Word: dullness
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...different contexts, to great effect. The comic material Martin uses in Picasso succeeds in racking up the laughs, although it lacks the slight edge that elevated the best of his earlier into something more provocative and exciting. Still, Martin is no comic slouch, and there's never a dull moment during his play...
...version presented by resident choreographer Daniel Pelzig. Since arriving at the Ballet in 1995, Pelzig has created several remarkable and highly entertaining pieces for the company. However, his forte lies in the modern and whimsical, not the classical and romantic, as shown only too well in the dull and uninspiring choreography of this...
...costumes are for the most part unremarkable, the dull colors relieved only by the striking black, red, and purple garb of the Capulets. The scenery, however, by artist Alain Vaes, is breathtaking. The fair city of Verona comes alive in all its luxurious beauty, filled with graceful archways and lovely fountains. The interior of the Capulet home is dominated, with striking appropriateness, by a large mural of the tumultuous history of the family. Plenty of luminous stars create a suitably romantic atmosphere for the balcony scene, forming a stark contrast to the gloomy, eerily bare family crypt where the drama...
They are all, God knows, energetic, and their never-a-dull-moment playing commands our astonished attention. You almost feel that if you let it wander for an instant, someone would reach out from the screen and slam you with a two-by-four. At the same time, you are aware that they are shoving this melodrama of class and manners uncomfortably close to farce and robbing the story's ending of its quietly stated force...
...after World War II is superb. He is even confident enough to have some fun--he includes a wonderful brief passage about Mameha's past encounters with various luminaries who had visited Japan. "She poured sake for the great German writer Thomas Mann, who afterward told her a long, dull story through an interpreter," Golden reports, as well as for Ernest Hemingway, "who got very drunk and said the beautiful red lips on her white face made him think of blood in the snow...