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HUNGER AND THIRST is a new play by Eugene lonesco in its U.S. première at the Berkshire Theater Festival, Stockbridge, Mass. (July 16-26). A complex work in three episodes that traces a man's lifelong search for joy and truth, it is also a spectacular that includes music by Richard Peaslee (Marat/Sade), elements of choreography by Julie Arenal (Hair), monumental sets by William Pitkin and a cast of 35, including James Patterson, Ruth Ford, William Prince and Virginia Kiser. Ionesco is in residence to give Director Arthur Storch the benefit of his own interpretation...
...JOHNNY CASH SHOW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The Country Music Man gets off to a larruping start with Bob Dylan, Fannie Flagg, Joni Mitchell and Doug Kershaw. Premi...
...Terretektorh (one of the coined Greek words that he uses to title his pieces), the musicians blow whistles, rattle maracas, clap wooden blocks and crack small whips besides coaxing unearthly sounds from conventional instruments. As in Terretektorh, the entire orchestra will be scattered throughout the audience during the world première of Nomos Gamma at France's Royan Festival next month. Perhaps his most extraordinary composition is Stratégic, which introduces mathematical game theory to the concert hall. Two full orchestras and two conductors literally duel for points on the same stage by improvising combinations in accordance...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Companions in Nightmare. Première of a made-for-TV motion picture about an experiment in group therapy that ends in murder. Stars Melvyn Douglas, Anne Baxter and William Redfield...
...showed portions of the Saul Bass documentary Why Man Creates. To probe the provocative title theme, Bass, a master of the film short, stunningly mixed cartoons, bouncing ping-pong balls and interviews with scientists. Produced for Kaiser Aluminum, the film hardly needed a magazine format for its television premi...