Word: mime
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ocdipus has just gouged out his eyes, the chorus begins to laugh, and then say things like "There's good luck and bad luck," or "that's fate, hahaha." In the final scene, after Ocdipus has stumbled blindly across the stage out the door the cast does a copulation mime that features a man with an enormous dildo and a woman with pubic hair drawn on her leotard. It is like the TV show "Shindig," as the chorus groans antiphonally up to a very convincing orgasm. Lights out. That's demystification, allright, but it's also a pretty cheap trick...
...borrowed Oriental Kabuki gestures for Oedipus and locasta, and this works very well, stylizing their "act" of semi-divinity almost to satire. For the Chorus he has assimilated the chanting and stick-beating rhythms of the Open Theater, the serpentine body piles of the Living Theater, and the copulation mime of Marat/Sade. All are dramatically sound, but one is aware of their unoriginality...
...cast line up, face the audience and flash shy, charming smiles. They march a lot too, keeping time by smacking sticks and shaking tambourines. They love to pretend they are being birds and animals. If necessary, they will speak. But they prefer to sing, dance or grunt as they mime their mysterious little charades−a kind of show-and-mostly-don't-tell...
...Pageant Players-who will perform in the Quincy House Dining Room-helped to lead a vanguard in the radical theatre movement of the late '60's, when they united to present plays with a radical politico-cultural focus to the audience of the streets. They work in mime, sometimes narrated, with very little dialogue, relying heaily upon movement, sound, music, masks, and props. The troupe develops its material through collective improvisation-spontaneously generating new ideas to suit changing political environments-as their plays assume substantive significance in particular daily and geographic contexts...
Lecoq gave a lecture-performance on "Mime, Masks, and Contramasks" on Monday night at the Loeb Drama Center. He used masks to illustrate how a character is conveyed through body movements, and he analyzed personal characteristics by differentiating between individual gaits...