Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...duet that ensues between the cat and the cavalier is well beyond what I can describe without inciting unintentional giggles. Unfortunately, Currier has the same problem, though her deadpan close-ups and unrelieved seriousness work hard to wipe those smirks off our faces. In fairness, much of what happens in this central chapter of Passion in the Desert is tense and engaging, Augustin must fight the leopard for water, food and freedom to move, all of which the leopard jealously guards, though it otherwise remains far more docile and generous than Augustin has any reason to expect. When the soldier...
Weld is known for his performances--his diveinto the Charles tops the list, but he is alsoknow for his deadpan routine at South Boston St.Patrick's Day breakfasts and for his early stintas a bunny rabbit in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals...
...standout performances do emerge. Roiff's comic ability, whether manifested as a fisherman's deadpan pragmatism or as the mesmerizingly over-the-top camp of the bawdy-house, continually brightens the stage. And Kate Taylor '00, who for the first half has nothing to do but to stand on stage as Antiochus's Daughter and crumple her face in disdain, emerges unexpectedly in the second half as a coldly terrifying Dionyza, the evil queen of Tarsus who plots the murder of our heroine Marina. (Taylor's final appearance, as the goddess Diana in an extraordinary strip tease scene, was equally...
...with an airbrush, in strict accordance with the grid to which Close enlarged the original photo. It suggested an obsessive involvement on the artist's part, but kept the viewer distant, with nothing sensuous to hook onto--unless you had a thing about freckles and wens. This idea of deadpan, photo-derived "objectivity" was much in the air at the time--a small movement, Photo-Realism, was one of the spin-offs from Pop Art--but nobody took it as far as Close, or with such riveting effects. These are lost in reproduction--the image shrinks back to being just...
...That's right. The spring shall bring #, a play co-written by J. Eric Marler (GSAS) whom we once saw wowing audiences from his desk at the pit of the valley created by stacked rafters in Leverett Old Library. Wry, clever, fresh humor and a ruthlessly deadpan delivery marked Posthumous Improvisations, his one-man show of trials and tribs. Will # live up to this? Stay tuned. I am TheaterWatch. Thank you. I am TheaterWatch...