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Article #47Re: Prop-intensive plays
From: Richard Mateosian
Date: Sat, 25 May 1985 20:17
Date: Sat, 25 May 1985 20:17
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In article <5601@ucla-cs.ARPA> reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher) writes:
>>Next year Berkeley Rep is doing "The Art of Dining" by Tina Howe,
>>I'm pessimistic.
>
>Your pessimism is fairly well justified. The play is little
>more than a curiosity, and I can't see why anyone would bother doing it
>again. Indeed, gourmet food is required, and part of the idea of the
>play is that the audience can smell the food itself, adding to the realism
>(about the only good idea in the play). The kitchen is on stage, so there
>is only a certain amount of fudging possible.
I don't KNOW, of course, but I SUSPECT that the fact that Narsai David
(TV and radio cook and owner of a well known Berkeley restaurant) is on
Berkeley Rep's board of directors has something to do with it.
--
Richard Mateosian
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!nsc!srm From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) Newsgroups: net.theater Subject: Re: Prop-intensive plays Message-ID: <2762@nsc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-May-85 16:17:29 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.2762 Posted: Sat May 25 16:17:29 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 26-May-85 05:18:46 EDT References: <579@udenva.UUCP> <226@tektools.UUCP> <5322@ucla-cs.ARPA> <2730@nsc.UUCP> <5601@ucla-cs.ARPA> Reply-To: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) Distribution: net Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 18