Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summertime fare at country playhouses always includes a sprinkling of new works, some by established authors testing ideas for Broadway, but most of them by relatively unknown writers, who otherwise might not see their efforts on stage. Either way, it makes for adventuresome theatergoing...
...made the most of the fact that Cardillac is swifter and more dramatic than Hin demith's later operas. The elements cooperated too: distant thunder rumbled over the Rio Grande Valley as a vengeful Paris mob killed Cardillac, and through the wide opening at the rear of the stage, the near-capacity audience of 1,100 could see lightning flickering above the blue Jemez Mountains. Hin demith's complex melodies were traced with clarity and polish by a well-schooled, predominantly American cast, notably Baritone John Reardon, whose demented Cardillac was powerful dramatically as well as vocally...
...course of this brief trot into the world of Brecht, the Caravan Theater Company makes some well-meaning attempts to find an appropriate mood. The lines of the stage and of the portable sets are simple and clean. The actors present the material briskly and without complication. In the first part of the evening excerpts from various plays and poems are recited by members of the company. The bulk of the evening is devoted to a shortened version of Man is Man, the story of how a timid Indian is transformed into the terror of the British Colonial Army...
...Caravan Theater is allegedly an experimental enterprise, but Director Edelson's only experiment in this production is pushing nine actors onto the stage and having them try to act without any critical guidance...
Unfortunately, this section also houses a sadly inevitable crowd of young hangers-on and would-be-professional musicians. These are the people who feel compelled to exhibit the superiority of their musicianship to that of the performers on stage by means of a running commentary of giggles, frowns, snickers and between-the-movements explanations of how that melody really should have been phrased...