Word: gardened
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...latest maneuvering came after yet another morning of high-stakes political theater in Washington. President Bush made an unusual, market-calming appearance in the Rose Garden just after 9.30 a.m. to reassure the nation that all parties were seeking a speedy solution to the bailout stalemate. Negotiations continued at the staff level on Capitol Hill this morning. In general, House Republicans continue to object on free market grounds to the President's bailout plan, while Senate Republicans, as well as Democrats in both houses, have been more supportive. Democratic leaders have been reluctant to move the measure through either...
...Ivory Tower execs and a daunting video camera. Despite my laudable delivery, they did ask for one additional take that would be “more confident.” And confidence is what I brought. Raucous applause, or something like it, ensued and I bashfully exited to sketchy Garden Street and its normal group of ruffians. Alas, the final memo I didn’t receive concerned callbacks. Apparently, they were posted Friday night and the callbacks themselves were held Saturday afternoon. My bad. When I did look at the list, albeit tardily, I had, in fact, been called...
...gimmick of House and Garden, the two Ayckbourn plays currently being presented at London's Royal National Theatre, should come as little surprise. Set in the house and garden of an English country estate during one long afternoon, the plays are performed in two separate theaters by the same cast at the same time, the actors scurrying back and forth from one theater to the other. When a character chases offstage after his dog in House, he turns up a minute later in Garden; when a jilted woman enters with a limp and dark glasses in House, you find...
...audacious, crazy, altogether brilliant achievement. Each play works on its own (although House is better than Garden), but each enhances the other. House revolves mainly around the shaky marriage between Teddy Platt (David Haig), the estate's owner, and his wife Trish (Jane Asher), who is giving him the silent treatment after discovering his affair with next-door neighbor Joanna (Sian Thomas). Teddy is desperate to patch things up before a prominent, politically connected writer arrives for lunch, presumably to urge him to run for Parliament. In Garden, we see Teddy ham-handedly break off his affair with Joanna...
...were technical virtuosos who loved to set themselves challenges in their chosen medium. And both managed to entertain audiences while exploring the most profound questions of human relations and values. Most filmgoers, of course, now realize that Hitchcock was far more than just the "master of suspense." House and Garden might just help Ayckbourn finally get his due as a major theater artist. On either side of the Atlantic, he's simply the best we have...