Theater: Vacuum-Packed

L'OS/UBU THE IK THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS

Some years ago, Marshall McLuhan made quite a splash among cocktail-party sophisticates by proclaiming that television was a "cool medium," whereas some other cultural forms were "hot media." In recent years, Peter Brook, a highly sophisticated director, and his Paris-based company Le Centre International de Créations Théatrales have devised modes by which theater can be turned into a cool medium, perhaps even stone-cold.

View the works on exhibit at Greenwich Village's La Mama. Device No. 1—skeletonize the text. Back in 1961, Brook announced: "I do not believe in...

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