Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everything printed on a dollar bill. But the troupe is obviously happiest with horror, since that best expresses its dissent from contemporary society. Its tour de force is a 31-hour Grand Guignol saga called Frankenstein, which begins with eleven people being dragged screaming, pleading or fighting to the stage. There they are gassed, crucified, electrocuted, and garroted...
Through a grisly stage illusion, play-goers not only see a man guillotined but watch his head fall into a basket. To conclude this opening maelstrom of mayhem, Dr. Frankenstein opens the coffin of a dying girl for an operation to remove her beating heart and thus begin his monster. The spectacle is vivid enough to sicken some audiences, but Alan Brien, drama critic of London's Sunday Telegraph, insists that "the sequence is an eyeopener to those who believe the theater cannot match the cinema in projecting images of violence and pain...
...voice, orchestra, acting and settings into a perfect expressive unity, a "total artwork." That phrase could very nearly describe Austrian-born Herbert von Karajan. At 59, Von Karajan not only is the world's foremost conductor but concerns himself with every aspect of his epic productions, including direction, stage design, lighting. Head of the Berlin Philharmonic, director of the Easter and summer festivals at Salzburg, Von Karajan last week added the Metropolitan Opera to his realm by conducting and staging Die Walküre, first item in a new Ring that he will produce at the Met over...
...crowd roars as Barbra, its Barbra, comes on the outdoor stage. She, in a flowing pink gown, is but a twinkling spot in the distance. Around her, her lovers, who listen together to her voice. "There couldn't be 135,000 people," says Commissioner Heckscher, "They'd all have to be embracing. But then a lot of them...
...hope. The Jazzmobile, a small pickup truck whose back has been converted into a stage, drives into a "play street" in Central Harlem. The street is closed to traffic; in its squalor the children play...