Reviews

“Curtis is making American audiences realize there is an important difference between a Pantomimist and a Mime…It’s hard to categorize this group, but it is certain that when they perform, they create their own classification.”

“The American Mime Theatre demonstrated an independent view of mime that owes little to conventions associated with the form…it allows for a free-form approach that roams between the realistic and the stylized.”

“Anyone going to see The American Mime Theatre had best forget anything previously seen from European sources. The Curtis conceptions are entirely unlike anything seen hereabouts. He offers the totally new in Mime.”

“They are creating a whole new performing art, not a transplant of French pantomime. Nothing comparable has happened in this country since modern dance developed 35 years ago.”

“This company has worked out their own language and techniques. French mimes couldn’t give them what they wanted: a blending of believable acting expressed through a new kind of movement.”

“Curtis is playing with fire and watching him you can feel the heat. Curtis’ contribution is a valuable, engrossing, and totally serious, and how many Mimes can make that claim?”

“The control of each performer is brilliant…shrouding each like white barbed wire are this medium’s uncompromising limitations.”

“Every single member is a perfectly trained dancer and an expansive actor, and the sensitive and all-pervading interaction between the Company is very impressive…an exciting extension of the American theatre scene.”