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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Tuesday, September 5; 1970
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By JIM HENNERTY
You niay have seen him doing
magic tricks on the Diag or im-
personating a factory worker
before a Cinema Guild showing.
Avadon-Black has been meeting
people around town, finding
places to sleep and eat, lecturing
a class on medieval theatre and
publicizing his performances.
Avadon-Black is an amazing.
person. Two years ago he was
becoming disillusioned with the
current state of theater as he
experienced it in the U.C.L.A.
Theater Arts Department. He
was tired of professor-directors'
command performances of plays
which were strictly "academic"
exercises; he was deeply discour-
aged and disturbed by. the half-
empty houses which greeted
such productions. Armed with
a few ideas about bringing'
theater to the people, and car-,
rying 45 pounds of clothes and
possessions on his back, he set
out to -search 'for a life style
based on communication through
a theatrical medium.
Seventeen months later, Ava-
don-Black is in Ann Arbor, after
visiting e i g h t e e n campuses
throughout the country, hitch-
hiking from Iowa to New York,
Louisiana to Michigan. He bills
himself as a "troubadour for
now," presenting a one-man
show in which he communicates
his experiences on the road.
In last night's free perform-
ance in the Union Ballroom
(which will be repeated again
this evening at 8 p.m.) he show-,
ed some of the men who have
given him rides across the coun-
try. These dramatic portraits are
skillfully drawn. Each evokes
a mixed reaction of tumor, sad-
ness and everr horror.
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ences: the cold inhumanity of
military bureaucracy, a des-
perate need for money to sup-
port a family, and a irightening
murder by prison "guards. Two
truck drivers appear: one, a
Texan and a good family man
who has a most interesting and
exciting tete-a-tete with the
bank teller's wife; and an Ital-
ian immigrant from New York
who hurls abuse at California
drivers and tells of his experi-
ences as part of an army as-
sassin squad in World War II.
Avadon-Black's aim to to pre-
sent the problems all human
beings face, and show how men
of different backgrounds, from
various segments of society,
confront them.
These portraits are much more
than c l e v e r impersonations;
they let the audience enter into
different worlds and patterns of
thinking. They teach something
about the nature of the human
beast and the society in which
he functions.
Interspersed with these pic-
tures of others is the vision of
the artist himself stated in
forceful poetic and imagistic
terms. He feels himself melt in
the desert sun and travel as
steam to a winter landscape. He
metamorphoses into a Caliban-
like freak in a carnival crawling
about and hissing at the audi-
ence. Imaginative power and
dramatic skill are carefully
combined to communicate this
personal vision to the audience.
Avadon-Black thinks the con-
ventional actor has become shut
up in the ivory tower of a the-
ater, physically and spiritually
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distant from the audience who
usually have to pay a sizable
price to get inside in the first
place. Communication is further
hampered, in his view, by the
structure of the drama itself:
an actor never really represents
himself to the audience, he is
only a part of "the play."
"I've always been a performer.
And this set-up gives me a great
deal of freedom to communi-
cate by performing, improvis-
ing, responding to a particular
audience at a particular no-
ment. . . . Just as the medieval
troubadour went from town to
town carrying news by perform-
ance, I try to tell the audience
about the things I've seen, and
have them respond to what I'm
doing."
Paid admission automatically
excludes many people from the-
ater, therefore Black insists on
free performances. He lives on
donations from the audience, in,
the form of money, food, lodg-
ing, or anything else.
Black wants to return to Los
Angeles eventually and form a
t r o u p e which would travel
around and bring theater to
towns and cities. They would
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attempt to involve the general
community in their activities,
and solicit support (food and
other necessities) from their
audiences. The social implica-
tions are interesting, to say the
least. Judging from his perform-
ance, the new concept of the-
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Are you still
reading
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parents Bread?
In the first grade, when you were taught
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grade, you were asked to read silently. But
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continued to say every word to yourself.
Chances are, you're doing it right now.
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minute. (Guiness' Book of World Records
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est speech on record: 327 words per
minute.)
The Evelyn Wood Course teaches you
to read without mentally saying each word
to yourself. Instead of reading one word at
a time, you'll learn to read groups of words.
To see how natural this is, look at the
dot over the line in bold type.
grass is green
You immediately see all three words.
Now look at the dot between the next two
lines of type.
and it grows
when it rains
With training, you'll learn to use your
innate ability to see groups of words.
As an Evelyn Wood graduate, you'll be
able to read between 1,000 and 3,000
words per minute . . . depending on the
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At 1,000 words per minute, you'll be
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American Political Tradition and finish
each chapter in 11 minutes.
At 2,000 words per minute, you'll be
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week and finish each page in 31 seconds.
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These are documented statistics based
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have enrolled in the Evelyn Wood course
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The course isn't complicated. There
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