Birthday Party film fails to capture Pinter stage fear
Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party translated to film keeps most action in one seedy room. Stanley’s paranoia and torment escalate as Goldberg and McCann probe him, ending in a nervous breakdown. The camera’s roaming view weakens the room’s suffocating tension and the film falters between stage and screen.
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Harold Pinter
Finter
Eatin Pinter
Sungie
Meg Treplesarchly
Meg
Stanley
Goldberg
McCann
Hey
Godberg
Monty
Ponter
Cay
Dettro
Pirras
Stanley Fishts
W MieCann
Butchen
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Little Murders Feiffer Play Disturbs With Chaotic Vision
A review of Jules Feiffer's Little Murders portrays the play as a savage critique of American society. It traces a single onstage murder cascading into hundreds, exposing a culture desensitized to violence through a middle class New York family and sharp satirical characters.
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Jules Feiffer
Feiffer
Newquists
New York
Patsy Newqust
Stubbsy
Avant Garde Masters Team Up On Variations For Player Piano
The Merce Cunningham Company presents a week of Ambience at Theatre 69 featuring Conlon Nancarrow studies for player piano. Dancers Peter Saul and Viola Farber perform tongue in cheek vignettes while John Cage Gordon Mumme and David Tudor rework the electronic elements. Nancarrow pieces played on tape distorted by three electronic technicians.
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Merce Cunningham Company
Theatre 69
Conlon Nancarrow
Nancarrow
Peter Saul
Viola Farber
John Cage
Gordon Murmme
David Tudor
Saul
Farber
Viola
Miss Farber
Tudor
Mamma
Cage
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