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'Dutchman9 is nostalgic, challenging Comment by LES WIIIPP Assoc. Professor of English An anfcwus, challenging, and nostalgic experience was seeing Jo Hill and Mike Randall , as Lena and Clay in LeRoi Jones's Dutchman. The play exhausted me. What must it be like to have a role in it? Both roles are collections diverse and conflicting roles, all at peak intensity, and Mike Randall and Jo Hill lived them very well. The diversity of charac terization and express! within each role emerged partly from the fullness t ia terpretatio this production makes of the play. Lea operated at several levels. She was first a pseudo-sophisticated Bang-up white chick, aod she was also a persoaifieatio of eoasompdve White America. She was also a persoaifieatio of a seif-destrnctive aad self rejecting tendency withia aa individual Black psyche in the context of a White America. Clay too, as performed by Mike Randall, was cot simply - a young ' Black man, confused, bemused, aad enraged; he was also a personification of Black America, as well as of the Black identity within the psyche of aa individual Black American. The chief problem in presen TOM'W NIGHT SAT., OCT. 10 at 8:00 P.M. PROFESSIONAL Tiacrr f;tK office OHM SfcXH 4 t ml. V try . . an. a v 1TUBFMT in woo PEP RALLY TONIGHT Starts at 4 pan. Sth of Ti Union DALLOOn DAY T0;:.03R017 BROTHERS GIVE THE SHIRT OFF THEIR BACK - OUR FRIEND, THE SHEEP, HAS GIYEN US ALL HIS WOOL. LAYNE'S m 1730 B St. 475-5S0S ting the play, I should guess, is to hold these interpretations together. Lena the Killer stalking Clay the Iamb fai the opening scene was very clearly an allegorical figure for Death, and for White America. Lena almost cracked, desperately consuming tranquillizers. She was simultaneously and most intensely a pathetic, crumbling, hung-up person aod a minutely appropriate representation of a sick, drug oriented, consumer society consuming itself. The success of the integration of the abstract aad human levels of interpretation was derived from the highly sym bolic costamiag and the simplicity of the staging itself. The audience became part of New Xerox at Union A Xerox copier for general student use has been installed in the north end of the base ment of the Nebraska Union, according to AS UN press secre tary Jonette Beaver. Cost will be 5 cents per copy rather than the 10c charged by other university copiers. The machine is equipped to copy standard Si by 11 inch paper and pages from books, she said. Wf o PRE-SEASON CLASH EXHIBITION GAME OMAHA KNIGHTS KANSAS CITY BLUES mr I "" iLTuUOITUIUir - J the cast. What is represented in the play is the experience of the audience (as Jones perceives it), whether that au dience is Black or White. That's why I found the produc tion of the play nostalgic. At the level of social abstractions, the play says that White America is destroying herself by preying on Black America. The play comes from a time when even LeRoi Jones Snowftakm EHE3 011317 DDCCl3S USo C "i "J ' ' ifjstWY i J i -r ' t la as independent test, some indepen dent mea shaved one side of their face with a platinum or chromium btade. They shaved the other, side with our Trtpleheader S3T shaver. When they finished shaving-, we had . them foe their faces. ? est of 13 &iM our Triptcheader shared them as close or closer than ither the platinum or chromium Made. Some of the men were surprised. But, frankly, w wereat, Because the Norclco Tripteheader Is a totally different kind of electric shaver. 1979 , PMIIm had that faith and belief and hope. Obviously, LeRoi Jones has had that faith and belief and hope stripped away now, and has come to feel that the time for' pointing out imminent danger is past, that the reality of the Black-White love-hate relationship in American society is a reality in which one . either kills or is killed. By staging the play, Jo Hill and Mike Randall give the Catch a sparkle trom the morning sun. Hotd th e magic cf a sudden breeze. Keep those moments alive. StrvUni Lincoln Since 190$ 11M "V STREET VSISTMEO JtWELiRS AMERICAN V JOOmf ww3 fJ"0 jDo It has three shaving head that float, to follow the curves of your face. Our blades are rotary. So they shav in every direction, (k -"cause your beard jrrwics in every direction.) And we make our shavinr heads ultra-thin. So it's possible to get a really close shave. And practically im possible to nick or cut yourself. The Tripleheader comes in a Cord and aKecaargealla model. , i Either way, yoa cant lose. woi anf1 a4 CarpwatiMt 190 Cast ta4 StrMt. Na University community in Lin coln another chance to hear the warning, a chance chiefly for Whites to hear, understand, and respond to what it is like to be a Black American in a White America. That was hopeful of them. They also gave- our community a chance to see good acting in deman ding roles in a complex and challenging play. And that was beautiful of them. 0 - CG - GOo YmT.N. V. tQ0i. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1970 THE NEBRASKA PAGE 5