Word: stagecrafter
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Much of the excitement, of course, springs from the play, and not the production. In many ways it is Marlowe's maturest piece of writing; certainly it is his most interesting piece of stagecraft. For the play moves becautifully through the complicated tragedy of the weak king Edward, employing a large--though never bulky--cast of scoundrel lords and scurrilous peasantry. Indeed, in its pageant and scheme, the play resembles nothing so much as Shakespeare's own "Richard II." Edward, like Richard, is a king devoted more to his own pleasures than to ruling, and while England goes noisily...
...KAMIHIRA-Durlacher, 538 Madison Ave. at 54th. Few artists use pure stagecraft more effectively or pack their interiors with such sultry silence as this Japanese-American figure painter. Twenty-one recent works include new excursions into landscape, inspirations of a trip through Spain. Through...
...Louis Nizer's bestseller, My Life in Court. The case, though veiled, is Newsman Quentin Reynolds' winning libel suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Since the element of suspense is nonexistent, the result is fairly tame and lethargic, except for those who relish every predictable cliche of courtroom stagecraft...
Tony Richardson, 34, is a Yorkshireman who hates things gently. As chief director among the so-called Angry Young Men, he helped Writer John Osborne toss a large red brick through the French doors of conventional English stagecraft, bringing the smell of soot and soft coal into the theater...
...David Wolper documentary on the Du Pont Show of the Week, made Hollywood war movies look like so much stagecraft...