Word: scripting
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...Garage—is as important to the overall mood of the play as the set on which the actors perform. The choice of venue exemplifies director David R. Gammons’ stripped-down aesthetic, a simplicity that works with the brutal scenes of the Bard’s script and the vicious passion of the all-male cast to create an image sure to leave a lasting impression...
...They do so, but Antony (Peter C. Shields ’09), Caesar’s right-hand man, shifts public opinion against Brutus and Cassius. The pair flees the city, fighting a losing battle against the new ruling Triumvirate outside Rome. Salas specially adapted Shakespeare’s script for the Loeb Ex production, keeping the story to a snappy two hours by dwelling on the events leading up to the assassination and speeding through those that follow...
...Some of the changes in the script for the Loeb Ex production were necessary given the space and the cast: for example, Brutus had one servant instead of many. Some were a little more drastic. The adaptation eliminated one of the Triumvirate entirely, and cut the speech of another to a few lines. The result was that the play was more narrowly focused on Brutus and Cassius than it is in some versions, an interesting shift. But the plot would have been more compelling with a little less redundancy of scenes in the first half (in large part Shakespeare?...
...Generally speaking, when a plot is as convoluted as this one - and it has many more twists and turns than it would be fair to reveal here - we are in soap opera country. And maybe we are, but that reckons without the easy naturalism of Anders Thomas Jensen's script and the brilliance with which it is played by its perfectly cast actors. For a very long time we wonder if what's unfolding on the screen is just a set of very curious coincidences instead of what it obviously is: a carefully rigged scheme by Jorgen, who is keeping...
...Some reporters here in Amsterdam are inviting me to meet their sources connected with a terror group here,” Stern wrote in an e-mail last week, “but they are not happy with the script I would have to read to the subject warning that confidentiality would be breached if they tell me about specific jihadi plans...