Word: fitch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sweating Door Alarm is a wonderful, bizarre piece of drama. Director Douglas Fitch has created a montage of different realities, using the stage to his best advantage. As the curtain rises, the audience faces a wall of television windows, each containing an animated actor. These actors struggle to burst out of the strict confines of the screens. In much the same way, The Sweating Door Alarm challenges the confines of the stage on which it takes place...
...Sweating Door Alarm moves smoothly and frequently between planes of reality. Fitch transports the audience from a strange, sickening hospital to an eerie campground in a Southwestern canyon. Soon the campground is overrun with Indians who dance wildly around a TV set/campfire, taking the viewer farther and farther from reality. The transitions from scene to scene are always surprising and often funny. Although simple curiosity about what will come next sustains a lively interest in a play, The Sweating Door Alarm offers much more...
...strange scenes believable and even enjoyable. For example, a group of giggly creatures, resembling Dr. Seuss characters, watch a stuffed animal conduct a symphony. This is a moment of supreme humor and invention, and the viewer wants to accept this scene because it is so ingenious and hysterically funny. Fitch makes wonderful use of the bizarre atmosphere he has created...
...Sweating Door Alarm--by Doug Fitch. Directed by Doug Fitch, produced by M.E. Rieffel. At 8p.m. in the Agassiz. Admission is $8,$5 for students...
...seventh of George Fitch's 10 children, James is the first to graduate from high school. His mother Patricia Jacobs, 38, made it to senior year but dropped out when she became pregnant with the first of the four sons she had with Fitch. The couple were never legally married, but stayed together for 17 years. Fitch, a carpenter, now disabled, and Jacobs, a nurse's aide, provided their boys with a stable and protective home environment. "We kept them in the house for a long time," Patricia Jacobs recalls. "But they say you got to let them go sometime...