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...Marcel Marceau, the 1974 Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecturer at Harvard, is appearing in Boston this week...
...throb with activity: a priest, a balloon man, a pair of lovers, a mother dragging two children at the end of either arm. More than a dozen characters seem to people the stage, although there is only one man up there. He is all of them. He is Marcel Marceau...
...mime" says Marceau, "is the portrayal of the human being in its most secret yearnings. By identifying itself with the elements which surround us, the art of the mime makes visible the invisible and concrete the abstract." Halfway between dancing and the theater, mime is an art of illusion relying on Man's fundamental and oldest method of communication. The raw material used--the human being himself--is never confined by objects and leaps speechlessly over the wall of language, the deceptions of words. Reaching out towards an all-embracing definition of the human being, mime is universal...
...Marcel Marceau, L.H.D., pantomimist...
...World. ("In my particular version of the creation of the world, I play God," says Fechtor.) Some of the pieces have plots, but Fechtor prefers to stress style. "Technical aspects are more important to me than showmanship aspects," he says. "People who come expecting to compare my show to Marceau's are going to be rather disappointed." Don't let his warning scare you away, though--his perfectionism is undoubtedly what will make the show worth seeing. And if you miss tonight's performance (it starts at 8 p.m., and it's free), you can always...