Word: scrim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...limned by Brecht and Weill, this straightforward musicality puts the brakes on the rambunctious staging. The rhythms of the songs and the pace of the action are too different, which may be why the single most successful moment of the production is the overture, staged in front of a scrim decorated with the Northwest Orient Airlines logo. Blond air hostesses go through the usual check-out procedures, finding some berserk synchronization between their clockwork movements and Sullivan's ravishing score...
...across the stage to warn Brutus of impending doom--an effect which, like the ghost scene in Hamlet, tends to inspire the most ridiculous devices imaginable from directors afraid of seeming naive--Cameron-Webb manages to achieve total straightforwardness. A panel of the Capitol slides up, revealing a blue-scrim sky, and the silhouetted monarch simply walks across it, stops, speaks, and continues on his way. The audience's chills are real...
...martyred child survives with nothing but rage and revenge; Tzili is strangely passive, accepting the insults and the blows as her destiny, if not her due. Kosinski's novel is a series of surreal images; Appelfeld's is a shadow play whose characters move mutely behind a scrim of inexpressible sadness...
...city. All nonsense, of course. Franchises tear loose from Brooklyn or Philadelphia when the owners see money to be made in newer cities. Players show up in the uniform of last week's enemy. But to remain a baseball fan, one must drop a light green scrim of nostalgia across such details, the necessary treacheries. One must give oneself over to the illusion, the precisions and geometries and statistics and characters and lore of the game. In his autocratic passion, Steinbrenner, alas, exaggerates the worst traits of modern baseball: its crassness and faithlessness and shallow nastiness. He will...
...mind as do Woyzeck's visually masterful sequences. The way Jamie Hanes, as Woyzeck, stares defeatedly at a surrealistically huge bowl of peas, munches some, then bows his head in acceptance and dread, carries its power with it; marooned in cellophone wastes with his huge silhouette thrown on a scrim, Hanes need not operate otherwise in recognizable patterns. Kim Burrough as Marie, in some ways a more pivotal persons than Woyzeck, forges a character tied more closely to those events that are seen, but her physical presence remains objectively active and exciting outside scenery, outside plot...