Word: bogeyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SONG OF THE LUSITANIAN BOGEY. Writing well below his Marat/Sade form, Peter Weiss follows the first rule of the polemicist, not playing fair, in his tract against the evils of Portuguese colonialists in Africa. But the cast, members of the newly formed Negro Ensemble Company, infuses the evening with its own talent and humanity...
...Negro areas. Ward has ordered 20 seats per night to be held for Negroes who show up on the spur of the moment at the box office. But talent has no color line. The care and skill displayed in the production of Song of the Lusitanian Bogey is the firmest lease that the ensemble has on future audiences-black and white alike...
...artfully professional new repertory group has now joined the U.S. theater: the Negro Ensemble Company. Supple in motion, stoic in grief, satiric in temper, the all-Negro cast (five men, four women) turns Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, an atrabilious Peter Weiss tract on the evils of Portuguese colonialism, into a mimetic dance of pain, fury, death and anticipatory joy. For a troupe in its infancy, opening night at Manhattan's St. Mark's Playhouse off Broadway marked a large stride toward the dream of Co-Founder Robert Hooks (Hallelujah, Baby!): "If in ten years we can compete...
...bogey that dominates the stage is an 11-ft. form sculpted out of assorted junk, an effigy caricaturing the godhead of white power as it might be conceived by the black African mind. The huge breadbox mouth flaps open to emit the platitudes of white domination, the solace of the white man's religion, the equity of the white man's law. The cast play the colonizers of Angola and the colonized interchangeably, singing Brechtian ditties that sardonically mock the oppressors and vivify the laments of the oppressed...
...polemicist: never play fair. He has omitted a single, solitary act of mercy or justice on the part of his colonial administrators. Even stage villains are not that consistent. The cast, however, infuses the evening with its own humanity. The unmasked joy with which they finally rip the bogey asunder is obviously not confined to a gesture of liberation in a Portuguese colony...