Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee of imprudent MPs and gives them the task of rooting out immorality among their colleagues. As members of this special committee each inadvertently reveal pairs of panties pulled from back pockets and briefcases, you start wondering what has happened to Stoppard's proverbial cleverness. In Jumpers he used stage acrobatics to poke fun at and illuminate complicated philosophical questions; here he finds no better use for age-old sight gags than to keep his audience interested between long recitations of names of English inns...
...proportion, and carefully understated the strangeness of Stoppard's dialogue to make it sound more believable. Thus the show's introductory sequence--in which two MPs arrive in the committee room and converse for several minutes using only foreign cliches--succeeded through the lack of self-consciousness on the stage...
...operating room better than I do. I've seen white graduates of nursing school come in to the hospital and fire these black nurses. Why? Because they will not tolerate a black knowing more than they do. Business is the same, we can never go beyond a certain stage, it would violate the system...
...weeks ago the conspirators informed the U.S. embassy in San Salvador that they were ready to stage Romero's overthrow. Last Monday their forces moved swiftly through the capital city, carrying out the plotters' plan to "behead the army" by arresting the general staff and putting 85% of the senior officers on the retirement list. Through an American diplomat, they informed Romero that he had until 3 p.m. to get out of the country. With that, the President (whose brother Jose Javier was gunned down by leftists five weeks ago) boarded a plane and fled to Guatemala...
Even a demonstrably lesser drama, such as Ladyhouse Blues at Manhattan's Theater of St. Peter's Church, shows the deep affinity linking the family with the emotions and experiences that fire up a stage. Within the family-sometimes at scalding intensity-we get our first inklings of the nature of love, hate, time, memory, remorse and reconciliation...