Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vladimir Nabokov novel, is not much of a play-the characters are unreal, the tension is nonexistent, and the humor is heavy. However, Joseph Papp's Public Theater production is an elegant example of inventive staging, costuming and ensemble playing that all but makes up for the script...
...sure, Williams was the head writer for the Smothers Brothers show during its most innovative days in 1967 and 1968. He is the script doctor recently called in to help save the Glenn Campbell Goodtime Hour. He has written TV specials for Andy Williams and Petula Clark...
...Nora walked down the road going over dialogue. They walked quickly, down opposite sides of the street. Suddenly Tommy did a quick about-face. Nora followed suit. She had picked up a twig and was smoking a cigarette. They met up with Tim, and he went over the script with them...
...down: all without comment from him or anyone else. (The bourbon was cheap and awful; Prophetic Pictures' production budget is $2000 -- most of which goes for minimal salaries and prop rentals--so there is little room for extravagant extra expenses.) While Tommy worked, drank, worked, looked over his script, drank, no one spoke. Eric and Tim might say something about technical matters, but mostly: nothing. The rest of us sat around, separate from each other, smoking and gazing, sitting in the periphery of the lighted area around the fireplace--half in light, half in shadows; half in warmth, half...
...Vladimir Nabokov novel, is not much of a play-the characters are unreal, the tension is nonexistent, and the humor is heavy. But Joseph Papp's Public Theater production is an elegant example of inventive staging, costuming and ensemble playing that all but makes up for the script...