Word: timing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown disputed the outcome, complaining that the 2.2-second difference between its time and Harvard's was the result of a wake, left by a race-marshall's launch, that slowed them down. The Chairman of the Begatta Rowing Committee. Dr. Howard D. Mac??tyre, Jr., said he doubted that Brown's complaint would make a difference in the results...
Still, the show had a different flavor than it had when I saw it last spring. At that time, the original Proposition was running out of gas. The show had started with a small group of Harvard people, but the founder and original director, Jerome Leven, had left to form The Light Company, which had turned out to be as much of a flop as the Proposition has been a success. The cast was tired, and spent a lot of time anguishing over what was wrong. But the show kept going, and the laugh count, despite the problems, kept building...
...also worked on sense awareness. One day I told the group to be a donut. They spent a long time just standing in a circle until they began to understand doneness. Then we took bites away by having people leave the room, and we tried to understand at what point the donut stopped being a donut. Then I had them be the hole, then try to understand the difference between a jelly donut and a glazed donut. If you can understand how to convey 'donut' theatrically, you can play any character. Also we tried to understand what nonverbal communication means...
...finds working in Cambridge important because the city represents the very rationality that is choking us. "What's happening on stage must always be alive. That's why we don't have rehearsals anymore. The show is a dramatic moment, whose components are actors and an audience involved in time and space by what happens on stage. When an improvisation goes badly, the audience feels as badly as we do. So that dramatic moment cannot be approximated in a rehearsal...
...more wistful moments. Albert muses over the contradictions between what he wants The Proposition to be and what it is: "We live in a Beckett world, filling up time. The Proposition presents the games we play and simply satirizes them. It offers no way out, and in that, it is a theatre of desperation. But I'm not sure that theatre can ever be therapeutic. People come to laugh and be entertained. They want to see bedrooms and bathrooms, and that's what we give them in The Proposition...