Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Berlin's attention to O'Neill the dramatist leads to his insights into the plays excessive stage directions, scanty use of stage props. and reliance on repetitive sounds. Most of the characters. Berlin notes, reveal themselves through their stage manners and habits: Mary, the mother, is noted for her "extreme...
Berlin shows how the lack of props gives the few objects O'Neill does use--a bottle of whiskey, a wedding dress--more prominence. He also clarifies the meaning of O'Neill masterly use of sounds (the first discussion of the play concerns the father's snoring). For example, the...
The outcome of the story, confected by William Link and Richard Levinson, has never been in doubt. Far more uncertain has been the fate of the show itself. From the start, Elmer Bernstein's dial-tone melodies and Don Black's laundry-list lyrics overwhelmed every scene. Lame gags and...
Props were dropped, cues were missed, preview audiences became restive. The original director, Frank Dunlop, was summarily replaced by Co-Producer Ivan Reitman, and the footwork of Choreographer Christopher Chadman was supplemented by Billy Wilson's (Bubbling Brown Sugar). A parade of advisers came backstage to offer cardiopulmonary resuscitation: among...
Syberberg's problem is symbols: there are too many of them for even a work as complex as Parsifal to support comfortably. "I have tried to keep Wagner's work intact," says the director, "but at the same time to make a film about Wagner, about ourselves and...