Word: mime
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unnatural Acts. Opening at the Charles Play house Cabaret, 74 Warren St. in Boston. Performed by the National Mime Theater. Your guess is as good as mine. April...
Pieces and Quiet. Mime pieces presented y the Pocket Mime Theater at 67 Newbury St. in Boston. Performances Friday at 8:30 p.m. and Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets...
They are the cast of the too-too divine comedy that Ringling must wander through. Atherton hits the right note of hapless affability, but it is still only one note. All of the other roles are played by Ron Leibman and Anita Gillette, whose talents for mimicry and mime relieve a good deal of the script's bittersweet sentimentality and soft-core cynicism. Even evoked as burlesque, the brooding comic spirit of Dante is not suited to the underworld of show business, where the principal sin is usually self-delusion rather than pride...
...fact, Julian and Myra Breckinridge suggest Vidal's startling range as a literary mime. He can pull off convincing impersonations of both an ascetic, driven emperor and a movie-mad transsexual-and impress history buffs with his faithful reproduction of Aaron Burr. He exhibits this talent in private as well. The distinctive, stentorian voice can shift eerily into that of J.F.K. or Richard Nixon. When telling an anecdote, Vidal regularly falls into the tones and mannerisms of its subject. He can do a wry impression of Tennessee Williams, explaining what happened to Blanche DuBois...
THAT HER GROUP can't mime on stage, Monk implies with words. Cataloguing possibilities the ensemble chose not to act out, Pekalis near the end of Part I narrates in a clear voice...