Word: mimes
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...what lines the character does have. The female lead, Susan Channing, as the Devil, superb actress she is, was so wonderfully bratty, saucy and puckish that it is hard to imagine what liberties she will take when she has fully mastered her part. Michael Dobbson clowns splendidly in a mime of Jonah and the whale--a mime set to cello music in a kind of Mayeresque Peter and the Wolf...
...instead of being borne away to their doom they act out in pantomime (to the accompaniment of claves) their impalement on wooden poles by three guards, turning on their knees to the audience with hands upstretched and then collapsing to the ground. Fair enough--but then the whole silent mime is gone through twice more, which is just plain silly...
SFMT--that stands for San Francisco Mime (pronounce it "meem") Troupe, and they came to Harvard yesterday to help the revolution. After marching to the Loeb as the "SFMT Gorilla Band," and holding a brief rally-concert to greet Faculty members, they marched back to the Mem Church steps where a more receptive audience was waiting...
...Mime Troupe began their performance with a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," to which the omnipresent "Polish Freedom Fighter" lent his lusty baritone when he felt they were doing it less than justice. They followed it with several gutter puppet shows, and a skit satirizing the press...
...demonstrate, dancer Joan Blackmer--next to Miss Hahn, the troupe's most mature and accomplished performer--rudely pushed a chair across the stage. Then she repeated exactly the same gesture without the chair: we had passed to mime. Finally, again without the chair, she abstracted the gestures, exaggerating them, extending the slow, speeding up the fast, using her whole body to carry out a movement which her foot or her arm had performed alone. Now we had dance. The company passed through the same elaborations to show the use of space, time, and energy. Finally, combining these elements and varying...