Word: soliloquys
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...technical faults which director Richard Pena failed to recognize. Sometimes the metaphor of syphilis becomes obsessive, which makes the devil's session before God too long, redundant and plain boring. As the devil himself observes, "You can take a lot of crap as long as you can communicate." His soliloquy is laced with pseudo-scientific clap-trap that is arresting only because Kenneth Demsky's tremulous head, clubfooted hitch and fine, brooding elocution fascinate...
...Chassler's work take on qualities similar to its characteristics of movement. Energy is parcelled out into long stretches, each followed by short rests during which the dancer returns to a state of neutral energy, gathering again the threads of the sustaining image. The work is extremely linear, a soliloquy, like the prose poem Chassler recites...
...necessary to convey the full gamut of Faustus' tormented self-questioning. In addition, he experiences no minor difficulty reciting Marlowe's verse, placing his emphases seemingly at random--as though he knew some accents were needed, but neither he nor Morphos could figure out just where. In his last soliloquy, Pajaczkowski finally captures some of the agony of impending damnation, but the emotion he manifests here is insufficient to redeem the shallowness of the rest of his performance...
...ever the CIA recruited a candidate of uncompromising devotion, Agee seemed to be the man. When he joined "the Company" fresh out of Notre Dame in 1956, the graduate experienced an epiphany atop the Washington Monument. In a soliloquy straight out of a Loyalty Day pageant, Agee claims to have sworn, "I'll be a warrior against Communist subversive erosion of freedom and personal liberties around the world-a patriot dedicated to the preservation of my country and our way of life...
...sixties, so has a grim realism become prevalent where previously experimentation and romanticism ruled the day. I can still picture Shelley, at least, in the middle of a Socratic dialogue with an obstreperous law professor, standing on his seat and singing La Marseillaise, or histrionically reciting a soliloquy from Shakespeare. Today, however, such romantic elan seems completely incongruous, and, in those rare instances when someone calls up an outlandish dream or invokes an outrageous vision, the individual is dismissed as a utopian or an eccentric...