ARCHIVES WEEK THREE – SAINT

” … it’s not a play… it doesn’t have any words and plays have words.”

—Jack Thibeau

 

FROM THE XEROX POEM BY JACK THIBEAU

THE SAINT AND THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS

DIRECTED BY

LEE BREUER

 

CALLING PIECES BY

PHILIP GLASS

CHOREOGRPAHY BY

MARY OVERLIE

 

COORDINATION BY

NANCY STRATTON

EXCERPT ABOVE FROM THE 1983 REMOUNT AT

The Hippodrome State Theatre, Gainesville, Florida

Filmed by D.J. Head www.two-head.com

PREMIERED AT

Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, 1973

 

The Football Players’ Makes Sport of Art

New York Times, Feb. 9, 1976

“Halftime. Instead of a car ballet, there is a fork‐lift ballet. Five minitrucks glide out, with actors draped in sculptural poses. The vehicles cavort—a nice dance suitable for parking garages, traffic rotaries and shopping centers.

The game starts again. One man gets the ball and runs —not for a touchdown, but in concentric circles. Round and round he races until he is tackled, head over heels in a slow motion pas de deux. Confetti falls from a cloth strung high over the action. The “snow” slowly dribbles down for the rest of the game.”