Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's improvisational comedy group "On Thin Ice" also sent a delegation. Members from the group took turns cavorting on stage, then froze into inexplicably comic postures. "I'd never seen that done before," said Chen...
...holiday shoppers to forego present buying, it aims at least to convince parents that they should avoid buying war toys for their children, Fucella said. Shoppers may think twice before buying toy guns and other weaponsfor children after watching the fake battles intoy stores that the group plans to stage, headded...
...more than that old literary standby the bundle of paradoxes. As played by Nelligan, the character comes exuberantly alive. Vitality and beauty are common enough in star turns; so is warmth, although Nelligan, whose technical gifts are extraordinary, has never before shown it to this degree on the U.S. stage, and only once on film, in her 1985 performance as a heroic Greek mother in Eleni...
Trapped inside this billionaire publishing baron are a multitude of people: a peasant haggler, stage director, domineering patriarch, sophisticated currency trader, military commander, politician, Hollywood mogul and unabashed publicity man. Following his train of thought is like listening to ten tape recorders, constantly switching on and off, constantly interrupting one another...
Fagin, Scrooge, Uriah Heep, Mr. Micawber and Mrs. Jellaby -- so many of Charles Dickens' great grotesques lurk in memory with the clarity of caricatures. They seem made not just for the page but for the stage and screen. As the great popular novelist of his or any age, Dickens has always been filched by other media. And as a social reformer who, as George Orwell wrote, "succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody," Dickens ^ invented outsize villains and situations applicable to almost any taste or decade. The endless Broadway and movie adaptations of Dickens stories testify to the vitality...