Word: contrivedness
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Once in the fantastic wood, the balance of dream and nightmare, and the corresponding balance of the two directorial approaches, becomes evident. The second act opens with a fairy dance, choreographed by Cynthia Raymond. As dissonant, atonal music fills the room, dancers gyrate on stage, suggestively entwined. This sequence, no...
In short: see it. Ignore the program. It's a good production of a great comedy. The attempts to evoke the sinister do not quite succeed, because they interrupt rather than support the play's flow. They are too contrived, and we cannot accept them for long enough to have...
In all fairness, Drury must have spent at least half an hour revising the plot of his past novels to fit this new setting. Gone is the Russian threat to destroy democracy that occupied center stage in his innumerable previous efforts. In its place he has contrived a threat to...
Locker-Room Melee. Most hassled by the star surplus are Guards Kevin Porter, Chris Ford, Ralph Simpson and Eric Money, all of whom have been starters during their careers. The season was still young when Porter and Simpson began muttering "play me or trade me" threats. Porter, who led the...
We were watching the madness, the contrived madness of the Ford Youth outside across the thin air-conditioned glass membrane. But it seemed the true madness was inside. Ford disappeared into the Muehlbach, Harry Truman's old hotel, and the onlookers began to disperse. My friend and I left the...