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II,.." AprIl 7, 1178 Pe~13 ..... 12 frlcbly, .April 7, 1971 triton times Arts/E,tertalnment Arts/Entertainment by Ted Burke Rock's D\onysus, Apollo thrill crowds Don Juan's Reckless Dau"hter - Joni Mitchell (Asylum) "Lion in Winter" misplayed as tragedy Listeners have taken joy in Joni Mitchell's continual insistence prlsoned Eleanor of Aquitaine nas allowed comic moments to Theatre is, needless to say, an PHOTO by Thor DecL'o, hopeless love of heroin to revolutionaries and the by Jill Louise Bazeley exuberant expression of " the on changing her musical approach, so it wasn't unusual that the Arts Wriler (or sixteen years - the Henry be thrown away all over the Slalf Writer disgust with "stupid faggot Nietzschean superman, to release of Hissing of Summer Lawns was hailed, for-the most part, and Eleanor of this play are the place, and piercingly funny show must go on" on the part of SUPPIJIES Last week provided quite a junkies", profound hate of name a few. Both poets have The Old Globe Theatre's both the Globe and the Sprec- a bold step towards personal and artistic growth. But while current production of "The wittiest, nastiest snipers that · lines are moaned or bellowed so thri 11 for rock and roll urban life to sentimental found in rock and roll 'a vehicle Hissing, and her subsequent and less successfulHejira, did indeed ever aimed a tongue at each low they just sink into the lower kels producers, but for me, and aficianados in Southern affection for its electricity. by which to capture the Lion in Winter" suffered two show Mitchell expanding herself to more adventurous motifs - major . setbacks while it was other. regions of mediocrity. One I'm sure for many other Old California, with shows by both Reed has proved the master of imaginations of a generation. broader song structures, an increasingly impressionistic lyric But unfortunately, the important exception is Sean Globe regulars, It was a bit of a Lou Reed and David Bowie, the such contradictions, a poet who They were and are, in the words being mounted: first of all, as scan, jazz textures - the trend toward a more personalized voice everyone probably knows, the caustic spirit that is cultivated Sullivan'S amusing monkey- culture shock to be in a str.ange Dionysus and Apollo of the rock depicts the helpless rage of the of William Wordsworth, .. ready has virtually walled her off from the majority of her fans. Don theatre, and to see a show at a tribe. It was particularly street, the transitory ecstasies to follow the steps of the man of theatre meant to house the I Ju~n'. Reckless, her now double record erfort, takes the ground show burnt down in a tragic distance that might otherwise ,I interesting for me to observe of drugs and their effects on a science ... carrying sensation \ galDed from the last two albums and converts it into a reenactment of the Aerospace have been seen much closer up. the similarities and differences hopeless romantic against the into the midst of the objects of meandering, amorphous culmination of half-formed concepts. The Old Globe Theatre-that­ in their 'stage shows. background of psychic de­ science itself." Museum fiasco; and secondly, The primary emphasis, musically, is towards jazz modernism, the leading lady, guest equity was was designed without Lou Reed has, throu~hout his rangement induced by techno­ Having never seen Lou Reed with a number of songs exceeding ten minutes in length as they , regard to fire and handicap career thus far, been a most logy, primarily television - before, I was extremely unsure artist Virigina Baker, injured ramble over Mitchell's vaguely comprehensible piano chords. She herself four days before regulations and consequently a DARKROOM enigmatic rock performer, witness Satellite of Love. of what to expect; would he be reveals a tendency to hit a strident chord and to let the notes lot of people could be crammed hiding his thoughts behind a Bowie, .on the other hand, is whacked out on smack, too opening night and had to be SUPPLIES resonate and fade as she vocally ruminates over the lyrics - while replaced. Ironically (and I do into a very small space. It was barrage of street rhetoric when alternately visionary, prophet loaded to care what he was her side hen, Jaco Pastorious and Wayne Shorter from Weather intimate to say the least. The interviewed, generally reveal­ of doom and, most importantly, saying (and in that sense not mean to disparage Ms . Report, and guitarist John Guerin, do their best to add definition. Baker) the second mishap Spreckels, on the other hand, DISCOUNT ing nothing of "the man behind the archetypal Rock Star. His capturing the spirit of the