Word: mimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earthlight is a rock and roll good time show that combines music, mime, movement, and a good deal of moxie to provide the kind of experience that is rare in any theater. It breaks the barriers have always separated theater from life and actor from audience without the forced intimacy and self-consciousness that killed the efforts of the Living Theater. The formula is simple: instead of provoking the members of the audience into life with insults and forced participation, you entertain them and make them forget about themselves. As the seven actors move through a potpourri of skits, dance...
...occasion, both words and action are transmuted into a moment of high theater. In that instance the "mime's" the word--the only word. Once couple addresses another with that one word. Each grows more demanding and the motions become more violent. Suddenly, each couple has "mime" to the child. But the emotion soon curdles as each parent becomes more and more possessive and the scene ends with an angry yelling match, again only involving the word "mine...
Tudor's mime-laden choreography is ably danced by the ABT soloists. The Juliet of the premiere was Italy's Carla Fracci, whose gentle, girlish way of evoking youthful passion is complemented by the stiff, manly Romeo of Ivan Nagy. If their individual dancing styles do not always mesh, Tudor nonetheless is still able to make disunity work for, not against, the production...
...sounds the delicate, unobtrusive theme upon which Bach built his variations. Onstage, as the curtain rises, are a couple (Michael Steele and Renee Estópinal) in period attire: he in black frock coat and breeches, she in a white bell-shaped dress. Their movements together are as much mime as dance: a conversation of courtly gestures, expressed more by arm and hand than by the deceptively easy steps that subtly accent Bach's limpid line...
...fables are done in mime, song and dance, plus direct asides to the audience. The performers are all toe, tongue, and letter-perfect. The company can boast of one of the standout contemporary clowns, Paul Sand. While he cannot reproduce the menagerie of animal sounds in this show that he does in Story Theatre, he is vastly amusing as a pixilated Mercury and equally funny as Phaeton, the cocky offspring of Phoebus (Apollo) who finds that he cannot actually control the horses that draw the chariot...