Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Long Day's Journey Into Night deals with a family suffering from drug addiction, tuberculosis and failed dreams. The characters struggle, tug and tear at a web of love, hate and guilt. Although the Lowell and Quincy Drama Societies and the Harvard Independent Theatre production offers a sensitive, self-conscious rendition, the players too often tend to indulge in the same tormented mannerisms and aggrieved outbursts. By the end of the play, we are numbed by and tired of them and their traumatic lives...
Test results may reveal next to nothing in terms of human sexual activity. However, Ellison said the results helpful in showing the effects of certain dieting regimens and rapid weight loss, an obsession with much of the health-conscious American public...
...what does an sustere musician like Anderson, who relies on the simple, minimalistic beauty of her melodies, need with such dense trendy musicians like Adrian Belew (who has worked with the Talking Heads ) and Nile Rodgers (who has worked with David Bowie)? And way is an overblown, self-conscious "artist" like Peter Gabriel collaborating and singing backup vocals on some of the songs...
Given the rather stringent limitations the script imposes upon the performance, the Currier cast does a commendable job in making the audience conscious of man's mortality. The allegorical vignettes--in which each of the six cast members alternates characters--are well choreographed, and the carefully selected representational objects each actor sports add dimension to the scenes. Moreover, the cast's shrewd just a position of contemporary tunes and original comical skits with actual Tibetan scripture brings welcome levity to an otherwise cerebral show. Particularly worthy of note are the cast's rendition of the tune "This...
Unfortunately, the self-satire becomes very tiresome. Self-conscious but not detached, Confidentially Yours neither works as frank satire, nor does it hold the suspense of a thriller. The bizarre jumbled reality of Vercel's world has more in common with that of a Thomas Pynchon novel than with the finely-crafted artifice of the classic film noir. Pynchon, however, has wit. Sustaining little of the illusion that is vital in, for example, Scarlet Street, Confidentially Yours makes no bones of having ketchup for blood and a pacemaker for a heart. The movie actually seems to be the director...