| Show -- - : - r---- - - -- els-A----4 e- - - -- - A — ''''''''''''---- - -- I t — SLAC brings 'Beirut to SL for first time "--- 1 —- ir "s t - v- Ai 11'4 ! - ' 1 t! ' t 4 ‘ 1 - :Alm - 4 fl !' ' r ' ' ! 'P' ' ir t 4t 4 1 iv 1 1 - - 9 4 T ' - - - : t -- r- '"tt yr A - I 4 - ' - ' - '' - r ' )v- -- ' of- :- — 1-- ' '''' 0 - i - 1-- It s 1 IA' 1 i 0 :' A ' t V - A' ft - ' I0 ' t f ' I: f !JI I' qv ' - -:'' 1- N ' 44' 1 I ' I — : ' - ''' r- - tr--- - 1 40” ' 4 n'''''S ' ' J 5 ' ''t - ot ' "se4000 1 - 1 Rival gang members clash in a scene from the musical "West Side Story" opening this week at Brigham Young University On stage: Two musicals a drama about children The University of Utah Theater -Department will present Found a a Peanut" humorous dark play that examines children struggling for acceptance at the expense of their own individuality "Found a Peanut" written by Donald Margulies will be presented in the Saltair Room in the U of U Olpin Union Building Thurxday through Saturday at 8 pm The play takes place behind an apartment building on the last day of summer There are eight characters ranging between the ages of 5 and 14 The youngsters learn about life and friendship while they play and fight with each other The events of the play happen in a child's world but are the same conflicts that adults engage in In this play the children encounter aggression parental abandonment and death Although it is a play that the entire family will enjoy the characters are struggling to become adults and use mature language The director recommends parental discretion The cast includes Mike Kranes Patrick White Lise Wilburn Erika Johnson Warren McClain David Russell Bill Harris and Rett Neale self-hatre- d g 7 atre "Noises Off" is a loopy British import about a troupe of and never-wer- e actors in a playwithin-a-play It was a tremendous success in London and opened on Broadway in 1983 to has-bee- n Knight-Ridde- Newspapers r — Ellen Simon's first play recently premiered in a NC DURHAM theater at Duke University 116-se- Many in the audience found much to laugh and cry about but none more so than the playwright's father: Neil Simon "Moonlight and Valentino" performed by a cast from New York tells the story of a thirtysomething woman in suburban New York whose husband has been killed From the very first line Rebecca has to fight down "the black stuff" that is welling up inside her She finally lets it out with the help of three other women A mystery man shows up He says nothing but serves as a catalyst for Rebecca to to her dead husband say good-byEllen Simon obviously has picked up on her father's gift for writing s And the final scene is as good as any attempt by her father to be dramatic However the characters failed to solidify although this may well be due to the shakiness of the produc e The Brigham Young Universi- theater department will present 'West Side Story" as its winter se- ty By Douglas J Keating mester production The Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim classic musical about cultural clash and kindred spirits is scheduled to open Wednesday in the de Jong Concert Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center in Provo The show will run Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 pm through March 11 with a matinee March 6 at 4 pm The Heritage Theatre in Perry will present -- Hello Dolly!" in its next presenta tion The production under the direction of David Breitenbeker is scheduled to open Friday at 8 pm Ruth Huff of Brigham City will star as the matchmaker Dolly Levi Playing opposite her as Horace Vandergelder is Christopher Strong of Ogden Matt Yates Scott Nelson Brenna Breitenbeker and Lori Schoonmaker are also scheduled to perform in the production The show plays Mondays and Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 pm Contact the Heritage Theatre for ticket information ness still Lunch $495 $595 from Dinner from 8 39 5 Serving Mon - Sat Chefs Daily Special Lunch 11:00 Dinner 4:00 Sunday 12:30 111 - - 4:00 pm 10:30 - pm 8:00 pm West 9000 South 566-540- 0 EWM '"! 4 ' '1000"' iS '' 'f Jet ?'