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...isms, foppishness, and fervor. This year’s on-stage fracas was as conflicted as its title, comically portraying the blurred line between marital bliss and marital blight. Unfortunately, in some parts of the performance, the line between “great” and “grating?? was just as blurred...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Take Her, She’s Yours!’ Takes the Cake | 11/18/2007 | See Source »

...centaurs look simply unrealistic in a land that’s more Magic Kingdom than Middle-Earth. In battle alongside these poorly animated beasts, the Pevensie children look awkward, not valiant. The obnoxious Hobbit-sized protagonists have even less acting talent than Elijah Wood and their performances are extremely grating??except for the adorable and honest young heroine, Lucy (Georgie Henley). Lucy’s moral fiber and goodness reflects the one element of Narnia that Adamson is able to translate to film: Lewis’s grounding in Christian theology, the philosophy of agape (ultimate sacrifice...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...doubt, there are many who might find Lithgow’s theatricality grating??all the Oscar Wilde irony, all the references to individuals as his “good friends,” and so on. But in both style and substance, Lithgow has a wealth of knowledge to offer the Class of 2005 on June...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Many Faces of John Lithgow | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...contours and has been marked by signature elements that are regularly deployed: dominant female villains, forays into violence and physical comedy, and the deployment of actors into elaborate, atmospheric sets that enhance the bleak spaces that separate them emotionally. Though some of his tropes can be grating??the alternations between loud yelling, electronica, and animalistic sexuality has grown somewhat predictable—we have all witnessed in Donahue’s work the genesis of a style, and the preliminary efforts of a professional talent of whom we will no doubt hear again...

Author: By Patrick D. Blanchfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Oresteia: ‘A Harvest of Much’ Talent | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

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