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Goodman Theatre's "Sweet Bird of Youth" never fully takes flight
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Diane Lane stars as Princess Kosmonopolis opposite Finn Wittrock as Chance Wayne in Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth," directed by David Cromer at the Goodman Theatre.
When: Through Oct. 28
Where: Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn
Tickets: $35-$90
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Updated: October 26, 2012 6:07AM
Perhaps the best way to think about director David Cromer's wildly uneven production of "Sweet Bird of Youth" — the much anticipated revival of Tennessee Williams' play at the Goodman Theatre — is to imagine the blurry, unfocused state of mind that comes with a serious hangover. Clarity becomes the casualty of too much alcohol, too many uppers, too much hashish, too much unrestful sleep.
The great, gauzy white curtain that envelopes the stage certainly enhances this sense of haziness. The broken eyeglasses belonging to one of the characters underlines the sense of disorientation. Brief, hugely magnified film sequences — of a Hollywood-style close-up, or a political rally on television — create a further self-deluding, hallucinatory effect. So does the revolving set of a lavish hotel lobby and bar that sets the head spinning.
To be sure, Cromer is exploring lots of ideas in this production as he turns a play that might be close to impossible to do as pure realism into something of a fever dream that highlights both Williams' poetic flights and the story's extremes of personal and public exposure, of celebrity haze and political fakery.
But too often the whole experiment turns into the echo of an overheated B-movie of the 1950s, and unintentionally exposes what many consider Williams' messy excesses. The production's erratic rhythms (including the first of two intermissions that break the flow but obviously are required for a set change) are frustrating. And the propulsion needed to drive the story to its horrific climax never quite coalesces.
Of course the primary lure of this production is its two stars. Film actress Diane Lane, in the role of faded Hollywood star Alexandra Del Lago (traveling incognito as The Princess Kosmonopolis), demonstrates she has forgotten nothing about acting in the theater, despite a long absence from the stage. Finn Wittrock (fresh from the Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman"), has fine moments as Chance Wayne, the gigolo hellbent on achieving his own movie stardom, as well as retrieving his great adolescent love.
The interplay between these two is far from romanticized here, and it is intriguing on many levels — most notably for the strong sense that they are complete strangers to each other, united primarily by their need for certain transactions. Hers are emotional and physical; his are purely material. In many ways theirs is a battle for the survival of the fittest, and just who is the fittest, or most resilient, turns out to be quite surprising. Clearly Williams saw himself as a perfect hybrid of both these characters.
The story begins in a grand bed in the Royal Palms Hotel in St. Cloud, a balmy Gulf Coast town whose name echoes the filmy state of mind here. The uneasy occupants of that bed are Princess and Chance, who have been traveling through the South in her Cadillac for several days.
She believes her attempted film comeback has been a disaster and hopes that sex with Chance will briefly bring her back to life, even as the drugs, and all the rest, will dull her pain. He, desperate about lost youth and possibility at the age of 29, sees the still-connected movie star as his last-chance ticket to success. This need to be special has fired him ever since his "wrong-side-of-the-tracks" roots kept him from marrying his true love, Heavenly (Kristina Johnson, a poor casting choice), the daughter of a powerhouse dad, Boss Finley (John Judd, all hot-blooded vulgarity as the classic demagogue and hypocrite).
A racist politician with his own "hillbilly" roots, Finley ran Chance out of town once, and he and his brow-beaten son, Tom (Vincent Teninty), are even angrier at him now. But Chance is on a downward spiral anyway, eventually turning down the helping hands of the Boss' "mistress/whore," Miss Lucy (Jennifer Engstrom is sensational, as is her dress), of Heavenly's adoring Aunt Nonnie (the ever-splendid Penny Slusher), and finally, the Princess herself, who is only part self-professed "monster."
Lane, who grows better as the play unfolds, is a fascinating mix of delicacy and steel. She can look like a tiny bird when, wrapped in a sheer, dove-gray peignoir with cuffs of airy feathers, she stands at the window. But she also can quickly turn into a ferocious snapping turtle when her reputation is at stake. Del Lago has obviously learned many Hollywood power tricks.
Finn, beautiful to look at, is not quite on top of his role yet, but he is exceptionally good when locked in reverie. His biographical "audition" — spoken when Del Lago is at her vanity table applying makeup — is beautifully done. And he is all bad-boy arrogance when he strides across their bed.
The sets, by designer James Schuette (who also designed the costumes) are impressive, but they also are a continual distraction. And combined with the uneven acoustics at the Goodman, they often render Williams' all-important language garbled or lost.
Cromer might be on to something here, but the production (unintentionally, I think) turns out to be more tabloid brashness than dreamy reverie. And without the full force of Williams' poetry — always the great redemptive force in his plays — something is missing.


