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...technical design by John Carson innovatively surmounts the limitations of the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. He has fashioned a sort of theater-in-the-middle with the stage, which has been designed to blend in with JCR decor, located in the center of the room and audience situated on either side...
...Saturday night brings out the amateurs," my friend Morgan explained. I laugh, trying to envision Ted Mack among this sleek-satined, strobe-lighted decor. "Let's face it--disco clubs were a fad. They peaked maybe ten months ago. It was all over about three months ago." We are sitting in a small anteroom towards the front of the club where they serve a limited menu of hot foot. No one is here to eat and all the high-backed bamboo chairs are empty. A young couple, the man in aqua double knits and the woman in a gay flowered...
Chassler's style speaks strongly about the dancer relying only on his or her self. She rejects the theatrical possibilities of costuming, lighting and decor, paring down her dance to essential movement and, even further, to the performer's highly-disciplined concentration. Chassler often works with eyes half-closed, sunk deep inside herself, focused on word imagery, the wellspring of her dance...
...Modernization presupposes limitations of audience imagination, and that undermines the very concept of drama. Drama entails entering a world not our own, and that involvement is not necessarily made smoother when the characters wear Bloomingdales' outfits and mutter in student slang. "Relevance" has little to do with decade or decor. Adaptation often weakens the playwright's intentions; Kolzak's Ghosts in surface mirrors Ibsen but in substance is worlds apart...
...Left to my own devices, I spent a bemused hour observing the Senate and the House of Representatives. The two chambers have recently been renovated, and the old red hangings and tobacco-stained rugs have been replaced by a delicate grey decor with hints here and there of imperial gilt ... Those few who had come to observe the democratic process seemed mostly to be simple country people who behaved-quite rightly-as if they were at the circus; they chewed tobacco, shelled peanuts, ate popped corn, a newly contrived delicacy with the consistency and, I should think, the flavor...