Word: earthlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Earthlight is a rock and roll good time show that combines music, mime, movement, and a good deal of moxie to provide the kind of experience that is rare in any theater. It breaks the barriers have always separated theater from life and actor from audience without the forced intimacy and self-consciousness that killed the efforts of the Living Theater. The formula is simple: instead of provoking the members of the audience into life with insults and forced participation, you entertain them and make them forget about themselves. As the seven actors move through a potpourri of skits, dance...
...program says that Earthlight is "an expression of human radiance" meant to invoke "the forces that push upward out of the earth toward the light." Promises of this sort usually guarantee an uninspiring evening, but for once the religious tone is somewhat justified. Earthlight is meant more as a ceremony anyway. It wants to turn the audience on and the evening I saw it something obviously touched the audience besides the actors' hands. In the end almost everyone--performers and viewers--huddled on stage to rock in rhythm to the band's final number without any concerns about the theatricality...