Word: mime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case. An enchanting Beauty is about as difficult to come by as a formula for magic. Most of the women's roles are difficult and must be carried off with the sort of aristocratic elan that only technically strong performers can muster. The character dances and, above all, the mime are alien to many young performers, particularly Americans. Finally, the overall production needs a beneficent fairy of its own; The Sleeping Beauty is a miracle of scale and symmetry; glitz or vulgarity or plodding pedantry will turn it into a long night indeed...
THEIR STYLE has been described as "new mime," "new vaudeville," and "a capella mime." But the Beau Jest troupe call what they do "Moving Theatre." And the troop takes the name seriously, constantly moving--around the stage and around New England. For just a little while longer, though, the troupe is staying put, in the intimate confines of the New Ehrlich theatre...
Director/producers Marci Bobis and Fouad Onbargi deserve the Existentialists Award for Excellence; we must thank them for taking this heavy-handed horror story of Sartre's and making it surprisingly palatable. Embellishing the playwright's original script, Bobis and Onbargi have experimented with a mime troupe of five who periodically act out the memories of the three main characters in stylized slow motion. It's kitschy, but it works. The set, also designed by Onbargi, creates a properly sadistic and spartan backdrop. Hell's flames simply cannot compare to the three tacky couches to which the characters are relegated...
Guitarist Jason Threlfall opened the concert with a musical tribute to a homeless man named Eddie. Mime and jack-of-all-trades Robert Salafia introduced the performers and offered rubber clown noses to those who contributed a dollar or more...
This year the La Jolla roster has included a commedia dell'arte farce, The Three Cuckolds, starring Mime Bill Irwin; Shout Up a Morning, a musical based on the work of Jazzman Cannonball Adderley that went on to a limited run at the Kennedy Center in Washington; and the U.S. premiere of Odon von Horvath's Figaro Gets a Divorce, a work of protest written in 1937 in Nazi Germany. Currently playing are Gillette, a comic adventure set in a Wyoming boomtown, and a modern version of the Greek tragedy Ajax, directed by Peter Sellars and imported from Sellars...