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== Synopsis ==

Sound of police sirens, people making love.

Joe interviews famous mime Bertram Fields ([[Arthur Miller]]) in a

hotel room at the Bellflower. Joe, concerned about the couple next

door's loud passionate love-making, bangs on the wall.

1:30: Joe says Fields will be appearing at Carnegie Hall next

Thursday. Fields points out that it's the first time in 35 years that

a mime has performed there. Fields claimed that he and

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Marceau Marcel Marceau] studied

at <i>l'École du mime</i><ref>I can't find this; Marceau started <i>École

Internationale de Mime</i> in 1969.</ref> with

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Decroux Étienne Decroux]

Fields thinks Marceau has hurt mime by playing a clown.

4:30: Joe doubts that mime can express complex emotions. Fields

disagrees, says mime can be more eloquent than words. Fields cites

his mime performance of Macbeth in Berlin in '64.

7:30: Joe worries that the sound of people making love next door will

ruin his recording of the interview. Fields calls the desk. The

woman at the desk is a mime fan. She calls the couple next door, but

they don't pick up, just get more passionate.

11:00: Joe asks Fields why he went into mime. Fields says that he got

into fights as a child. Injuries to his nose and palate made his

voice sound funny so he stopped speaking. Even after his voice

returned to normal he kept the habit of expressing himself silently.

13:40: Joe asks about the future of mime. Fields tells him about

psychic mime and mime performed behind blinds so the audience can't

see the performance. Fields mentions recording mime performances on

audio disks. Joe wonders if performers really do their best work if

it can't be seen; Fields assures him they do, perhaps even better.

19:10: Joe's concerned about the couple next door again.

19:50: The couple next door gets a solo.

20:40: Joe returns to the interview, asks about performing in

different venues, especially stadiums. Fields expatiates on the power

of subtlety, that even slight gestures, well-rendered, can have a

great effect. He says Decroux emphasized, repeatedly, that 'less is

more' - '<i>moins est plus!</i>'

23:50: Joe asks about his upcoming performance. Fields says he's

composed 'Existential dilemma' based on Kierkegaard's <i>Either/Or</i>.

<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>

Mock interview of a mime in a hotel room next to a passionate couple who won't stop. Marcel Marceau the sellout, communicating complex idea via mime, Shakespeare in mime, becoming a mime because of having a strange voice as a child, statuary mimes who don't move, blind mimery, mime in huge theaters with props, less is more. A radio performance of the mime piece Either / Or.

Becoming a nurse instead of a mime. radio performance of the piece Nothing Happened: an idyllic picnic with a strange woman, obsessions with her brother, an artist who read the Magna Carta during dinner and suffered a breakdown, her brother disappears, finding meaning while being forced to dress as a woman and dance in class. Monologue: I've always hated mime, the mime defense based on murder after a mime performance. One side of a bizarre telephone conversation. Monologue: I want what you just heard to dwell within you, an academic paper on it.

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== Music ==

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The original broadcast credits state: "[P]erformed by [[Arthur Miller]], Joe Frank, and [[Maude Davis]]. The story editor was [[Farley Ziegler]]. Recorded and mixed by Jerry Summers. Special thanks to Jennifer Ferro."

== Footnotes ==

[[Category:Improv_Actors]]

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