Word: script
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this show is more "coherent," Goldsmith stresses. Its script, developed by the actresses themselves, imposes a more structured quality on the material, allowing the performers to develop characters instead of remaining only singers. The play takes the five actresses of 17 to 23, through high school and college. But the musical numbers deal more with personal traumas--the loss of one's virginity, the divorce of one's parent--than with the stresses of the scholastic environment. While the play contains several monologues, and scattered bits of dialogue, the characters mostly interact with song. scattered bits of dialogue, the characters...
BENEITIA PORTER'S acting, like the set, only obscures Beckett's script. Beckett himself might see nothing wrong here; his plays need not and sometimes cannot make sense on an intellectual level. But Krieger's concept of isolating Porter in the hallway ruins the drama of the piece...
Porter lacks the dynamic presence which could drag the audience into her isolated world. Instead, we too, may be isolated, but this only makes it very difficult for us to relate to her character. The lack of rehersal time shows; Porter falters with the script often, seriously undermining the show's pacing...
Someone asks whether his success has been a burden. "Less so than unsuccess," he replies. Another member of the audience wants to send her screenplay to an agent. "Should I just address the script?," she presses. "I'd put an address on it, yes." he says. Someone else inquires how he distinguishes writing a play from writing a film script. He makes a few thoughtful remarks, pauses, and then adds, "Also, I write the words 'a film' on the screenplay's title page...
Houghton Mifflin is the publisher of three Kosinski novels, including his best known, The Painted Bird. But consider the embarrassment at Random House. They rejected the identical Steps manu script nine years after they had published it. In all 14 publishers and 13 literary agents failed to recognize the book when it was sent unsolicited by an author who called himself Erik Demos. Demos is the nom de hoax chosen by Chuck Ross, a Los Angeles freelance writer out to prove what thousands of aspiring first novelists already know: it is virtually impossible for an unknown author to break into...