"Open Theatre", the lead- 
     
     ing experimental theatre 
     
     company in North America 
     
     will be performing at Con- 
     
     federation Centre Theatre 
     
     on Saturday, February 19. 
     
     The show is being pres- 
     
     ented by Confederation Cen- 
     
     tre in co-operation with 
     
     UPEI. 
     
    

    
     The Open Theatre Ensemble 
     
     was formed in 1963 in New 
     
     York by Joseph Chaikin. 
     
     Here the six-member cast 
     
     will perform "Terminal", 
     
     directed by Mr. Chaikin 
     
     and Roberta Sklar with 
     
     text by Susan Yankowitz, 
     
     critically the most succ- 
     
     essful production ever 
     
     done by the company. 
     
    

    
     "Terminal", like most of 
     
     the Open Theatre product- 
     
     ions wasn't written, it 
     
     was created by the cast 
     
     themselves. 
     
    

    
     "Open Theatre" and 'Term- 
     
     inal" won't be everybody's 
     
     dish, but can provide a 
     
     unique theatre experience. 
     
     It has proved especially 
     
     popular with younger peo- 
     
     ple. 
     
    

    
     Time Magazine in a recent 
     
     article on ‘Open Theatre' 
     
     said "audiences bored with 
     
     seeing curtains go up on 
     
     living rooms that imitate 
     
     their own will find then- 
     
     selves confronted by inner, 
     
     rather than outer, real- 
     
     ities". Audiences after 
     
     seeing one performance by 
     
     the company tend to get 
     
     enthralled with the exper- 
     
     iment and recently in 
     
     Boston, theatre-goers 
     
     paid admission to see 
     
     "Open Theatre" rehearse re- 
     
     alizing that wnat happened 
     
     in rehearsal might be as 
     
     exciting as wnat had happ- 
     
     ened during actual per- 
     
     formances. The. "Open 
     
     Theatre" company has been 
     
     called "the most thought- 
     
     ful, painstaking and least 
     
    
   
   
    
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     malarke-ridden avante-garde 
     
     theatre company in the 
     
     United States." 
     
    

    
     "Terminal" dipicts, ina 
     
     most unusual way, the sort 
     
     of "half life" that many 
     
     North Americans are living 
     
     today. Terminal is about 
     
     death, not just death 
     
     after life, but during it. 
     
    

    
     Horror, amusement and 
     
     fear are some of the emot- 
     
     ions that audiences seeing 
     
     'Terminal' experience. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the usual sense there 
     
     are no costumes, no scenery, 
     
     no props and the six com- 
     
     Pany members rely almost 
     
     totally on their own re- 
     
     sources, bodies, faces 
     
     and voices to portray 
     
     the scene/ 
     
    

    
     Critics throughout the 
     
     United States have pr- 
     
     aised both the company 
     
     and and "terminal". 
     
    

    
     New York Times critic 
     
    

    
     Mel Gussow said "Ter- 
     
     minal" will offer diff- 
     
     erent things to differ- 
     
     ent people but should leave 
     
     no one untouched"; News- 
     
     week magazine says "Ter- 
     
     minal" is a powerful, aff- 
     
     ecting workfthat confirms 
     
     Joseph Chaikin's "Open 
     
     Theatre" as'a success": 
     
     and Walter Kerr, also of 
     
     the New York Times, 
     
    
   
   
    
     urges his readers "if 
     
    

    
     you have any interest 
     
     whatever in a theatre 
     
    

    
     that is trying to shake 
     
     itself loose of old 
     
     habits and inhibitions, 
     
     you'd better make plans 
     
    

    
     to see "Terminal". : 
     
     Tickets for’ :Open Theatre" 
     
    

    
     production of 'Terminal' 
     
     are students $1 and adults 
     
     $2, and are available 
     
    

    
     at the Confederation 
     
    

    
     Centre Box Office. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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