Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus there is great emphasis in the first article entitled "Trip without a ticket' (all of them are unsigned) on the importance of demonstrations of the hippie life style. The diggers' term for themselves is life-actors and their means of communication is Guerilla Theater which "intends to bring audiences to liberated territory to create life-actors.", and whose plays "are glass-cutters for empire windows...
...particular, acting out Theater means, say, establishing free stores where everything belongs to everybody or nobody. "A store or goods or clinic or restaurant that is free becomes a social art form." Behind this heady jargon is the undeniable enchantment of a description of a free store...
This is why the diggers believe in teaching by example, believing as they do that the spark exists within each person and only needs to be re-kindled. That can only happen by a blinding event generated by the sort of shared experience that is provided by the guerrilla theater of the life actors, music, dance...
...Sacraments, which ensures the correct administration of the seven sacraments. Died. Richard Maney, 77, dean of Broadway pressagents, who in 50 years beat the drums for some 250 plays (including My Fair Lady, Camelot); of pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Gruff, unfailingly honest and highly literate, Maney assailed the theater for its "notorious affair with mediocrity," and engaged in monumental bouts with such employers as Orson Welles and Billy Rose. "Producing," he once said, "is the Mardi Gras of the professions- anyone with a mask and enthusiasm can bounce into it." Yet in his tart, tough way, he was fond...
...engaging conclusion, the author conjures up an evening at the theater to evoke what he likes best about France: the mocking, lighthearted spirit of Beaumarchais' Le Manage de Figaro. It was just such a Figaro-like nation, he says, young and insolent, that was able to teach France's two great traditions to the world: the hierarchic and the libertarian. "We taught kings how to be kings," exults Nourissier, "then taught the people how to rid themselves of kings." In the process, "France perfected a certain kind of man-quick, insolent, fired by his conquests and the vision...