Word: staging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter Weiss' play Marat/ Sade was explicitly based on a cryptic plot suggestion by Artaud. As directed by Brook, it proved to be one of the most fecund works in the contemporary theater. The naked backside of Marat has turned the stage into a kind of auxiliary nudist camp. The tormented, writhing chorus of the inmates at Charenton popularized choreographic stage movement in straight plays, and the eerie sounds and gestures have become the language of antiword drama...
...Woroner's joy at the success of his gimmick is equally unrestrained. Next September he will broadcast a play-off tournament between the "16 greatest college football teams of all time." In 1970, in conjunction with National Football League Films, he plans to stage Friday-night games between pro football teams. Also in the works is a project to animate still pictures of boxers so that the computerized fights can be moved to television. "And we could do more than sports," says Woroner. "Much more! Wars! Hitler's Germany against the Roman Empire! Napoleon versus Alexander the Great...
M.I.T.'s Department of Humanities yesterday cancelled two performances of the Living Theatre on the grounds that the large numbers of people crowding in the aisles and on the stage were a safety hazard...
...press release, the department stated that during Tuesday's performance of Paradise Now 500 members of the audience climbed up on the Kresge Auditorium stage, which legally holds...
Another Tech staffer added that the audience came close to riot when Jerome Y. Lettvin, professor of biology and electrical engineering, got up on stage to urge students to go home...