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...Ritual usually develops out of unsatisfied material needs, and the subsequent desire to transcend want. Tribal rain dances were a plea to whatever controlled the material welfare of the people. The Mass represents a similar dissatisfaction with mundane needs, if only because they have been left unsatisfied, and the desire to build a larger world where such want is insignificant...
...Living Theater−is also stripping the Tired Old Theatergoer to his pre-prop basics. Audiences bored with seeing curtains go up on living rooms that imitate their own will find themselves confronted by inner rather than outer realities. Chaikin says that he is striving toward "a theater of ritual dreams, phantoms, clowns, monsters." In other words, the pure joys, and terrors, of make-believe...
...Right. Here is a ritual the spectator is being led through-we're guides. In Terminal we talked about being as well, but not quite in the same way. Terminal is really a meditation. It's our meditation of death as a political metaphor. We have come to the point of calling on the audience to meditate on the same themes. A meditation, it seems to me, can be very, very active, one can run, can jog and be meditating, and one can be lying flat on the ground and doing a yoga exercise and also be meditating. What seems...
...talking about what you in the Open Theatre are doing as individuals. What place do you think theatre itself can have-that is what you are doing on stage? When you made an announcement every night about the Panthers that became a part of your dramatic ritual. How do your polities affect your whole presentation...
...beguiled by an Indian maiden named Running Deer (Corinna Tsopei). The only way to bed her is to wed her, he reasons, and to do that he must earn a place in the home of the braves. To prove his prowess, Morgan takes the Sun Vow, a masochistic ritual in which he is hoisted twelve feet above the earth, dangling by blades thrust into his pectoral muscles. He wins Running Deer, and eventually his freedom, but not before a series of unnatural tragedies destroys much of the tribe and all of his new-found identity...