Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There had been early warnings, a few cases reported around the country. But then 44 U.S. Navymen in Key West, Fla., began complaining of sore throats, fever and chills. Last week, after taking throat cultures from the men, doctors confirmed the bad news: Taiwan flu has arrived and begun to take its toll...
...Although bad weather conditions hampered play--cutting the distance of the field by 20 yards--they did not affect the players' attitudes...
...victims don't care too much either, and the audience would like to see all of them buy the farm. The result is not only an overwhelming feeling of boredom, but an undermining of the ostensible point of the play: that isolation from the reality of death is bad...
...acting of the ensemble ranges from fair to comically bad, and this too puts a hold on Freinkel's invention. But even so, she did not go far enough: in trying to mingle modern theatrical ideas with traditional Shakespearean performance, Freinkel has created a play with more internal conflicts than even Macbeth himself. Given the problems of producing college Shakespeare, perhaps she should have adopted a less reverent attitude and an even more experimental appraoch. Like its accursed protagonist, this production of Macbeth seems "cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in to saucy doubts and fears...
...FORMS of literature, bad science fiction is perhaps the least easily adapted for the stage--a point painfully demonstrated in the Dunster House production of Ray Bradbury's Pillar of Fire...