Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was rather like my reaction to Die Fledermans (in English) . It was really entertaining; too bad 1 was too dumb to appreciate...
What I should like to say if the CRIMSON would care to print it is this-although I represent the generation gap we are all of us at heart rebellions, frustrated and sick about the world in general. No one of us has a monopoly of reason. wisdom or knowledge enough to understand the complications of the various situations with which we are all faced...
...CENTER of both this production and its plot is David Hammond, who serves as stage director while also playing Dr. Filke, the vengeful young man who is the focus of all the intrigue. Outfitted in tails and cane. Hammond looks like a Beerbohm cartoon for the endpapers of a Firbank novel. Little wonder, then, that he is exactly into the spirit of the piece...
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, people who write reviews are human beings. Like anybody else in the audience, they can come to the theatre with an upset stomach or a hangover. They can be happy or depressed or somewhere in between. And because critics actually can be any of these things, their job is a lot harder than many people think. It is not always easy for a reviewer to clear his head of pre-curtain-time emotions and look objectively at what's doing on the stage...
...production itself is difficult to describe. It is not shocking in the way the Living Theatre is shocking (nor is it at all like the Living Theatre, for that matter), but it is different from probably anything you have seen in a theatre before. From beginning to end, the actors run the show. They adjust the lights, they move the furniture, they control the play: they dance, they sing, they scream, they make animal noises...