Word: scene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...characters were also never alone on the stage but were surrounded by usually silent, black-clad figures who, like a modernized Greek chorus, enacted and visually expanded the ideas behind each scene. The characters were another of Bishop's methods of heightening the theatricality of the play...
...distinguished by the impressive grasp the actors have of their stage space and spectacular technical direction. Light designer Mike DeCleene '97 deserves the highest praise for coordinating a lighting scheme that is not only excruciatingly intricate but also a key player in the production's narrative thrills. Each scene fades into complete darkness (and when the Pool Theater goes dark, we learn, it really goes dark), adding to the sense of mystery and building towards the final climax. In fact, when the lights go out for good, DeCleene and the directors seem to have all their bases covered; they play...
...Robin; she has just been dumped (not for her daughter, though), and she can't quite seem to figure out how to attend cocktail parties and remain sober for more than ten minutes. She visits a professional whore (Bebe Neuwirth) for sexual advice. This unravels into a tasteless scene of two grown women simulating oral sex on bananas, the new Mia Farrow predictably performing less than swimmingly. Later on she remarks that she has turned from an English teacher into the kind of woman she hated previously, but she's happier now. It is funny that in attacking the phenomenon...
Celebrity is different from Allen's previous works in other ways, too. Celebrity is certainly his most gentile film to date. The word "bagel" is uttered only once. The only scene with rabbis in it features the yarmukled men trapped in a room with a group of teenage skin-heads. Most of the film is shot in locations besides those that are usually featured in Allen's stories; now characters are uprooted, on the streets, at parties, in movies, and so forth...
...Taubman--give performances of a lifetime. As "Hot Box" girls, they cackle and strut with such all-out campiness that it defies words (the "A Bushel and a Peck" number wins my vote for "Funniest Thing I've Ever Seen on a Harvard Stage"), and the spicy Havana dance scene both awes the audience members and heats up their blood. On the other end of the spectrum, the missionary leader Sarah Brown, played by Jaclyn Huberman, brings tears to the audience's eyes with her sincere devotion to the "Save a Soul" Mission as well as with her absolutely angelic...