Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from New York as the newest novelty in party giving and fund raising. Society matrons talk glibly of happenings over cocktails; actors who have never seen one are beginning to stage them. Whereas the first happenings were planned down to the last syllable and step (one Kaprow script read: "Walks to within 3 ft. of person seated opposite, stops here for seven seconds"), the latter-day copies are undisciplined free-for-alls. Sex, once a piquant accent, is now a main course...
...assume that our society has sensed this unpredictability. Look at the number of insurance com panies." In the future, he hopes to get his messages across more directly by making his audience an active part of his art. He plans to use more under-glass movies, to script mechanical happenings. "The idea is not to make man into a robot," he says, "but to make him feel free in a world of machines...
...GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. An Italian Communist, Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, vividly re-creates the world and work of Christ with a cast of non-professional actors, a script taken line for line from Scripture, and a blessed absence of the usual conventions...
...lads look in on The Lion in Winter, they'll simper themselves silly. James Gollman's play, which has something to do with Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, is vintage 1932 costume jewelry, so bad it's...well, bad. Inevitably, copies of the script will find their way to the shelves of TRUC, where they should nestle comfortably between the lunchpail ties and the back numbers of Combat Kelly...
Afro-Islamic Harlems. The Dreams of Reason proceeds like a script for a dream film in 112 numbered but un-spliced sections. The action is arbitrary and apparently motiveless. The identities of the characters and/or freaks are seen for the first time, but they are recognizable as old friends or enemies, and the most bizarre events are totally credible. The question of truth never arises; it is only the interpreter of the dream who is confused. The reader -or dream interpreter -will have to sup ply his own factual journalism...