” … 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.”