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...commercial crap around here," said Stan Edelson, director of the Caravan Theatre. We sat across from each other in his basement office before Friday night's performance of Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle as he talked about the formation of his semi-repertoire group. "We're interested in finding and performing the things that reach people," he told me in an almost inaudibly quiet voice. "It can be fucking or fighting or loving or hating: in that senses we're a political theatre...
...Caravan Theatre (Harvard Epworth Church...
...foot circle, which provided a focus for the actors' "movement" from scene to scene, was marked on the floor with chalk. The players were costumed in only the barest suggestion of peasant clothing, creating props with pantomime or interpretive embellishment of mundane objects. With these meager facilities, the Caravan players unraveled the most passionately brilliant production that I can remember seeing in the Boston area...
...Caravan Theatre-Bertolt Brecht's Chalk Circle. 1555 Mass...
...scene is purest Buñueliana: a crumpled, baggy-eyed Catherine Deneuve sits in a wheelchair, munching empty ice cream cones. Pushing the wheelchair is a deaf-mute with a demented stare, while from a park bench a large woman breast-feeding her child stares vacantly at the tragic caravan...