Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to utilize the whole courtyard," Rinzler emphasized. "Even the roof of the Master's house is a stage." Action will occur on all sides of the audience, seated in the courtyard's center...
...lift into an Olympic Game." Even a U.S. delegate sneered: "Who's going to vote for you? I'm not." Austria's Innsbruck was Squaw's chief competitor, and seemed a sure winner when one of the delegates charged that Squaw was totally unprepared to stage an Olympics, furthermore should be disqualified because it was not a town (it still is not). Summoned to the meeting room for an explanation, Cushing turned on the charm. There should be no fears about readying an Olympic plant at Squaw, he argued. After all, there were four years...
...ever since she grew up in Galway, daughter of a mathematics professor, and began her play acting with her pals in a neighbor's barn. For a while the theater came close to losing her to her father's profession, but her love of Gaelic and the stage kept her coming back to Irish drama. Soon she was involved with Saint Joan, the role that has almost become her alter ego. For a starter she translated the Shaw play into Gaelic, but her greatest triumph came later on the New York stage in 1956. There, her Joan emerged...
Ever since Joan, Siobhan has starred as an international vagabond. "I go from country to country, and half the time I don't know where I am.'' But movies, stage or television, she always knows what she wants to be. "In England,'' she says, "first they wanted to change my name. I said: 'No, thank you; I don't know who was responsible for it, but obviously they went to a lot of trouble to think it up.' " In Hollywood, she had similar trouble. "They said...
Rashomon (by Fay and Michael Kanin) is essentially a stage remake of the eight-year-old Japanese film classic, and some of the charm and power of the film has spilled away in transit. Culled originally from two short stories by Japan's late mordant satirist, Akutagawa, Rashomon poses a philosophic question that means all things to all men: What is truth...