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...Your type of approach to what should go on in a theatre has included a rejection of most of the trappings of the traditional theatre. The Serpent is performed on a relatively bare stage with no costumes and a minimum of props and lighting. In the new productions. what have you done about these type of things...
...Janet Frame, history is a hereditary malignancy that engulfs the present and dooms the future to madness, loneliness and death. Intensive Care, her eighth novel, continues her preoccupation with the subject. At one point, she even spells history "hiss-tree," linking it uncomfortably with Eden's serpent. "All dreams," she writes, "lead back to the nightmare garden...
They do not live communally, but they stress self-revelation collectively and individually. In Serpent, the action moves from a stylized assassination of Kennedy to a series of personal reflections: "I have slept with men and women and with a man and a woman together but collapsed because I am a gentle person," says one actress. Another follows up, "I could have married a rich man and lived in a big house, but no, I'm a freak...
...SERPENT AND TERMINAL, the company's collective efforts, are very different plays, but both rely on this technique. Both are a "proposition" for the body andsoul. If I were to see either play again I would be bored with the routines and blackouts, since what energy they develop comes in part from the question, "What do they do next?" At the end of Serpent, for example, comes a surprise ending (which I will not reveal because it does not take place). As the actors sing, "We were sailing along, on moonlight bay," they drift out into the now ever...
...what? Did we see the garden of Eden a new? Death anew? Did we see anything? These plays, which are finally mute gestures, appropriately leave it all an Open Question. But at any rate take an hour-and-a-half to see any one of these plays (preferably Serpent ). They are political only by a broad stretch of the imagination, but they do stretch the imagination...