Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THEATER...
...forth productions that were awash with romanticist naturalism-gingerbread houses, magical forests and peasant maids. Wieland Wagner twice tried to replace all this with fresh approaches. In 1956, he staged the work as a spare, poetically brooding vision, in 1963, as an authentic but highly mannered recreation of Shakespearean theater...
Another school of architects feels that a building ought to tell what is going on beneath its skin. The antic conglomeration of bumps, bulges and concavities of the Morris Mechanic Theater in Baltimore fairly shouts that the play's the thing?and also divulges stair towers and mechanical equipment spaces. With its fortress style, the Boston city hall states another simple truth: that city governments are under constant attack...
Strength by Contact. Tactile liturgy is taking hold in several other areas of the U.S. Boston's Arlington Street Unitarian Church held a service this spring in which members of a local theater workshop, eyes closed and feigning blindness, moved through the pews to be helped along by parishioners' hands. A seminarian at the Chicago Theological Seminary, Kent Schneider, recently designed a service for his own wedding that turned into a chain of personal contact. After kissing each other, both bride and bridegroom kissed another member of the wedding party on the cheek, and the cycle was continued...
...this era of shock theater, it is hard to realize that there were mellow days of social comedy, when moral and political dilemmas were discussed in the drawing room with reason and wit. In the '30s, Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was the master of the form (Rain from Heaven, No Time for Comedy). Now 75, he has applied the formula to his first novel, and it is as well-turned and entertaining as his best plays...