Word: scene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lines are simple and the layout of the picture is flattened, with the floor behind the woman and child pushed up so that the room becomes depth-less, forcing the woman and child forward, while at the same time contributing to the calm feeling of the bath-time scene...
...which had ended abruptly with the tragic murder of one of the house's most beloved roommates. The attraction between Eli and Jo bring forth the issues of betrayal, lust and forgiveness. Add to these themes a couple of shocking revelations and a tear-jerking mother-daughter bonding scene, and While I Was Gone reaches its melodramatic saturation point...
When the American Repertory Theatre puts up a show, whether it's Peter Pan or Bertolt Brecht, every scene feels like an existential dialogue in the dark. It's partly a function of the Loeb Mainstage itself and partly a function of A.R.T. sets which are too conceptual to bother setting the right time-of-day tone. This darkening affect is only a part of an A.R.T "feel" that touches almost every show they produce, and their most recent, Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, is no exception...
Opening on a scene set in an architectural workshop that actually looks more like an aquarium or a behavioral biology lab, The Master Builder encapsulates its actors in boxes and makes them stand on benches or platforms. By the time the master builder himself, Halvard Solness (played by Christopher McCann), comes on stage, the production has made such an obscurely penetrating impression on the audience that McCann takes the opportunity to give the unfolding plot both personality and plausability. He sits and bitches through scenes, denying the younger generation that wants to come into its own while he guiltily broods...
Liquid Sky Music operates the cutting edge labels Home Entertainment and Jungle Sky Records that have featured such luminaries of the New York electronic scene as DJ Soul Slinger, DJ Spooky and DJ Wally. Given this remarkable pedigree, DJ Silver's debut seems, at first, disappointing. Liquid Sky Music's first release, Don't Panic! is an uptempo concoction of four-on-the-floor beats and thick synth lines. But DJ Silver is deceptive. This is much more than a dance album. Although tracks like "B My Dog" and "Wardance (Never Trust a Hippie)" have dancefloor potential, these songs...