Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...only way to change the system." Sandra Applebaugh was there but without her husband, Darryl Johnson, who is an Army major in Viet Nam. She recalled wistfully: "The most scandalous thing that ever happened to our class was when some guys got caught drinking beer backstage during a stage production." Gene George, president of the class of 1960, is now a geologist with an oil company, a job that leaves him morally unsettled: "I am a conservationist who works for an oil company...
...Homo sapiens, says McCracken, and for tens of thousands of years thereafter, he was a hunter and gatherer of food. He had no milk cattle. A baby was usually weaned by the age of two. Nature designed milk as a food for infants, not for adults. So at that stage in human development, because adults drank no milk, they needed no lactase. Nature's plan worked smoothly...
...After an actor has recounted in nauseating detail how Ocdipus has just gouged out his eyes, the chorus begins to laugh, and then say things like "There's good luck and bad luck," or "that's fate, hahaha." In the final scene, after Ocdipus has stumbled blindly across the stage out the door the cast does a copulation mime that features a man with an enormous dildo and a woman with pubic hair drawn on her leotard. It is like the TV show "Shindig," as the chorus groans antiphonally up to a very convincing orgasm. Lights out. That's demystification...
Seneca's Oedpius is an exciting and challenging production. Much of the acting is very good. Shcila Hart as Iocasta and Jack Shea as Tiresias are particularly strong. Wakeen Ray-Riv's choreography is superb, and exploits the extremely-limited Agassiz stage to the fullest. Senclick's direction is intentionally upsetting. Yet it must be admitted that even a ritualized Theater of Cruclty cannot escape being theater. And as long as that is true, I prefer Sophocles's pretension to human reality to Seneca...
...demented, and has bestowed on his character just the right Marat/Sade touch. Yet because his buckskni leggings, his moccasins, his headband, his pigtails, and his blond fright wg make him look like an albino Apache, the spectre of Lucky-as-oppressed-Red-Man is aggressively and offensively present on stage. As an additional ethnic touch. Godot's angelic messenger is portrayed as a Mexican-American, whose appearances are accompanied by throbbing rascados on the Desi Arnez classical guitar...