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The Night Time Sky

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2021

Extract

I began with an idea about a piece that had to do with the making of a theatre work, with itself as its own subject. It seemed to me that one of the first theatrical things is when the sun goes down, night falls the stars come out, and people imagine what the constellations are.

Out of this came The Night Time Sky, performed in May, 1965.

The audience arrive a few at a time and walk down a tunnel towards the place. They hear steel drum band music, crowd noises, and steamship whistles: boat-leaving sounds. At the end of the tunnel is a movie projected on a white cloth, of passenger liners leaving. As an audience member approaches this, his shadow is cast on the screen. His shadow is momentarily in the movie, participating in the boat leaving. All this is seen on both sides of the screen.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Tulane Drama Review 1965

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