Word: musically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saroyan was the U.S. father of the unmade play. The Time of Your Life was not carpentered but spilled out within the boozy confines of a San Francisco waterfront bar. It is a combination of mood music and action painting. In 1939, this was as disconcerting and puzzling to playgoers as Harold Pinter's plays have proved to be to more recent theater audiences...
...young minds with a pleasant barrage of sights, sounds and colors repeated over and over. Often the Muppets, ingenious hand puppets with all the comfortable soft sell of a favorite doll, talk about ideas. Short film clips are also used to great advantage, sometimes with bouncy bubble-gum rock music in the background...
...present moment appears to be one in which language has been surrendered as a possibility; we are silent at films, in music, among ourselves. We are living in silence. So it's no longer surprising that poetry, like our voices, has turned inward, listening to its own hermetic cadences. Poets in America, having no choice, have either sealed themselves within the tombs of universities, or become exiles in their own land, living far away from the sources of anxiety. To write is to survive...
PART OF THE attraction of rock music is hearing what we feel said in a mass way and in a different way. Hearing it sung out makes it stronger and more universal. Songs always strengthen movements...
MARC BLITZSTEIN wrote The Cradle Will Rock in 1937 as a radical "play in music" rather than a musical. The play is a theatrical examination of who controls American society. Since the American power structure hasn't changed much in 30 years, the current production at the Loeb Ex is still a relevant and exciting piece of theatre...