Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nomadic Novelist. Waugh's description of the tedium and terror of trench warfare is excellent, but The Early
Despite the originality of its staging and contrary to London reviews heralding it as the "best play of the year if not the decade," Miss Littlewood's production encourages tedium through its repetition. Erecting a super-structure reminiscent of The Threepenny Opera, complete with skeletal sets, narrator, and Kurt Weil orchestra, she and writer Charles Chilton have failed to provide a decent base, for their play is as black and white as the actors' costumes. After five minutes no one doubts that boobery is the best that the leaders can manage, that soldiers are great guys if only left alone...
During one of the songs in Jennie the actors execute a series of elaborate falls, quickly jumping up again after each maneuver. Unfortunately, the production thuds gracelessly--in the same manner as the dancers--and hardly ever manages to rise above the level of labored tedium...
Senate speeches are often not worth the cost of printing them in the Congressional Record. Designed to please some particular group of constituents, they impart to the proceedings in that chamber an unrivalled tedium. Last Friday's session, therefore, was most unusual, as two senators delivered addresses appropriate to the distinguished platform of the Senate, and well worth the attention of the nation...
...trouble is that many of the supporting roles are extremely important; their weakness in the Experimental's production stifled the power of Strindberg's script and often led to tedium. Particularly at fault was Skip Ascheim, whose colorless voice and wooden actions turned the judge into a most uninteresting person. His protestations of the difficulty of judicial decision were quite unconvincing...