Isolation: Two Views
- Program
- Isolation: Two Views
- Producing Organization
- WMPB (Television station : Baltimore, Md.)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/516-5717m04v3m
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- Description
- Program Description
- The first portion of the program is Tigers by Kendrew Lascelles. A one-act allegorical drama, Tigers explores the problems of communication between a married couple. At another level, it symbolizes mans aggressive heritage. As the play opens, Adam, a lion-tamer, and his wife, Mrs. Are seen in the couples bedroom. Earlier, their only child has been mauled to death by one of the tigers, named Ate. The wife, filled with a long-smoldering bitterness toward her husband, is packing to leave with another man. Adam, playing upon her emotions, recalls the good moments of their past life together and encourages her to express her grief and anger over his negligence in their sons death. Ultimately persuaded, Mrs. resigns herself to staying with Adam. Kendrew Lascelles, author of Tigers, was one of the creators of the South African review, Wait a Minim, which toured the world for six years. His recent anti-war poem, The Box, received critical acclaim. Commenting on Tigers, Lascelles cites the phenomenon of man as destroyer. The child, he says, represents the children of war; its death, the death of mankind. Adam represents that part of the human being unable to avoid conflict because of ego and greed. Mrs. is that part that is hurt by conflict. Tigers represent mans aggressive instincts. But, says Lascelles, the tigers neednt be a death force. Such instincts could be a life force if man were willing to use them in a different way, but he is not. The second portion of the program is Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett. This adaptation of Samuel Becketts Act without Words is a striking one-act, one-performer mime-ballet. The ballet artfully illustrates the authors philosophic view of life, which records the incompressibility of human endeavor, and a yearning toward purpose and meaning. In a vast emptiness stands a clown-actor-dancer Rex Bickmore who embodies the pathos and vulnerability of man. A pawn-like figure, he moves in response to unseen but palpable forces. Objects descend from above cubes of assorted sizes, a tree, a bottle of water. The clown reflects, then acts. He attempts to seize the bottle, but however he piles the cubes, however he strives, it is always out of reach. Logic and enterprise fail, and this frustrated figure, in resigned apathy, gives up at last. Act without Words was choreographed by the internationally renowned authority on modern dance, Anna Sokolow. The electronic score was created by Joel Thome, musical director of the Philadelphia Composers Forum, a group that devotes itself to the interpretation of contemporary works. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Program Description
- 90 minute program, produced in 1971 by WMPB, originally shot in color.
- Broadcast Date
- 1971-01-13
- Asset type
- Program
- Genres
- Drama
- Media type
- other
- Credits
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Actor: Lascelles, Kendrew
Actor: Dale, Marilynn
Choreographer: Sokolow, Anna
Composer: Thome, Joel
Performer: Bickmore, Rex
Producer: Dale, Jim
Producing Organization: WMPB (Television station : Baltimore, Md.)
Writer: Lascelles, Kendrew
Writer: Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Isolation: Two Views,” 1971-01-13, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 2, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-5717m04v3m.
- MLA: “Isolation: Two Views.” 1971-01-13. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 2, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-5717m04v3m>.
- APA: Isolation: Two Views. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-5717m04v3m