Carmen, Clayne Robison as Escamillo, with Dennis Todd as Don Jose offered strong performances first-tim- (Marion Miller was unfortunately miscast as Michaela), but it was the student cast on Saturday night that brought s, f Happy were lost. The final scene tith tiirthfluy is slightly marred by Don Jose's slumped departure. Why is he leaving? Despite flaws, this production of "Carmen" with its creative staging and fine singers conveys the power of ence. The opera was sung in English which allows the audience to follow the dialogue, but sometimes the English lyrics sound ludicrous. And, spoken dialogue was used between the 21 BULLETIN BOARD arias. Such changes may make the work more accessible to e but the opera-goerbeauty of the original language and the musical continuity the audience to its feet. Martha West as Carmen and Adam Russell as Don Jose with Jana Garret as Michaela and Eric Glissmeyer as Escamillo were well cast and achieved an ensemble performance that ignited the audi- Page V Kyan lAinccfortl Love. ? s-- c 3 Mom & OUliuOdOOlHWWOOOOOOOOi O'Neill plays open at BYU From Belgium to China celebrations mark the centennial Metten, director. "Although in many ways they are rough and do not show the finished skill of such masterworks as 'The of American playwright Eugene O'Neill's birth this year with festivals and presentations of his plays. Brigham Young University mounted a production of "Ah, Wilderness" in October as part of that celebration and will focus on the roots of O'Neill works Nov. with three Iceman Cometh' or 'Long Day's Journey Into Night,' they demonstrate that even as a young man in his early 20s, he could create real people using a tremendous sense of characterization. These are difficult, 3-- plays that reflect the writer's turbulent life as a youth at sea. Called "The Long Voyage Home," the sea plays include "Bound East for Cardiff," "In the Zone" and "He." They can one-a- but rewarding, plays." ct The plays came out of the Harvard 47 Workshop in 1916 and were produced by the Provincetown Players in Massachusetts. They played in an old boathouse where audiences could feel water lapping and see fog creeping. They met with immediate success, so much so that the players took the plays to New York City and performed them in Greenwich Village. ' The intimacy of the arena theater will provide through a feeling sound and lighting of being "O'Neill's early works revo- - be seen Tuesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. in the Margetts Arena Theatre in the Harris Fine Arts Center. Also planned is a matinee Nov. 14 at 4 p.m. Tickets are available through the drama ticket office. "I first made the decision to direct the sea plays out of a sense of duty for the O'Neill sea-boun- d. celebrations," says Charles . mm w m EXPtflSl2 S COUPON MANUFACTURER a mm 88ll 19 FRESH START LAUNDRY DETERGENT ANY SIZE i at the turn of the century." Metten sees real value in producing the plays at BYU. c 0FRESH X S f v II s V- M POWER! FIGHTS STAINS mW JN 1 START WITH STAIN RESISTING AND GETS YOUR I I XrfNVJA ANomtsH. j &-- , ' &7tA iM wf7 y WHOLE WASH CLEAN J Kvi "As part of the educational curriculum, we should be of- FIGHTS STAINS AND GETS YOUR WHOLE WASH CLEAN AND FRESH n Ont u tlw coup"" n "tm Wat Mim PaMlr C mv Mr ui tu topooiel PO BoiCStt JtntfWWM aajaaa fering experiences with the lesser-know- n works of our The sea plays writers. great are serious drama, at times depressing, and He uses such themes as brotherhood and tolerance, and he shows, for example, how pride can destroy a thought-provokin- u Li lutionized drama," says Metten. 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