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...Truffaut?s adaptation of ?Waltz into Darkness? and Michael Cristofer?s. Or the four films made from ?I Married a Dead Man?: the Hollywood ?No Man of Her Own,? the Indian ?Kati Patang,? the French ?J?ai ?pous? une ombre? and the Canadian-U.S. ?Mrs. Winterbourne.? Compare and contrast, class...
...tourists, because they're pretty familiar to the French, Dutch, American and Norwegian troops from the U.S.-led antiterror coalition camped at Manas airport. They head to Bishkek for R. and R. and the city's only department store, TsUM. In sneakers and baseball caps, they make a nice contrast to the Kyrgyz locals in their leather boots and felt hats...
Darkness and crackly music introduced the play. A large bronze shield on the back wall and a yellow curtain hung to the side served as the only set elements. The minimalism of the props provided well-considered contrast to the complexity of the drama. The play also made unique use of audio-visual technology, presenting the suicide of Ajax as a televised clip. The TV’s blurry, black-and-white image made the suicide scene creepier and more powerful than it would have been had it been acted out on stage...
...have done without. Matthew Roop-Kharasch’s Teukros was solidly acted and sensitive in its attention to the rest of the cast. Director Brian R. Fairley ’05 put in delightfully sleazy and callous appearances as Menelaos and Agamemnon, providing necessary comic contrast in the midst of the intense melodrama. Kudos, too, to the visually and aurally interesting chorus work of Veronica T. Golin ’07 and Susan C. Merenda ’07. Indeed, the entire cast’s willingness to take their acting to the physical level was extremely commendable. Currun...
...strong ensemble. Joseph P. Fishman ’05, in the minor and unenviable role of the sensible old Lord Lafew, brings out all the humor of his part. His insulting, impudent exchanges with the cowardly braggart Parolles (Joseph H. Weintraub ’05) played up the contrast between Lafew’s matter-of-fact barbs and Parolles’ fuming impotence. As Parolles, Weintraub got his laughs in, but from unusual places: during a scene in which he unknowingly slandered all his friends before their faces, the comedy came more from their reactions than from his lies...