Word: scrim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Jack Ruby, All-American Boy is anything like an indictment of Dallas. Or that John Logan's play deals with conspiracy theories or even with Lee Harvey Oswald. The assassin appears only as a menacing rifleman waiting behind a scrim, and then as a sweating prisoner led down the garage ramp to be shot himself. The focus of this elaborate and populous production is Jack Ruby, the bloody little Sunday morning angel of vengeance...
With the orchestra arrayed behind a scrim at the back of the stage, Gene Nelson presides over the evening as master of ceremonies and song-and-dance man. Larry Kert is exceptional-especially in Maria, which he sang in the original cast of West Side Story...
...actually on film, and because the image is too impressionistic, it may be the least effective part of the scene. Later in the second act, film projections-being used for the first time at the Met-are much more powerful. The spectator first sees an eye in the scrim curtain. Like the opening in a Faberge Easter egg, it reveals colts romping in a field of daisies, hunters on the chase, a shadow man and woman walking hand in hand through a forest-all fine, unselfconscious, pre-Freudian images for the awakening love of Dido and Aeneas. The cinematic montage...
...this genre and stamp her own individual form on her writing. She should carve the story lines out of the characters' lives instead of inscribing them to fit well-worn and obtrusive speculations on the meaning of life. Then the glorious ones' real spirit would shine through the scrim of morals she has hung...
Lady Antonia scants no detail of politics or social trends. The result is a dense scrim of facts that partly obscures the giant size and shape of Cromwell's tortured personality. Every once in a while, his voice rings out memorably-in an outburst at Parliament ("Begone, you rogues, you have sat long enough"), or pleading with a superior not to order tired horses into battle ("They will fall down under their riders if you thus command them; you may have their skins, but you can have no service"). Or, raging at a petition from the Irish Catholic clergy...