Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Stanley Kubrick explores the history and future of man in a space-age epic that dazzles the eye with its overpowering technical effects...
King Lear used to be regarded as one of Shakespeare's library plays: great, but virtually unplayable. Presenting this epic drama, with its almost inhumanly difficult title role, is a little like climbing the sheer face of a formidable, treacherous, icy cliff. Nonetheless, some curious infusion of fatality in the modern consciousness seems to make the play accessible to contemporary audiences. And to modern actors...
...SPACE ODYSSEY. The enigma of man's place in the cosmos is the theme of Director Stanley Kubrick's technically dazzling epic of the space...
...Stanley Kubrick's epic of human advancement, externally motivated. The special effects must be seen, and can best be seen from the first five rows. At the CINERAMA, Washington Street near Essex...
...Frankenstein, performed last weekend, the Living Theatre has constructed a remarkably flexible vehicle which has the added virtue of being a kind of epic monument to the Living Theatre. Staged on a huge jungle-jim with several long rectangular platforms, Frankenstein offers a multitude of technical challenges, most of which the company rises to in splendid style. Not that they are ever in complete harmony with their set, or it with them, but the interplay beween the two is worth following throughout. And a few effects, like the monster silhouette constructed out of better than a dozen individual bodies, really...