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...Bead Game also has virtually mastered the art of switching from tempo to tempo. On "Slipping," the song begins with Jimmy Hodder singing in a slow 4/4, which then becomes a hard hammering instrumental break in 6/8 followed by a simmering and brilliant guitar bridge in fast 4/4 which leads back into the slow 4/4 with the vocalist coming back in. A few rounds later Hodder beings singing in the 6/8 tempo and the slower beat becomes an arena for long and reflective improvisational playing, completing the circle perfectly. Such fully realized, very abrupt changes, occur again and again...
...speaking. On occasion, the stage groupings extended across so broad a space that I was forced to choose between watching the speaker and following another character's elaborate pantomime of reaction. Where the pay requires both speed and variation of pace to succeed, the direction has chosen a laggardly tempo with ripe interludes of music or silence dividing scenes from their successors. Finally, where the text asks faith from its producers, Mr. McBain's cutting does some minor but significant violence to the words. Not only is Balthasar's lyric on inconstancy omitted, along with any attempt at a staging...
...election night, and the old parties are awaiting the government's victory. In the composing room of the right-wing newspaper Il Tempo, a makeup man puts the banner line into the form: GOVERNMENT WINS WITH LARGE MAJORITY. A state television news director instructs his assistant: "Feed in the usual commentary-that one we used in 1969 will do fine." Forecasters have predicted a government victory, because again, as in previous elections, voters are unable to remember candidates' names. At Communist Party headquarters on Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops), Party Boss Luigi Longo...
HAMLET. Everything about this production of the APA Repertory Company is peculiarly wrong. The costumes are a strange mixture of period and modern; the sense and tempo of the play have been mangled both by Director Ellis Rabb's cuts and his use of the corrupt First Quarto; and Hamlet, played by Mr. Rabb with monotony and weariness, seems in desperate need of geriatric drugs...
...Broadway HAMLET. Everything about this production of the APA Repertory Company I peculiarly wrong. The costumes are a strange mixture of period and modern; the sense and tempo of the play have been mangled by both Director Ellis Rabb's cuts and his use of the corrupt First Quarto; and Hamlet, played by Mr. Rabb with monotony and weariness, seems in desperate need of geriatric drugs...