Word: attics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first production of Toys In the Attic was indeed successful along these lines, and at that time I was flattered when people told me the show had Broadway finish. Rehearsals were built around improvisations which I had learned from Lee Grant, an Actors' Studio alumna whose classes I had attended in Los Angeles one summer...
...have when looking over the family album. Only instead of a vague reminiscence, the thought of relatives we knew ten years ago, there is a jarring of the intellect; the moment of rebellion is stunned into life. Edgar Varese in his studio. Nin printing her own works in an attic on Macdougal Street, Robert Duncan as a boy: they all appear, either as apparitions in the photographs or in the text...
...Boris Aropson is a physical representation of the complexities that the characters face. The attic setting forms a background of calibrate disorder. Just as Walter and Victor were not sure of the value of all of their experiences, no one is sure at first sight of the value of this mixture of elegant and tawdry furniture. Nevertheless, the price for the furniture and for experience is always constant according to the appraiser. Miller uses similar parallels between the set and the dialogue, and between the dialogue and the characters' actions to solidify the basic theme of his play. But these...
...less tangible but far more profound crisis is the lack of a commanding dramatist with a compelling vision. Half of today's plays seem to be written in some dusty attic of the past and the other half in some apocalyptic junkyard of the future. The shock fads of homosexual, lesbian and sado-masochistic themes, the vogue of nudity and participatory theater may well continue, but they cannot mask the lack of substance. They are frames without pictures, devices without a purposeful direction. This is a theater that is severely pinched for both means and ends, but at least...
Gary Rickson (b. 1942), president of the Boston Negro Artists Association, also emphasizes the message aspect of art. His "Somebody's Upstairs in the Attic" is an allegory, in which we see a brick with 'Black Power' lettered on it, a starless American flag, a star-and-crescent, and other symbols. He also has a surrealistic, almost symmetrical oil called "Nature vs. Nature...