Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Venice; the ballroom scene, all cressets gleaming on dark wood and in bright eyes, was done in an apartment of that palace. On the Venetian cloister of San Francesco del Deserto, where some of the monastery sequences were made, the light falls slow and bright as dust from a celestial censer. The swordplay between Romeo and Tybalt flashes through Siena's gracious Piazza del Duomo. When Romeo in the last act beats with unavailing hands at the church door, he strikes the great bronze portal, green and inscrutable, of San Zeno Maggiore at Verona...
...When exploded on the ground, an H-bomb throws into the air something like one billion tons of pulverized material. Floating for years in the upper atmosphere, the dust may cut the strength of sunlight. It may act as condensation nuclei, stimulating rainfall, and thereby changing the pattern of the winds. Such modifications of climate will not neces sarily be good...
Suddenly there is a waffling noise in her chimney, the sound of tearing cloth, and a rain of shiny brass buttons into the fireplace. Then, with a loud plop, a red-clad figure appears on the hearth in a cloud of ash-dust, coughing violently. And Virginia thinks the recognizes...
...Dennis Johnston's The dreaming Dust, the Poets' Theatre has an imaginative and often appealing play. A re-creation of significant events in the life of Jonathan swift (as seen through the eyes of seven different observers) the play effectively straddles the boundaries of time. Each performer alternates between the role of a detached observer in the present and an important force in Swift's own past. Mr. Johnston handles his theme well, and The Dreaming dust has a quality of both intimacy and unreality, which makes it particularly well-suited to the small stage of the poets' theatre...
...general, where Dennis Johnston has supplied good drama, the Poet's Theatre is able to respond with its own talent and enthusiasm. The Dreaming Dust, as a result, is a worthwhile, if not flawless, production...