Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Father John Schatzel read from Genesis: "I will be with you and protect you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land." In Neil Armstrong's home town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, the Rev. Herman J. Weber prayed at St. Paul's United Church of Christ: "Oh thou great architect of the universe, it is only because thy universe is an embodiment of order and harmony upon which we can rely, that we are able to explore with sincere faith the vast imponderables of space and the moon's hidden mystery...
Courage, like morality, is redefined by each generation. "The monsters of this sea are everywhere," reported a Phoenician explorer several centuries before Christ, "and keep swimming around the slow-moving ships." The monsters were whales, the sea the Bay of Biscay. In succeeding generations men would skim over that water as if it were a pool, and the heroism of the early sailors on their scary voyage would resemble that of fearful children in the dark. What the explorer does by courage, the settler does by habit. What the father does by taking a deep breath, the son will...
...primary question raised by the New Testament legend is presently unanswerable: "Why that man, at that time and place?" Discreetly, this production chooses to preserver that primary mystery, eschewing, for example, the tempting version of Christ as activist-charismatic--the ultimate field organizer. Instead, this passion play battens on the mystery itself, as it moves toward an answer to a major secondary query: "Whence the preternatural staying power of this simple narrative...
...elucidation of a second source or vitality in the story lies with a number of remarkable performances. Reacting variously to their Christ, a number of supporting players establish the fascinating ineffability of his presence. Though they are too many to note fully here, these players include Ken Tiger's sympathetic and sublet Pilate, Arthur Friedman's carefully modulted Caiaphas, Woody Lorriman's magnificently emotional Mary Magdalene...
...Teuber himself who puts the stigma of ultimate mystery on the figure of Jesus. An actor of extraordinary range, his performance is theatrically protean. Teuber's Christ is by turns a performer, a teacher, an advocate, as well as men and God. Playing always to an audience among the other characters--whether to his disciples, his accusers, or the crowd at large--he reserves the essential personality of Christ himself. Where acting styles are concerned, "use anything" would appear to be Teuber's operating principle, no less that that of the entire remarkable show, including Peter Ivers' electric eclectic...