Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What does this self-conscious display have to do with Chekhov's The Seagull? On the whole, not much. The awkward playwright of Chekhov's script and Artistic Director Peter Sellars of the American National Theater in Washington share a bold if at times risible "search for new forms." But within the arcane visual framing, Sellars has mounted an intelligent reading by a cast notably including Colleen Dewhurst. He makes a case that the play is above all about jealousy and offers an electrifying moment near the end, when the words of the play-within-a-play suddenly take...
...forthcoming film Hannah and Her Sisters. Truth to tell, the movie appearance was set up by Schmidt's third wife, Helen Cutting Whitney, producer and director of ABC and PBS documentaries on such topics as McCarthyism and homosexuality, and co-author, with Eugenia Zuckerman, of a feature-film script titled K.589...
...Minneapolis TV station wjm. Starting this week, fans will once again have the pleasure of Mary Tyler Moore's company in Mary, a new cbs series. This time Mary's Mary is a touch more contrary--"ten years older and a little bit wiser," says Moore, 47. In the script, Mary Brenner works for a paper called the Chicago Post. But as it happens, Chicago Vice Mayor Richard Mell publishes a real monthly community newspaper called--whoops!--the Chicago Post. Faced with serious legal problems, the show's technical wizards last week were reported busy exorcising all audio and visual...
WHAT HAPPENS when you give one of Harvard's most talented directors, experienced actors and creative crew a script of Shakespeare's Richard II? A near-professional performance that is easily one of the best to hit a Harvard House stage in a while...
...only drawback to this play is its length (two hours and 40 minutes). If Ronis had not remained as faithful to the script, briefer duel scenes and soliloquies would have resulted in a more tightly packaged play. Nevertheless, the superb acting, lighting and directing overall keep one from getting antsy while sitting on the thinly carpeted NoHo floor...