{ThcBlue Banner} Arts. Etc. Page 8 Review NC Stage’s fresh look at Macbeth Radiohead tion is placed on the spoken word By Garret Kilgore ple over 21. For $22 there is free We get complements from the STAf^ Wuftf beer, wine and a dinner buffet audience thanking us for making releases catered by .Scully’s and the it so easy to relate to and under­ Asheville Independent Restaurant Macbeth, Shakespeare’s morbid stand, when in fact we have not and psychologically tantalizing Association before the play.” changed a thing.” new album play, is ready for its debut on Oct. The NCSC is a small theater Actor-audience intimacy is key 17 at the North Carolina Stage with only 99 seats. The small for Leslie, who says the audience Company theater, arrangement of five rows allows will feel like a fly on a wall, peer­ for free "Macbeth is being performed in the audience to be no further than ing into a conversation. a very sparse way,” said Charlie 15 feet away from the actors, “Feople who do not usually go Flynn-.McIver, founder of the according to Amanda Leslie, man­ to theatres will understand and NCSC and actor playing the lead aging director at NCSC. role of Macbeth. “There are usual­ “The cost of the production will find relevance to their lives from a ly 24 names in the play, and we probably top out at $35,000, and play that is over 400 years old,” are doing it with only 10 actors, we plan on taking in $20,000 to Bashford said. “It’s a mature play eight of which will be playing $25,000,” Flynn-Mciver said. and is a very cinematic play, it has dual roles.” “This is not unusual for a non­ a lot of short scenes that follow People who do not know about profit organization which the one light after the other, and the Shakespeare or the North North Carolina Stage Company way we are staging it with the Carolina Stage Company are the is.” lighting and stuff is quite cinemat­ ones who need to see the play, This rendition will focus on the ic.” according to Ron Bashford, 41, more visual and graphic aspects The creative sound production Aaron I )ahlstrom an eleven-year professional direc­ of Macbeth. and lighting effects significantly \c\\ s, Vssistant tor from New York. "We are focusing at keeping it augment the cinematic feel of the I'aiiror “If all goes well, this production quite scary, because we are near­ new Macbeth, according to of Macbeth will be extremely dis­ ing Halloween,” Bashford said. Bashford. How Radiohead turbing, with a lot of blood and “We have a real live broad sword “We use a lot of the creative strong human emotions,” Flynn- fight, and when the dual character lighting with LED flashlights, and IS reinventing the Mclver said. “This production actors are not on stage they make interesting sound effects,” industry and themselves will center around the psycholog­ a live environmental surround Bashford said. “The play overall ical elements of committing mur­ sound with objects they brought with intermission is probably just with '‘In Rainbows^’ der, mainly creating a feeling of from home and their voices. “ a little over two hours.” getting into a screwed up man’s Besides playing dual roles, the For more information about l ew bands set the bar as high for mind and watching him spiral out cast will also produce special tickets, pricings, and any addi­ themselves as Radiohead. I'or over of control.” effects, thunder, lightening, some­ tional info on the North Carolina a decade, the band has constantly The play runs Oct. 17 to Nov. 4, one (lying through the air and Stage Company, visit their Web reinvented them.selves while main­ with seven different special soundscapes throughout the site, www.ncstage.org, or call taining a distinctly "Radiohead” events throughout the dates. show, according to Bashford. 350-9090. sound. Opening night is "Pay-what-you- “They play spirits and polter­ “Seeing a play is good for you, on I'or their seventh studio release. can” night, which is a minimum geists, and make sounds of wind, and is much more valuable than he "In Rainbows," the band largely of $6, and the following Thursday alarm bells, and drones,” COURTES OF NCSC sitting at home and watching a sit­ ce retreads sonic territory they is “Happy-hour-and-a-half Bashford said. “It’s pretty amaz­ Charlie Flynn-McIver stars as the doomed Thane while Jenn Miller com on TV,” said Flynn-Mciver, ye explored in "Kid A” and “Thursday, Oct. 18, from 6 to 7:30 ing that a few people do so much Crihbs makes her Asheville dehut as Lady