Word: stagecrafter
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...Estes Kefauver, Bobby recalls: "I said right there, we should forget the issues and send Christmas cards next time." Next time was close at hand: two months after the convention, Jack Kennedy began the long buildup for his 1960 campaign. Bobby was ready and willing to try his political stagecraft on a nationwide scale...
...dances of tribal ritual, scenes of village life, a fairy tale about how the lions gained mastery over the panthers-all excitingly expressed in bounding leaps and spins, in sinuous, shuffling walk. The sets were sometimes too elegant and the costumes sometimes too flossy, but in one department of stagecraft the company had scored a clear triumph: New York, which last year had forced the women to wear brassieres, last week permitted them to dance bare-breasted-presumably in deference to the perceptive ruling by the British Lord Chamberlain's Office that Ballets Africains...
...prime commandments of theatrical experience: never get on stage for too long with a child. But just as the triumph of Annie Sullivan's fierce and unsentimental love was burnished by her battle against the afflictions of Helen Keller, so the triumph of Anne Bancroft's stagecraft burgeons beside the improbable polish of her 13-year-old colleague, Patty Duke...
...achieve such precise stagecraft, Actress Bancroft worked hard with a variety of teachers, still submits to the rigorous and introspective training of the Actors' Studio. What sets Anne apart from other Method actors is the stubborn perseverance with which she has kept her quick and sensitive emotions unfettered by theory and cant. "I've never liked to read," says she. "But I don't cover up my ignorance ; if I admit it, people will teach me. On the third TV show I ever did, Rod Steiger told me about Stanislavsky. I said...
...child-wife who is treated as a mindless, soulless plaything by a priggish husband (Christopher Plummer). But while Actress Harris-kittenish, hectically gay and finally rebellious-could break out of Nora's plush Victorian prison, she could not wholly shake off the stilted language and obtrusive 19th century stagecraft which Adaptor James Costigan took over from Ibsen...