Word: stagecrafter
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...Japan, where no one wants to lose face, to have the aplomb to make fun of yourself is almost transcendentally bitchin'. "I suppose my film persona is somewhat a reaction to my stand-up routine," says Beat. His own acting style, he says, is influenced by the traditional stagecraft of Japan's noh theater?long, intricate courtly dramas written to entertain the royal family a thousand years ago. "A noh mask is a completely expressionless mask," he explains. "It's unnecessary for the actor to act dramatically. What the audience can see and interpret is limitless." Beat Takeshi...
...important stagecraft, Bush invited the G.O.P.'s high priests of national security--former Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz (who was skeptical about the idea when Reagan embraced it)--to give his plan their seal of approval by standing with him. Some aides wanted a speech, not a press conference, fearing reporters would try to trip him up on nuclear arcana. But Bush, an aide said proudly, "answered all the questions himself!" As part of the effort to appear presidential, he even dispatched aides to give advance...
...their posters plastered on the walls of boys' bedrooms across America. But it's pro wrestlers who will reign supreme, because they are the embodiment of sport as soap opera. With wrestling's incomparable melding of the trailer park and Valhalla, its intricate and interlacing narratives, its music, pyrotechnic stagecraft and glorification of oratory, it is the Gesamtkunstwerk--the total artwork--of the sports and entertainment world. Professional wrestling will be the single most powerful influence on all other sports well into the 22nd century...
...political persecution--has finally made it to CD in a splendid live recording from last year's Spoleto Festival. The cast is solid; Richard Hickox's conducting, superb. Successfully premiered on Broadway in 1950 (yes, Broadway used to take such chances), The Consul is a little masterpiece of musical stagecraft whose grimly effective score and libretto haven't lost any of their punch--or relevance--in this ghastly age of ethnic cleansing...
...beauty. Piping classical music brings out a gracile quatro of stage hands between acts one and two: They lay out light-cobalt platforms which in turn absorb a dull, icy lighting scheme. As the A.R.T.'s actors quickly sketch their tragedy (an uber-fable about ambition and hubricguilt), its stagecraft is relentlessly Scandinavian, so that the dark, philosophically neurotic A.R.T. paradigm feels like nothing more than atypical (or stereotypical) Norwegian aesthetic...