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...Christa (Laura Knight), the returned biological mother. The play ends on a note of grim irony that seems at odds with the other happy-ending aspects of the conclusion. While the irony has been present throughout, it isn't evident enough at the very end to leave the viewer feeling particularly moved. Nonetheless, the play successfully manages to be both entertaining and intellectual, always something of a challenge in modern theater...
...sitcom producer will tell you, the same seven plots have merely been recycled endlessly since the beginning of television. Realizing that likable characters are the key to a TV comedy's success, the networks will establish new characters in 2- to 3-min. "mini-coms." Then, after viewer response is gauged via an Internet hookup, those favorites will appear on the air regularly, in 5- or 6-sec. bursts, much like the network promos we now see. You know the ones: Ross from Friends dancing in a bubble held by Rachel, then getting "popped" by a giggling Monica. These short...
...mind. Hilliard has carefully created the situations in the photo, down to the pictures on the front of the cards and the empty water bottle lying in the grass. Every detail is put there to tell the story of the subject, but the final story is left to the viewer. He must interpret these details. Perhaps it is because Hilliard only works with people he knows very well, or perhaps it is because everything is so carefully staged, or maybe it is because of the unrealistic and slightly fantastic scenes, or maybe the unresolved nature of the pictures. Yet whatever...
...certain mood by a photo of nothing more than a store display window is nothing short of genius. One piece, showing his daughter looking into an empty shop window, captures at the same time the desolation of the shop and the innocence of the little girl. Shahn makes the viewer painfully aware of the economic hardships endured during the Depression, that this store is not unique in its emptiness and desolation...
...Taking a picture is the ability to transfer the physical reality onto film. Making a picture is imbuing that photograph with meaning and purpose. Making a picture is creating the individual in the photograph, so that the viewer is led to question, understand and empathize. Shahn's making of New York City during the Great Depression is a historical documentation of not only the physical realities, but also the realities of the soul of humanity. His works highlight the ordinary in a time of extraordinary loss, despair and, dare we say, hope...