Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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catch-edged tones build to a bluesy intensity on Damn If I Know, and on Frankenstein, to outright urgency...
...Shoup, retired Marine Corps Commandant and Medal of Honor winner, accuses the armed services of relishing war for the sake of self-aggrandizement, of making the U.S. "a militaristic and aggressive nation." Physicist Herbert York, former Pentagon chief of research, development and engineering, warns that Americans will face a "Frankenstein monster that could destroy us." Not only are military motives questioned, but military competence as well. The defense complex is indicted for being unable to develop weapons that work well enough, wasting money needed for civilian purposes, giving bad and dangerous advice to the Commander in Chief, poor planning...
...Frankenstein--Tonight and Saturday the Living Theatre gives its final performances in America for a while. This may not be the best of their productions and you may hate Julian Beck's troupe anyway--but their antics are worth looking at, at least once. At the BROOKLYN ACADEMY, 30 Lafayette...
Living Theatre productions of Frankenstein and Antigone have impressed critics across the country, who praised the group's imagination and inventiveness. In contrast to Paradise Now, these two shows had involved no active audience participation...
...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...