Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London stage mirrors the transatlantic crisis in theater. Appraising current English offerings, TIME'S drama critic T. E. Kalem finds that established playwrights are mute or faltering, while younger talents fail to fulfill their promise. There is a constant tremor of faddish experiments, but no significant explosion of creative energy. The measure of how much is expected of the stage is that everyone complains...
...postage-stamp stage, a man and a woman appear, wearing only card board and painted fig leaves. The woman also wears a black rubber bra with red rims designed to resemble huge sunglasses. What follows is verbal love play and a kind of spoofy striptease in which the twosome gingerly play on the supposed skittishness of the audience. After a mock wedding ceremony in front of a barber pole ("Do you, Pandy, take this girl Mandy, because she is randy?"), a climactic libation scene occurs. Pandy and Mandy put on green mitts the size of baseball gloves and sponge each...
...play's end, a man and a woman-who have seemed to be members of the audience-sedately remove all their clothes and saunter behind the curtain at the rear of the stage. After one performance, the woman came up for a snack in the cafe restaurant...
Janis Joplin is hooked. She has to turn on almost every night. "I'm on an audience trip," she says. "When I go on stage to sing, it's like the 'rush' that people experience when they take heavy dope. I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me. Sex is the closest I can come to explaining it, but it's more than sex. I get stoned from happiness. I want to do it until it isn't there any more...
Even Ramblin Jack Elliot, an established and respected member of the folk community, could not resist the temptation to incorporate the elecric into his act--during his set in the Saturday night concert he brought two members of Taj Mahal's blues band on stage to accompany him on a number they obviously had not rehearsed beforehand...