Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cutler acted at Harvard, but then decided he liked designing better. But he maintained an "actor's attitude," picking shows carefully, with an interest in theatre rather than set-making for its own sake. Cutler eventually narowed his field down to Timothy Mayer's shows because "he [Mayer] runs a more interesting project...
Working fairly consistently with Mayer at Agassiz both summer and winter, Cutler feels he and others of the group developed artistically by building on what went before; each set was an opportunity to make a "new space" in that loveable but limited theatre. From his Plebians Rehearse the Uprising (May, 1967) to his tow-storied Midsummer Night's Dream (July, 1968) set ("a poor man's architecture, not a framework"), Cutler has been highly conscious of progression within the company...
...WHILE visiting several hospitals," Mayer reports, "we saw children on the floor between the beds, along the outside corridors, and often two or ore to each bed. There was not one well nourished child among the 80 seen in one 20-bed ward. Particularly disturbing to witness was one small girl with the arm in a cast, the victim of a bombing attack, who refused to come out from beneath her bed, afraid of the bombs. Children as young as 16 months of age were observed running into bunkers when they heard the first warning shots before the bombs fall...
...Mayer would not comment on whether the report would hasten U.S. recognition of Biafra. However, he did observe that "arriving at some sort of accommodation is made easier by the fact that about four African states have recognized Biafra and France has made gestures that have enhanced Biafra's dignity as a nation." He added that the Biafrians' situation was similar to the Isrealis. Both countries are heavily intellectual groups set upon by less educated peoples who have superior numbers. "To borrow a phrase, the highly-civilized have been bombed back into living in caves," Mayer added. He pointed...
...Mayer blasted the British -- who, along with the Russians, arm Nigeria--for their "clumsy, heavy-handed role in this conflict." He said he hoped President Nixon would convince Harold Wilson that Britain's policies in West Africa should be drastically changed...