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...INTERVIEW WITH a mime? Sounds contradictory. But in fact David Fechtor is one of the more verbal people I've met around here...
...Fechtor, now a freshman at Harvard, became interested in mime through drama during his sophomore year of high school. He and a drama teacher coached each other through mime classes. "Neither of us knew anything about mime--maybe we'd seen Marcel Marceau on television for ten minutes once. So I just watched and told him how I looked, and he watched me and told me how I looked, and that's how we learned," says Fechtor...
...summer after his junior year, Fechtor studied under mime artist Jewel Walker at the Carnegie-Mellon School of Drama. Last spring he spent a trimester studying in France with Etienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau's teacher. The 76-year-old Decroux was a strict instructor "For the entire first month I was there he didn't speak to me," says Fechtor. "He just sort of eyed me critically. The second month he began to criticize my work." Like Fechtor, who hopes to go into creative writing or philosophy, Decroux has a strong interest in language--he used to be an orator...
HOLMES HALL, Room for One Woman, by S.J. Bergman, March 1-3, 7:30, free. LOEB MAINSTAGE. Mime and Pantomime by David A. Fechtor '76, March 5, 6, 8 p.m., free. no tickets needed...
...before the lights fade. Her lighting cues, for the most part well executed by lighting director Thomas Parry, keep audience attention drawn to the right play areas, and the breaks into song and dance are managed well both by the cast and the orchestra (Dennis Crowley conducted and David Fechtor choreographed; the music itself sounds like something out of horror movies). If occasionally Mann underlines a situation where it isn't necessary (the Prince's tentative steps of love towards Natasha when he sings his proposal to her reminded me of the worst of West Side Story...