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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...
...think of this personalized feminism as a parlor form of guerilla warfare that uses an artillery of intuitive language--mime, gesture, silence--to sabotage the enemy. It is rather like a revolution of manners, something felt rather than articulated. You can't structure a sensibility, you can only recognize it. And you recognize it not in action but in the reverberations of an action, like watching drops of water distilled from the air, or learning to hear the unspoken associations in the grooves of a sentence. My feminism works rather like an inner eye that registers the other side...
...next act in the show was a dance troupe, with a polished Brechtian little mime about the dog-eat-dog world. In the background a slide projector flashed pictures of atrocities in Indochina. Again a question--What is the way out of all this? Blackout. And on stage appears Davis to give The Answer...