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From 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., in sites spread throughout Downtown and the Back Bay section. First Night will run more than 100 programs, ranging from music--classical, folk and jazz--to theater, dance, mime and film...
DIED. Jacques Tati, 75, whimsical French film maker, forever associated with his gangly, amiable and bewildered persona Monsieur Hulot; of a lung blood clot. A droll mime, Tati made films (Mr. Hulot's Holiday, 1954; the Oscar-winning Mon Onde, 1958; four others) that were meticulously wrought explosions of philosophical slapstick with little dialogue and less plot, suggesting that modern values are topsy-turvy. Said he: "What I am trying to prove is that at bottom everyone is amusing...
...scene building he goes consistently for the concrete and vivid; when characters speak from within the set a maze of scaffolding covering the back wall, skillful lighting and mime make their spaces substantive rather than symbolic. Rather than trying to fill the vast mainstage with gimmickry--as direction after director has done--Magaril and choreographer Sabrina Peck simply fill it. Good blocking spreads actors to keep the open spaces under control. The full-company numbers sparkles with movement, much of it painstakingly researched to mirror actual on-the-job motions, an astonishing proportion of it in synch. And in Magaril...
...Michael Allinson is effective both as the possibly angelic, possibly diabolic Ghost (supported by amplified heartbeats) and as the First Player. Coe has solved the seeming redundancy of the dumb-show and play-within-a-play by conflating the two. While some of the brightly-garbed troupe of thespians mime the action, the First and Second Players forgo reciting their lines in favor of singing them with harp and guitar accompaniment (original music courtesy of Joe Griffiths...
...Shakespeare's. With in its emotional universe are found heroic legends and pathetic domestic tragedies, as well as broad comic treatments of such eternal human vagaries as drunkenness and adultery. Immediately accessible on the level of mime, it is nevertheless highly sophisticated, yielding its ultimate secrets- and thus pleasures- to those who have taken the time to study it. Its name once connoted "outlandish" or "eccentric," yet it literally means song-dance-skill. It is Kabuki...