Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moon provided a legend of the theatrical kind that Gauguin himself invited. Here was an archetypal rebel against bourgeois civilization, who quit a prosperous job on the Paris Stock Exchange to find his true artistic self in Tahiti among brown innocents, baptized anew in coconut milk and liberated from his own and Europe's stale past by primitive ritual...
...TAHITI and Thrace and the world of all the People-all dreamlands? Perhaps, with Blitzstein, we will dare to hope that the last is something more...
...dance, allegory and symbol of Blitzstein's life and work, in which he strove to be a composer for the People. The program consists of two of his musical plays. "I've Got the Tune" and "The Harpies," both in their Boston premiere, and Leonard Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti," which was dedicated to Blitzstein...
Juliet Cunningham's creative direction refreshes Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti," performed at Sanders Theatre in 1939 and in 1952 at Brandeis, Stylistically indebted to Blitzstein, "Trouble in Tahiti" focuses on a bored suburban couple who seek entertainment from a movie about Tahiti...
...POSTERS are beginning to peel off the walls and the buttons are finding their way into trash cans or collectors' closets. Candidates and their wives are spread from Bermuda to Tahiti in post-campaign vacations. Victory has been claimed by both sides...