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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1978
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Pantominist charms crowd
Marceau earns reputation
By LIZ NEWLIN
Battalion Staff
Legends rarely match the images
eated around them.
But Marcel Marceau does. The
teatest pantomimist in the world
jiptured the attention of 2,500 in a
Rudder Auditorium Wednesday
night. The Opera and Performing
Juts Society presented the two-hour
erformance.
,He controlled the audience so
|well that no sounds except re-
sssed coughs were audible during
jiost of the evening — rare for a
j-oup that size.
But when he wanted a loud reac
tion, he would simply change the
ipression on his white-painted face
ft- move an arm, and the audience
}ould giggle or laugh, as if on cue.
He began the performance with
[style pantomimes, which are
weryday experiences, outlined by
Marceau’s silent motions and filled
in with the audience s imagination.
His partner Pierre Verry, also a
yell-respected pantomimist, intro-
need each sequence by standing
I'like a statue in a white-plummed hat
nd holding a lettered banner.
Marceau, now in his mid-50s,
feated 15 different characters in
The Public Garden,” including two
pssiping old women, a man with a
bgon a leash and a balloon vendor.
In another pantomime he illus
trated the temptations of drink and
pleasure experienced by a new
angel. Colored lights exposed Mar
ceau in a storm, trying to fly with his
new angel-wings. Blue lights and
solemn choral music soon reminded
the angel of the proper path, and all
ended well.
Comedy and sadness often fol
lowed each other closely in his
vignettes. In “The Mask Maker,”
Marceau created laughter as he
switched from the comedy to the
tragedy “masks” behind a quick pass
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fears, but he also celebrated life and
declared it good with BIP’s failure to
commit suicide.
His instantaneous character
changes, from playful David to hulk
ing Goliath, took place behind a
black screen. These showed the full
range of Marceau’s talent and
prompted one of three standing ova
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The audience members trusted
Marceau to entertain them. By tak
ing charge of their emotions, he
enchanted them.
of his hand. Then he developed a
tragic ending when the mask maker
died — all within two minutes.
After intermission, Marceau ap
peared as “BIP, the clown who has
become the star’s alter-ego since its
creation in 1947. Modeled after the
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and Goliath, attended a society
party, almost committed suicide and
joined the army.
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