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Althea chronicles the divorce of Muldoon-Adam from Fantasy-Eve. A slow divorce--it spans the late 1950s through 1973. It's a long book that moves as slowly and richly as a pageant, sometimes presenting vivid tableaus such as Muldoon's chance meeting with Norma after years apart--he no longer recognizes the dope-smoking, guerilla-garbed literary lioness Norma has become...
...work which pulled these concern together, This is the Story of Woman Who... (1973), presented changing tableaus of a man and woman in domestic settings. A third observer and projected slides with printed text supplied narration. Alternating with the script were stills from Hitch-cock's Psycho, photos from the performers' family albums, and snaps of familiar landmarks. Rainer included "Trio A" from The Mind is a Muscle along with references from other earlier works--a red ball, books, a gift, mattresses. (She conveniently schematizes these motifs in an appendix, "Etymology of objects, configurations and characters...
When Hamlin is working with only two or three actors he is able to create striking tableaus and make the best use of Peter Agoos's elegantly simple set and Will Durfee's evocative lighting. But he seems unsure of how to cope with larger groups, and scenes that involve crowds or depend on a lot of motion become confused and frenetic...
...ONLY the painter who controls space and form but also the dancer who can assemble or dismantle his tableaus repeatedly. Last night's five works performed by the Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) from the University of Utah were a retrospective of dance tableaus that took the audience from ceilings of Italian basilicas to the modernist galleries of New York's Museum of Modern Art The artists as choreographers were more than competent; the artists as dancers, controlled and beautiful...
These two moments were lifted out of time and lent a significance beyond the surrounding circumstances. They were tableaus, which might well have stood for similar incidents that Shakespeare did not have time to show. Nor were Hermione's attentions to Polixenes anything to be sniffed at: they were real, too real, and, even presented as normal incidents. would have been ample cause for jealousy. These moments gave him a king's share of time in which to corrupt his initially pure nature...