Word: gored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES, by Canadian Playwright John Herbert, was, when originally presented in 1967, a scorching indictment of the prison system, with its brutal guards and tyrannizing homosexual inmates. As restaged by Sal Mineo, complete with the added attractions of blood, gore, a nude rape scene and an almost totally inept cast, it turns out to be nothng more than a carefully placed kick in the groin...
FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES, by Canadian Playwright John Herbert, was, when originally presented in 1967, a scorching indictment of the prison system, with its brutal guards and tyrannizing homosexual inmates. As restaged by Sal Mineo, complete with the added attractions of blood, gore, a nude rape scene and an almost totally inept cast, it is nothing more than a carefully placed kick in the groin...
DUNSTER'S production of the Durrenmatt-Gore Vidal play Romulus excellently reflects the dual nature of the work. It reminds one of many French plays (especially those of Cocteau, Anouilh and Giraudoux) both witty and superficial on one hand, and intensely intellectual and philosophical on the other. The problem of mounting such a production on the amateur level is obvious: the recruitment of actors to perform characters who can simultaneously embrace these conflicting elements...
...began with a chance meeting at a dinner party. Then came evenings at the theater and weekends in the country and a holiday trip to Italy. Now there is a wedding in store for American Socialite Pamela Colin, 33, and Britain's fifth Lord Harlech, David Ormsby Gore, 51, former ambassador to the U.S. and once a sometime-companion of Jacqueline Onassis. They met in London, where she is an editor of Vogue. Before that, she designed sweaters and scooted through Manhattan traffic on a motorbike, decked out in jaguar coat and matching fur helmet. According to her father...
...Brecht wanted to slap an audience into intellectual awareness so that it would correct the evils of the age, Artaud wanted to gore it into a blood-dripping emotional awareness of the anguish of the age; Among those who have most notably tried to follow Artaud's precepts in the modern theater are Julian Beck and Judith Malina's Living Theater, British Director Peter Brook (Marat/ Sade) and Director Jerzy Gro-towski with his Polish Laboratory Theater. The Living Theater is sloppy, Brook is marvelously disciplined but a trifle too cerebral, and Grotowski combines fantastic discipline with lacerating...