Word: mimed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
LAUGHING ALLEY. 592 Comm. Ave. Pocket Mime Chem. Thurs...
LAUGHING ALLEY. (592 Comm. Ave.) Pocket Mime Circus, Thurs...
...what mattered most; rhapsodizing players would even turn their backs on the audience, and "performance" was almost a dirty word. Now the show is everything. A few rock groups share the evening with stand-up comedians or clowns and trapeze artists to liven up their act. Some musicians wear mime makeup and practice ersatz Marcel Marceau. Others appear in full drag-flowing scarves, high-heeled wedgies, false eyelashes, mascara, lipstick and cheek-clinging glitter. With the revolt long since gone out of the music, what is left is really a new kind of vaudeville or sometimes a freak show-occasionally...
...they move with point through the rich decay and underworld glamour of Louis-Philippe's Paris. The concept of the film is daringly poetic for film narrative (the characters' developments are seen largely through their own conscious artistic achievements), but fully achieved. It is a brilliantly acted and mimed film about great mimes and actors who really lived and performed in and around the Boulevard of Crime, But it is as much about different kinds of love, from the infantile to the adolescent to the adult, as it is about the compensating fantasies of theater; as much about every...
David Zucker's adaptation of the book for the Boston Repertory Theatre is equally palatable: every line is lifted straight from the text. And his direction, using mime, narrative, and story-theatre vignettes, is effective and competent. It suits the tone of the text; no really fancy stuff, minimal action, and little of the "Isn't it neat that I'm a talking animal" coloring which mars so many stagings of children's stories. Zucker also is the Narrator. He gets the best of Saint Exupery's prose, and with fine modulation and good phrasing, he renders it well. Virginia...