Word: conveyance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that lie like pike beneath the news, and then, on their own peculiar impulse, rise to the surface in a later time, like ours, like yours. More than that, we would like to know what it felt like to be alive back then. That will be more difficult to convey, in part because we assume that to be human feels just about the same in any age. But we may be wrong about that as well. The terror and self-doubt we associate with being human you may have learned to cure with a shot or a pill. We will...
...drippy debutante; Ed Lauter as the nastiest newsman; Jack Wallace as a dumb, obsequious but likable cop; Deirdre O'Connell as the doomed hooker; and Jerome Dempsey as a chillingly venal mayor. Tony Walton's set deftly uses a 65-ft. depth on the Vivian Beaumont stage to convey a cavernous public building in Roman Preposterous style, and Willa Kim's costumes evoke the era without prettifying it. Yet what lingers is not the production's fidelity but its brilliant reconsideration...
...precocious brattiness; Hallie shows off his cleverness to Sam, but he also looks for Sam's approval. It's clear that though Hallie instructs Sam, somewhat condescendingly, on bits of history and geography, the man has become somewhat of a father-figure for the boy. Keene and Sullivan convey this bond with great charm and naturalness...
...have oveextended his dramatic resources. Act Two is largely humorless, and coming after the sharp first act makes the play seem far too long--it might do so even by itself. Though the acting does not falter, it is boring to watch, because it has less to convey. The character transitions are a little shaky as well. The ending is not so much a resolution as a truce, and while perhaps no other ending would do, such a conclusion does not satisfy the audience...
Organizers added that they hope the concert format will convey their message effectively...