Word: shows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There was no gun battle. It was a massacre. But these attacks show the weakness and fear of the system, not strength." said Audrea Jones, a member of the Boston Black Panthers...
EVER SINCE I made the mistake of going to see a Hasty Pudding Show, 12 Holyoke Street has been haunted for me-infested by a ghostly chorus line of clubbiesin-drag. The pool tables, leather armchairs, and antique posters survive. but that chorus line has been exorcised forever by Lindsay Crouse and the Cambridge Dance Company. Miss Crouse's production, Winter, General Clearance of Evils at the Beginning of is as ambitious as its title, and, almost incvitably, sometimes falls short of its goals. But when it succeeds it does more than create moments of beauty and excitement; it fuses...
What reason there is behind this show's musical rhymes is really just an excuse to throw together a potpourri of characatures: Rosalinda (Martha Ecclestone), the lead soprano, is a kind of Tricia Nixon who let her hair down: Alfred (Neil Cohen) is her would-be lover, a tenor with an endearing Bela Lugosi accent: then, there is Rosalinda's husband (Peter Kazaras), who is rather too confused to ever realize he's being cuckolded; and, finally. Adele (Leslie Luxemburg), as a chambermaid gone actress, and Frank (Bob Noonoo), as a jail-keep gone marquis. What the women occasionally lack...
...emphasize the fact that the actors give, because their power of giving was immense. It was irresistible; I think even the dead would have to respond. And the actors' dedication to giving is here because of the theories director Moss has used for guidance in his show-those of Jerzy Grotowski. she now-famous mentor of the Polish Laboratory Theatre...
...difficult to describe. It is not shocking in the way the Living Theatre is shocking (nor is it at all like the Living Theatre, for that matter), but it is different from probably anything you have seen in a theatre before. From beginning to end, the actors run the show. They adjust the lights, they move the furniture, they control the play: they dance, they sing, they scream, they make animal noises...