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...information they need for callbacks and encourages them to visit the play’s website and join its e-mail list—another uniquely professional advertising strategy Spillane-Hinks employs.Spillane-Hinks recognizes that the auditions, in which she has only a few sentences to outline the plot, set the scene, describe the characters, and make the play seem appealing (“It could have taken place yesterday in America,” she tells one group), reflect upon her production. “We’re both auditioning for each other,” she says...
...society, or even necessarily a shred of realism. It is, however, a reasonable expectation that if it’s not going to provide either of those things, it will at least be escapist fun. What “Running Scared” provides instead is a nonsensical plot, dialogue that consists mostly of variations on Paul Walker screaming “Give me my fucking gun,” nonstop shootings, beatings, and knifings; and a directorial style, courtesy of Wayne Kramer, that refuses to use one shot or effect if it can use five...
...Shakespeare’s classic tale of two lovers from warring families. Separated by their families’ bitterness, they go through a series of bizarrely complex trials and tribulations to be with one another, and the play ends with both of their deaths. Put that way, such a plot does not seem like much of a love story for the ages, and many aspects of the production highlight this cynical undercurrent. As the titled character Romeo, Mickey Solis is excellent as he sighs and mopes over his early rejection by Rosalind and then falls in love with Juliet (Annika...
...MIGHT NOT WIN: Through no fault of his, audiences found the movie bewildering and the plot hard to follow and didn't take Syriana to heart. Voters admire cinematic ambition but avert their eyes from commercial failure...
...bottom line is that there is no U.S.-Israeli plan, project, plot, conspiracy to destabilize or undermine a future Palestinian government." SEAN MCCORMACK, U.S. State Department spokesman, denying reports that the U.S. and Israel plan to isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority or force new elections...