Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the scenery is built, and the actors all know their lines. The dress rehearsal took place this week. And now, the stage is set for the Faculty to take a final vote on the Core Curriculum next month...
Back to the bunt. Ah, the bunt. To set the stage, Brown had just retired the MIT leadoff man on a grounder to second. Rick Pearce, the Crimson's stellar third baseman, inched up toward the grass, since the book on speedy MIT second baseman Jeff Felton was that he could bunt...
...were one or two enchanting moments. The second act consisted mainly of a lengthy dream-sequence where the Princess Aurora and her attendant nymphs danced before the bedazzled Prince. Here the ensemble choreography abandoned the conventional interlocking straight lines, and worked a tapestry of fluid configurations. Dancers bordered the stage in an open rectangle, clustered in a small circle, dipped into a deepening zigzag, or fell to the floor in a smooth oval, their long gowns floating out around them like water lily-pads. When the curtain fell, the patterns lingered in the mind like a figure-skater's traces...
...Good Doctor works best when the action is continuous, but in an amateur production a director might have to choose between two evils: black-outs after each scene, or, to preserve continuity, scene-changes in full view of the audience (while action occurs on a different part of the stage). Cooper, unaccountably, opts for both. A unit set would have helped; the set here is composed of bare, sloppily-painted flats and plain, unattractive pieces of furniture which nonetheless require a lot of time to move around...
Tanzania's President Nyerere intrigued the group for two hours in his rambling, high-ceilinged statehouse in Dar es Salaam. He used his ivory-tipped chiefs staff as a stage prop, sometimes rapping it for attention, at other times pointing it at his listeners like a machinegun. Asked if he thought American business should pull out of South Africa or stay and try to help the blacks, he lifted his voice like a preacher: "Out, out, I tell you, leave that blessed land," a view directly opposite that expressed by black leaders in Johannesburg...