Modern 'Mandrake'unveiled
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10 ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT Editor Kotl«RU«y Thursday. Nov»mb*r 20. ISM The Lumbwjqck Dual review ___ - Modern ‘Mandrake’unveiled By Sieve Boyd likable Nida a highlight. By Mike Migootighin puns and slapstick, rather than on the A grubby scavenger lurks around Some of the actors did have a few It isn’t very often that a comedy author's moralizing on the the square, pouncing on any disgard- problems, though. Sandv McFadden survives 400 years and translation weaknesses of the human race. ed morsels of food he may find laying as Nida’s wife Lucrezia had trouble from its original language and still re The set design feature* naked about, and with little or no inspec dedding whether to appear shocked tains its relevance and humor for frames representing Florentiha tion, he shoves them into his gullet. and/or confused at the outrageous modern audiences. houses and a church of the early 16th Who is this scum? As it turns out, this scheme, and her reaction to Father "The Mandrake" is an Italian century, while the uncomplicated leech is the coniving Ligurio, who sets Timoteo’s attempts to convince her farce which centers on the deceptions, lighting scheme avoids distracting the •up the schemes around which "The less than convinced the audience. In corruptions and seductions, with a audience from attending to the play’s Mandrake" by Niccolo Machiavelli fact, the whole interaction with she capital "S’’ on the latter. It contains sometimes chaotic plot. congeals. and her mother, Sostata, played by such elements as plotting lovers, a Although the Monday night Allen O'Reilly is laudable in his Arm Price, and Timoteo, played by drunken servant, a magical fertility preview of the short two-act play en portrayal of the parasite Ligurio. Andy Krejd was poorly blocked and drug, a corrupt priest, a dirty old lady countered some of the jitters of open O'Reilly’s quick wit and slovenly many times they went inland out, and plenty of disguises. Not to men ing night, the nine actors conveyed manner combined with a convindns back and forth so much that it was tion a mix-up between a urine sample thdr characters well enough to carry feel for taking advantage of any hard to understand the actcvs* inter atnfa bottle of booze,confusion bet the audience through the play’s slow situation, no matter how desparate, pretations of thdr characters. Price, ween a bum and a nobleman, and beginning to the more exciting second provides a stable nucleus around Krejci and McFadden eventually set bawdy slapstick ranging somewhere act. Particularly appealing were Allen which the play centers. tle in their roles, however, and few between Laurel and Hardy and O'Reillyas Ligurio and Mike Traylor As soon as Ligurio's opening problems arose toward the end. Keystone Cops. as Siro. the sometimes drunken ser salutations begin, we realize the pac Allen Christiansen as the overly in In short, the play is not only rele vant of Callimaco, who was played ing will be fast and farcical, and we fatuated Callimaco and Mike Traylor vant to modern audiences, it’s also •by Allen Cristainsen. wonder if O’Reilly’s high energy can as his alcoholic servant Siro had ex funny. In addition to its one-week showing be matched and maintained by the cellent rapport with each other and What Davis has done is translate in the Creative Arts Theater, "The rest of the cast. With the exception of the audience, with Traylor’s spacey the original Italian of Machiavelli in Mandrake" will be the speech com a few muddled scenes, it is. attitude providing nice comic touches to an easily understood, almost ver munication department’s entry in the Briefly, the play’s story involves whenever he was on stage. nacular tongue. In his direction of the regional competition of the American the desire of a young man, Technically, the costumes by play he has centered on confusion, College Theater Festival this year. Callimaco, to acquire the favors of Kathryn Larsen and makeup by the lawyer Messer Nicia's wife Richard Klautsch were nice, and Lucrezia. So much is the young man especially superb on Messer Nicia and in love with Lucrezia, that he would Lucrezia. However, the set looked gladly pay handsomely for her. Enter shakey and awkward for the actors, Ligurio and the hijinks ensue. and the lights unsure. Overall, OAK CREEK TAVERN, Director Peter Davis' up-to-date however, "The Mandrake” was a inc. translation of this ribald comedy, success. Director Peter Davis took a Pow Wow! though lacking subtlety at times, lot of chances and had to deal with transforms the otherwise mediocre what