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...ventures in dramatic exploration are also intimately related to an attempt to bridge the we-they gap in the actor-audience relationship-what is popularly called "participatory" theater. In the hands of the Living Theater, this has proved hostile and abrasive, a kind of tyrannical coercion toward brotherhood. An avant-garde group in Los Angeles called The Company is proving that a different approach can produce a loving sense of affinity and communal affection. They have done little-known plays by Ann Jellicoe, who authored The Knack, Megan Terry, who authored Viet Rock, and an adaptation of Lawrence Ferlinghetti...
Early in the life of Hair, she was in deed pregnant, and it was thought that she was going to have her baby onstage. Someone even claimed that Andy Warhol had taken pictures of her child's birth for Avant- Garde magazine. In terms of Hair, another tribesman paid Sally Eaton the ultimate compliment in likening her dressing room to Alices Restaurant; I regretted having missed that scene...
...taken LSD at their deb parties. She said she'd been embarrassed when her brother saw the show, because it still represented the scene in 1965. "The reason I do it is because it's really pathetic how many people there are who still think Hair is avant-garde and groovy and rceeeally contemporary," she said. She added, "The thing about Hair is that it really does bring people up to 1965. Eight hundred people a night are being brought forward into the past a little further...
...Abroad, it tells the world to bold on a hit longer: America is not just creeping imperialism, Cadillacs, ABM's. astronauts, anger, endless payment, pizza parlors, perversity of life, and too many Vietnams. It is the antithesis of all that is today as well. And Hair though long since avant-garde, somehow legitimizes for youth a life style of free-loving peace and freedom no less wanting in Nixon's Middle American regime than in the recent age of budding hippiedom of which it speaks...
Died. Mary Caresse Crosby, 77, literary godmother to the "lost generation" of expatriate writers in Paris; of pneumonia; in Rome. A wealthy Manhattan socialite, Mrs. Crosby founded the Black Sun Press in Paris in 1927 and first published such avant-garde works as Hart Crane's The Bridge, Joyce's Work in Progress and Hemingway's Torrents of Spring; she was also a patron of Ezra Pound and introduced Dorothy Parker, Kay Boyle and William Faulkner to European readers...