Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MANY GOOD NOVELS take place from within a character's mind. Most of Crime and Punishment, for example, is seen through Raskolnikov's eyes. And while Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is told in the third person, there is no real narrator, causing the reader to slip from mind...
The play therefore, is somewhat inaccessible to present day sensibility Composed in the far away dawn of the television era, the play juxtaposes how oppressive the deadening hilarity of sitcom is next to a drama which probes the validity of all its characters feelings. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry impresses any audience...
In Eden, the site of the original revolution, Adam and Eve found it was the same old tale when they turned over a new leaf. Boring.
The play's final image, Beatrice being tortured on a giant wheel to atone for her father's murder, amidst a clutter of bicycle wheels and tractor tires, lives up to the spirit set in the earlier scenes. Director McCreery, who expressed some concern that audiences might see the play...
Cobb's drive to succeed and the intense unhappiness he suffered as a result of his fits of anger, are well portrayed in Alexander's book, which offers a striking psychological portrait of the man. But instead of using this portrait as a jumping-off point for some broader observations...