Provide-

Morality play staged successfully

slccessfully

By GORDON BRADEN

BRADEN- like to believe

believe- Everyman had none at the-

the

Stat

Thre her Fine Art Staff

Thresher Sta-

Arts Staf- As for this particular pro pro- ¬

bottom the two Wits out of of-

fMorality to get the inevitable

Morality

tMorality inevitable- duction the best thing about about- five who read their lines with

with-

quip over

5uip

cjuip

<5uip with first made its its-

it by far was Michele Stojans

Stojans- all the somnolent woodenness

woodenness-

annual visit to Brown this week- week

week- costumes which were a remark- ¬

co tumes remark of a sarcophagus in the British-

British

Brit sh

sh-

anonymous

in the vehicle of the anonymous-

nOnymou3

nOnymou3- ably unobstrusive mixture of of- Museum

Museum-

15th century allegory Every

Every-

Ever- elegance and allegory They

They-

The- In between Dennis ontaine

Fontaine

Fontaine-

ontaine-

ymanand met with varying de ¬

manand

man and de-

were

ywere

w e r e suggestively medieva-

medieva1

medieval as Everyman projected with a vith a- a-

grees of success-

success lratherr than accurately so

rather

rath

1rath so- sonorous resonance truly mar ¬ mar-

v

Th Latin liturgy that Dr-

The

Th Dr much as I knew but never- never tliough such

velous to listen to though such-

Mackey picked to accompany-accompany clearly

knew before quite so clearly- histrionic subtleties as Weeping-

Weeping

this production corpus of-

a corpus of a personification should look

look- for Joy appeared be eyond

appearedto to beyond

eyond-

beyond-

hymns which has survived the the- and provided nice epitomes of of-

him Joe English who had as as-

seculariza process as pow- ¬

seculariza tion

secularization pow characters

the characters- God what I think is poetically

poetically-

erful poetry in its own right right- Everymans brilliant red and and-

the best role in the play over- over

pr vides an intesting aproach-

provides lntesting aproach right

gold doublet was exactly right-

d ublet articulated his speech with the the-

to

to the problems of producingproducing- sackcloththat-

sackcloththat

as was the brown sackcloth that- that impres

resultant unfortunate impresi

impresi-

impres-

morality play-

m ality play eventually covered it and II-- I Sion that the Deity suffered-

sion suffered

Experience-

Christian Experience thorough ap-

think it was thoroughlyy ap ¬ from hyperventilation

hyperventilation-

What Drs Velz and Mackey- Mackey propriate that Good Deeds Deeds- A final note about the ex- ¬ ex

ex-

with the help of Brown Col

th Cot

Cot-

Col- should look like a Quaker-

Quaker traneous noise level which was- was

lege assembled was rather dis- ¬ dis schoolmarm

schoolmarm-

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unpleasantly high A lot of this- this

jointed sometimes clumsy

clumsy- The music was another strong-

strong came from the wooden sets- sets

froIIl most

often dull but free from most- point Latin liturgy sung to to-

which creaked frighteningly

frighteningly-

of the more insidious varitiesvarities- electric guitars is the sort or of

or-

of-

when trod upon And at one one

one-

one-

of pretension and not without withou-

without- thing one has come to expect expect- point when ten allegorical fig- ¬

point fig

fig-

i at timesass in the a capella-

ti times a he capella from Dr Mackey and mst of m st of-

most ures clomped across the stage stage-

KyJ e used as a processional-

Kyrie a processional his ideas here were good or or-

to swear on Everymans cross- cross

or Everymans monody in the

EveryI lans Ii the- better than good

good-

the resultant din almost- almostd-tt

almostd-

Im 0 s

wake of the Libera Me Domine-

f Domine Strong Sound

Sound- drovned

drowned

rowned out the clatter of- of

a certain suggestiveness of- of Unfortunately the electronic

electronic- dishes jn Sammys kitchen next-

in ext

next

ext-

the

th depth of Christian experi- expe-

experi equipment provedd stronger than-

prov than door

ence

en e

rien

ence--

e th ch rus hammerlike

the chorus the hammerlike-

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And even this suggestivenes

suggestivenes- crossrhythm on the bass gui gui-¬





< in an age in which most of us-

3ge us tar all but oblit rated the Dies

obliterated Di-

Dies-

v eY organizedd relig on from

view organi religion from-

from Iraed

esIraed the strong downbeats-

Irae andnd downbeats

th point of view of outsiders

the outsider-

outsiders- firt part

during the first p rt of the- the

is of value I think even if we-

si

i yalue th nk ifwe

if we

ifwe- Gloria set a scale far too ma

to ma-

are not persuaded to believe- believe awesome

jestic and awesome for the- the

ve may still know what it feels

we

weve kno helvemember chorus to reach-

twelvemember reach

But when the balance was as

was-

as-

A gnus De

better as in the Agnus Dei- Dei

De-

De-



scti

section of the Gloria Wi i the-

iscti n with th-th

the

guitar discreetly in the back back-

soundng remark

ground and sounding remark- reni rk-

rk

ably like a minstrels lute or or-

mandolin the effect was pre ¬as pre-

cisely on target

target-

gamut

The actors ran the gamu

gamut-

gamu-

fro tality t

from vitality to rigor mortis

V morHs

morHs-

mortis-

At the top would go Susan Met-

Met

and

calf and Kathleen Davis as as-





Provide-

d o us H andvKindred

Cousin andv Kindred whp pro-

vided an excelleit bit of comic

relief I had been told that

re ef

< ndlin tre whocomic-

and

excellent

excelle

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