Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blake peels the petals off this flowery picture with loving precision. Disraeli was born in 1804, in no sense underprivileged. His father Isaac was a well-known, successful anthologist with a pleasant country house and an entree into at least the second rank of English society. Dizzy could have gone to the Establishment schools if he had wanted to-both his younger brothers attended Winchester-but he skipped school to get on with the great game of life, for already ambition was burning a hole in his dandy's pockets...
Thurber assembled the piece several years before his death. In a humble, un-self conscious and altogether pleasant way, it is an experiment in total media. Dramatic readings, with more acting and less reading, depending on the piece, are accompanied by a quiet jazz piano; his cartoons and illustrations are projected above the set, sometimes as asides to the stage work and sometimes as the center of attention...
Rosé in the Fridge. Vanessa's problems are of a different sort?though on the surface no problems are apparent. She rents a modest stucco house in a pleasant but not palatial suburb of Los Angeles, and except for her daily visits to the studio lives there like any other matron of reasonable means with her two children, their nanny and her secretary. She gets home by 7 or 8, gives a big hug to her two little girls?Natasha, 3˝, and Joely Kim, 2. Then she hears all about what they did that day, reads them a leisurely bedtime...
...stage in the Old Library is a pleasant piece of invention: a rectangular space with risers to the left for the Duke's palace and risers to the right for Olivia's habitation. Unfortunately the cast is forever surging back and forth across mid-stage, drawing our attention from one house to the other with no purpose...
Donald Soule's two sets, the apartment and the Pretty Pussy, fill the space tidily. They are pleasant enough, though there is little attempt to catch whatever subtleties there are in the period...