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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Sound of police sirens, people making love. | |||
Joe interviews famous mime Bertram Fields ([[Arthur Miller]]) in a | |||
hotel room. Joe, concerned about the couple next door's loud | |||
passionate love-making, bangs on the | |||
wall.<ref name=eitheror1>originally aired in [[Either Or (Part 1)]]</ref> | |||
(The first 15 minutes is an edited-down version of the first 20:40 of | |||
[[Either Or (Part 1)]]) | |||
15:00: A woman talks to a mime, apparently absent: 'Do you still lean | |||
against walls? Are you still fighting the wind? Have you gotten out | |||
of that box yet?' No one responds. She sounds as if she expects no | |||
response. Women's voices ask the same questions in French and | |||
Spanish. She pleads for him to talk to her: 'Talk to me!' The | |||
questions repeat. | |||
21:50: Joe remembers walking on the shore of Lake Geneva with a | |||
mandolin, thinking of Esmeralda, the woman he loved, describes how | |||
intimately he wanted to know her: 'I loved Esmeralda so much that I | |||
wanted to pull her inside out and caress her pancreas and kiss her | |||
heart and run my tongue over her alimentary canal and hug to my breast | |||
her lower intestines and trace my fingers to the villi of her lungs | |||
and swim through her vascular system.' | |||
22:40: Joe remembers his past studying nostalgia in a Croatian hamlet, | |||
all the things he didn't do. | |||
23:10: Joe describes what he's wearing, sitting poolside. | |||
23:50: Joe asks god where he is, what he's doing, speculates on the | |||
possibilities. | |||
26:00: 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.<ref name=eitheror1 /> | |||
28:40: Joe asks him what he would have done had he not become a mime. | |||
Fields says that he would have been a registered nurse, describes in | |||
detail how he would have practiced nursing. We hear the passionate | |||
couple next door and someone pounding on their door, | |||
yelling.<ref name=eitheror2>originally aired in [[Either Or (Part 2)]]</ref> | |||
31:10: Joe asks for a taste of his upcoming performance. Fields | |||
performs 'Nothing happened', a favorite from the | |||
Decroux<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Decroux Étienne Decroux]</ref> | |||
days.<ref name=eitheror2 /> | |||
32:10: Fields recalls a wonderful day in early autumn, lying in | |||
Elizabeth's lap after a picnic. He sleeps and dreams. His happiness | |||
is spoiled by the thought of her brother, Heinrich, an artist with a | |||
mangled hand who comes between them.<ref name=eitheror2 /> | |||
41:10: Joe tells us why he's always hated mime, calls out its clichés. | |||
He mentions the 'mime defense' against conviction, cites the case of a | |||
fellow who murdered his family after watching 2 performances in a | |||
row.<ref name=eitheror2 /> | |||
43:50: The phone rings. Fields answers it. We hear his half of a | |||
discussion of - a performance?<ref name=eitheror2 /> | |||
45:10: Joe tells us he wants what we've just heard to stay with us: | |||
under our skin, in our veins and kidneys. He wants us to write a | |||
paper about it, submit a detailed medical history, a cashier's | |||
check...<ref name=eitheror2 /> | |||
46:50: Joe's disconcerted by the passionate couple next door again, | |||
asks Fields to call the desk. He calls again. Someone knocks on | |||
their door.<ref name=eitheror2 /> | |||
47:50: The couple next door gets a solo.<ref name=eitheror1 /> | |||
48:30: Joe talks about the lovers next door.<ref name=eitheror2 /> | |||
49:50: A woman talks to a mime, apparently absent: 'Do you still lean | |||
against walls? Are you still fighting the wind? Have you gotten out | |||
of that box yet?' No one responds. She sounds as if she expects no | |||
response. Women's voices ask the same questions in French and | |||
Spanish. She pleads for him to just talk to her: 'Talk to me!' The | |||
questions repeat.<ref>sounds the same as at minute 15</ref> | |||
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;"> | |||
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> | |||
Interview with mime while sexual moans come from adjacent room (From Either/Or) Sound collage with woman "why don't you talk to me" Joe talks about Esmerala and a trip and rambling stuff. Joe talks about the moaning. | Interview with mime while sexual moans come from adjacent room (From Either/Or) Sound collage with woman "why don't you talk to me" Joe talks about Esmerala and a trip and rambling stuff. Joe talks about the moaning. | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
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* [[Either Or (Part 1)|Either/Or]] | * [[Either Or (Part 1)|Either/Or]] | ||
== Commentary == | |||
Most of this show is taken from Either/Or parts 1 and 2. The 11 minutes beginning at minute 15 is new. The last 7 minutes repeats the collage of women's voices that started at minute 15. | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Improv_Actors]] | [[Category:Improv_Actors]] | ||