Theater
Betrayal
Arena Theater
April 15-18
Harold Pinter's Betrayal, pre
sented by the university theater
can easily come under the
heading “short and sweet.”
The play is a well-acted drama
which takes place for the most
part in England. There are three
primary characters and one
secondary. The plot is simple: a
love triangle involving a woman,
her husband, and the hus
band’s best friend; but it is
treated in an interesting manner
by starting in the present and
ending in the past.
Emma (played by Bonne Har
ris) had an affair with Jerry
(played by Andrew Roy Ivy) for
seven years, though, in the first
scene it’s been years since
they’ve seen each other. Em
ma’s husband Robert (played
by James Lundstrom) knew
about it in its fifth year but Jerry
never knew that Robert knew.
Emma falsley confesses to Jerry
in scene one, that she has told
Robert the night before about
their past alliance. Jerry is quite
upset, not wanting this to come
between he and Robert. In the
next scene he finds out that
Robert has known for four
years.
The rest of the play recedes
into the years before with the
final scene revealing how Jerry
and Emma first became lovers.
Lundstrom stands out as the
finest of the three, his being the
most interesting character. Ivy
and Harris act their parts to
perfection, but their roles are
not the focal points of the play.
Robert’s reaction when he
finds out about the affair and
later when he sees Jerry again,
replete with the knowledge of
the betrayal, mark the high
points in the drama s progres
sion. His handling of each si
tuation is done in an almost
humorous way complete with a
few pointed innuendoes which
bring laughter from the
audience. Yet the viewer can
also sense the underlying tur
moil in Robert as he adjusts his
values to this rather unsettling
event.
Robert’s theme of accep
tance shines out in the last
scene (the start of the affair)
when he lays a hand trustingly
and lovingly on Jerry’s knee
before leaving him and Emma
alone together in her bedroom.
Tip of the Tongue
Godtz Garden Restaurant
What a pleasure it is to go
out to dinner at Godtz Gar
den Restaurant!
... Ah yes, but what kind
of pleasure is it?
I suppose the pleasure is
really of two kinds — one
related to the Swedish ivy,
and the other to the Safeway
parking lot.
Godtz Garden is a plea
sure partly because it’s so —
easy. Inviting, comfortable.
Even before the food arrives,
there’s a sense that things
are well-considered.
Just to single out two
elements: The lighting allows
you to feel intimate with your
companion(s) and also helps
you read the menu. And the
plants: such a greenhouse of
hanging ferns and standing
small bushes! In other res
taurants the plants can seem
token, an attempt to be chic;
here the abundant philoden
dron, the spider plants and
the bushy Swedish ivy are of
the essence of the place.
And as for the other com
ponent of pleasure — the
Safeway parking lot — the
fine thing about that is that
you forget about it instantly
once you enter Godtz Gar
den — in the Edgewood
Shopping Center at 40th
Avenue and Willamette
Street. Yech. You’re joking, a
quality restaurant at the edge
of a shopping center, in an
old hamburger shack to
boot? Yep. Surprise It's the
other component of Godtz’
pleasure.
This pleasing combination
of the inviting and the sur
prising is, happily, best ex
pressed by the food at Godtz.
The range of food prepared,
first of all, is generous. Din
ner does include some meat
dishes, and the lunch menu,
it ought to be mentioned, has
several popular beef sand
wiches, but the emphasis in
the dinner menu is on the
lighter, more subtle fish and
vegetable dishes.
On two recent visits, my
wife and I enjoyed dinners
featuring chicken teriyaki,
chicken parmagiana, egg
plant parmagiana, and fillet
of perch in an herb sauce. All
were in the $6-7 range, com
plete with the elaborate salad
bar (or choice of soup),
homemade bread, and
choice of fettucine, rice pilaf
or potato.
Truth to be told, the chick
en preparations were a bit
less successful than the
overall standard, not quite so
flavorful. The eggplant par
magiana, however, while not
exactly "traditional” as the
menu bills it, is still a gener
ous serving of two thick fresh
eggplant steaks bedecked in
mozzarella and slavered in a
sweet tomato sauce.
The wine list is varied and
moderately priced, and in
cludes splits as well as full
bottles. Apple Kate’s juice is
also available, even warmed
at your request by the always
affable Shabbir Panni, who is
Godtz’ proprietor
It only remains to be said
that dessert — especially
after the preceding generous
portions — is a matter of in
dulgence dependent on your
attachment to sweet-and
velvet chocolate chee
secake.
Godtz Garden serves
lunch and dinner and Sun
day brunch. A "Garden ban
quet" of salad bar, soup and
basket of bread is a regular
feature at $5. Reservations
are not a bad idea, especially
on weekends (343-0011).
390 East 40th Avenue,
Eugene.
— Joe Cone
Robert accepts it in the begin
ning without knowing, and ac
cepts again later after finding
out, his love for Jerry never les
sening
Whether Jerry deserves this
love is. the viewer's own deci
sion. We know from scene two
that he does not want the affair
to come between them. Robert
seems to subtly dominate the
triangle.
Gregory Hansen’s set design,
which is sparse and a little
tacky, combined with lighting,
did transform a small space into
various different locations. But,
with the mood of each scene,
for the most part, relying the
pictures on the walls, they
should have been chosen with
more taste.
Scene transitions are not very
smooth. The viewer does not
have enough time to imprint
each scene upon his or her
J
mind before being distracted by
people and objects moving and
changing into the next scene. A
frozen moment of meaning and
action is lacking.
Betrayal is presently showing
at the Arena Theater in Villard
Hall on campus at 8 p.m. April
15-18 Tickets are $2.75 for un
iversity students and senior ci
tizens, $3.50 for other students
and $4.50 for the general public.
— C. Hanson
El Salvador
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