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In 1972, theater maverick Peter Brook climbed into a Land Rover and led an international band of actors and assorted helpers (including composer Elizabeth Swados and journalist Heilpern) through West Africa - developing mime-and-music theater pieces along the way, performing on a piece of carpet in marketplaces from Algeria to Dahomey. Why? To find, in non-industrialized societies, a friendly milieu for Brook's famous "empty space": theater reduced to its elemental, mythic, Zen-ish basics. This "journey in search of the miraculous" was less than a triumph, as Heilpern candidly reveals in his slightly precious but refreshingly double-edged account. The natives were rarely bowled over by The Shoe Show, The Bread Show, The Walking Show ("This consisted of actors walking") - scenarios by Heilpern and Brook fleshed out with improvisations and Swados' stick-and-rattle music. In fact, the most exciting
In 1972, theater maverick Peter Brook climbed into a Land Rover and led an international band of actors and assorted helpers (including composer Elizabeth Swados and journalist Heilpern) through West Africa - developing mime-and-music theater pieces along the way, performing on a piece of carpet in marketplaces from Algeria to Dahomey. Why? To find, in non-industrialized societies, a friendly milieu for Brook's famous "empty space": theater reduced to its elemental, mythic, Zen-ish basics. This "journey in search of the miraculous" was less than a triumph, as Heilpern candidly reveals in his slightly precious but refreshingly double-edged account. The natives were rarely bowled over by The Shoe Show, The Bread Show, The Walking Show ("This consisted of actors walking") - scenarios by Heilpern and Brook fleshed out with improvisations and Swados' stick-and-rattle music. In fact, the most exciting