Word: plot
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That it does in Wilson's production, and gloriously. Ignoring Stein's simulacrum of a plot (the lives of 16th century Spanish saints), Wilson treats the opera's Dadaesque musings as a delicate dreamscape, filling the stage with characteristically elliptical images. Some, such as a levitating illuminated triangle, are familiar from earlier Wilson spectacles, while others--fluffy sheep that slowly ascend into the heavens, where they become clouds--are new. Robustly conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, the opera's simple Midwestern melodies provide an ideal complement to the graceful stage pictures, while the cast, headed by soprano Ashley Putnam...
...Reza Alavi, the research associate who was the target of the alleged extortion, calls the notion of a plot "just too ridiculous to comment on." He said he barely knows Afrasiabi and that he has left the case up to the police...
Better written (and acted) than your average "Women in Prison" movie, the plot is still basically the same: there are a bunch of women locked in a small, dirty space; some of them are lesbians; they are all rude and nasty; they fight with the guards; the guards fight back; the guards get involved with them and/or try to rape them; the warden is evil; through the whole trying experience, someone dies, and the rest of them become better people and closer friends through all of it. Yawn...
Since then, Maloney has provided assistance on technical aspects, providing video equipment, plot support and details about Harvard's support networks...
...never clear whether that violence is going to be directed against Madame or by one sister against another. Claire, the younger sister, is more resolute in her hatred of Madame, and seems willing to actually carry out the murder they continually plot; Solange wavers between resentment of Madame and fawning subservience. The one chance for the murder to come off seems to be ruined when Madame refuses the poisoned tea Claire offers her; this narrow escape leaves the sisters mired in their own hostility, and in the end it seems that one or the other of them will be forced...