Word: staging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncertainty and doubt it is all too easy for students to latch on to a certain philosophy and use it as their panacea. Too often this philosophy becomes dogma, blinds its proponents to other viewpoints, and leads them to the all or nothing stage. It is then that the intellectual process breaks down, and a meaningful and productive interplay of ideas, which is so desperately needed now, ceases. I can only hope that both students and administrators will never be afraid to open themselves continually to self-doubt and self-questioning-to break the gel that means stagnation and, ultimately...
...whose knifeedged I beams starred in the Guggenheim Museum's sculpture show last year. Then there is the Robert Morris who electrified Buffalonians at the 1965 Festival of the Arts by a "dance" in which he and a female partner inched across the stage, locked in embrace and clad only in mineral...
Although Buswell's usual obtrusive stage mannerisms were curiously more restrained than usual, he still indulged in a great deal of theatrical breathing and a series of almost grotesque attempts at beatific smiles at moments whose exquisiteness he seemed particularly desirous of pointing out to the audience. The trouble with these antics is threefold: they are aurally and visually distracting, especially in a room the size of the Kirkland JCR; they are didactic and insulting to an audience generally capable of appreciating Bach's subtleties on its own; and, most important, they are bound to distract a performing musician from...
...Mayer's stagings share space in Howard Cutler's handsome, structural set with four impressive short films by Tim Hunter, a brief slide sequence by David McClelland, and some fascinating footage taken by a recent American traveller to Hanoi. For once, mixed media is something more than convenient compromise. On this catholic stage, it does not seem improbable that Nathan Pusey and Che Guevara should meet to discuss the role of youth and the values of revolution, and in fact, in a dialogue excerpted from their writings, the two gentlemen seem occasionally to agree uncomfortably well...
...cast, by the by, is worth the price of admission in itself. I will term Thomas Babe a gifted mimic, Susan Channing an actress of tremendous range, Dean Gitter the possessor of one of the most authoratitive stage presences about, Tommy Lee Jones an actor with a true gift for insightful readings, Stephen Kaplan a protean comic figure, and Marilyn Pitzele a remarkable dramatic and comic singer. Each term will fit the rest of the cast as well, and as may well be imagined, the permutations are incredible. I leave you to work out the details...