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...Pageant Players-who will perform in the Quincy House Dining Room-helped to lead a vanguard in the radical theatre movement of the late '60's, when they united to present plays with a radical politico-cultural focus to the audience of the streets. They work in mime, sometimes narrated, with very little dialogue, relying heaily upon movement, sound, music, masks, and props. The troupe develops its material through collective improvisation-spontaneously generating new ideas to suit changing political environments-as their plays assume substantive significance in particular daily and geographic contexts...
...Pageant Players deal with the themes of war, alienation, sex, education, the destruction of the natural environment, and the oppression that they view as encroaching upon their daily lives. Using images derived from their bodies, stage movements, sounds, and props, they attempt to depict "what is beautiful in the world, while describing the forces that would destroy that beauty." In addition to their theatre, the company also offers open workshops on "deobfusticating the mystique of the artist," image-making expressive of inner and outer realities, street theatre, and mind-body exercises to break down "intellectual-motional-physical inhibitions and generate...
...peculiarly harrowing, morbid anxiety. It is as familiar to the little boy in the second-grade pageant as it is to the Broadway star; the soldier at roll call suffers from it, and so does the speaker at a Rotary luncheon. The stomach churns. The hands sweat. The mouth goes dry and the mind goes blank. Down comes a curtain of helpless despair. The victim wishes he could be somewhere, anywhere else-now. But he cannot be: the audience is waiting...
Question of Belief. Clark's idea was that the series should be not just a Cook's tour of the greatest art museums, monuments, cities and plazas of Europe and America, but a visual account of Western man's entire pageant, from the first tentative re-emergence of art and philosophy under Charlemagne to the "heroic materialism" of today...
...Luther, and now A Patriot for Me. The plays are seriously defective-partly because Osborne's own voice is badly muffled, and partly because he cannot work up the passion to breathe an inner life into these works. A further drawback is that he has a high-school-pageant idea of history. Everything moves episodically, in jerky vignettes, with time as a cardboard backdrop. The characters are not immersed in history, they merely wear it like a costume...