Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quartet you have four people sing the same lines over and over. There is no dramatic impact," he says. "You [as the director] have to work with the scene in order to suspend the audience's disbelief that there are only four people on stage singing...
Carney, who recently produced a Gilbert and Sullivan production, The Gondoliers, on campus, says that although he likes producing shows, he doesn't intend to make the stage his career. "It's something I really enjoy, but I don't intend to use it as a career or go to Broadway recruiting...
...tells one of her many lovers, "There's no one who'll have me." While Haner lacks the expertise necessary to explore all of the aspects of such an immensely complex character (the movie needed Meryl Streep to do it), she brings most of Susan's personality to the stage with an impressive and undeniable force...
...unquestionable excellence of the play itself, Agnes of God is further blessed in having a sensitive, if occasionally melodramatic cast. Lisa Langford is is both clever and witty as Dr. Livingstone, the psychiatrist assigned to Agnes' case and probably one of the more endearing chainsmokers ever to grace the stage. She becomes the one reliable narrator in the play, a paragon of humor and good sense in an otherwise unrelievedly gothic atmosphere of religious excess. Her exploration of Agnes' past and her search for an alternate ending becomes that of the audience. She is reality personified, confronting and dissecting...
Similarily, Andra Gordon does a marvelous job as the ambiguously innocent Agnes. She treads the narrow line between insanity and sainthood with all the fey grace that could be desired. As she floats across the stage, she resembles nothing so much as an unnaturally ethereal pre-Raphaelite saint, with her haze of red hair and huge desperate eyes. Her feet scarcely seem to touch the ground. She appears moored to the earth by only the most fragile of bonds, ready at the slightest inclination to cast off her moorings and soar off the stage. It is perhaps fortunate...