'The Committee'

S. F. 'Instant Theater' Is Lively Fun

By EMERSON BATDORFF (only pizza at $1.25, or per-in which a topless bathing-pussy willow with that hairSAN FRANCISCO-This is]haps only booze, suggest suit swim performed. With a cut." It is not significant, but probably the only place in the themes for stage presentacouple minor reservations init is funny.

world that instant theater is tions. the form of adhesive stars The only skit of social probrewed successfully The these reports proved to be test I noted concerned a folk A CREW OF SIX, one womabsolutely correct. players reconstitute it by addan and five men-including a singing guitarist who coming acid. So I arrived just as the per-plained at the top of his nose It would appear that the male lead who doubles as piaformance got under way with about railroad featherbedsuccess of "The Committee" no player-thereup improvises one man berating another for ding. the same name here is due at always ending with a blackFundamentally the skits all arette pack on the floor. "The had the same approach, least as much to a receptive Rotary and Kiwanis put up namely a 180-degree deviaaudience as it is to sharp actIt is possible to read too little baskets for people like tion from the usual that then ing. San Franciscans go out much social significance into you?" said the berater. "They

at the nightclub theater of a short vignette on the theme, having thrown an empty cig-

stage.

out.

was portrayed in a straight-

to be entertained and they the playlets. It seemed to me would much rather spend faced manner. For example, are entertained, sometimes in that the players, superb actheir money buying braces respectable, wealthy parents spite of what happens on-tors all, were striving to en-for crippled kids but you holding out for 50% of the tertain, not to be significant. won't let them. Just think of take if they were to finance "The Committee" has just Obviously no one sits down all the little crippled children their son's career as a thief. returned from New York backstage and writes out a without braces just because Or the homosexual, when where audiences frequently script based on the suggestion of you! Aren't you ashamed?" asked if he had seen a psyadopt a non-cooperative poliof "rebel," which had been Some of the lines are sharp, chiatrist, saying, "Seen one!

I lived with one for six

cy. The reception of instant made by the audience. Evi-probably having been worked theater in the big town in the dently the players have a out on the spur of some earli months!" East was not overwhelming. backlog of presentations that er moment and retained in The way "The Committee" with some minor jiggering varying contexts. works is this: Members of the can be switched into a playìet audience, who are living it up of rebellion.

"The Committee” is a new approach to theater that de-

"Let's do No. POSSIBILITIES are limit-pends on well-trained audiwith steaks at $4 each or veal 36," one of the committee less, for example, to use a fences as well as actors. And cordon bleu at $3.75 or maybe must say, "only switch it so line like "You look like a it's a lot of fun.

that the guy throws paper around because he's rebelling against society, not because he's just messy."

I MANAGED to miss the curtain when I saw "The Committee." I had to check out reports that there were in the neighborhood saloons