Word: silents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bringing Out the Dead owes a lot to New York City, its silent costar, but there's another central contender as well--the hospital dubbed Our Lady of Misery. There's a column of bullying power in the black police officer who, like Saint Peter, mans the entrance to the clinic, deciding who is admitted and who is not. But through the steely gates is not paradise, for this overcrowded, understaffed clinic has patients writhing and screaming within every cinematic inch. In this fluorescent-lighted madhouse, the sterile, linoleum-- tiled hospital reflects the emotional tone of the nurses and doctors...
...more. Overnight, Jeremy DeNeal had run into a wall at the juncture of routes 70 and 270. Jeremy had known everybody and done everything: partied with the partyers, prayed at Young Life, worked in the school office. Meg Kassabaum, a reserve third baseman, looks up. "The whole school went silent," she remembers. Then it fell apart. One girl cried so hard in her car that she had an accident...
...girls fall silent for a moment...
...Shepard is simply marking time between the dramatic flashpoints of his play. Kellerman seems uncertain what to do with this between time, with the unfolding of character histories and endless plot complications. At times the dialogue almost becomes a burden to the play, an interruption to its more powerful, silent moments...
...Saffold is just one voice in an often silent chorus of minorities who have felt the chill in that September afternoon. How are the players in Harvard's dramatic community reacting to the perception that theater is a white-only world...