Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WJJX controversy was but one in a series of recent events which reflect the tension between students and administration over the treatment of minorities at Michigan, said Bruce Belcher, student general council for the Michigan Student Assembly...
...night, at least, the players showed some awkwardness maneuvering around the table and chairs. It didn't help the smooth flow of the show that guardian angel Carleton, due to unfortunate (and bizarre) circumstances, had to hop about in a cast. The handicap did, however, contribute to the dramatic tension--will he or won't he make it up to the high platform? Carleton's sidekick character, Heuteboise, is hilarious...
Like Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie is a unlikely comedy set in an early '80s London of racial tension and random sexuality. Sammy (Ayub Khan Din) and Rosie (Frances Barber) live in a neighborhood that is the site of race riots and police brutality. They find no contradiction in basing their marriage on both "freedom and commitment." They do "get laid," but not together...
...tongue- lashing; a man in a red-check robe staggers drunkenly as his belt whips with violent slaps against a board, while his "son" whimpers in pain; a young man sits huddled on the floor, repeating over and over, "Why doesn't anyone love me?" The air quivers with tension as the parts of the play come together and roles are refined. Tomorrow is the day of performance, and for most of these actors the investment is not merely the sweat of creation, it is the disgorging of memories of humiliation, anger and loneliness...
...production's informality makes the play diminishes tension even further. The play is staged in the round, on a scenery-free platform whose only feature is a large cube in the center. The costumes are modern and semi-casual (jackets and ties for the men, dresses for most of the women); the actors look like Harvard students at a master...