Word: bared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Webster Lithgow, whose arrangement of the bare stage for Six Characters was unobtrusively correct and atmospherically grubby, has under-estimated the need for Victorian naturalism in the settings for Earnest, which should never be designed by anyone but Cecil Beaton. The play is very carefully related to its background in life--Wilde even knows the address of John Worthing's town house. (Fen Lasell's formidable costumes are much more in the vein, because they appear impeccably "period...
...part of the authentic flavor, three of the ballet's women dancers appeared bare breasted in several innocuous numbers. Though this stirred neither critics nor theatergoers, it raised the eyebrows of New York's License Commissioner Bernard O'Connell, and he ordered bras upon the ladies. As the troupe's American manager protested publicly, he noted that only New York, of all the cities on the tour (the group has already played Boston and Philadelphia), was affronted by authenticity. After the U.S. tour ends, the African dancers expect to go back to their villages, where they...
...Avenida Atlântica glued into her briefest bikini (thus causing a three-car crash), almost nothing stayed on. That night, as she danced in the Copacabana Palace Golden Room, an enterprising Brazilian yanked on the zipper at the back of her dress and. presto, 0 Busto was bare to the waist...
...particularly palsied state in the 1840s. Sniffed a young Brooklyn Eagle critic named Walt Whitman: "Bad taste carries the day with hardly a pleasant point to mitigate its coarseness." New York's Park Theater, for one, was fast approaching the day when patrons sat on bare benches, watching rats fight the actors for stage center...
...Casey derives his humor from bare-faced lying, brazen self-contradiction and other forms of impudence, chutzpah, and general damned cheek on the part of his characters. These are old theatrical devices; O'Casey handles them crudely, and Mr. Stein can think of no improvements...