Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brandeis and Boston Conservatory were represented by student works, and Rhode Island College by a lengthier piece, "Celebrations," choreographed by former Limon dancer Clay Taliffero. A work by two students from the University of New Hampshire, "Energy Games," took up one theme with which Black and Morgenroth, too, were concerned--using energy as speedily as possible. Rather than structure their piece into a series of discrete events, as did the two established choreographers, Jeanette Rive and Christian Swenson blurred the lines of their choreography. One could never say what was happening at any exact moment. Costumed in gray leotards...
What results is a nicely staged mass confusion, in which allegiances and beliefs switch with a rapidity befitting Ionesco and the theater of the Absurd. This play is full of characters constantly theorizing and grappling with themselves on stage. It is here that a political theme begins to emerge that of interregnum Poland intellectualizing, searching itself, and finally resisting outside aggression...
Frenzy. After a stretch of bombs (Marnie, Topaz, Torn Curtain, it hurts to even list them) Hitchcock came up with this solid, funny, return to the theme which has obsessed him since the beginning of his 53 film career. Blackmail (1929) the first British talkie, dealt with the problem of an innocent man suspected of a murder he, of course, did not commit. Frenzy too, has a nabbed innocent--only by 1973 the crimes shown had grown more lurid and gruesome: rape and strangling (with neckties). Hitchcock seems to be leaning more and more to overt comedy in his second...
...such a fascinating book: the Rockefellers are a family totally obsessed with itself. They record everything. They fund major studies of themselves. In college, they write their theses about some aspect of the dynastic history. And at least since the first John D. made the family fortune, the major theme of each Rockefeller's life seems to have been figuring out where he or she fits into the scheme...
Whiteness is destructive, repressive and womanish; blackness is vital and masculine: this is the overriding theme of Ray Aranha's My Sister, My Sister. The play develops this theme, an insidious cliche to begin with, at excessive, repetitive length, finally vitiating the considerable talents of the cast...