Word: theatrical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lurks outside the theater trying to cajole us into remaining seated through the agonizing performance of Play. Charles Puckette sits and smokes his cigarette, then as the lights dim he sings a song and invites us to sit awhile before he comes on. The fact that he commits numerous theatric no-no's, like talking to the other performers as they wait in the pit, is easily overlooked by the needed hints that he provides of things to come...
...social pathologies facing some one-third of Black Americans who are in or near poverty, they have to rid themselves of an immature and phony perspective toward ethnic leadership. Blacks with wealth and institutional resources will have to put some of these on the line (not just ethnocentric theatric)in order to upgrade the Black poor, or stop all the fast and easy talk about being Black leaders And Blacks with cosmopolitan lifestyles, with linkages to inter-ethnic friendships and networks have got to find ways in out ncoconservative era to get these cross-ethnic networks and friends to recognize...
...using them this way to become sensitive to both the present and the past. Seven Against Therbes could be used to tell a culture about the dangers of civil strife, Perhaps Endgame should be adopted in to a new play: an existential version of The Day After or a theatric reminder that the war on poverty was just at unsuccessful as the debacle in Vietnam...
...innovations which simply don't work, but for the most part the play is jarring and shocking in an adventurous, appealing way. The vitality and creativity of the Harvard Summer. The vitality group are well represented in this, the first play of the season Spring Awakening is a daring theatric production and a strikingly human drama...
...mankind must, as the book's title suggests, learn to live with nuclear weapons while preventing their use--in other words, detersons. But the effectiveness of detainee cannot be measured in absolute terms, Cap Weinberger not with sinoding. Some weapons--and some theatric--can prove destabilizing. It is probably unwise, for example, that the U.S. should seek rough parity with the Soviet Union, eschewing new weapons systems that might either frighten or tempt the Soviets...