Word: warms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Formally, under Cooper's direction, the cast was "warming up." At each rehearsal the warm-up takes a different shape; each time, different members of the cast (and sometimes Cooper) lead them. Warm-ups begin with a lot of jumping up and down, a lot of shouting, and a lot of grunting. Slowly, and not surrpisingly, the actors get tired. And with their systems exhausted by jumping shouting and granting, they lie down. That much is very easy -- it's a way of ridding yourself of a lot of minor annoyances that build up in your mind and your body...
That people exercise and warm up before a rehearsal does not seem very odd. Athletes do it all the time. But implicit in the kinds of exercises Cooper's cast has been doing is a concept of acting very different from what has often been common in the past. Perhaps it can best be called "gut" acting...
...genesis. But the sources of American democracy have never been well understood. When in the late nineteenth century Frederick Jackson Turner, a Harvard professor of History, came out with his thesis attributing the growth of democracy to the influence of the frontier environment, it was greeted with warm applause, then critically torn to shreds. Yes, America had developed its own brand of democracy the critics agree; but, no, the "frontier" thesis was not an accurate analysis of its growth. Since that time no single work has appeared to unravel the somewhat mysterious evolution of American democracy...
Nobody wanted more beer. They walked outside. Autumn slithered from the sky and along the sidewalks. It was warm. The three walked into a park and sat on a bench with the pigeons. Mirna studied Nathan's profile...
There is little spare money at Blood, which is located in a loft on what must be one of the most apocalyptically dark streets in the world. The playhouse is bare and chilly, but if Blood can get an audience to come in and warm the place up, it might yet develop its blossoming sickness into a grossly wonderful malignancy...