Word: theater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hasty Pudding Theater...
...Time: Scenes from a Service Economy, one of two offerings in the American Repertory Theater's spring festival currently running at the Hasty Pudding Theater, has a lot in common with television melodrama. As in TV, the dialogue is snappy, the plot fast-paced and the sex scenes never quite consummated. In fact, for TV junkies, Big Time has only one drawback--it actually costs money...
...banal era that cliches are the only appropriate way to comment on it. At least that would explain the odd decision to include an excerpt from the Newsweek article christening yuppies in the program. Just in case it wasn't already in the zeitgeist of everyone in the theater, the article assured the existence of a common culturally stereotyped language. Yet it doesn't seem that even Reddin actually believes that yuppies are without any individual quirks or desires. The actors, who are stiff and who often seem to be unsure of themselves, fail in the rare opportunities the script...
Academy award-winning actress Linda Hunt last night told an audience of 200 students and local actors in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room that to understand the difference between film and theater acting "you have to go before the firing squad and learn about it on your feet...
...theater you finally develop a whole, and your energy is put into rhythm and pacing. In film, you must be ready at any time for 'takeoff,'" Hunt said during a question and answer session following a screening of her televised performance in Harold Pinter's play, "The Room...