Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The excessive descriptive detail is especially disturbing because it complements an absence of any substantive character development. Other figures flit in and out of the novel without any identity of their own. They are props-roadmarker measuring the progress of Sarah's intellectual, journalistic and sexual development. Carolee, a Radcliffe...
WHO'S afraid of Virginia Woolf' Mainly anyone who's eaten in Dunster House lately mid the unique set of props that have turned dinning into a perverse for form of mountain climbing. But anyone who's seen the show might well decide it would be worth eating a few...
Everything and everyone seem to be conspiring against the substitute. Because of featherbedding rules of the stagehands union, for example, understudies usually have to rehearse without props, costumes or scenery. Sometimes an actor is so busy trying to avoid bumping into unfamiliar furniture that he can scarcely think about the...
The equally time-tested setting is an empty stage, and the props are limited, but the placement of large practice-room mirrors and the variation of harsh white light with soft rotating colors more than compensate for the space decoration.
Director/Set designer Paul Warner '84, too, seems to want the audience to think. His set is more cerebral than realistic: In the wings, chairs float above the floor; on stage is a clutter of props and a telephone hanging down from the ceiling. By an occasional gesture within the play...