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...dramatist writes one play, a director produces another, the actors perform a third, and the audience views yet a different one. Jean Anouilh's The Cavern is a play-within-a-play which blends these four perspectives into...
...beginning of this production, the actor who protrays the author steps onstage from the audience and presents The Cavern as a play which he was "unable to write." He proceeds to offer the audience a few alternative opening scenes, none to his own satisfaction. After the first act, his characters assume life and impose their own story upon the author, who finally becomes as much a character in the inner plays as in the outer play...
...picture follows a plot line more primitive than its subject. In a cavern, in a canyon dwells the Rock tribe, whose idea of a big time is letting a vulture carry on with grandpaw's carrion. Lowbrow-beaten by his father, and pushed off a cliff by a dribbling sibling, young Tumak (John Richardson) rebels and goes into the caveman business for himself. Eventually, he stumbles across the Shell people, a group in a more advanced state of civilization, as evidenced by their stone-headed spears and the pneumatic uplift of Raquel Welch's deerskin halter...
Later F found herself in a secret bat cavern deep in the mountains nearby Paris. She wore a circlet of peacock feathers about her neck and the words "Property of the batboys" were written in silver tape in a heart shape around her navel...
...management, comes at a propitious moment: TWA is negotiating for rights to new, competitive trans-Pacific routes that would include Tokyo and Honolulu, where Hilton hotels are waiting. Additionally, good hotel accommodations are scarce, foreign-financed hotel construction is stagnant, and by 1970, TWA will have a fleet of cavern-cabined Boeing 747 jets hauling hordes of passengers around the globe. "With more people flying and more planes carrying them," said a TWA spokesman, "it's obvious that we need a place to put them when they get where they're going...