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Precocious moppets at a kindergarten assembly? Wrong. Joseph Chaikin's off-off-Broadway Open Theater. But that first impression may not be entirely mistaken. For the Open Theater plays a brilliant game of neo-innocence. It peels down actors to their childlike selves and doubles back to drama's origins: religious processionals, Dionysian revels...
...Well. what do you think? That kind of thing has become, now, thankfully, completely out of the question. We have moved a whole other route. Joe Chaikin whose notes I was reading a few weeks ago about the days they did America Hurrah which did do through a commercial stage off-Broadway realized that we were investigating many things with that run. We realized later tht one of those things we were investigating was could we make it? We discovered we could...
...amount of personal commitment typified by Barry distinguishes the company from most others, and in some respects their goals resemble those of the now-fragmented Living Theatre. Under the direction of Joseph Chaikin and Roberta Sklar, the Open Theatre has toured Europe and feels the same political commitment as the Living Theatre...
...good as they are, the players under Joseph Chaikin's direction demand a certain degree of tolerance--for the simple reason that their medium remains largely untried and unpredictable. Moments, even whole scenes, are tedious; and some which aren't seem badly out of place. I'd quarrel specifically with the passing out of apples among the audience which, while it holds the attention tolerably, destroys a certain measure of audience identification with the players on stage, an identification which comes in handy before and after. The Open Theatre, if one can judge by this product, does not seem...
AMERICA HURRAH, by Jean-Claude van Itallie, erupts on the theatrical landscape, pouring a lava of satire, comment and invective on some questionable aspects of modern life. Three playlets, Interview, TV and Motel, are inventively directed by Jacques Levy and Joseph Chaikin and interpreted by a flawless cast...