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Much of the production depends on mime, on suggesting rather than acting out. There are no props: even Caesar's mantle, which Antony addresses in his funeral oration, is made out of empty air. The assassination and battle scenes are elaborately choreographed and acted out tableaux, replete with ritualistic mock blows and falls. Somehow, they work in a way that a literal reading of the script never could. The scene of Caesar's ghost, mocking the actions of the servant as he holds the sword on which Brutus falls is utterly chilling, as no prop-ridden version could...
...first problem dissolved after he built a mock-up of the Zlin's front seat (the pilot sits in the rear) and found that his family could just fit in. Last week he packed them all into the aircraft for the first time and tried to take off from a meadow near Prague. The overloaded Zlin did not even get off the ground. Undaunted, Bezak brashly tried again from the airport, where the runway offered a longer takeoff stretch. The little plane finally wobbled into the air and Bezak circled the airfield a couple of times...
BOUND TO VIOLENCE, by Yambo Ouologuem. A young Mali novelist's exuberant mock epic of the bloody history of a real but imaginary African empire...
...formal announcement is when you do it in the Senate caucus room with your family at your side. I don't know what to call this one." With this characteristic bit of mock diffidence, Minnesota's Eugene J. McCarthy revealed at a Boston news conference late last week that he was-"de facto, de jure"-again a candidate for the presidency. The poet, professor and paladin of politics also confirmed that he had assented to the establishment of a McCarthy-for-President committee in Massachusetts...
...frames it within several other stories. The main one deals with a seedy repertory troupe that is performing The Boy Friend somewhere in the English provinces. This device enables Russell not only to show the troupe onstage doing scenes from the show but at the same time affectionately to mock the whole genre of backstage musicals...