Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They are strewn across a desolate landscape along the Maine coast like pebbles on the beach. Looking like scattered desert plants, wooden shacks and suburban pre-fabs just out of the ground with random incongruity. The paths have no names, few of the houses are numbered. This is an Indian village, changed, yet unchanged from centuries ago. Children play, dogs breed wild. Noises, the restless sea, the rush of a lonely car, wind. People are building...
Technically, The Trials of Brother Jero is rather simple. The one set, designed by Joan Ferenchak, furnishes a classic example of how to use the Mainstage's variable space to good advantage. The structure is simple--a wooden frame shack, covered with ostensible palm fronds, along with a similarly covered proscenium arch set off by blue backlighting; but when combined with the main acting area, a sand-covered expanse in front of Jero's home/church, the intended effect is achieved. No flashy techniques distinguish the lighting scheme. Another minor criticism can be directed at the music--the same fragment...
...Major Thomas, weary and middleaged, too old for the game, takes shelter behind a pillar in Westminster Abbey as his friend Osgood makes the first approach. Speak ing for the tape recorder that is the hedge against future failure, Osgood reports that the thing is in a neatly made wooden box, as usual. No wires or fuses are visible. The customary message is scrawled across the top: "Bugger the Queen Mum." The I.R.A., of course...
...retirement when Irish terrorists began stepping up their bombing attacks in Northern Ireland. But he has exhausted his supply of nerve. It is not a matter of steady hands; a watchmaker's skill is not required. All that is necessary is to pry the top off the wooden box and cut a single wire before the hour hand of the alarm clock reaches the soldered contact point. Usually there is time. Thomas is no longer sure...
...written, all the characters are relatively wooden, and to push beyond stereotype requires unusual subtlety and conviction. Of the performers in this production, Eda Rabinovitz alone (as the mother) plays her part from the inside out. She makes the events real by the truth of the characterization rather than the other way round...