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The production itself is fairly interesting, with a bare, three-sided stage and an ingenious arrangement of hanging props that drop to signal scene changes. Even the proficient technical direction, however, fails to shed much light on the subject.
The well-known choreographer Alvin Nikolais, speaking at Harvard earlier this spring, mentioned that his work with masks and body-distorting props in the early fifties allowed him and his dancers to lose their self-conscious mannerisms and to gain access to a deeper source of movement-imagination. It seems...
Scenario teases out the human in the same way, but with smaller-than life, stylized projections of the dancers--non-skeletons, Klee-like stick figures. The dancers improvise as a group with the sounds of arguing-laughing and laughing-crying. They're cut short again and again as striking visual...
Would-be spectators lined up before dawn in order to be among those allowed to pass through the weapons-screening device set up outside the cramped courtroom. The trial, said one lawyer-spectator, had all the elements of theater?"a script, actors, wardrobe, props." The trial should clear up at...
Three sweat-suit-clad prisoners invoke their fate and will with caresses, sudden scraps and the dancing-out of a killing. These toughs have a strangely romantic side; they tell about wanting to change into a rose after stealing or about being distracted from the tell-tale blood of a...