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...Chen is one of China's few independent documentary filmmakers?and to get honest footage in a country that often treats truth as a state secret, the 33-year-old cameraman relies as much on stealth as stagecraft. For his 2002 documentary, To Live is Better Than To Die, a stark portrayal of a family destroyed by AIDS, he sneaked into the village of Wenlou in central Henan province dressed as a peasant, creeping through cornfields in the dead of night with his equipment stashed in a fertilizer bag. That was the only way he could elude police in order...
Nevertheless, Craig occupies a prominent place in the New Stagecraft movement in the early twentieth century. For a short period he ran a school promoting his own theories, but it was later closed due to financial failure. Craig also wrote several books, including The Art of the Theatre in 1905 and Towards a New Theatre...
Architectural purists dismiss Rockwell's creations as stagecraft. There is a sense that the attention he's getting for Hairspray is appropriate because his work has always been set building, not creating a fully functioning environment. Even at the Mohegan Sun, for all its finery, the empty space and boring roof structure are quite visible beyond the panels of beads that form the ceiling. You can see through the illusion...
When National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice announced that the President would be making a series of speeches this week, it looked like the stagecraft that signals a big U-turn. Advisers had been whispering about making a "recalibration," in which the President would tighten up the message about progress in the war overseas and safety at home. Was this it? Yes, but by using big-shot Rice, the White House sent too strong a signal--sometimes even the recalibration needs recalibration. The more nuanced shift of this week, according to an adviser, is "setting things right and putting them...
...advisers to go home to their kids. Even Cheney is out by 7 most nights. A staff member in the elder Bush's Administration used to leave his office light on and jacket draped over his chair to make it appear he was working all night. That kind of stagecraft isn't effective in the son's halls, says Mary Matalin, who worked for both Bushes. "There is no guilt associated with being able to make a respectable departure," she says...