Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more moving aspects of the production is a recurrent scenario where all four actresses appear as children playing in a wasteland. As the plot develops, the games they invent provide a painful reflection on the relationships between the adult characters. The children representing Jackie and her illegitimate daughter Rosie, for example, become blood sisters. Yet Rosie's comment "You can never lie to me now" has already been disproven by Jackie's inability throughout the play to reveal herself as her mother...
...recording that includes minor bits of orchestration and songs dropped from the original. Director Prince and his co- creators acknowledge their backstage affinity, although they also cite the show's literary significance as one of the first musicals to take on political subjects, integrate song and dance into the plot and range from barroom tunes to operetta. Prince calls Show Boat "the first great modern musical...
Most importantly, despite bringing up many of the trials and joys associated with this gay sub-culture, the play does not focus on them alone; they simply provide the background to an intriguing plot-line and a colorful cast of characters...
...persuading Lee to consentto a date which he sets up, he is mistaken by awoman in the park for 'Mr. Wonderful,' a man froma matchmaking ad whom she, ('Funny Face'), waswaiting to meet. The film takes its name from thiscutesy, artificial scene, and perhaps rightly so,for the meandering plot and cloying writing onlybecome more obvious as the film progresses...
...Ovejuna stuns the audience with its precocity. Lope de Vega pokes fun at P.C. euphemisms, impractical intellectuals, outmoded patriarchal feudalism and classist snobbery. He addresses what we though were 19th and 20th century causes celebres: social revisionism, empowerment of the masses, demogoguery, mob violence and group identity. Furthermore, his plot simultaneously explores the development of the nation-state in Spain, and its effects at an individual level. Lope de Vega's mature, witty, gutsy script presents these topics engagingly...