Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Terry Johnson bases his play around a chance meeting between Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein. The space is a New York hotel room, the time is 1953 and the motion comes from the interaction between the characters on the stage. The premise seems a highly inventive experiment, though it leans toward a trite conclusion...
...Lawrence is favored to win with its exceptional offense. A recent powerhouse on the league stage, St. Lawrence has an impressive overall record of 23-7-1, overshadowing the Tigers' modest record...
Since he was a young man, Erland Josephson has been acting on the stage and in film, and his association with director Ingmar Bergman is almost as old as his career. He says he first appeared on the stage in 1945 in a play which Bergman directed. And since that time, the two have collaborated on numerous plays, films and scripts...
...performance in Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage and Cries and Whispers and in Tarkovsky's Nostalgia and The Sacrifice have won Josephson universal acclaim in Europe and the United States. And those who have seen him perform in Peter Brook's production of The Cherry Orchard--his American stage debut--know that he is equally powerful on the stage...
...fact, though Josephson is best known for his film acting, he says he never intended to go into films. "I am mainly a stage actor," Josephson says, adding that he was initially reluctant to do films because he thought he would have to forget technique. He says he never realized how fulfilling film could be until he experienced a sort of epiphany while shooting Cries and Whispers. At that moment, he got "a deep, sensual, personal contact with the camera...