Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several scenes and individual performances, display particularly well the company's adept balancing of fidelity to the script and score with innovative and animated staging. The male chorus of peers, for example, staggers the audience in its wonderful first number, thundering the line "bow, bow, you lower middle classes," complete with characteristic pompous gesturing...
Angle City presents a view of Hollywood and the American movie industry where greed and ambition have destroyed the last vestiges of artistic integrity Shepard says he wrote Angel City after a bad experience in an office in Hollywood and his cynical pessimism shows through every line of the script Each character in the play has a dream Lanx wants to be a boxer, Miss Scoons wants to be an actress. Tympani dreams of owning a diner And each has sold out, abandoned his integrity in order to try and claw his way to the top Money is the driving...
...desert after an argument, he says desperately, "don't worry. Dad, I'll pay for the call. You can take it out of my allowance." Thomas pulls off this unfathomable statement with a desperate, sometimes shrill voice, making the audience wish that the actors could have had a better script to develop their characters...
...script didn't change much in the Crimson's latest victory, which once again saw Harvard fall behind early, scrap to get back in it and then hang on to record the most precarious of victories...
...PLAY'S final surprise--the revelation, in the final minutes, that this lightness was false all along--may offer a clue to the total imbalances of both production and script. That part of the audience which hung on until the end gets the payoff of a genuinely moving conclusion--the assurance that somewhere in the morass of stylization there was a story worth remembering. If the theatregoer is patient, not too sleepy, and willing to work, the evening is by no means a theatrical dead loss. Swartz and her company have coaxed a good deal out of this literary curiosity...