Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swelling chorus of leftist parties, led by the Communists, was demanding the formation of an all-party "emergency government." As the Italian Socialist Party newspaper Avanti! warned: "The countdown against Andreotti has begun. " From Rome last week TIME Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante cabled this report on the latest stage in Italy's ongoing crisis...
...popularity polls, though, "Italian Restaurant" cannot match "Just the Way You Are," a sentimental throwback to his earlier "You're My Home." Each time Joel performs the current hit single on stage, he quiets the screams of even the Long Island fanatics who support their hometown hero. In silence, his listeners delight to lyrics such...
...production is the work of two Austrians, Stage Director Otto Schenk and Set Designer Günther Schneider-Siemssen. Schenk treated the story simply and with his designer's help has placed it against handsome, mood-filled back drops. The inside of Venus' home, for example, is a steadily shifting vision of pools, waterfalls, trysting places and writhing bodies. Much of its look is achieved with rear projections on a curved, cyclorama-type screen. The dissolution of Venusberg as Tannhäuser is expelled is both swift and wizardry...
...more numbing than chilling. That Time presents only the face of a sleeping man (Donald Davis) and his disembodied voice, coming from three different places as he dreams about the past. In Foot falls, a woman (Suzanne Costallos), apparently confined to an institution, shuffles back and forth across the stage, talking to her mother (Sloane Shelton), who cannot be seen. In both cases Beckett's meaning is obscure, and he fails to meet a basic test of drama: the clash of character and idea. Sometimes less is really less...
...been backed onto the stage unknowing, while the crowd roared. The obvious solution to this was the BBC, which sucks talent like bits of fluff into that big white building, where it's safe forever. But I had my tattered pride. In fact, my whole array of virtues was intact; only the man behind them was missing. I didn't really give a damn anymore whether I was English or American, but the U.S. was still the prairie of record, the place where the garbled soul of Chatworth could re-create itself. Or failing that, become famous...