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Brown Saheb's Schooldays One day Lalji Mama took me on his bicycle, for admission to the Huddard School. Why this school was chosen, I do not know. The children of the Englishmen working in textile mills of Cawnpore and brown babalogs used to study there. It had a sprawling compound and a huge double story mansion. The English family running the school used to live on the ground floor, and all the classrooms were on the first floor. We were met by the kindly Principal, Miss Dutton and there was no problem in getting me admitted. Even well into my college days, I had not heard of Birth Certificates. Mama filled in my date of birth as 12th December 1934. This was not a historical fact, but a mix of failure of memory and a trick to give me the advantage of appearing for maximum number of times for the Indian Civil Service examinations. There was a sheen about I.C.S., which today's I.A.S. does not have. 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All this notwithstanding, I always stood first in the class and beat all the English classmates in English and Scriptures, in spite of being a non-Christian. Our first class every day was Scriptures. It would start with Our Lord's Prayer, which I know by heart, even today. Then would come stories from the Bible about Creation, Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, David and Goliath and so on. Miss Flynn would also relate parables, and what morals we had to draw from them. When I once asked her, "Miss, what is the meaning of 'parable'?" she replied, "A parable is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning!" Her definition has still not been improved upon. I quote this often, to so many Gurus and philosophers and they marvel at the simplicity of this insight. Miss Dutton and Miss Flynn took kindly to me, as I used to stand out in the subjects closest to their heart, Scriptures and English. During lunch time, one or both of them would come and chat with us and look at our collections of stamps, coins, rocks and matchbox labels. They were themselves keen collectors. However, I had something to show, which no other student could. At that time my father was doing his Ph.D. in London, a fact enough to impress all the Englishmen in town, except possibly the erudite missionary teachers at Christ Church College. The rest were mostly textile technicians. Dad used to send me picture postcards of Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, the Parliament, etc. Whenever I received a new card, Miss Dutton used to revel in explaining to us the details, and how she herself had seen all these places, and used to express her homesickness. Miss Flynn, born in India had not yet been to Old Blighty, and showed a very keen interest in the pictures. She was very wistful about England and Ireland, which she had not yet seen. One morning, I was particularly looking forward to going to school, as I had just received from my Dad picture postcards from Paris and Rome. Even Miss Dutton had not been to the France and Italy! I had taken my whole collection of cards and was proudly showing them off, during lunch. Sure enough Miss Flynn zeroed in after a while and started flipping through the cards, no doubt very impressed. As she was in the act, all hell broke loose. She was red in the face and threw my entire collection on the floor. I just couldn't make out what had got hold of her. Then she picked up one card from the floor and thrusting it towards me shouted," How dare you bring this to school!" I was in total daze. Then through my watery eyes, I could make out that she was holding a picture of Swami Vivekananda, which also my Dad had sent me. Possessing pictures of our national leaders like Gandhiji and Tilak or our holy men, and bringing them to school was a total sacrilege. Nani and all my elders were perplexed, as to what they should do about my schooling. After all it was a very caring and a good school. But the decision about my schooling didn't have to wait long. During one lunch period, Miss Flynn came towards us all beaming, to see what new things we had to show from our collections. But it did not come to that at all. Enraged like a bull which had seen a red rag, she tossed my lunch on the floor and all my aloo ki sabzi, purathas and achar lay scattered. I was horrified. What had I done this time! Miss Flynn held between her fingers, as if it was a dead rat, a torn page from the Hindi newspaper Dainik Pratap, in which my lunch had been packed. Normally, I used to bring my lunch rolled in brown paper. That day brown paper was not there and my mother had torn a piece of the local Hindi newspaper, and wrapped my lunch in it. But for Miss Dutton and Miss Flynn it was as bad as treason. From his framed coloured photograph, King George the Sixth, in his full regalia was looking down on us. I was made to stand outside the class for the rest of the day. So that very evening the elders, equally horrified, decided to take me out of that school. That is how midterm I was pulled out of Third Standard in Huddard School, and admitted to the Seventh Class in B.N.S.D. Intermediate College, near Meston Road. B.N.S.D. stood for Bishambar Narain Sanatan Dharma, a far cry from the very British and fiercely Protestant Huddard. The transition was rough going for me. For a start, neither the teachers nor the students understood my anglicized accent. They jeered at me and called me a lackey of the British. Many teachers wore khadi kurtas and dhotis. Some also had clean-shaven heads with a pigtail. Now I had to read Seventh Class Hindi, which was impossible for me. I could talk Hindi but I could not read and write such difficult Hindi. Consciously I had to indianize myself and unlearn the English accent. Today, if I still love English Literature, it is because of the loving manner in which Miss Dutton and Miss Flynn taught it. If I speak English the way Indians speak it, I have to thank B.N.S.D. Intermediate College for it! Today if I love Kalidas, Bihari or Jaishankar Prasad as much as Shakespeare, Wordsworth or Dickens, I have to thank B.N.S.D. for it too!
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