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...works were commissioned from a dozen or so major playwrights, composers and choreographers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lukas Foss, Ned Rorem and Geoffrey Holder. To give the festival a festive look-and to remind everyone that this was, after all, flaky, flamboyant Miami-Christo, the site artist, was hired to wrap pink plastic ribbons around ten small, uninhabited islands in Biscayne...
...first thing to unravel was Christo's ribbons. He said he could not tie the bows properly until next March, and sent instead drawings of what he had planned. Williams' play, And Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws, came in too short-no more than 45 or 50 minutes-and Executive Director Robert Herman, the operating head of the festival, had to switch to another new Williams work, A House Not Meant to Stand, which had already been seen in Chicago. Peter Evans, a Miami playwright, withdrew altogether. Menotti, who had been paid $10,000 to write...
Speaking before an audience that spilled into the aisles of the 120-seat Hilles Library Cinema, Christo described the environmental and political problems hampering several proposed projects. Although Christo plans his works for years before their completion, "each project is a revolution of my expectations," he said...
...March of 1983 Christo said he hopes to surround ten islands in Florida's Biscayne Bay with five and a half million square feet of pink fabric, an exploration of the interface between land and water. Environmentalists initially questioned the project because of possible damage to sea-grass, but an impact study disproved their concerns, he said...
...Another Christo plan set back for the moment by red tape is wrapping Berlin's Reichstag, the former parliament building of Germany which lies on the border between East and West Germany, in cloth. "The sheer physicality of uniting Germany appeals to my interest in Eastern Europe" Christo said...