Word: everymanic
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...certain of is that Christ was a profoundly humanitarian radical thinker, not unlike Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Near the end of Superstar, the authors invite comparisons between radicals, old and new, using the voice of Judas, who appears this time as a kind of 20th century Everyman, not in a flashback, but in a 2,000-year flash-forward...
...house. The Eames Lounge Chair holds its position in design as well as Miles van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair. He has integrated the plastic arts with crafts and industry as the Bauhaus did, and what pedestal there was for art to stand on, Eames has replaced with the "everyman's" chair. The Bauhaus was a school; Eames is an educator...
...color's only failing is that it reminds you of the Vision-violence and guilt unmediated by love, passion and anguish without redemption. Von Sydow plays the part of a modern Everyman, as the narrator explains at the end, while the camera soft-focuses out on his writhing body. "This time he was called Andreas Winkelman." And the whole show hits you with so much class-it's so beautiful -that you've just...
...According to Brecht, she is supposed to have a "certain run of the mill sensuality." It is missing. Her performance opening night was nervous and somewhat ferced. She seemed almost embarrassed at being on stage, rushing at moments to get through with it. Gary Halcott is convincing as an everyman Andreas Kragler. He is the confused warrior come home to an ungrateful Fatherland, wanting only to sleep with his old honey, sinking to revolutionary despair when be can't have her. Through the play he manages to look progressively more tired and more bored...
PUTTING Jews, blacks. Indians, and Mexicans in a play about Everyman may be Scott's way of universalizing Beckett's message. It's not at all clear that the play needs such leaden-fingered tampering. But it is clear that Scott's changing the ending of the play is a perversion of intent. In Beckett's text both acts end the same...