Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little time and a little fun add up to make "Soup of the Day" a harmless, lightly amusing student production. A one-act play written and directed by Barbara M. Matteau, a masters candidate in Theater-Arts, "Soup" examines life's choices and familiar parent-child conflicts that can reveal them...
Jane is a plain, spinster-like divorcee, brimming with outwardly cheerful criticisms of her daughter's college antics that fail to show her daughter that she does in fact care about her welfare. Her verbal shots are accompanied by jerky, robotic gestures that reveal an underlying tension but are somewhat artificial and unconvincing. Azalea is the flowering know-it-all. Stubborn and unreceptive to motherly advice, she snaps defensively in response to every comment. She is a liberated student who savors the right to drink a glass of wine at lunch, if only for the shock value...
...names, costumes and mannerisms help to reveal character, superficial and predictable though those characters are. The Kronauer Space, an intimate, black-box style theater that seats about 30, is appropriate to this style of one-on-one theater, allowing for occasional eye contact between audience and actors. Because of the nature of the theater, the set is sparse but sufficient to meet the few demands made on setting and reality by this play...
...Rescue $16; Discovery Toys; ages 3 to 5 The driver of this chunky little fire truck sways merrily enough as he's pushed along, but the real fun comes after the ladder is raised and the truck opens like a suitcase to reveal a treasure chest of little knobs and handles to push, pull and turn, all with appropriately satisfying whirs and clicks. Kids provide the siren...
Woody Allen is notoriously reluctant to reveal much about his movies in advance, but the actors who signed on for Everyone Says I Love You were in for an especially rude shock. A couple of weeks after being cast, they got a call from music arranger Dick Hyman asking if he could send over their songs. Their what? Allen had neglected to tell them that they had enlisted for a musical...