The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1969 Page: 4 of 8
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until noon Thursday, April 3.
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Amphitryon 38tabletop triumph
By GORDON BRADEN
The routines were already old
when Plautus "wrote "Amphi-
tryon 1" some twenty-five hun-
dred years ago. By the time
Jean Giraudoux wrote number
38, the story had become as
seasoned and polished as a
brook pebble, a definitive para-
digm of the meeting of divinity
and mortality and the middle
class vision of contentment that
contains both.
And the Wiess Tabletop
Players, under the direction of
Alan Roberts, have turned
Giraudoux' play into the best self with excellent voice and
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comedy production I have seen
at Rice or anywhere else for
quite some time.
There is little point in telling
the plot and no point in re-
vealing the jokes (they are
many and beautiful and not to
be spoiled in advance); enough
to say that it involves Jupiter's
infatuation with a mortal wom-
an whom he discovers to be
the vehicle of an uncomfortably
powerful force of Cosmic Con-
nubiality. His epic grandeur re-
fuses to mix with her house-
wife ' s satisfaction until a
strangely touching scene in
which each gently, and without
capitulation, touches the other's
mode of existence.
The play is too enjoyable to
make any claims outside its
own borders; it is, like that final
encounter, a marvelous small
balance of tact.
Lightness
I would not have thought such
a play could be done at Rice at
all, much less as well as Rob-
erts and his group have done
it, but they have honestly
brought it off. Four of the ma-
jor parts are pegged with real-
ly superb performances, and
none of the rest fall below a
comfortable level of effective-
ness. One or two of the scenes
. bog, but on the whole things are
carried with an amazing light-
ness unlike anything I can re-
member seeing Rice people
manage: the best comic effects
around here usually seem to
come, as in last season's "Hello,
Hamlet," from calculated ex-
cess. I am told the group more
or less improvised its own Eng-
lish version: it shows, for the
lines (for once!) come out beau-
tifully free for translationese.
Phallic ceduceus
Roberts plays Jupiter him-
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authority and above all a sense
of the ridiculous close enough
to the surface to be seen but
far enough recessed not to get
in his way. Stewart Baker
(footnote: we would like to see
more faculty participating in
things like this) does Mercury
with a boyish feyness just this
side of overmuch, and the effect
is marvelous; he even manages
to look casual in an absolutely
lidiculous costume, and his by-
play twirling his phallic cadu-
ceus makes for some interesting
punctuation of the action.
A v e r i 1 Strauss' lascivously
dignified Leda is beyond de-
scription, and I would rather
not try, beyond indicating that
she does something remarkable
with "zenith," "syntax," and a
few other previously innocent
words.
Quintessence
But the weight of things"
usually falls on Sharon Parten
as Alkmena, and she repeated-
ly does almost everything right:
at the play!s exact center she
becomes the quintessential mid-
dle-class housewife, without
blandness or sarcasm. The rest
almost look opportunistic be-
side her, for she pulls it off
without tricks but with a rather
competent job of real, honest-
to-goodness acting.
The other roles are not quite
so comfortably assumed as
these four, except perhaps for
Connie McCorkle and Maria de
Lourdes Cisneros as a pair of
surreal maidservants, and the
tangential climax of Bill Blan-
ton's war oration. But nothing
really sours, and the produc-
tion stands as a refreshingly
delicate miracle among Rice
student theater; I hope there
are more where this came from.
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Bahler, Dennis. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1969, newspaper, March 27, 1969; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245054/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.