Word: matador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bull Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime, tonight and March 22-25 at Agassiz Theatre...
...perhaps the most important thing that she did at the Loeb was early in her freshman year when she met Emily Mann, who directs The Bull Only Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime. "We were standing in the lobby and started talking," remembers Coe, "and Emily said 'I love No Exit; I directed No Exit twice,' and I said 'I hate No Exit' and so that's how we became friends." A classic meeting of minds, if ever there was one, followed by collaboration in Look Back in Anger, when Mann acted and Coe directed. And Emily Mann...
...convince the audience...Our friendship and mutual respect really have been important." From this relationship arises a sort of interplay between the different demands of loyalty to the script and of convincing production, an interplay which is like--well, not so very different from the dramatic kinship of matador and bull...
Both Coe and Mann are pleased with the growing recognition of Radcliffe dramatic talent which large-scale production of The Bull Only Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime represents, but also feel what Mann symbolizes as, "I don't want to be thought of as a directress; I am a director." Both are quietly confident of script and cast, and Casey Cowen takes the stage tonight for the first time, with figurative sword and cape...
...Bull Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime, written by Liz Coe '73 and directed by Emily Mann '74. Our own William Alfred calls it "a tart, knowing tragi-comedy, vividly conceived and tellingly written." At Agassiz, 8:30 Thurs., Fri., Sat. this weekend and next. Premiere tonight. Call 495-8663 for tickets...