!: - 4" ii i :: 1 11 I v : ' All ec''''' 4 4 I AA :el' N 1 '' Atle" ' 4t ?c( - 10 4 I 411111bk5 2 Jr 004°70" — N Sue Ball Zeke Totland portray two lovers who break laws to be together in SLAC's production of Alan Bowne's "Beirut" a this might make a good show But for now it work in progress Shrew" In Shakespeare's version the stothe termagant ry of Katharina whom Petruchio trains to marriage much as a cowboy breaks a horse to the bridle is preceded by a short introductory tale of a drunken tailor nobleman finds the tailor passed out on the heath and takes him to his house where a play — the one about Katharina and Petruchio — is staged to show the man the evils of his profligate ways In the Johnson and Bullitt versions on display at the Rosenbach the story of the drunken tailor is expanded into a length Katharina and Petruchio don't appear at all and no shrew is tamed even though the title remains How did two men get such a notion at the same time? Actually Johnson thought of the idea first Bul Mt who ran a competing theater company heard what Johnson was about said Cahill and "decided he would do the same thing He got his on the stage first too" Editing Shakespeare began in earnest after London theaters reopened following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 Cahill said that audiences were more sophisticated by that time — the lower-clas- s "groundhngs" of Shakespeare's day no longer attended — and the aristocracy which had spent the 20 years of the Commonwealth in France had acquired a taste for the A full-pla- y play-goin- y drug-induce- g more formal classicism of the d Act!" tAVi1411-- 0 -- PICK YOUR CARD ER VVEJ1DO rs ily STATEUNES Bus-you- is PLACE YOUR AD SILVERSMITH CASINOS EG tiOtinn 4DaysSTO 4My ' JAW if French theater Also the influence of the Puritans who had closed the theaters during the Commonwealth and who took a dim view of some Shakespearean references was still very strong The idea of "improving" Shakespeare's language may have originated in the Restoration but it certainly didn't stop there In 1748 the actor David Garrick issued a revision of "Romeo and Juliet" In the preface he stated "The design was to clear the original as much as possible from the jingle and quibble which were always thought the great objections to reviving it" Garrick even saw fit to add some "jingle and quibble" of his own Convinced that the final scene in the tomb where the hero and heroine die was not sufficiently dramatic he has Romeo linger after poisoning himself so he cif' have a last conversation with Juliet when she wakes from her sleep They make their farewells Romeo dies and per Shakespeare Juliet kills herself with Romeo's knife Although the Rosenbach show focuses on the more egregious emendations made to several of Shakespeare's plays over the years Cahill noted that these edited versions are not all bad "A lot of these editions do a good job of trimming down Shakespeare to conform to contemporary tastes" she said "That's what directors and producers are doing today and there's nothing wrong with it "From my point of view what they are doing is preserving Shakespeare keeping him popular" surely would have blanched had he seen what Charles Johnson arid Christopher Bullitt wrought in their 1716 editions of The Taming of the g Pioneer Trail Stale Parh &leg- -ti 521-030- I 1 — -- oosIt1733'-- SNOS:11111C — 4 '''''"Ik 1 I a t 01 1)P A DAYIEVE ' 1 :A 1 ' Y - bI - 40 7 erAl ( 01 — '-'- 146 ' '' ' rl'it-- -- : OT II 174 - ' (3) N 0 :40it — 1 Iltr-- - - - 4::- - ' 1 i " g14! - '' 'i 4 T:itzi 0- 1444 '4 40 - --- 4 a a : -- - ii'vor Monday Feb 27th 8:00 14- 4 :' I Friday Nite thru Sunday Day! 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Shakespeare of course didn't give Miranda a sister Cahill said that theater troupes of the day wanted more roles for women and because Miranda is the only woman in "The Tempest" Dryden and Davenant created sister Dorinda What's more Cahill said "Dorinda is the main character in the play" after the magician Prospero Some evidence suggests that the editing of Shakespeare's plays began Most with Shakespeare himself scholars Cahill said believe the existing version of Macbeth" Shakespeare's shortest play is not the original but a shortened touring version that the Bard put togetheT "It is tightly written and beautifully constructed" Cahill said She added that a shorter version of "Hamlet" that dates from Shakespeare's time is probably his work as well Yet even though Shakespeare might have been somewhat understanding of the need to edit plays (he was after all an actor and theater-companshareholder himself) he I itet' IIBMJDJ6 1 Z''' directors often trim Shakespeare's The Bard's plays the exhibit demonstrates have been edited with impunity at least since the time when Tate sought to mitigate the death and at the end of -- King Lear" misery -It's only a kind of modern idea that tion and not the script It is difficult to distinguish between the characters Each seems incomplete only a part of a whole character We are not quite prepared for the fine final scene We don't see much of Julie White's Rebecca She spends most of her time in bed Debra Jo Rupp's Sy ivie Rebecca's crystal-rubbinfriend bolts around so quickly she is more of a blur than a character Sarah Flemings Lucy Rebecca's sister from the city is the most satisfying character but she's not a convincing r Delphi Harrington's is Alberta Rebecca's supposed to be a New York businesswoman but comes across as a New Jersey