Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...benevolent father of the Miller family, Ted Wiprud sets the tone for all the other actors. Wiprud could easily have lapsed into a fifties sitcom portrayal of a consistently sympathetic and understanding father. More convincing than that, his performance shows real anger and also real forgiveness. Amusing when harassed by his exasperating offspring and touching when anxious for them, Wiprud stays in the background throughout the play. A quiet, unspectacular role, mouthing soothing commonplaces to his children about the necessity of growing up, Wiprud nevertheless makes this father the sort everyone would like to have. As his wife, Shelley Evans...
They fashioned "Dislocation," for example, around a sythesized percussion track whose tone ascended and fell in a circular manner. The music formed itself around this very rhythmic motive, creating the impression that the metallic noise produced the song. The band performed throughout like a well-oiled generator. The whirrs, pops, and clicks all worked toward redefining Ultravox around a Kraftwerkian philosophy...
...Story Theatre's unified whole disturbs a 1980 audience more than it excites. The messages of Sills' world--"watch out, don't be fooled, they're out to get you"--still ring true, but ten or more years of being fooled and being gotten have hardened us to their tone. If the theater's stories have sobering messages for the audience, the whole production is supposed to be uplifting, to reassure us that the bastards won't get us again. But at the end of the evening, when four cast members pick at their guitars while the remainder clap their...
...They were the beginning," says Kleinfelder. "They set the tone; they set the intensity. They wanted more competition--better competition--and expected a higher level of player, too. Along with (last year's captain) Katherine Fulton, they were the ones that changed Harvard women's basketball...
...finale, where the tone shifts abruptly from despondency to joy, is telling. This is, and must be, a comedy. Innaurato brings us as far as he dares, never allowing the desperate actions to have physical consequences. The play does not resolve its problems because many of the problems are unresolvable, and Innaurato is too honest to fake it without telling us so. The fantastic ending, which allows the protagonist to fly out of the abyss he dug himself, sends us out happy, and does not invalidate the preceding darker moments. They remain suspended--like Francis and Bunny on their respective...