Word: scene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic Chicago scene, committeemen jammed paunch-to-paunch and cigar butt-to-cigar butt in the smoke-drenched meeting room. First to speak was Daley, who described the bills he had introduced as a state senator to help the aged, the disabled, and abused and neglected children. Never once did he mention what the fight was all about: control of the machine. Nineteen committeemen rose to endorse him. The most impassioned was Ed Kelly who, as president of the Chicago Park District, controls 3,000 jobs that Byrne has been trying to snatch away. "The Daley name is still magic...
...covered side of Mount Erebus and exploded. Nine hours later, search aircraft from the nearby U.S. airbase at McMurdo Sound spotted the wreckage strewn over a quarter-mile area of the steep slope at 2,500 ft. Despite blizzard conditions, three New Zealand mountaineers managed to land at the scene by helicopter; they confirmed that there were no survivors at the site that rescue volunteers later described as "a hellhole...
Director Paul Redford has ingeniously underscored most of the show with subtle percussion music, wood blocks, wind chimes and drums that unite the play and make credible the passing of 16 years and the revelation scene in the fifth act. John Krosnick, however, is occasionally heavy-handed with his drumsticks...
...first three acts, Redford works with a simple set consisting of a narrow, straight-back throne set on a raised platform. His blocking of each scene subtly underscores the action as it develops in the play...
...wife in the first three acts must grow until he loses the ability to think or function as king, or as human being. After his tyrannical madness, Leontes must reappear in the fifth act and be convincingly penitent and remorseful. He must also make credible the revalation scene in which the 'statue' of his wife, who for 16 years he has thought dead, comes to life from her pedestal...