Word: avant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reckless ebullience of decade-old Miyake, and they use the sort of unconventional material (like fishing line) that has been associated with the cutting edge in Tokyo. You can buy them in New York and Chicago, Hong Kong and Kuwait, but, Hishinuma says with some bemusement, they are "avant-garde and not very commercial," so they are not for sale in Japan. "People are afraid of certain outfits," he observes, talking in his one-room studio below a Tokyo back street. "They think, 'This is too loud for me.' " Indeed, the designer is swacked on the vibrant, sun-drenched colors...
...this season in Providence and two more in Dallas, one of which opened last week. His bawdy, confrontational work at Trinity got him fired, temporarily, in the mid-'70s but won a special Tony Award in 1981 and just keeps rolling along. At Dallas, where in three seasons his avant- garde impact on a stodgy company has cost more than a third of the subscribers, his work is just beginning...
...despite Passion's avant-garde aura, which also relies heavily on the prominence of psychological doubles of the play's two central characters, there's really not a whole lot that's new in Peter Nichols' script. By the time you leave Leverett's Old Library, you'll realize that gimmicks aside, you've seen most of Passion in other places--on TV, in movies, and in other plays...
McGillis just finished a three-month run as `Nina' in the Kennedy Center's National Repertory Theater's production of The Seagull with Peter Sellars '80 as director. While at Harvard, Sellars made a name for himself with his avant-garde productions at the Loeb Mainstage Theater...
...York in the early '30s was as wide a world as an adolescent could handle. Avant-garde art, radical politics and a blend of bourgeois habits and bohemian attitudes encouraged theatrical poses. Simon's favorite getup is a long gray raincoat, a gold borsalino hat and black stockings. At 15 she is a live-in helper for a Greenwich Village dermatologist and his family. The Bergsons appreciate culture with a capital K, and the baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon...