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...commercial crap around here," said Stan Edelson, director of the Caravan Theatre. We sat across from each other in his basement office before Friday night's performance of Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle as he talked about the formation of his semi-repertoire group. "We're interested in finding and performing the things that reach people," he told me in an almost inaudibly quiet voice. "It can be fucking or fighting or loving or hating: in that senses we're a political theatre...
...SPITE of this criticism, How To Make A Woman raises undeniably important questions in an intelligent way. And playwright Stan Edelson has come up with a script which is genuinely entertaining while dealing with topics which generally affect an audience like ether...
Director Bobbi Edelson has constructed a symbolic drama whose characters are representations with whom one identifies on an intellectual rather than emotional level. She has emphasized the ritualized aspects of becoming a woman, where each step toward role "choice" is predetermined. In this light, the girls' bewildered resistance hasn't a chance against the system...
...Caravan Theater is allegedly an experimental enterprise, but Director Edelson's only experiment in this production is pushing nine actors onto the stage and having them try to act without any critical guidance...
...group, which calls Itself the Caraman Theater, worked out the revue this summer, under the direction of Bobbi and Stan Edelson, East House associates, and the sponsorship of the American Friends Service committees. David S. Autnam '66 will act and John P. Case '66 will sing in the production, which being...