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Rossellini in the shadows, Alice-in-Wonderland aghast with mock horror. He follows Louis's lead, loosening his camera to the dervishes of baroque pageantry, treating his subject with an iconic, reverential frontality. Only at the very end does he reassert himself. We see Louis at last in private. Suddenly the film is thrown back on the chaos of its own beginning. We see the spectre of Louis's future in the dying Mazarin. We see that even the Machiavellian Louis cannot escape the clutches of his own deceit. That his philosophy is made feasible only by what it ignores...
...well-balanced program which was commercially and critically successful, but also a company in the Experimental Theater. Somewhat misleadingly called "The Manhattan Project," the six actors and one director had worked together intensively for two years with apparently messianic indifference to commercial pressure. Their production of Alice in Wonderland, an hour and a half wonder but the result of fourteen months of work, deserved its success in Cambridge and now runs off Broadway. Their five week stay at the Loeb amounted to an out-of-town tryout, but consisted of giving-giving instruction, giving experience, rather than taking. There were...
...Alice in Wonderland has managed to exist outside of institutions like the Charles Playhouse, and Off Broadway, although it resides in these places from time to time. Perhaps an enterprise such as the Charles or the theaters around the Boston Common can no longer support any valuable theater. Even Jacques Brel has gone to a hotel cabarer, so far with little success. The experience of recent events shows that the most exciting theater occurs within non-profit institutions, where financial backing does not star, but rather the audience, actors and directors. Our perception and intense enjoyment are furthered, so that...
...remote and all but empty (pop. 430) county of Alpine, Calif., is a pristine wonderland of majestic peaks, verdant pine forests, and crystalline lakes nestled high in the rugged Sierra Nevada. From their isolation its residents have long gazed in amusement at doings of the urbanites below. Tough mountaineers, woodsmen and fishermen all, they have preserved the pioneer purity of their independent existence. Now that existence stands threatened, and by as unlikely a force as could be imagined-the militant homosexuals of the Gay Liberation Front...
...work like Alice in Wonderland is mythic as well as classic. Director Andre Gregory has put his finger on the aspects of myth that pulse in all men. Always a director of flashing and flamboyant resourcefulness, Gregory has now taken a stride in depth. His Alice in Wonderland lays bare the primordial, psychogenetic sources of man's visceral and abiding need for theater...