Word: demonicism
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Part II easily picks up on this note. If you only have time to watch one part (they are each an hour and a half), and you have special fascination for tyranny, villainy and intrigue, this is the time to tune in. If you prefer romance and subtle assertions of...
The mephistophelean Rene Bazinet stands at the center of the spectacle. This wiry, pale emcee appears as five different characters throughout the evening, including a demonic schoolboy and a hunchbacked grim reaper and a mischievous harlequin. In a particularly bawdy acrobatic scene involving a gigantic feather bed and a swing...
Busy fellow, and nobody plays harried better than Harrison Ford. He plays other things well too, notably in the scene in which, as he is interrogated by the police, he comes to realize that he is their chief suspect. Grief, outrage, incomprehension, terror -- what a rich mixture of emotions he...
Like all genre fiction -- gothics, romances, police procedurals -- teen tinglers follow a fairly consistent set of formulas. The heroes or heroines are invariably adolescents whose lives fall mysteriously into jeopardy; adults are either the source of the menace or remote, almost inanimate objects. The dialogue comes laced with teenspeak -- gnarly...
Gardiner has a stage presence above and beyond that of the other players, and as the play continues she becomes a demonic guardian angel to the child in the story. Surprisingly, the child doesn't get a real face or body in the play until the last few scenes, while...