Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dave Hammond opens the show with a repertoire of show tunes. This could be grim, but Hammond is from Dudley House and knows where it's at when it comes to Broadway. He isn't about to sing of hills alive with the sound of music. Rather, he launches into some of the great obscure and near-obscure songs of our time...
This is "The Sound," from which they have fled their previous apartment downstairs-an apartment where, it seems, they had more rooms and possessions. But only Daughter Zenobia (Meg Foster) acknowledges this; Mother and Father refuse to admit that anything has really changed. Zenobia, too, is the only one who mentions the existence of It-a silent creature, swathed in slings and bandages, who skulks along the floor, in corners and under tables, and is intermittently kicked, whipped, stabbed, slapped and kneed in the groin by both husband and wife, without provocation or comment...
...also a novelist, poet, composer, translator, jazz trumpeter and engineer, obviously owed much to the work of Franz Kafka. Ordinary, everyday characters are beset and beleaguered by fantastic circumstances beyond their control-neither exactly allegorical nor neatly symbolic -which fill them with dread. As the play progresses, The Sound drives the increasingly unsettled father into even smaller and poorer apartments. The members of the menage disappear one by one, until he is left alone with his battered, tacit adversary, known (in the program) as The Schmurz. What is The Schmurz-the awful awareness of one's own death...
Dubious as this defense may sound, it is in part based on fact. Dennis Oppenheim was invited by the Yale School of Architecture to design ways in which earth evacuated for superhighways could be molded or mounded. Robert Morris has received a $10,000 commission from the students of Northwestern University to landscape a landfill between the campus and Lake Michigan. As for his mix at the Dwan Gallery, Morris has priced it at $3 a pound. If no buyers show up, he could not care less. Right now what rivets him is the beauty of the butterscotch-colored grease...
...there is Al Vellucci, in his own element, filling the room with sound, rocking on the balls of his feet as he speaks, gesturing sharply with his right hand. "I'm no lawyer," he begins, "and I don't understand all this fancy language. Sure I'll go for 'expansion' rather than 'growth.' But I do want to say here that I will support any program, any program at all, no matter what you call it, see, that gives rent-control to the poor and brings in low-cost housing for the people who need it most--just so long...