Word: cavorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their swords. Magnificently danced by Roderick Drew in jazz-flavored classical ballet movements. Adam, according to Rexroth's directions, "emerges, as if from clay, rises, stretches, yawns, discovers one by one the use of his limbs." He then gets acquainted with the garden's livestock as they cavort in pairs and trios - the walrus and the ape, the lamb and the leopard, the rabbit, the skunk and the fox - all costumed to [he last whisker. Weary at last of the ballet of the beasts, Adam rests on the gnarled, raised roots of a tree. It is then that...
...Belfast hanging of an Irish patriot. Under Joan Littlewood's brilliant direction, this proves story enough to provide a real center of feeling among all the vaudeville tricks, freak-show tactics, music-hall gags and ditties that stuff out the evening. As the whores and queers and strangies cavort, as irreverent lyrics make butts of everything, as wisecracks tumble out brightly ("The worst thing about jail is the other Irish patriots who are in along with you") or breezy and old ("Vat 69-that's the Pope's telephone number"), it's easy to make...
...left, a two-story pavilion with Victorian gimcrackery and shades that are raised and lowered with annoying frequency (Olivia's summer resort, and last resort). In the center we have a candy-cane flagpole with pennon, and two bathhouses on wheels, with red and green stripes. Assorted persons cavort about in sailor suits or swim suits. No Illyria on earth was ever like this...