Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STAYING ALIVE must be a struggle for legitimate theater in Boston; a trip to the Charles Playhouse will convince you of that. You walk past some of the city's most picturesquely seedy boarding houses to get there, and during intensely quiet moments on stage, boistrous music from the night club next door throbs through the walls. The management has decided to charge major league prices but can only provide pony league leg-room and ventilation...
...more playful item, about half a dozen members of the cast do a kind of jungle gavotte. With kangaroo hops, lion growls and peacock flutterings, they imitate and invent animals. Each actor performs feats of remarkable physical agility. Quite possibly, the Living Theater's eventual fame may rest on throwing out Stanislavsky in favor of the R.C.A.F. manual...
Most of the Living Theater's pieces are exercises in the manipulation of crowd emotions. Whatever does not actively irritate is designed to produce a kind of mesmeric communal hysteria. One piece finds Julian Beck sitting cross-legged in the middle of the stage. In a voice of clerical monotony, he says "Stop the wars, now." Cast members in the aisles shout back in unison, "Stop the wars, now!" He repeats the phrase half a dozen times as the audience response grows in force. Then he switches to "Freedom-now," and on through a litany of total dissent...
...American flavor and a classical-tinged guitar backing. That musical hybrid is José Feliciano. In recent weeks his single release of Light My Fire and his LP entitled Feliciano! have both spun high on the bestseller charts. He has drawn cheering, sellout crowds to performances at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He seems to be in demand everywhere, for television shows, movie sound tracks, personal appearances...
PROBABLY the best selection of posters psychedelic is at the slick but very good Truc-in-the-Alley Poster Gallery, behind the Brattle Theater. Others are scattered all over groovy Cambridge, with some interesting ones at the Harvard Square Art Center near Inman Square on Mass. Ave., a few blocks from the Union...