Word: tableaux
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...fortune inherited from his father, who invented a pressure valve for jet engines, the lanky young Graham had the means to indulge his tastes. After graduating from Oxford in 1963 with a degree in art, he opened a gallery in London. In 1968 he staged an exhibition of tableaux vivants called "The Americans." He imported an Alabama dirt farmer, a California fisherman, a stockbroker and an Oklahoma oil driller to stand around and represent themselves, but his pièce de résistance was a New York cab driver complete with yellow cab and nonstop monologue for anyone...
...Bolshoi's principal conductor, led a performance that had true epic range and that, in its bounce and snappy tempos, was refreshingly free of sanctification. Would that the Met had a chorus of such power and, rarity of rarities, group acting ability. The sets were eye-catching tableaux embodying a sturdy Russian medievalism overlaid with Byzantine splendor...
Lois Overton's set design, three tableaux that fit bedroom, kitchen, and bar into the small stage, moves the action smoothly around the stage, although actors occasionally wander out of their spots, and the lighting is awkward at times. The skill of John Kirkwood's direction is apparent in the timing, humor and vitality of the show, especially in the bar scenes, when a brilliant supporting cast of Harlem characters continually brings the house down. Don Gillespie as Henry, Minnie's boyfriend; Sary Guinier as Lynn Clarisse, another of Jess's cousins; and Paul Ruffins as Brandon, a drunk...
Like its characters, Albee's script -essentially the text of his 1966 play -is pompous, windy, arch; it is a series of tableaux shaped out of crushed...
Magic Power. Peking opera is at times a dizzying mix of dance, music, mime, processionals, tapestried tableaux and hilarious acrobatics. Banners are everywhere, signifying anything from magic power to the number of troops in a general's army. Nothing sums up these diverse elements better than the Taiwan company's version of The Monkey King, which tells the story of a cleric's disciple who drinks too much, fights too much, but does a lot of good and in the end becomes a Buddhist. Perhaps China's most popular legendary hero, the Monkey King...