Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while veering to show tunes in the second. The only Wagner to be heard is the bridal march from Lohengrin, which runs through the mismatched double weddin' of Gunther to Brunnhilde and of her drugged true love Siegfried to Gutrune. One way or another, much of the opera plot -- too much -- is noted. As one of the actors says, pointing at the audience, "Their eyes is glazed over! They're on information overload...
...aggressive anti-Western image. He announced that he was "no ! nationalist" and wanted "to be a friend and not an enemy." Listening to the warm message, I found it hard to believe that only a few days before in Moscow, he had been lambasting the U.S. for an alleged plot to destroy Russia, aided by Israel. How had this peddler of intolerance metamorphosed so smoothly into a mild-mannered missionary of goodwill...
...conveyed with delicacy and subtlety. Their rapport, especially when they reminisce about their childhood closeness, rings touchingly true, and is especially poignant in a play dedicated to Vogel's own lost bother. But Carl and Anna are neither melodramatic nor cliched. Amid the kaleidoscopic, surreal happenings of Vogel's plot, one never loses a sense of these characters' essential normality and love for each other...
...progress of the plot is revealed in vignette form, with the actors occasionally narrating, giving lessons in the language of the various countries on the voyage, or analyzing the psychological states of the characters. Colors signify changes of mood and locale, as do changes in music. One dream-sequence scene takes the form of a strange ballet narrated by voiceover. Thankfully all these effects occur with such precision and speed that the audience does not get distracted by the technical side of the production...
...plot itself is sometimes suspended altogether for moody dance sequences, slide shows of the AIDS quilt and sights of Baltimore. In these interludes the poignancy of The Baltimore Waltz becomes clearest, indicating the links between the satire of the play itself and its deadly serious subtext, AIDS...