Word: burg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last October's Manhattan sculp ture festival, Artist Claes Oldenburg hired two professional gravediggers to shovel out a coffin-sized hole in Central Park, then fill it up again. Olden burg thereupon solemnly proclaimed the result a buried, invisible sculpture. Last month it was time for the West Coast's retort. At Los Angeles' Century City, three young artists constructed a sculpture that disappeared slowly before the spectators' eyes, vanishing without a trace within 24 hours. The form: a 110-ft.-long, 15-ft.-wide, 22-in.-high labyrinth. The material: dry ice, shaped into blocks...
...spends six weeks abroad rounding up Swiss bell ringers, Japanese jugglers and enough animals to stock the Bronx Zoo, including such rare species as a water-skiing elephant and a piano-playing dog. For many years, his scout on the Chicago vaudeville circuit was the late Poet Carl Sand burg. "He got us the Australian woodchopper act," says Sullivan proudly, "and the fellow who stitches his fingers together with a needle and thread...
...FITCH BURG, MASS., Lake Whalom Playhouse. Tom Ewell plays the put-upon psychiatrist who understands everyone but his own teen-age terribles going through The Impossible Years...
...plays this summer at Agassiz have all been refreshingly irreverent. Aristophanes got new music and lyrics. The Trojan Women became twentieth century refugees. Measure for Measure was liberated from standard period staging. The Agassiz directors, Thom Babe and Timothy Mayer have cut, adapted, rewritten. Composer Bradley Burg has scored electric guitars in a domain usually restricted to recorders...
...where we're all supposed to be aware we're in a theater. But Mayer has put too many realistic props in his settings, and too many crossbars in his machinery. The first few of the ten-minute set chages are uproariously funny as everything topples into place. Composer Burg, also afraid to tamper with Brecht, accompanies each little comedy with imitation Kurt Weil orchestrations of imitation Kurt Weil melodies. But it's not that funny after a while and it blows to hell all hope of growing impact...