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Daily Nebraskan
Monday, October 1, 1G04
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reality
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By r.!cna Z. Koppelznan
C&ily Netraskia EtxTICi'tor
Hundreds of playwrights for
hundreds of years must have
fantasized about breathing life
into lifeless characters creat
ing human form from paper as
Adam was supposed to have
been created from clay.
Luigi Pirandello fulfilled this
fantasy in his pLay Six Charac
ters in Search of an Author,
performed by the American
Repertory Theatre Sunday night
and tonight at Kimball HalL
Six Characters is two plays per
formed at the same time. First,
it is the story of six characters
who were created by an author
who never finished their play.
They wander about, seeking a
new author who will complete
their story.
These characters show up on
the stage at Kimball, as the rep
ertory cast "rehearses" for Sgna
relle (which actually will be per
formed by the company
Tuesday at 8 p.m.)
The characters convince
members of the company to
watch their story. The second
play in Six Characters, then, is
the "play in the making" the
characters' unfinished play.
Both plays center on the sub
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jectivity of reality. First, reality
for the company actors, whom
the audience naturally identifies
with. We learn their name3
(Jack, Tony, Diane, and so on);
they talk about HorseTeathers,
tell Oklahoma jokes they even
mentioned the Husker's loss
Saturday to Syracuse.
Well, that was almost going
too far. After all, I don't think
even the friendliest cast would
learn that much about Nebras- .
kans while on a short tour date.
But it was flattering.
The actors and the
audience are at first a bit
befuddled by the appearance of
six men and women dressed in
stark blacks and whites per
haps symbolizing inked words
on paper.
But once convinced of the
possibilities of the characters'
tragic tale with hints of
incest and brutality curiosity
overwhelms common sense, and
we enter a reality far from the
smokey rooms of Lincoln bars
and the hot lights of the stage.
We enter the reality of the
characters' world. A world that
never changes, because it is
locked in an unfinished script.
"We are trapped in a an eter
nal reality," the Father charac
ter shouts.
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And suddenly the "tragic" suf
fering of the characters is
thrown into abrupt focus. Their
reality never changes because
they haven't the power to
change their script
The company, of course, can
change the script But more
importantly, they have the
power to change their lives,
their fates, by will and choice.
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Review By
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Diily Nefcr5atn Stsff Editor
If you have no reason to see
"All of Me," at the State Thea
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It is Steve Martin's best pic
ture to date. This is the one
critics and fans thought Steve
Martin could make during
those days he was the hottest
stand-up comic in the country.
If you don't particularly care
for Martin, then this is also Lily
Tomlin's best movie ever. Even
though she is off-screen a lot,
Toralin comes off the comedi
enne so familiar from televi
sion, rather than the snotty,
boring characters she has
chosen for movie roles.
It is also the year's best ma
ture comedy, not so much be
cause of the story, but because
of the actors. A few scenes are
so rare and funny that this
might be the first film in who
knows how many years to set a
comic classic along the lines of
"Who's on first?" or the cabin
scene from the Marx brothers.
"All of Me" is also a love
story, a mysticism story and a
freak show all rolled into one
and kept on a bright ingenious
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Reality for living, breathing
humans changes day by day,
hour by hour because of will
and choice.
After a chaotic and powerful
dramatic conclusion to both
plays the characters' search
for an author and the charac
ters' play, we are still left with
questions unanswered. Some
loom above the rest:
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may be comic classic
course by Carl Reiner and Mar
tin. The two have collaborated
three time3 before, with only
mediocre results, (Though their
latest, "The Man With Two
Brains" got a pretty raw deal)
"All of Me" is perhaps the
ultimate vehicle for Martin be
cause the dual role with Tom
lin calls for a throw-caution-to-the-wind
approach on phys
ical comedy, ail of which he's
really done before but ended
up looking out of place.
Martin plays Roger Cobb, a
unhappy lawyer who is trying
to deny the fact that he really
wants to play guitar in a strug
gling jazz band. Cobb gets a
last chance from his boss to
become a partner in the law
firm by handling the estate of
Edwina Cutwater (Tomlin), a
dying eccentric. However, when
Cobb arrives to talk shop with
Cutwater, he finds that the
millionaire, an invalid since
teen years, has decided to leave
her fortunes to a farmhand's
daughter. The daughter (Vic
toria Tennant) has agreed to
let an Eastern guru transfer
Cutwater's departed spirit to
her body, leaving the daugh
ter's body to travel beyond.
Martin and his boss think
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Get well soon.
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Whose reality has more truth:
literary reality that cannot
change, or human reality that
changes by free choice?
And...do we have the power of
choice? Or Is there a Master
Playwright with an unfinished
script somewhere, trapping us
in an eternal reality.
Rod Scrling, take it away-
CUCK-
tx camum!
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the whole thing i3 bananas,
but when the urn containing
Cutwater's spirit ia accider.tly
shoved out a window and lands
on Cobb's head, Cutwater's
pirit is accidently transferred
to Cobb's body.
With Cutwater on the left
and Cobb on the right, the first
of the movie's memorable
scenes take place when Martin
tries to walk back into the lav
building. The second is shortly'
afterward when Martin tries
to go to the bathroom. The
third comes later on in the
courtroom when Cutwater,
recognising a sensible wrong,
argues against Cobb's client
while Cobb tries to argue for
Meanwhile, both try to search
for the guru to redo the transfer
while the daughter, who has
since changed her mind, tries
to block it.
Actually, since it doesn't
make sense to have an unhappy
ending, it doesnt take much to
figure out what Martin and the
guru will do to get Cutwater's
spirit transferred. Still, this is
hardly the kind of thing that
ruins the movie. If you've given
up on Martin or Tomlin, take
this one last chance. Chances
are you wont regret it.
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