Friday, February 26, 1982
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Daily Nebraskan
'Rainmaker' shows power of belief in dreams
By Chuck Jagoita
The Rainmaker is a play of dreamers,
for dreamers. You have to be willing to
make the jump beyond logic to a belief in a
better you rather than the lowest common
opinion of you.
That's what Lizzie finally decides to do
and it works. She's no longer plain because
she's allowed herself to see herself the way
Starbuck and her father do - as pretty.
Starbuck's faith in his visions even brings
on the rains so badly needed by the
drought-stricken farm folk.
The play is admirably constructed and
the dialogue is clean and witty. It was a
success on Broadway in 1954 and has been
successful many times since; the movie ver
sion with Burt Lancaster and Katherine
Hepburn is still played on television. The
truth that dreams can have is one of those
themes that is made for theatrical pre
sentation. The style of the Guthrie Theater's cur
rent production at Kimball Recital Hall re
minded me of something out of The Fan
tasticks by way of Oklahoma! The actors
were often balletic in their moves and
watching the show, I had no trouble believ
ing that it had been adapted into the musi
cal 110 in the Shade. The actors looked
like they had strict directional tasks to
fulfill which overrode any tendencies to
live their parts. They did fulfill their parts
well enough, but one particularly stood
out.
Jonathan Fuller, as the young Jim
Curry, was infectiously alive. He filled his
scenes with the enthusiasm of a kid ex
periencing everything for the first time, lie
let me believe he was enjoying himself. He
was also quite funny. In the scenes of con
. jlicts of values, the energy and clear block
ing worked well. In the scenes of two peo
ple learning about each other, I missed the
emotion. The composition showed thought
and kept up interest. When Noah and H.C.
(his father) argued pigheadedly with each
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other, they mirrored each other's actions
on opposite sides of the kitchen table.
The first act exposition was effective
and complete. The sweat stains on the
clothes and the smell of the eggs cooking
on stage added to its realism.
Thc set was quite impressive.lt suggest
ed thc vastness of the land and the text
ures of a ranch. It was especially impressive
in view of the fact that the set has to
travel. The use of a combination stove and
coat rack that became a desk and coat rack
in alternate scenes was quite clever.
All in all Gutherie's production of The
Rainmaker is an enjoyable evening in the
theater. I would recommend it.
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