Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike most Ex directors who put props on the floor for a set and use the moveable black flats only to separate the playing area from whatever wing space is necessary, Babe and designer William Schroeder have built a small raised stage in the theatre, a rectangular room open to the audience on two sides. The Ex's seat-wagons are placed directly in front of the two open sides, so that the audience becomes in effect the two missing walls, and The Pelican thereby achieves intimacy and involves the audience. The conditions are close to ideal for Strindberg...
...with actuarial certainty, that before very long virtually the entire top-leadership group will disappear during a relatively brief period, with results that will be felt at every level of the country." The leadership's ideas are also aging. Practically all of the top men are first-stage revolutionaries who made the Long March, the retreat from Chiang Kai-shek's armies for 6,000 miles from east China to the barren northwest in 1934-35. They are afflicted with the "Yenan complex"-a belief in absolute, rigid adherence to the methods by which they survived and ultimately...
...only 130 kilotons. The Atomic Energy Commission found traces of lithium 6, a thermonuclear material right enough, but the major element in the explosion was enriched uranium-the same as in Peking's two earlier tests. China's first H-bomb will probably be a triple-stage fission-fusion-fission monster of the same "dirty" quality as the giant Khrushchevian 40-megaton bombs that were exploded prior to the 1963 test ban. Those bombs are too big to be delivered by missile warheads...
...borne immigrants started Britain's 1962 epidemic of the more virulent and deadly form of the disease, variola major, that claimed 62 victims and caused 24 deaths. Suddenly, Britain, which had abolished compulsory vaccination in 1948, had to scrap its small annual vaccination budget of $650,000 and stage a $3,800,000 crash campaign. Since then, there have been half a dozen outbreaks in Europe. Today, although Britain has tightened its rules, there is still no universal vaccination. Traveling Britons find themselves in the embarrassing position of being required to get vaccinated before they can enter Spain...
...bodies to look like snails, then toadstools. By the projection of silhouettes on a backdrop, a slip of a girl was transformed into a creature of menace, revealing refinements of line unnoticed in the round. In the final act, the ten-member company, chattering like chimps, cavorted about the stage with sections of aluminum tubing, which they suddenly fashioned into a 16-ft.-high Tower of Babel with flags emblazoned IBM, A.M.A. and CBS. The results were at once fast, funny and evocative glimpses of man as both the victor and the victim of his environment...