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The Comic Prison
Goldman, Albert | February 8, 1965 issue

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The article profiles Marcel Marceau, the famous French mime, who may have never heard a sick joke nor read a page of black humor, but he has danced the difficult truth of these ambiguous phenomena in his parable of the man and the mask. A little man playfully dons a comic mask. After cavorting about exhilarated by his disguise, he grows tired of the novelty and tries to remove the mask. Horrified, he discovers that he cannot. The mask is fixed to his face. A terrible struggle follows, his body writhes in agony while his face remains frozen in a grin. At last the false face is wrenched off, but the real face behind it is now simply a blank.

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MARCEAU, Marcel, 1923-2007; MIME; ACTING; MUSICAL theater; MUSICALS; FRENCH
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