Word: mimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ballerina waft about the deck of the ship. The scene is syrupy enough without this heavy-handed instruction to the audience, "See, this is really just in fun." The ballerina, Lois Rosenberg returns as a sprightly youngest cousin to the Lord Admiral. She has a talent for mime, and is a pleasant distraction from the main action...
...NATIONAL MIME THEATER'S director, Kenyon Martin, is doing a benefit for the 700 neediest Boston families the Salvation Army can find. They say Kenyon Martin is one of the few pure classical mimists in the United States. I wouldn't know, but it sounds like a reasonable enough cause. 1 p.m. Saturday, they didn't tell me where...
BEYOND WORDS, an evening of mime with Kenyon Martin of the National Pantomine Theater. Tomorrow night at 8:30, Dunster House Dining Room. What...
Magic Power. Peking opera is at times a dizzying mix of dance, music, mime, processionals, tapestried tableaux and hilarious acrobatics. Banners are everywhere, signifying anything from magic power to the number of troops in a general's army. Nothing sums up these diverse elements better than the Taiwan company's version of The Monkey King, which tells the story of a cleric's disciple who drinks too much, fights too much, but does a lot of good and in the end becomes a Buddhist. Perhaps China's most popular legendary hero, the Monkey King...
ANIMAL FARM, adapted, through improvisation, mime, and "Chamber Theater style narration," from George Orwell. There was a cartoon version of Animal Farm made years ago by some Trotskyist or Cold Warrior who tacked on an ending in which the animals throw the pigs out and live happily ever after. This is fine for the animals, but piss-poor for the movie. This version, however, is merely "a devastating attack on the pig-headed rulers of an imaginary totalitatian state." Pig-headed, get it? Opens tonight at 8 at the Boston Repertory Theater, Marlboro and Berkeley Streets in Boston, in repertory...