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...scenes that followed, still almost plotless, begged the question, "How far will men in drag go for a pun?" As the characters milked every scene for a line, and every line for five more lines, the show began--no, continued, to drag on dreadfully...
...whose themes were rooted in African-American history. The austere, abstract work of Ralph Lemon, 42, for example, owes a clear visual debt to such white Post-modern experimentalists as Meredith Monk and Trisha Brown. With their sense of order and symmetry, Lemon's dances even resemble the plotless ballets of George Balanchine, in spirit if not vocabulary. When a friend in Denver challenged Lemon to create a piece with a black theme, Lemon demurred, but a chance meeting with Le Vaughn Robinson, a street-corner tap dancer, changed his mind. The result of their collaboration was Buck Dance, based...
...there's anything to learn from Richard Linklater's new movie "Dazed and Confused," that's what it is. But it seems like his point is that there isn't really anything to learn, that you shouldn't try to "document" a generation. The low-key and essentially plotless movie, although extremely well-made and entertaining, resists signification, and even review. It doesn't want to be interpreted as anything more than what it is: a series of denotative snapshots, rather than a coherent narrative, of some kids on the last day of high school...
...told you so" to the Harvard theater community. When Love's Labor's Lost was announced a few months back, the general reaction was disbelief that anyone would want to direct (much less act in, do tech for or pay money to go see) such a boring, word-heavy, plotless comedy--even if it was by Shakespeare. Most of Uphoff's original cast choices turned her down and some people were ghoulishly looking forward to a Mainstage disaster of legendary proportions...
Moment to Moment is no moment to remember; the viewer prays that every moment of this play will be the last. This improvisational pseudocomedy--poorly acted, plotless and pointless--has no redeeming value...