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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AT THE CENTER of both this production and its plot is David Hammond, who serves as stage director while also playing Dr. Filke, the vengeful young man who is the focus of all the intrigue. Outfitted in tails and cane. Hammond looks like a Beerbohm cartoon for the endpapers of...
In fact, there is a curious timelessness about the whole evening at Agassiz. In a day when we are all alienated or committed or anguishing somewhere in between, it's quite surprising to find a bunch of kids dedicated to bringing off an entertainment so blatantly irrelevant. In its way...
Amazingly enough, Moss accomplishes not only the easy part of the job-removing all the stage's physical accessories-but much of the hard part-actor-audience communion-as well. And in doing that, he makes a powerful case for the validity of an ideal Grotowski theatre.
I explain all this because it relates strongly to my reaction to The Three Sisters , which opened on the Loeb mainstage Thursday night. As I entered the theatre, I was just not in any condition to function as a journalist: I was physically exhausted and emotionally pre-occupied. In this...
In his essay, "Towards a Poor Theatre," Grotowski calls for a theatre devoid of theatrical apparatus and full of human contact. That means the replacement of sets, costumes, lighting, and make-up with a total emphasis on "the actor-spectator relationship of perpetual, direct, live' communion." Grotowski wants, of all...