Word: capo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that bloody feud that led to the Apalachin summit meeting of Cosa Nostra higher-ups in November 1957. There the council approved Genovese's action, and he emerged as undisputed boss. For his part, Gambino inherited Anastasia's spot as a New York capo...
Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1920-vintage, Pirandellesque "Aria da Capo" was presented last Saturday and Sunday at the Loeb Experimental Theater. The play was one-act, lasting a bit over twenty minutes. The audience at the first performance didn't in fact realize the play was over when it came to an end. They waited for more, not because they expected an explicit disentanglement of the sketch's nebulous events--probably they had already become familiar with the promising ambiguities of Pinter, Ionesco, Adamov, Genet--but because the classics of the theatre of the abstract have been long-winded...
...jewels. It all happens very fast. In reality it is alla gama. But Thyrsus and Corydon die. And even though it was only a game within a play, their bodies do not move but remain on the stage when Pierrot and Columbine return to rehearse from the beginning (da capo) their own skit. They decide to ignore the dead sheepherders in front of the table, for the director assures them that the audience won't necessarily object if the bodies are not removed. Pierrot and Columbine begin again the dialogue heard at the beginning. The play ends, having returned upon...
...suggestiveness in spite of frequent lapses in enunciation by the cast. Mr. Laughlin also helped to give a bit more rounded portrait of Millay by introducing five minutes' worth of her lyrical poetry, read with widely varying effect by five readers before the stage was brightened for Aria da Capo...
LOEB EXPERIMENTAL THE--ATER: Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo" will be presented at the Experimental Theater on Saturday at 3 p.m. and three times on Sunday, at 3, 7, and 9 p.m. The play is produced by Austin Laughlin and directed by Chris Assini. Admission is free for all performances...