Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NOEL Coward's Hay Fever is a very witty, if fluffy, comedy of manners with distinct, offbeat characters. Unfortunately, the actors in the Lowell House production aren't always up to the demands of Coward's script...
After three hours of levity among corpses, both Barnes' script and the actors fave a hard time convincing the audience that the time for sadness has come now that the dying is done. Barnes continues to hammer at the same arguments, the same feminist, anti-clerical strains that he has touted all along. Whatever power they had earlier in the play, these ideas are already beginning to lose their comic appeal, and when made serious, they fall flat. The actors--who look ridiculous to start with in their spectacularly clean frocks, rags and robes--really cannot effect the change with...
PAUL ROBESON. The script is uncritical idolatry, but Avery Brooks (Spenser: For Hire) gives this one-man Broadway show a dignity, emotional force and singing voice as awesome as the American original he recreates...
...intended to go beyond sympathy and outrage. "What interested me was what AIDS means for the way people think about illness," she explains. "One way for people to defend themselves against what is painful and frustrating in modern life is to have fantasies of disaster. AIDS is the latest script of that disaster...
...fast-talking, colorful speech of men (rarely women) motivated by avarice. His collaborator on the screenplay, Shel Silverstein, is known for his wonderfully subversive children's verse, as well as some scabrous poems for adults. One would think that between them they could come up with a wittier, juicier script than this...