Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Certainly Lawrence Senelick, who directed Flea in Her Ear and Women Beware Women, has his people, especially a dedicated and erudite stage manager, Dave Brownell...
BESIDES LOVE of theatre, the chance to work with people and collaborate moves these two artists to design for the stage rather than sticking to pure plastic art. As Cutler put it, "Just painting along in the basement of Mem Hall isn't all that much...
Clique or not, that certainly was a terrifyingly impressive, distant and coherent group of people. It was the same Tim Mayer-Thomas Babe directed group that Howard Cutler worked with, and included comedian Stephen Kaplan '68, stage manager Victoria Traube '68, and producer and HDC president Honor Moore '67, Peter Jaszi '68, and Michael Boak '69, among others...
...Cutler said, working with the group long enough allowed thing to be built on what had been done before. They developed a "vocabulary" for working with Agassiz' small stage--the false proscenium, thrusts and rakes--all of which have served heirs to the stage...
...equipment of the huge main-stage, which can hold anything, at first seems heaven for a designer; the possibilities are unlimited. But they aren't. Randy Darwall noted that "you can't fill it, and when you try the results are grotesque." And for that reason you have to deal with lots of negative spaces. Howard Cutler mentioned that it's "so theoretically flexible that you have to design the theatre first." The theatre is "insoluble and something always screws up" every...