Mark Taper Forum The auditorium was renamed the Amelia Taper Auditorium after a $2 million gift from the S. Mark Taper Foundation. The Taper has presented innovative plays since its 1967-opening of "The Devils" from playwright John Whiting about the sexual fantasies of a 17th-century priest and a sexually repressed nun. The play received a great deal of protest from local religious leaders and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, although the production continued. The production of such plays as "Murderous Angels", "The Dream on Monkey Mountain", "Children of a Lesser God", "Savages", "The Shadow Box", "The Kentucky Cycle" and "Angels in
Down Came a Blackbird again." Dr. Lenke and the patients escort Ramírez out of the clinic, where the police take him into custody. Down Came a Blackbird Down Came a Blackbird is a 1995 American made for TV drama film directed by Jonathan Sanger and starring Raúl Juliá, Laura Dern and Vanessa Redgrave. It was the final film appearance of Juliá, filmed in October 1994. Juliá died two weeks after production finished and a year before its release. Tomás Ramírez (Raúl Juliá) is a professor who joins a clinic run by Anna Lenke (Vanessa Redgrave), a Holocaust survivor, psychologist and the clinic's proprietor, whose