The lyrics, following. suit, are an impressionistic hodgepodge, a though no t an enormous the music"; and what a poetic talent lies largely in crowd) , or would he be an aging works to the advantage of this PRICES string of images, indecipherable references, and gutless "The Lion in Winter", for Helen theater, ha s a feeling of disparity of songs he nas brilliant use of solecistic rock star, maundering over his epiphanies that should have been edited with a blue pencil. expansiveness. For me, it was UC:SOBudpt written. His themes run the images to depict such things as lost youth? When Lou and his Marquardt, the Eleanoroffour days rehearsal. proves to be more like desolation - there Numbers Actepted gamut from homosexuality to adolescence, parties, the band took the stage at the Roxy was no one breathing down my macho survival anthems, perfect Sensuous Woman , last Monday, I found him to be one of the best features of the show . I was especially im­ neck but the air conditioners. neither a jaded, bestudded rock And the Globe actors strain to and roll animal nor a dandy, Album Reviews pressed by Ms. Marquardt's UC San Dielil University Event regal posturing - cheating out have Spreckels voices - the prissy Coney Island baby but While the more hard nosed bigness of vocal production not Lou Reed, a person much like defenders may defend lat· towards the audience as if it were one of Eleanor's looking­ being at all unusual in a large you and me, who has dropped est with the excuse hat a poet house, but an anomaly in the most of his pretension in order may express his or her self in glasses, or perhaps, the eyes of the world ... always conscious misplaced mind of a Globeite, to communicate with his anyway they see fit, one still and a difficulty for Globe­ audience. It was in this aspect has to question the worth of any of her Eleanor as being herself a n actress unabashedly accustomed actors who are of the Reed and Bow'ie shows effort to dissect Reckless suddenly faced with more that I found their greatest Daughter the way one used to concerned with her image and her next one-liner, Along with space to fill up than they. have similarities. Though he sti 11 mull over Dylan albums. voices with which to do so. This dresses outrageously, Bowie Though any number of matters Martin Gerrish, who plays Henry II (the lion in winter) , process of shouting to the back has quit dressing as s symbol, that Mitchell choses to deal « wall, which is actually much Ziggy Stardust or whatever, in with may have value to her Ms . Marquardt exhibits a ..J perceptive understanding of in the interplay of King Henry like depiction of Prince John ­ further back than the last row favor of a more accessible audience - spiritual lassitude, but on the whole, the supporting of the audience, probably The most David Bowie. the responsibilities of freedom, the comedy of "The Lion in and Queen Eleanor is not Winter" that most of-the other carried on in the whiny cast drags its feet when -it accounts for some of the loss of Presentationally the shows sexuality into middle ages - s\lould be tripping lightly, even sprightliness in the dialogue, were quite different: Reed she doesn't s upply anything actors, intent on developing the portrayals of the other effective' supposed tragic undertones characters, and this misunder­ though its path is through the but the rest of the loss, and it is played guitar and was in resembling hooks , catch indeed a loss, comes from phrases or accessible points,of ' a nd deep psychologi c;al standing of the play does much mire of the ghastly political tampon constant communication with situation of the 1180s, trying to turn a quipping his band rpembers cueing reference for them to latch implications of the play, miss. to make the Globe's "The Lion Though the historical facts are in Winter" a sniveling sob of a The removal of the Globe comedy into a monumental, breaks and song beginnings onto. Instead, she gives them operations to the Spreckels woe-is-me tragedy. is the most and endings, while Bowie art, whether they like it or not. indeed sad - Henry II im- production: director Ken Ruta BEAUX ARTS TRIO preferred to let his tremen­ The paradox in Mitchell's Hayden: Trio in A Major, (H. XV, No. 18) dously competent band hold up stance is that she has thrown economical, Ravel: Trio in A minor the musical end; as he has on craft well outside the window Mexican artist's ~'tortued visions'" here previous occasions. They both while trying to measure up to An exhibition of paintings by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, whose life . She I~ ve d fiestas, excursions and political demonstrations .

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