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Mime vignettes. By David Fechtor and troupe. A good way to spend a nice quiet evening, if you know what I mean. At the Loeb Ex, May 7 at 7:30 p.m., May 8 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets free if you pick them up by noon of the previous day at the Loeb box office...
...Questions Game (where each must retort with a question), the verbal fireworks are dazzling. Chris Minkowski, a properly regal Claudius, looks like he's still savoring his triumph as last fall's production of Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound. The mimed deaths of the Tragedians, choreography by David Fechtor, resemble the last writhing gasps of fish drowning in air, and coordinate well with the heavy rope-netting...
...Fechtor learned pure mime from Decroux, but he performs his own combination of mime and pantomime. "Pantomime is mostly concerned with plots, mime with situations," says Fechtor. "In pantomime, the hands and face are very important. In mime, the focus is on the chest. Decroux says, 'The chest is larger than the face, so why shouldn't it be more important...
...Fechtor teaches three mime classes a week--one at the Loeb, one at North House, and one at Wellesley. He hopes mime won't become a popular fad, taught by people who don't really know anything about it. "I'm a purist in the idea if not in the way I perform," he says. He teaches an adulterated version of mime because "I don't think I've worked long enough on pure mime to be capable of teaching pure mime...
...TONIGHT FECHTOR will give an hour-and-a-half one-man performance on the Loeb mainstage. The program includes pieces such as Tug of War, Suicide, The Piano Mover, The Kite, The Room and The Creation of the World. ("In my particular version of the creation of the world, I play God," says Fechtor.) Some of the pieces have plots, but Fechtor prefers to stress style. "Technical aspects are more important to me than showmanship aspects," he says. "People who come expecting to compare my show to Marceau's are going to be rather disappointed." Don't let his warning...