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...flipped open, while Soloist David Tudor banged directly on the piano strings with a hammer, executing John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The movie collage Breathdeath offered a drawn foot coming out of Richard Nixon's mouth. In French Playwright Eugene lonesco's one-acter, Bedlam Galore, for Two or More, "She" and "He" quarreled, and quarreled some more, while a civil war went on outside and the roof and walls caved in to illustrate lonesco's philosophy that life is absurd. Electrically powered kinetic sculpture by Len Lye and Nicolas Schoeffer moved, twisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avant-Garde: Did You Ever, Ever, Ever | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...same calibre of acting and direction is bestowed on the more substantial piece, Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache. This one-acter contains a scriptful of challenging subtleties which the Theatre Company converts into highly entertaining drama. Bronia Stefan and Paul Benedict sculpture their roles flawlessly, David Wheeler paces the play smoothly, while music and an ingeniously designed set accent mood and action effectively...

Author: By Eugene E. Leach, | Title: Saroyan and Pinter | 10/21/1964 | See Source »

Most of these faults are picayune and do not detract significantly from this excellent production. Unfortunately, Arrabel's one-acter fares much worse It is a light anti-war fantasy, which does have its high points...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: Albee Play Opens at Bostonian Hotel | 7/14/1964 | See Source »

...white girl who is a twitchy, neurotic bundle of well-informed clichés and sterile sexual aggressions, lures, taunts, degrades and destroys a Negro in a Brooks Brothers shirt, but not before he tells her, with profane and explicit brutality, how much Negroes hate whites. Though his one-acter repeats the pattern of Albee's The Zoo Story, Jones captures the contemporary mood of violence with raw and nerve-tingling fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 22, 1964 | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

...white girl who is a twitchy, neurotic bundle of well-informed cliches and sterile sexual aggressions, lures, taunts, degrades and destroys a Negro in a Brooks Brothers shirt, but not before he tells her, with profane and explicit brutality, how much Negroes hate whites. Though his one-acter repeats the pattern of Albee's The Zoo Story, Jones captures the contemporary mood of violence with raw and nerve-tingling fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: May 15, 1964 | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

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