housewife With a more complete emotional infrastructure and a little less glib r r--) sL f "' the Rosenbach's assistant curawho mounted the show Even now Cahill acknowledged Shakespeare" - ICA kt ' 4 hill k '1' t -- r- gk' tor ' enthusiastic audiences and complimentary critics It played to Salt Lake audiences at Pioneer Memorial Theatre in 1987 Tickets for "Noises Off" are available now at the Pioneer Theatre Company box office 300 S University St The production is being offered separately from the current season Alfred E7 — tampering with Shakespeare's text is akin to sacrilege" said Eileen Ca- Newspapers PHILADELPHIA "King Lear'' is drawing to a close The elderly monarch his kingdom securely under the control of good daughter Cordelia is looking forward to a contented life in his final years He remarks to his loyal friend Gloucester: Well talk and tell old tales and laugh at gilded butterflies" Hold on a minute! What "King Lear" is this" Lear and Cordella alive? Don't bother running to the bookshelf for Shakespeare's collected works Lear and Cordelia as well as the evil daughters Goneril and Regan indeed die in what many regard as Shakespeare's most profound tragedy The "Lear" with the happy ending is a rewrite done by a certain Nahum Tate and published in 1681 65 years after Shakespeare's death Tate's revised text of "King Lear" is one of the items in Editing Shakespeare: The Taming of the Text" an exhibit that runs through May al at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia The exhibit drawn from the 200- odd books of Shakespeare's plays in the Rosenbach collection and illus trated with playbills and paintings from the Furness Memorial Shakespeare Library at the University of Pennsylvania gives new meaning to that smart-alecphrase often used to dismiss inferior work: "It ain't Knight-Ridde- r one-liner- '11h - tt Play by Neil Simon's daughter premieres By Tony Brown Sunday February 26 1989 llistorical rewrites of plays by Shakespeare ban current exhibit at Philadelphia exhibit 'Noises Off' returns to the stage Pioneer Theatre Company's box office record-breakinproduction of "Noises Off" will be presented on the Lees Main again June Stage at Pioneer Memorial The- van" he has said Nchoity owns this disease kIDS Fhe scary thing :ibout AIDS is that it happened at all mean this virus that been here since day one has suddenly decided II) mutate and become lethal We have a very viral future knd that's what I'm dealing with in Beirut') — the sense of the next one up If AIDS is the first heat in the viral sweepstakes then the next one might be transmissible by more than two fluids Its very scary for the future and nobody can tell me that I can't be scared and deal with my fears as an artist in this regard" The cast for "Beirut' includes Sue Ball Zeke Tot land and Kevin Has-seSince its production in 1987 at the San Francisco Playwrights Festival "Beirut" which carries an 'R" rating due to adult situations and language has been produced in New York and Los Angeles Chicago and South Africa before coming to Salt Lake City "Beirut" plays Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 pm Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p m and Sundays at 2 and 7 p m through March 19 at the SLAC theater 168 W 5th North Tickets for all performances are 811 for adults and $6 for students A special performance to benefit the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation will he March 7 at 7:30 pm Beirut is only a play but it is said Eddangerous risky theaterward Gryska artistic director of the Salt Lake Acting Company where Alan Bowne's play is scheduled to open Wednesday "Beirut" Is an adult love story set in the near future where a sexually transmitted disease is devouring the population of America Sex is made a capital crime with violators hung from lampposts in the streets New York is transformed into an eerie steamy metropolis divided into sectors and patrolled by ruthless policemen Surveillance cameras monitor everyone everywhere A young man named Torch has been quarantined after testing positive for the nameless disease His girlfriend Blue who has not been infected crosses into the quarantine sector to be with him — to convince him that living without love is worse than death This community is ready for Beirut' even though not everyone will 'Beiwant to see it" says Gryska rut makes you think and feel It is challenging riveting What more can you ask of live theater?" Although the play isni specifically about AIDS Alan Bowne a Los Angeles-born writer exposes the scraggly underbelly of life by writing about a similar devastating disease "I write plays about colorful people and I bounce them off a black 44 4 The Salt Lake Tribune 4r — Ztook111 1411e0L413e4: iladleA0144'01iALoost I t4 ZA41 4 4 $4 R444-401 |
