Word: coreness
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Highlights are sparse. The first minute or so of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is fine. There’s a nice little mandolin-based acoustic arrangement of the tune, and it plays upon that perfect two-note guitar twang from the core of the original...
...useful to do both at once. It got a little hectic juggling rehearsal and writing at one point, but I feel both writing a thesis and directing a play have similar challenges, and the way to make both work is to figure out what the project is at its core and to be able to summarize that in one sentence. It has to pass the elevator test. You get into an elevator and someone asks, “So what’s this thesis about?” Or “So what’s this play...
...journey from abused teen to empowered adult. The action hero of the new musical The Pirate Queen is a female fighter for Irish independence. Even in shows in which the gender balance is more equal, such as Spring Awakening and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the emotional core seems to reside in the females...
...dankest impulses, don't know they're bad. They think they're the good guys in a world that can't understand them, and must be punished for that mistake. Villains see themselves as victims. Actors in these roles are obliged to locate the ache or delusion at the core of the character. "The danger of playing a villain," says James Franco, who as Harry Osborn has been one of Peter Parker's nemeses in the Spider-Man films, "is that you ham it up and it becomes silly." Plausibility counts...
...crowd, however, was receptive to his platform, if a bit skeptical. They applauded in the right places and even offered up one genuinely rousing cheer, when McCain offered up the core of his appeal: "I know how to fight and how to make peace. I know who I am and what I want...