Word: criss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILFRED LEACH'S In 3 Zones , now in its world premiere at the Charles Playhouse, is a series of fairy-tale plot fragments saturated in Faust-derived moralizing. The combination is heavy, uneven and often downright tedious, but director Louis Criss breathes some life into the subject matter through experiments, somewhat erratic, in fusion of stage and film action. Though all focus disappears in Zones 1 and 3, largely due to an undisciplined spate of plot elaborations, Criss and his acting troupe salvage Zone 2, "The Occupied Zone," thus granting their audience a few moments of genuine excitement...
...courtyard is the center of the House," said Carlhain, and it is hard to disagree. But what poses for courtyard in Mather House is a dead space, a savannah so criss-crossed with mammoth concrete walks that the oddly shaped patches of grass which remain to intrude might well be the gravesites of tired isosceles triangles. The lack of large or central trees was also planned: "I wanted the students to be able to play frisbee...
Crouched under the hood pointing a gun at Coyne, Gilday rode for nearly an hour while Coyne criss-crossed the streets of Lowell and Tewksbury, Mass,. passing police cars who had also borne down in the area. At one red light, while Gilday was reloading his gun, Coyne dashed from...
...Charles Playhouse production of Jungle of Cities directed by Louis Criss, allows the questions of motivation to remain unanswered. In this way. Criss allows Brecht's message to be revealed at the proper time. The director has resisted the call for absolute didacticism and delicately guides his players through Brecht's beautiful and puzzling script and the labyrinthine set by William Trotman which mirrors...
THROUGH these internal and external ambiguities. Criss's production places the audience in a uniquely Brechtian position. The audience is not to identify, is not to personalize, is not to become individually involved with the characters on the stage. In Brecht's words, a member of the audience must be a "spectator"-a spectator who "takes up the attitude of one who smokes at case and watches." In this play, the characters' points of view are changed often. The spectator must be content simply to watch all of the events and to become involved as a viewer...