Word: didacticism
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To remind glassy-eyed viewers that the scenes are not simply enlarged reproductions of originals, Director Eytchison shows the cast actually taking their places in the Homer painting while screens of a roiling sea and a tempestuous sky are lowered into place. It is the hit of the show. A...
There are other figures with whom she shows a sort of didactic impatience. Her pan of Twyla Tharp's Broadway effort, When We Were Very Young, is clearly done regretfully, but the conclusion is inevitable: the show, she says, "isn't a musical, it isn't a...
Max Cantor's interpretation of Ibsen's two-act drama emphasizes the playwright's humor, lightening up a script that tends toward the didactic. The Pillars of Society concerns one seemingly model family whose patriarch must admit to his actual deceit when the family's "black sheep" return home to...
Luckily, Rausch edits most of the didactic verse--such as Auden's version of T.S. Eliot's conclusion to The Wasteland (Auden: "Repent... Unite ... Act"), or his awkwardly Marxist closing line: "To each his need, from each his power." Rauch leaves in those speeches pointing to the concerns more relevant...
Such images, and others like Elijah Pierce's elaborately carved wooden panel of the Crucifixion (about 40 figures, including blacksmiths forging nails for the cross and a moon raining blood on Golgotha), are not meant to be "imaginative" in any arbitrary way, though they are deeply expressive. Their aim...