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This exchange, though brief, aptly summarizes the overall experience of watching this film. It begins with high hopes for artistry and authority, makes plodding steps toward achieving these goals, and remains largely unsuccessful. The audience patiently grants the film time to develop, but instead of maturing, the plot slowly abandons its attempts at greatness and withers. The film succeeds in its early attempts to satirize the modern art world, but soon grows convoluted and unnecessarily dark, much like 2006’s indie house failure “Art School Confidential...
Imagine a play. Any play. Now remove the following elements: plot, character, setting, context. What remains is “Attempts on Her Life,” the play by Martin Crimp that opens tonight and runs until November 21 in the Loeb Experimental Theater...
...don’t think the play suffers at all from not having a plot, because there’s still a sense of continuity to it,” muses Stone. “Tonally, Crimp writes with such a strong voice that that alone could tie together the whole piece... so there is a sense of continuity and structure throughout the whole thing, and it remains engaging the whole way through...It’s not a play that is interested in story in a traditional sense, but it’s definitely a play that is interested...
Instead of the more rigidly defined progression of action and character development that define the plots of most plays and musicals, DeMita’s direction opts instead to expose the inner workings of one individual. The play is basically psychoanalytical; the busy, flowing, often frenetic musical numbers and dynamic stage direction affords the audience a rare glimpse into Poe’s psyche. Unfortunately, this “glimpse” extends into an hour and a half long exposition, a bit generous for the lack of a distinct plot; further, the abundance of scenes constructed to convey...
...Turtles’ “Elenore” echoes the name of the girl who one of the characters ends up marrying. But the songs are so strong and so catchy that it’s hard to care when such straightforward connections are created between music and plot. It is clear that “Pirate Radio” is a love letter to rock ’n’ roll’s golden era and its sweeping influence, complete with an end credit sequence displaying every major album of the last 40 years...