Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HERE is a second component in Meyer's greatness. At a time when the sex cinema seems increasingly preoccupied with all kinds of perversions-whips and bestiality and white slavery and homo-sexuality and the rest-Meyer comes on as an evangelist for good old boy-meets-girl relations. All the sexual action of the film centers on normal-if energetic-heterosexual encounters between ever-so-consenting adults...
...WENT to see Albert at The Proposition's new office to find out what had happened. He is attractive, if slightly ferocious looking, and seems to have a theater person's compulsive need to create; he is capable of seeing a sexual component in almost everything he or anyone else does. He is working now at the Yale Drama School and is writing a thesis on "sex in the theater...
With the cast of The Proposition, a Living Theater approach seemed unreasonable. So Albert worked with the cast, using sensitivity training, bio-mechanics, and games therapy, which he admits are non-sexual substitutes. "We played games because The Proposition is about games. 'Dating Bar' [one of the skits in the show] is only a very sophisticated game between frightened people. To help our improvisational skills, we played 'ghosts,' which shows you that you've got to link words together...
Albert sees this sort of approach to the theater as part of a fight everywhere for humanness. He sees what he does as linked with the sexual revolution, radical polities and drugs. He 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...
...which is what we're seeing today. For example, if one wants to see a prick on stage, one wants to see an creation. A limp phallus means nothing, and it's unattractive. And because of that, I Am Curious, Yellow and Oh Calcutta! are Antarctic and anti-sexual. But on the other hand, what is on the stage must be one step away from reality, and that one step is what separates art from life. We want something halfway between reality and fantasy. And thus when the first real stage fuck happens, you will not be seeing art. Implied...