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Doodle Delight
by Paul Bass | Jul 20, 2007 2:05 pm
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Posted to: Arts
Alex Knox likes to doodle. He doodled this nose-guy painting a picture. Unlike other doodlers, Knox had bigger plans for his doodle creations: He has brought them to life, with delightful results.
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Click on the play arrow to watch what has become of Knox’s double-nostril painter. He is one of a menagerie of prancing, painting, fighting, dancing doodles roaming the Yale Summer Cabaret.
p(clear). Backed by a dynamic soundtrack, a troupe of doodle-masked silent actors provide the action in the Summer Cabaret’s latest play, Eye, which Knox created and directed. The show runs through July 28; click here for performance details.
p(clear). The show is drawing an unusually wide audience for the Cabaret, with kids as young as 10 giggling along with seniors. It makes sense. Watching Eye is like watching a classic Roadrunner or Bugs Bunny cartoon, full of action and humor and fun for all ages. It’s also like watching Spy vs. Spy leap off the margins of Mad magazine.
p(clear). Knox started out by making masks out of his doodles. Then he and some actors developed skits through “mask jam-sessions.” The cast wears the masks throughout the show, challenging us to find new ways to read their faces and antics. At times, the same mime or dance movement will make some people laugh, and leave others silently moved.
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Mostly you marvel: at the masks, at the kung fu or barroom dueling, at the great time these doodles are having. Especially the mouth. Click on the play arrow above to see what I mean.
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Here’s some of the gang as doodled by Knox.
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Click here to watch what happens to them once unleashed on the Cabaret stage.
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