Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largeness of vision is the intimacy of scale with which director and co-author James Lapine has staged it. Lapine, who collaborated with composer Stephen Sondheim on the intricate musicals Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods, here limits himself to a few chairs, a doorway, two beds, a white curtain and a handful of props. The result is as magical as the computer-generated wizardry of a Les Miserables or Phantom of the Opera. The action shifts fluidly from reality to fantasy, from confessional thought to naturalistic dialogue, from poignance to farce...
Take, for instance, William D. Cole, a grad student who is the head teaching fellow for a popular core course. Framed by the doorway of Boylston, he wears a 100 percent cotton "Harvard Bridge" tee-shirt. His gray shorts and sweat socks with blue stripes match impeccably. The white leather tennis shoes with gray trim add a perfect final touch...
...Come Back--When Law School Dean Robert C. Clark ordered Griswold Hall locked and secured Thursday--as students were staging a sit-in inside--police took their orders seriously. Very seriously. At one point, a security officer apparently became nervous that three protesters standing in an open doorway might let more in. So the stocky, trench-coat clad officer used his body to block off the door, and began pushing the students out. A shoving match ensued, and one woman law student ended up on the ground...
Skillful stage designs and clever direction enhance the production. Derek McLane's set, painted the green of The Captain's uniform, provides a fitting backdrop for the war of the sexes. Crossed swords over every doorway evoke the marital tension within, and in the second act, an oddly shaped drawing room suggests the Captain's growing emotional instability. Director Robert Brustein emphasizes the gladitorial nature of the conflicts, rarely placing more than two characters of opposite gender on the stage at any one time...