Macheth. W( "Amnesiac." but with a more p.m., according to NC.SC. while moving in and out of their hu organic approach. “It is encouraged to get reserva­ two roles.” minutes before the curtain opens, “Our approach to Shakespeare Macheth runs Oct. 17 - Nov. 4 an What truly sets "In Rainbows” tions for pay-what-you-can night, NCSC prices vary for each day and the student subscription is fresh and unique in that we The NCSC is located in down apart from other Radiohead due to the fact that it sells out and event, but student discounts allows a student to see this sea­ actually pay attention to the text, town Asheville between Walnut th; albums and all other albums, for quickly,” Bashford said. ‘“Happy- arc available. The $10 student son’s four plays for $36, accord­ which is not done a lot,” Flynn- and Haywood Street on ye that matter is its marketing plan. Hour-and-a-Half,’ is for the peo­ rush enables students to pay 10 ing to Leslie. Mciver said. “A lot of the atten- 15 Stage Ln. fo Released digitally on Oct. 10 via “5 the band's Web site, fans can loi download the aihum for ,$9.90 -- Cl or $8.27. ,$.$.4.5 or one cent. The ab price is completely up to the buyer. Review an This strategy finally embraces the th( technology the music industry has thi heen fighting since the early de Napster days. Finback has suprisingly nerdy op Tike always, Radiohead leads the pack in the innovation of the fo music itidustry. performance at The Orange feel On a While their last album, “Hail to th( the Thief,” was a paranoid, fright­ It was too weird to be true. Wi ening listen, "In Rainbows” is far cut, swimming trunks, goatee and Finback and me chris on the same Fentagram tee (Sabbath 4ever!), E. more optimistic. Although far from In ticket? Was this some sort of seemed like he would have been upbeat, nothing on “In Rainbows” mi bizarre joke? more at home in some basement is quite as chilling as Mail’s “We St( Suck Young Blood.” Finback gives off an air of DMing a Dungeons & Dragons humorlessness that does not seem tournament than headlining at the pi' The opener, "15 Steps,” sets the ThuriOct.^lS*** @ 8pm M a natural fit with me chris. me Orange Feel. Considering Finback tone tor much ot the album with its tn last beats, clean guitars and shim­ Chris is, after all, probably most takes their name as a band from iiiputflinni'irriii CO mering keyboards. famous for lending his voice to Dan O’Bannon’s character in John SM The band lapses momentarily characters on Cartoon Network’s Carpenter’s sci-fi comedy, “Dark GiUSiTERl “Adult Swim”. He even per­ into their old guitar-rcK'k days in age? Star,” it really is not that much of a Pr "Hodysnachers,” the hardest rcKk- formed the MC Feepants #1 club Kevin I loian stretch to imagine. nc ing song on the album, but imme­ 16+ banger, “I Want Candy.” The boys of Finback were Blue Echo D.I an diately follow with the minimalist He is about 5 feet tall with a accompanied by a mysterious, ballad, "Nude,” and do not look helium-damaged voice and raps unnamed touring drummer and •an back. about video games and tripping on keyboardist as well as a third gui­ Je While no songs sound exactly DXM. Finback is a well-oiled tarist who spent most of the set M alike, some feel like updated ver­ machine of intricate melodies and intermittently standing around ki sions of previous Radiohead vocal harmonies. They have never doing nothing and messing around smiled in their lives. Who put Tl tracks. "All 1 Need” borrows "A silently with his gear. They them together on one bill? ^ ' ViNSF., Punchup at a Weddings” jazzy offered up a solid performance feel, while "Jigsaws Falling Into me chris opened the show, on with a mix of songs from their Place" conjures memories of stage by himself with just his lap­ most recent album, “Autumn of "Idioteque." Sat.Oet20»<@9pm top and microphone. Before the Seraphs,” and their earlier jumping up and down chanting The delicate "Faust Arp" finds work. “Summer in Abaddon” was Thom Yorke mourning over a lo.st “White kids love hip-hop” and especially well represented with delivering lines about Weezer and relationship. "I love you but “Fortress” and “Non-Fhoto Blue, drinking box wine, me chris said enough is enough,” he sings in immediately eliciting huge what is probably the mo.st personal that he, too, was surprised at first responses from the crowd, and song on the album. +THr PoNYS to find out that Finback wanted him to open for them on their tour “AFK” as the set closer.