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Much of the production depends on mime, on suggesting rather than acting out. There are no props: even Caesar's mantle, which Antony addresses in his funeral oration, is made out of empty air. The assassination and battle scenes are elaborately choreographed and acted out tableaux, replete with ritualistic mock...
Still, the F.T.A. revue was fashioned as an alternative to Hope's, and others like his, and it offers plenty of pointed contrasts. Where Hope's show has glossy production numbers, Les Brown's band and a succession of sexy starlets, the F.T.A. has makeshift props and...
"My characteristic as a director is to let the subject take over the film. If the subject is romantic and redblooded, I believe in handling it in a romantic, red blooded way. But working on The Boy Friend was more traumatic. No one knows how to make those musicals now...
The play is apprentice work of the Bard's, but it does contain premonitory inklings of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night. However, the theme of young love is scarcely served by this dryly mocking adaptation. The musical resembles an animated jukebox and comes alive only in one sultry...
The actors wear jeans and old shirts or sweaters; the only props are a bench, a few chairs and one spotlight. The bareness is dictated in part by the scripts, but it is also integral to this kind of communal theatre. Coming and Going required very little money to stage...