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Other trials await actors too. Things are slightly less hectic now that the shows are taped. But a complete show must still be rehearsed, blocked and taped within twelve hours. Actors frequently call each other by their real names on-camera or get so confused by stage blocking that they walk through fake walls. Says Art Wolf, a director of Another World, the most elaborate soap: "The most difficult thing is putting an hour show together so fast." World has 37 sets, a live band and a discotheque; logistics alone requires a small army of a crew. The action...
Meanwhile, life inside the picket-surrounded Post building is becoming less hectic. The ninth-floor executive dining room is still serving as an all-night diner. Executives still have to pick their way through piles of dirty laundry to grab sleep, on cots set up in their offices, between an all-day shift behind the desk and an all-night shift putting out the paper. But only 100 employees are still living in the building, down from 200 at the beginning of the strike. All but one of the paper's nine presses have been repaired...
Norman has a lot of cheek. So does Ayckbourn. He offers three views of the hectic 48 hours-in three different plays, which must be seen on different nights. The first, Table Manners, is about what happens in the dining room when it is not happening on the family hearth rug in No. 2, Living Together, or in the bushes in No. 3, Round and Round the Garden. Do not be alarmed. It is nothing like the Ring. The comedies interweave with the boisterous precision of a Scottish reel, and finally yield a picture of family life at once riotous...
...following such writers as John Fowles and Isaac Bashevis Singer--but he has managed, through the juxtaposition of form and content, to throw some new light on the difficulties and rewards of integrating the tradition and slow beauty of the past into the hectic pace of the present...
RESTIC: I wish I had the time, but things have been really hectic around here. Besides John, you were, and I really hate to say this, but I've been simmering for 52 weeks, and, well, you were pretty rude, being a guest and all, at last year's affair...