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SOMEBODY IN the Mudhead Masks acting troupe designs a mean papier-mache horsehead, but he neglected to make sure the horse's socks matched. As a result, Dan Rice's Wife Maggie's Incredible Educated Horse, as it capers about reading the hour off Dan's gold watch, displays a pair of red socks, a pair of lavender, and a pair of polka-dot. Not exactly your prime specimen of pre-Civil War humor...
...corruption of his are through vaudeville elements, his debilitating competition with the evil Dr. Paradisio, and the disfavor that came with more "modern" times and from which he was lifted by a political cartoonist who saw in his comical flag-garbed figure the embodiment of the American spirit. The Mudhead Masks, a Cambridge based troupe, are clearly adopt at the kind of fluid hijinks and simple, obvious laugh grabbers that keep this stuff bouncing along, and David Zucker, as Dan, is a superb enough clown to carry the evening singlehandedly, much as the old entertainer might have done. His command...
Tonight at the Loeb Mainstage, two mimes will escape the abstractions of their art--plain costumes and stark white faces--to combine international and dramatic traditions in Mudhead Masks. Exploring the concept of the clown, the skits will draw from the traditions of classical mime, commedia dell'arte, and masked theater. Masks, carved by village craftsmen in Bali, are astonishing, capturing the essense of frog or the vitality of laughter. The Mudheads, Pueblo Indian clowns in the American southwest, contribute a name and a philosophy, that clowning can be both a communal and a moral experience. The performers, both graduates...
...Mudhead Masks--mime and mask comedy, Loeb Mainstage...
Something Alive. In the kiva of the Koshare troop, a capacity crowd of 400 watched while the dances began with the ceremonial lighting of a fire. Soon the Mudheads bounded in. The Mudheads are idiot children born of a god's incestuous union with his sister; their sack-like masks with doughnut-shaped eyes and mouth are hideous and their movements are wild and grotesque. The touch of a Mudhead can drive a good man sex-mad, say the Zuñis, and they shrink before their threatening leaps and insane gyrations. Later in the evening the Shalakos...
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