could have been major pro Telephone (602) 282-7921 Dsvld Klein, a young Cheyenne and Kiowa Indian of Tuba City, per text Into a highly workable vehicle for blems in his directoral debut at NAU, Post Office Box 936, Sedona. Arizona 86336 forms the grand entry dance at the Native American Cultural Days Pow comic improvisation and character and he handled them with con Wow last weekend. The two-day event was sponsored by the Native interpretation, notably Bert Emmett siderable finesse. It is hoped his Americans for Community Action as an NACA emergency sevices fund as the cuckold Messer Nicia. Em energy and insight will continue White Noise playing raiser. (Photo by Therese Langlois.) mett’s bragadoccio and wide-eyed through manv seasons. gullibility makes the ignorant but Sunday 6-10 p.m. Drink Night - 85* STRESS ZZ Top ticket sales set record; Thursday 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. - Ladies Night By Marty Valentino \BRING THIS AD FOR FREE ADMISSION Learning to deal with stress will Rick Derringer to open concert be the focus of a two-day seminar professional security and the student album, "Deguello.” presented by the Division of Conti By Debt Holbert nuing Education in Nursing and work source could perhaps be arrang Tickets to the Dec. 5 ZZ Top con Only reserved seats are bdng sold. Allied Health. ed, she added. cert showed the largest first-day ticket Tickets are $7.50 and S8.50. They can 7-10p.m. Friday and In 1971, ZZ Top's “ First Album" be purchased at Bledsoe's Men's sales ever in the J. Lawrence Walkup went gold, as did “ Rio Grande Mud" 9a.m.-4p.m. Saturday John Skydome. Shop, Circles Records, Darrell's McBridc and Kathy Cindt will con in 1972. The group then provided Men’s Wear, The Pharmacy in Karen Schrameck, dome manager, three consecutive million-selling duct “The Power of the Mind in Il said this included the first Phoenix Sedona, and at the Skydome Ticket Rock lness and Health." albums, "Tres Hombres,” Suns game played in the dome and Office from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mon The seminar will take place at “ Fandango” and "Tejas." The trio the Styx concert, the dome’s only seli- day through Friday. and • the South Union and there is1 a of musicians then dropped from sight The ZZ Top concert is the first at registration fee of S10 for full-time for more than three years. “ I would love to see another sell NAU for the 1980-81 school year. students. In September 1978, Warner out," Schrameck said. However, Registration forms can be ob Brothers Records signed the band to a I he Associated Students of NAU and ticket sales are now down in com tained by calling NAU’s nursing long-termlone-term recording contract and iin Evenm« Star Prod',c,lons of Temf* parison to the amount of tickets sold are sponsoring the concert. department at 2671 or 4289. There 1979, ZZ Top released its sixth during the second week of the Styx Roll will t f e be limited registration at concert ticket sales. Schrameck said the door. - ' ? ' ' Monday that only half as many Monday ■ "The seminar will teach people tickets had been sold at that time. about their mind and how to use it Movie Briefs' Just under 3,000 Jickets had been 8 p.m.- Midnight to one’s benefit to stay well,” said By Steve Nash Robert Redford plays a champion sold by Monday afternoon; more Anne Season, instructor of nurs All movies play at 7 and 9:30 p.m. cowboy who becomes a dupe for an than 2,000 tickets sold in Flagstaff ing. jr in the North Union and cost SI unless oil company. He redeems himself by Friday and Saturday and another 700 tickets sold in “This control over one's life otherwise noted. stealing a thoroughbred horse that is Phoenix, Schrameck said. Of the may be beneficial to students fac The Sorcerer (1975). Plays Friday: slowly bdng killed by the oil com- 8 p.m. -1 a.m. original 796 tickets in Phoenix, there ing stress-related problems. It is a with this film’s huge loss, director pany’s ad campaign. It’s corny but were less than 100 tickets remaining positive alternative to alchohol and William Frddkin ("French Connec- just real enough to have one asking, Friday so an additional 800 tickets Public Radio for Northern Arizona drug abusei'said Marian Sweeney, tion," “Cruising”) lost his reputa- "Why am I not doing the same were taken there to go on sale Satur coordinator for Continuing tion as a whiz kid. This reputation thing?” Sponsored by the Knights of day. Education in Nursing and Allied loss was unjustified as "Sorcerer," Columbus. Rated PG. There are more than 8,200 seats Health . the story of four men with nothing to A science-fiction film festival will available at this concert.