Word: mimed
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...cast line up, face the audience and flash shy, charming smiles. They march a lot too, keeping time by smacking sticks and shaking tambourines. They love to pretend they are being birds and animals. If necessary, they will speak. But they prefer to sing, dance or grunt as they mime their mysterious little charades−a kind of show-and-mostly-don't-tell...
...Pageant Players-who will perform in the Quincy House Dining Room-helped to lead a vanguard in the radical theatre movement of the late '60's, when they united to present plays with a radical politico-cultural focus to the audience of the streets. They work in mime, sometimes narrated, with very little dialogue, relying heaily upon movement, sound, music, masks, and props. The troupe develops its material through collective improvisation-spontaneously generating new ideas to suit changing political environments-as their plays assume substantive significance in particular daily and geographic contexts...
Lecoq gave a lecture-performance on "Mime, Masks, and Contramasks" on Monday night at the Loeb Drama Center. He used masks to illustrate how a character is conveyed through body movements, and he analyzed personal characteristics by differentiating between individual gaits...
Perhaps the best shot is of Mayor Daley after a caucus of the Illinois delegation, blithely denying he could exert any control over his delegates while behind him their faces changed expression as if connected by a string. The one who best acts out the mime is none other than Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, a Chicago Democrat...
...always interesting to see how the ghost scenes in Shakespeare are played. De Grazia has Fletcher Word, a black actor, play the Ghost from atop a platform. Word dressed entirely in black, moves with a mime's precision through Oriental poses, enshrouded always in a huge cape. The effect is very striking...