Word: mimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breath of air, all parade by. The theme grows more intriguing as walkers begin to bump into each other, scramble to avoid a collision, or walk over each other. In this dance, the facial expressions add such personality to the gaits themselves that the piece borders on mime...
Commedia dell Pinkie is a bit of Mather House mime and madness that is a heart-rending illustration of the power of concrete courtyards and labyrinthine corridors of warp men's minds and sense of humor. Mather House Dining Room Friday and Saturday nights...
...playwrights' company, in contrast to New Haven's other theater, the Yale Repertory Theater, which emphasizes technical experimentation. A fiction writer in his college days, Brown says: "I like language in the theater, and I don't believe theater is at its best as mime or dance...
...Baby. Shanks, however, is a return to true form. It is awful. There are no technical stunts in the movie, but there is one rather flabby device: the hero, a puppeteer named Malcolm Shanks, is a mute. Since he is played by Marcel Marceau, he is also a mime and really requires no words. The plot, which is crusted with mold, involves a fantasy in which Shanks dreams of a spooky old house (not the one on Haunted Hill, however), a nice old mad scientist and his experiments in which the dead can be made mobile like puppets...
Tall Kings and Short Subjects will probably not, as was mistakenly said last week in this column, "stretch the limits of mind" unless you are a three-year-old. But it does stretch the limits of mime, and if that interests you, check out the Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury St. in Boston, Thurs...